Ships & Modules

If it was PvE fit how'd you lock him there?

Either he was a great fool or more to that story.

The Gila is definately living up to promise, I am using faction drones, and they rip through everything. They seem to hold up very well to damage and so long as they don't get webbed, you are fine, even then they seem to kill the webber ok and get out on their own.

This is a good ship and congratulations to CCP Rise and Fozzie.

The rattlesnake though is a different story, I lost 3 geckos the first day, heavies are not good enough to launch while there is anything to target them. On battleships when everything else is cleared, they are fine. 275% to damage is no replacement for a flight of 5.
Losing a DLA to use the new launcher, does not make for a pleasant experience, I seemed to be waiting way way more for things to get into range. MJD around to try to get range is not advisable as one ends up waiting again for cap to recharge, or MjD timer, before getting back to gate, plus waiting again to jump through to ensure you can actually use it again. Not fitting the launcher to fit the second DLA makes the ship even worse, as it then has all the downsides with none of the benefits.

One REALLY notices the loss of light drone bonuses, whilst other ships also have unbonused lights, they have a drone bay that carries spares, if one does this then one loses a set of sentries or heavies that really need spares.

In short, the buff to damage is good, but there is a lot of waiting around in missions that was not there before, there is a lot of micromanagement, due to the changes, and it is just "less Fun"
( I really mean a pain in the arse, but trying to be polite)

If the rattlesnake had only lost 3/4 of it's range bonus,
kept it's bonus on smaller drones, and kept it's drone bay ( in other words left drones alone).
And gained the same missile DPS increase without adding launchers, then it would have been a good pirate ship.

I am in favour of Hero drones, unfortunately the concept stops at mediums. Heavy drones replacing all the smaller drones, just doesn't work........
A rattlesnake with an 750% damage and hitpoint bonus to all drones and a 25mbps bandwidth would have been a very different and fascinating ship. If you are going to reduce drones they need a Massive boost to hitpoints otherwise it is simply just a few more seconds watching them to die.
As it is I have relegated mine to the back of the Hangar. for me it is a worse ship than before in spite of what appears on paper to be an improvement.
Hopefully the next rebalance whenever that is will at least make it as good as before, and god, it did need some love, but clearly that is never going to happen.

But look at the good side, gankers and gatecamps have a pirate ship now. It will work quite well at a preset range, when boosted up the wazoo, with something to deal with the frigates, and web and paint things to allow the rattler to apply full damage, good job *sarcasm*

Such a shame for everyone else though.

It is hard to believe that the same people are responsible for designing both ships.

I am afraid that I find myself apathetic to your other claim.

Especially since locktime is the major factor in killing frigate rats, it really isn't that important in regards to the assignment. Either way you can kill them faster than you can lock new ones, so that caps your timeframe on it anyway.

One or two glances or misses and you have 12-14s easily, also if you oneshot each we are talking about 20s+
+ time to assign each
+ time half the sentries do not fire or you have to deal with it
+ elite frigates

Perhaps it's because the rest of us are using it correctly.. You fly a ship to it's strenghts, not it's weaknesses. Some folks are still trying to fly the Gila like it's the same coookier cutter "Ishtar light" it used to be. It's not.

An hour ago I killed a pvp fit stratios and chased off his enyo flying buddy in a pve fit Gila in low sec, all for the loss of one augmented Hammerhead. The old Gila would have (at best) been able to run away using ecm drones, but thats about it.