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It may be worth noting that the majority of those Abaddons are likely running projectiles.

So basicly you just saying that the guy responsible for this project is not working on it for at least a week more, while the expansion is out in 2 weeks.

I guess theese changes are final then.

So in short Hybrids have been buffed, it may not be enough, but we'll look at it again when we have time?

Mate, I understand how you feel... and i believe I was the one originally pointing out that a third of our ships are drydocked.

Let Soundwave answer. At least we know someone is listening now.

More flies with honey and all that.

Jeezus, speaking of temper tantrums. Why not see what all the buffs on hybrids and rails have for effect on Tranq. before doing even more changes.

The combination of more room for fitting more speed, more ammo, more fall-off, more tracking, more damage and more basicly everything is a good start one should think.

I for one would not be happy if the only thing they did was hybrid changes. It would be quite the crappy expansion.

After 3 years of ignoring the problem, we get approx. 4 weeks of looking into it.

They've admitted that there is more to the issue and that they are not close yet.

It's not so much freezing current changes for release, what I take offense to is Soundwave saying no changes from now on until the next major release, i.e. the summer expansion.

We had to live with that 3+ years. Now they are starting to work on those Problems and all you can do is complaining how slow they are?

Good things need time and if by end of 2012 those hybrids are as good as Projectile / Lazors/ Missils without "1 Weaponsystem is better than all others" and without "they are all the same" it is great.

So for the love of Blasters: Give them some time to make it right!

Thanks for the replies CCP. I kinda wish we could get a little more this patch, but at least by quoting that post you guys show you understand the underlying problems with hybrids, so I'll take a delay if it means that they'll be fixed properly. That said, please please please do not mess with blaster range. The last thing we need is more medium ranged weapons that turn this game into RvB. There are ways to fix the guns without making them like ACs or pulse with scorch.

I agree completely with the first point. It is the reason the Hurricane is so good.

LSEs not so much. You would gimp Caldari and some Gallente fits.

let me just chime in here before my sub expires. you might as well have not done any of this "balancing". really, it makes zero difference because we're at square one: this is still Minmatar and Drake Online; Cynabals, Canes, Machs will be the ships of choice for serious PVP'ers. it baffles me how you can allow this. when you see these metrics change, that's when you'll know you're on the right track. in the end im left wondering if you guys even seriously tested any of this. cuz if you did, these changes would not be considered changes.

this was supposed to be a "hybrid balancing patch", and bluntly put, this was not done. Gallente ships are still in the exact same spot. Tallest was told by dozens that he's not even scratching the surface with the little buffs he made. the funniest part is that Gallente pilots ended up with the shittiest BC. the Naga ended up being a more useful hybrid platform.