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So the expansion is feature complete?

One intro message and one update that addressed no one? Is that the sort of improved customer relations we should expect?

You need to at least give a reach around Tallest, what with the way you insist on Shagging us.

Seriously? That was your process? No one was happy with the results of your "Fixing Hybrids". Yet you are going to toss it out there like you have accomplished something.

You have not fixed a thing. Nothing is going to change.

Why are you still talking? Nothing has changed with Hybrids. Nothing has changed with CCP.

What can he possibly "pull off". The feature list for the expansion is finalized. The final build is on SiSi. The best Tallest can do futher is say, "Hybrids will get looked at further in the Future". Yeah right. Same Old CCP. Same old BS.

Total and complete failure on what was my most anticipated change. Sigh. CCP Tallest worst Tallest.

You should have never promised to fix hybrids. I was at least USED to them being worthless.

This time you guys raised my hopes and dashed their squishy infant heads on the rocks.

No feedback. No listening. Just a minor tweak.

Thanks for nothing Tallest. Thanks for nothing CCP.

Just as usual.

CCP won't fix hybrids because nobody plays with them anymore, hence the lack of negative response. Everyone either cross trained or avoided them all together and are living happily ever after in hurricane, abaddon and drake land.

Same goes for factional warfare.

ok so looking at the new blasters all i have to say is 5% more dps is needed plus a big alpha boost 50% to keep dps the same slow down rate of fire...

now null needs to be boosted give it an optimal range bonus of 30% and a falloff bonus of 50%...

as for railguns... they still need more base tracking and better dps... i would suggest reduce cap activation cost and increase rate of fire... plus i would reduce optimal range and replace with falloff...

i saw what you did with the naga and like it but i would have prefered a rate of fire bonus with the optimal range bonus...

what this does is make is so gallente are better at blasters (high alpha due to damage bonus) and caldari dps from rails will be really high due to rate of fire bonus... this will keep racial flavour in the game...

plus spike needs a damage boost and void needs more damage...

I don't see what more you guys could want, beyond a power creep.

Firstly lets ACTUALLY look at the important change.

Fitting Requirements and Cap usage. If you have actually bothered to go and try some new fits out, use your noggin a bit, you'll see that we can pull of some rather good fits now, which previously weren't possible, even at the low skilled level. Not only in PvE but also in PvP.

PvE: No longer a struggle to get a prop mod on ships like the Thorax and the Mega with Rails, or with Cap being just low enough that I can drop both a Cap Recharger II AND a Cap Rig or most of my fits (all of them I can drop 1 though, and no, I don't fly cap stable) that gives me an extra tracking computer or web and a hybrid damage rig. That right there alone is a huge gain in my ships hybrid performance.

Not much to say on PvE, generally its a case of "guns, cap and tank" fitting wise. But the other changes also influence PvE. Firstly the 5 second reload means we can use the highest damage ammo possible at whatever range we find ourselves at. Tracking and Damage boost? Lovely. Large rails already track fine. Using my Hyperion for example with a single TCII on it, I can hit frigs fine at 21km and crusiers at 12km with 425mm. These bonuses got it down to 17km and 10km in my case, with extra damage to boot. More than enough. The fitting requirements also now let you get a 100mn Afterburner on there. Problem solved entirely.

PvP Rails are now viable. Nano fit or Plated up, they do enough damage to warrant an airing, and with the Javelin change, they pack a good punch with decent tracking. Each fight I've had using them I've been impressed with their performance at both short AND long range. They get the job done, and generally you have enough grid now to fit a decent buffer with prop with the rails, further improving them in my eyes it'll take some getting use to, but I'm sure we'll be seeing more Rails appearing in PvP.

Blasters. The range is short, and compared to both Pulses and Auto's they are the weaker link. But they aren't bad once again they benefit from the fitting change. Dual Rep Brutix is a lot stronger, being able to finally fit a full rack of Ions without a problem. while ships such as the Deimos can finally sort themselves out with a decent buffer, something that they have been lacking for a long time. Extra speed is nice

But in all seriousness what can you do? Adding more damage is good for when you get into range, tracking is now fine, I've been able to fit frigs with medium Ions with a single web. But if you start pushing falloff, they are just becoming Auto's and pushing optimal is going to improve the Caldari hybrid boats a bit too much.

If I was going to hazard anything give them 1-2km optimal depending on size.

Or another option would be to drop the RoF right down, make them short range Arties.

blasters are ******, fine. but rails can easily be fixed. i think with the best possible loadout, the Deimos hits for like 330 dps at 30km, which is pathetic. 200mm and 250mm rails still take up way too much PG.