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Sentry Drone Tiericide?
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Pine Marten
Doomheim
#21 - 2014-07-09 15:40:33 UTC
Chris Winter wrote:
RangerSmurf wrote:
But I did up the numbers, and the bonus for the specialization skill is trivial, on a snake it comes out to like maybe 30 dps with 3 drone dmg mods, so yeah, not so helpful or worth the time for training imo.

Your math is bad. The specialization skill adds, unsurprisingly, up to 10% additional damage at level 5. The only way you could get only an additional 30 dps is if you're only doing 300dps with drones on a rattlesnake, which I find a little hard to believe.

But overall, you're not wrong. They changed the T2 sentries to be like T2 guns--same base states as meta 4, only additional damage comes from the specialization skill. However, they completely forgot that T2 guns also benefit from T2 ammo to justify the long training time, which isn't the case for drones. They also failed to consider that having to train 4 different specializations for one weapon system is rather awful.

The ironic part is that one of their goals with the drone changes was to make them LESS skill-intensive. They ended up doing exactly the opposite.


Not surprised at all.
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#22 - 2014-07-09 16:34:51 UTC
Yes, having to train another 30 minute skill you probably already had definitely counts as making them harder to train.

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#23 - 2014-07-09 19:20:54 UTC
Pine Marten wrote:
Chris Winter wrote:
The ironic part is that one of their goals with the drone changes was to make them LESS skill-intensive. They ended up doing exactly the opposite.

Not surprised at all.

Yes, people (wilfully?) misrepresenting the reasons and the outcome is not cause for surprise these days.

The goal with the drone changes was to make them easier to get into, but harder to specialise for — i.e. to behave like all other weapon systems. They ended up doing exactly that: it is now easier to start dipping your toes in basic drone usage and not be awful at it, but if you want to go all out, it takes a bit more and the benefits are more marginal than the massive jumps you saw before.
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