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Ascendancy Omega - Inferior Implant ?

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Reyna Al'Zedra
Tactical Rebellion
#1 - 2013-11-23 11:22:27 UTC
So with the new expansion and warp speed changes coming into effect, I was messing around on the test server seeing how fast one can truly get something with the new implants. At one point I recalled there already being warp speed implants before the new Ascendancy set was introduced, so I looked them up to see if I could add it in for even more crazy speed. I was initially disheartened seeing them as being slot 6, the Omega slot, but I tried them out anyways, and discovered that they could edge out the Omega.

Testbed:
Ares, with 2x t2 hyperspatial rigs
implant slots 1-5: HQ Ascendancy implants

Test 1: slot 6 Ascendancy Omega, resulting warp speed: 19.2 AU/s

Test 2: slot 6 Eifyr and Co 'Rogue' Warp Drive Speed WS-615, resulting warp speed: 19.23 AU/s

Test 3: slot 6 Eifyr and Co 'Rogue' Warp Drive Speed WS-618, resulting warp speed: 19.74 AU/s

I know this is rather bleeding edge and only cuts off maybe a second in hundred plus AU warps, but since the 15% and 18% implants are readily available through LP stores, they have a rather fixed price. As such, the omega instantly becomes an inferior implant that only the oddball who wants a pure set will fork over the extra isk on.

With the scarcity of bp's and materials to make them, I doubt the market will drive the price on the omega to under 200m, (the current price of the 15% imp) when the requisite materials will be better off feeding the other 5 slots, not to mention the fact that it'll make omega blueprint finds garbage instead of a paycheck.

A simple fix to keep it as a truly superior implant, (something befitting a rare and specialized implant set), would be to perhaps change its bonus to 55 or 60% set boost? It just seems strange that the final piece to a brand new set should be ultimately inferior...
Abdiel Kavash
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#2 - 2013-11-23 14:35:44 UTC
CCP have posted somewhere in the test forum threads that this is indeed a defect and they're trying to balance the implants, but they didn't have the time to do it before the initial Rubicon release. Expect the numbers to change later.