Missions & Complexes

I've been mostly doing level 3s but so far, so good. I've noticed the TD effect deactivating when it should, and it seems like there are more numerous 'breaks' where I can actually get a few shots in.

I'll have to try another Sansha Watch if I can ever find one. The second pocket of that unrated complex has 18 TDing cruisers in it and used to make any laser boat I brought in nearly completely useless moments after warp-in.

Sansha Blockade is still pure horror for me as a player with a turret ship.
First reinforcement wave takes me longer to destroy than most other complete missions i fly .
Up to 8 TD ships on me and it seems NPC TDs have no stacking penalty. 5 km range down from 54 km with Scorch L is more than horrible.
Besides tracking speed is on rock bottom too. Its nearly impossible to hit e.g a centum slaughterer in range webified.

That has to be fixed. Perma TD is really no fun to play. I have to skip Blockade cause it takes double the time as the most other missions with equal LP and ISK income.

I am doing an AE faster and thats really no fun with a laser ship.

They only changed the frequency of the effect. So If there are more then say 3 TDing ships its still a pretty futile exercise.

It's pretty sad that together with the missile nerf and Drakes being on par with other battlecruisers, Sanshas get buffed in a way that turret ships aren't fun anymore and everyone who wants to kill them effectively has to go for missile boats. The moment you get disrupted by 4 ships or more, drones are the only way to kill anything. And by the time your drones finish the last disrupting ship you could have done 2 other missions.

And what's even worse: In nullsec you can't choose your type of enemy freely. In sansha regions you'll find only sansha anos. Warping into a Sansha Sanctum isn't fun at all: 4 Disruptors on you and you won't hit a Battleship 15KMs away using Radio L...

Did both Blockades with Sansha/Serpentis. Those two are still impossible to complete.

Switching back to the Rattlesnake is the only option right now.

Recon 1/3 Stage 2.

I know its not necessary to kill ships in recon 1/3 in second pocket. But its however completely useless to try it.

There are 2 TD ships in first Wave at 40-50km they didnt stop to TD for more than 3 mins after that time
i decided to warp out and make that drama an end.

I dont know why the game spawns npc rats that nearly nobody in a turret ship will try to kill.

TD horror is also the reason why the amarr epic agent is waiting for my help for weeks. I can handle to fly missions that have more
requirements on flying a ship than a normal lvl 4 mission.

But at the moment some Sansha mission are only fun to play with maxed out rockets skill and an equal ship.

Again please fix it or set all my rocket skills to 5

So by now I assume you've seen the proposed changes to the Amarr BS lineup.

So the Apoc is losing its cap bonus and gaining a tracking bonus.

I was thinking and it just hit me. This must be CCP's solution to these TD issues with Sansha rats...

Problem here - if you cant do enough damage with your BS cause of heavy TD your drones will get aggroed immediatly and poped.

Tried that last Blockade dont know exactly if it took 10 or 15 secs after i lost aggro until my med drones were gone to nowhere.

So if using sentrys you will maybe be forced to fit high lots with remote armor reppers and damage without turrets will still be much lower than in any ship that is able to use turrets without TD.
Not even the drone bonuses of navy geddon will compensate the missing turret fire power.

Sentries can tank quite well so you won't really need to worry about that. Plus the new geddon is getting neut range bonuses so turrets are definitely going to be secondary

EDIT: As I wrote this and in a mission I disconnected and my curator II survived a drone battleship attacking it until I could log back in