EVE General Discussion

Like 99%(*) of those players who will soon spend a fortune on speculation-inflated blaster and blasterboats to check out the novelty, once they realize their good old canes and drakes are STILL far more efficient and less situational.

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(*) - See what I did there?

True story*: 74% of people think 68% of stats are 44% worthless.

That's a widely believed fact.





(* statement neither true nor a story)

You know after reading the comments on that devblog i am really starting to have a feeling that some people hoped for a ' superpaxniwin' buff

I never pvped in a gallente ship so i don't really know what it can now what it could before is tarted playingor what it will do after the expansion

But in my opinion it looks a good start together with the changes to t2 ammo , not the super weapon some people had hoped but nice

The rocket fix was close to perfect, frigate balance is really pretty good these days. It made the rocket platforms viable and increased the diversity of the game.

The hybrid "fix" will be a hopeless failure because it doesn't address the fundamental problems of other weapon systems intruding into hybrids' role, the sheer undesirability of the blaster role and the non-existence of the rail role. Ironically, the proposed hybrid changes will make game diversity and balance worse, by slanting frigates towards hybrids while still giving nobody a reason to fly a larger hybrid subcapital.

Wait, did you just try to impress me with the blasters prowess by telling me how good they are doing against a single battlecruiser?

Well, i´m happy for you but people flying around in battleships with lasers and projectiles are quite confident that their weapons are actually a danger for other battleships as well. I did presume you would be trying going against an opponent of the same size. And those will tear you apart 9 times out of 10. Because you will be already dead before you come close enough to do damage. Or be too damaged to survive long enough to be a danger to anyone.

Yea this didnt happen the last time I ran into a gang of abaddons or any of the other BS I have run into over the last few months. Infact, looking back to my last hyperions untimely death I managed to get in range and take down several BS. Turns out that most fights happen within 20km of a gate which is well within range of my guns.

Perhaps you should fly these ships before spouting you're drival on the forums.

99% of the players are so tired of CCP being incapable to balance their game, they don't even post any more.

See what I did here?

I'll add: because most of them now fly minmatar.

Except Baltec with his shield megathron remoted by scimis, shooting targets webbed by rapiers and pinned by dramiels.

This is how you win with blasters

SHAMELESS PLUG FOR THE MWD BOOST BONUS IDEA:

There's a fix that's been mentioned a few times, and I would like to bring-it-up again.
I think it's a great idea.
Hopefully if we get enough discusion, and support CCP will take notice.

The proposal is fairly simple.
Some hybrid ships should get a bonus to MWD (and maybe AB) speed boost.
I don't know what exact # would make the most sense, maybe 5% per skill level?

If it was thought that this would be too much of a buff, then it could come at the expence of increased cap-use.

That's it. That's the idea.
I know it's already been said by a few people, but it's a kick-ass idea, and I think it deserves serious consideration.

Here's why I think this would be good.

What's the #1 problem most blaster boats face in PVP?

Blasters have such a short optimal, that you have to be super-close to get good hits.
Blaster-boats are usually passive armor-tanked slow-ass bricks.
See the issue?

You're flying the slowest ship with the shortest-range guns.

If they could get a bonus to MWD speed boost, blaster-boats could actually get into range.
They wouldn't be the fastest ship naturally, and the speed-boost would be temporary until the cap runs-out.

With blasters you have to get into range before you're out-of cap and armor. Right-now blaster boats can't do this (at least not without getting a lucky warp-in). Winmatar pilots just laugh thier asses-off blasting-away with ACs, kitting the sh!t out of you.

With the proposed fix, you could actually get into range before it's too late. You could actually USE the dmg of blasters to compensate for all the dmg take just getting into range. What an awesome balance that could bring.

With more speed and the buff to rail damage coming, who knows? We might even see rail-kiting as a viable strategy for some of these hybrid ships. Can you imagine the kiting slug-fest between a fast Rail-Brutix and a Cane? The Brutix could maintain range until the cap runs-low, then it's anybody's game. This could bring back rails (at least the medium ones) as a viable PVP weapon too.

Thoughts?

They look like smart decisions to me. And I am someone who has had mostly hybrid training since I started.

You realize that if they buffed them much farther than this they would be overpowered, right? If railguns had more damage than lasers, but longer range, why *ever* use lasers? and blasters got what they really needed - a tracking bonus and a ship speed bonus to all blasterboats. Blaster damage was always amazing, the problem was actually getting into range to use them, especially on armor tanked boats. The lowered requirements also fixed another source of issues - gallente ships having relatively low CPU and PG.

lol ... I don't even know where to begin. There is NO ROOM? NONE? ZERO? wow .. ok no arguments then, you're too brilliantz!