Ships & Modules

It seems odd that the Caldari, despite being supposed "masters of missiles" - have been nerf'ed to an extent with Odyssey. Yes, the Navy Drake and Navy Raven have more launchers, but the inherent damage bonuses on the Drake are essentially gone. Yes, cruise missiles were buffed - but this doesn't just apply to Caldari ships but all races. For example, the Minmatar Typhoon Fleet Issue does more damage than the Caldari Navy Raven with 2 fewer launchers. From a PvP standpoint, the Typhoone Fleet will literally wipe the floor with the Navy Raven. Maybe the Caldari ships should be receiving a +5 bonus to kinetic damage per level in addition.

Confirming Caldari has excellent hybrid boats such as the Eagle.

Bah Gallente don't have the best hybrids.....Amarr havebest lasers yup and minnie have best projectiles but that is because the ship bonuses make them the best for those weapon systems.

Caldari and gallente both have hybrids and both can be used to great effect. There is no 'best' it is all personal preference.

And Caldari have excellent missile based ships.....there is a reason they are pretty much the most popular ships.

And Harpy is clearly worst ship in this game.

Because selectable damage types and projection out to 150 KM is useless, right?

Both the DNI and RNI were buffed in Odyssey, not nerfed. It seems like people tend to underestimate the 25% explosion radius bonus which is an absolute godsend in damage application, ie real and not EFT damage.

The same can be said for the selectable damage types we have now, moving away from the atrocious kinetic only bonuses that shoehorned the hulls to a single damage type.

Lastly, the Odyssey cruise missile buff made both DNI and RNI better than their Retribution counterparts (Drake and RNI respectively).

Saying that you only rat Guristas ----> the ships were nerfed is a little dumb, you have to get the big picture here. If you only use a hull as a glorified red cross kill'a'mole, you can certainly fail to notice the importance of the new bonuses in all hull applications.

The above and the OP, standard Caldari centric whineage.

Missiles are fine. No lack of missile use in pvp. 6 of the top 20 ships on eve-kill are missile boats. Only one is a drone boat. This would suggest that if any weapon needs a buff it is still drones. Regardless, every weapon system has drawbacks. Learn to minimize them as much as possible and live with what you can't change. Or change what weapons you use.

As for medium rails, do you think medium beams are any better? (answer, they are worse) And, the only thing medium arty has going for it is alpha. Without that it would be the worst because the dps is woeful.

Is there a question in there, or just an observation?

Pit a Nphoon against a good SNI though, and hilarity ensues...

These are all valid points, and I'm not certainly disagreeing with any. The explosion radius bonus is certainly an advantage for the RNI in PvE, but not necessarily PvP against a comparable opponent like a Typhoon.



Until it gets nerfed, anyway...