Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The celestis can be a combat cruiser if you you really want it to.

I mean with an actual combat bonus.

Gallente Cruiser Skill Bonus: 5% bonus to Medium Hybrid Turret Damage and Remote Sensor Dampener effectiveness per skill level.

It has a bonused weapon, and a powerful form of ewar at its disposal that can let the ship kite without even being targeted.

How about stop yer bitching and be happy with not being targeted? It has a combat bonus and it doesn't need to do good dps.

It's to bring it in line with the other semi combat disruption cruisers, since the caracal shares it's damage bonus with the bellicose and the vexor has the same drone bonus as the arbitrator with the same bandwidth and hardpoint number.

1 mid? Dear god that would be OP.
Shield arby would be an unstoppable beast and the armor variant would be the ultimate close range kiting ship.

To be honest, when I wrote this post I considered Arbitrator to be a drone carrier (as it says in the description) and not an EWAR ship. I saw the TD bonus as a weird secondary attribute, similar to Dragoon having an Energy Vampire bonus, with little to no solo PvE implications. I was, after all, looking for a boat for security missions mainly.

Now a question to those more experienced; how would you use TD effectively in solo PvE? Or is it even worth considering? After reading all the comments here, I got the impression that Arbitrator is seen strong mainly as a PvP ship. As for that I cannot comment since I am not yet familiar with that aspect of the game.

In any case, huge thanks to everyone who has commented, as you have also helped me learn more about the benefits of EWAR ;)

Making an Arbitrator into a PvE boat kind of ruins it for PvP.

I actually cross trained Amarr years ago when I was doing level 2 and 3 missions because I considered it a superior drone carrier to the Vexxor.

I used rigs (before they were differentiated by size, ouch to the wallet), to boost it's shield with 2 purgers and an EM booster. A booster for emergencies and an invulnerability or 2 for tank, using shield power relays to give it a livable passive tank. I never really bothered mounting guns, my high slots were logi modules for care and feeding of the drones.

I was able to clear belt rats in Providence and run level 3's with ease. By no means was it the PVE king of all rat killers, but it was comfortable and easy to fly. These days with drone damage augmentors to compete with lows, I'd imagine it does a bit better job at it.

Using the Tracking Disruptor bonus in PvE isn't impossible, it's just often impractical in missions since you have a lot of targets. Still, on lower missions where you have one or 2 BS capable of substantial damage if they hit, they can be handy.