Ships & Modules

It's pathetic cap life does that for you though.

(And the reduction in hybrid cap use doesn't allay this either)

i would suggest that everyone here, saying the rokh cannot do anything besides mining, watch this video... then come back and tell us what you saw

So it makes an Ok Slow, Short Range, Half Drone Bay, less DPS, Fixed Damage Type Active Maelstrom that can kill folks who sit in it's Web Range.

Great for a Long Range Battleship.

I'd swap that range bonus for a 5% rof bonus. To be honest, I'm reaching the conclusion that it would be the right decision to make for all the caldari range boosted hybrid ships.

rokh has range and crap dps....use the range to your advantagee. FC sees a fleet of 100 pests and 5 rokhs, guess whose optimal + falloff he will use when calling that fleet warp in? Thats right, the pests., Add a bunch of km's to the warp in and run ammo meant for range. Voila.....all the minmatards are now your meat shields. In a lr vs lr fleet more often than not, all the shorter range bs' will be slugging it out. Your rokh out a bit further takes less damage, if any.

This is how rokhs can out damage other bs'. An arty boat is an alpha monster.....but if it goes boom in less than 60 secodns the rokh can catch up living much longer.

Rokhs best edge is if you land it right, only rokhs can kill it. Because of the range they share. Enemy pests can try....they will have to close first to get range. When they close, they get closer to that max damage of optimal minimal falloff of your pests.


Now some cap love, yeah this boat needs it. You average fleet fit will have this sebo'd out with an invul with cap drainnig ammo. got the wrong end of the stick there really since armour tankers get EANM, a nice passive all in one resist. A few gj is few gj to me....be nice to have them if one day ccp would grant us a passive all in one shield resist.

It's because of the tier system, the outdated and utterly arbitrary system of assigning a price to a ship because of its tier, rather than performance or role.

(That CCP seems to have no intention of addressing)

The range bonus is a bit of a tricky one, because the intended role of the Rokh is as a long-range fleet sniper. Of course, CCP hasn't yet noticed that it deleted this role two years ago, and when it did exist, everyone used the tachyon Apoc anyway. But just changing to a ROF or damage bonus moves it straight into Megathron territory, and Gallente already have enough problems with other races being better than them at the only thing they can do...

So what does that say? FIx probing and on-grid warping, balance hybrids properly and with reference to tachyons, Scorch, the Apoc and artillery, then see if the Rokh needs anything?

I would love to see the rokh get a little help. Came back, trained up for a raven before, and now I wanna pew pew!

I can't stand the idea of armor tanking, so...

Pretty much this

even with the boost which addresses a lot of the ships problems there are still 2 main problems.

Speed it is Slow and it has Signature of a barn [needs base speed boost on top of the proposed agility buff

Drone bay needs to have the raven Drone bay 75 m3 with 50 bandwidth.

CCP please do that on top what you proposed and Caldari have finally nice ship.