EVE General Discussion

My mega out runs and out manovers most BCs it meets now and the combat range of blasters is perfectly fine so long as you dont try to fly them like an auto ship.

This.

Aurora/ Tach is a flash light. I passive locked a dram once at 240 km with a tinfoil Apoc and while I freaked him out and he went out to 300 km to break my lock, there was never any chance of me killing him.

Few people use Rails to their best effect, nice to see someone that does.




Correct (although blasters just got a nice tracking bonus and ammo tweaks), tracking would have to be properly balanced for the weapon base stats, and tracking modules would likely become even more of a priority.

Slow Rate of Fire/High Alpha weapons require slightly different tactics to use to their full advantage. The drawback is of course as you say... if you miss it's a lot more serious than with a high ROF weapon. That is generally why the emphasis with Artilliary is on the HUGE alpha, that is it's benefit and needs to be leveraged properly. The same would apply to blasters, with the added trickyness of likely NOT operating in fall off where tracking issues are mitigated to a degree.

To me, the change in emphasis on what a blaster pilot would fit (not that it would be all that different than it is now, as tracking is critical even with the current stats) would help make them more distinct from Auto Cannon fits and tactics. I "like" the fact that if you haven't set up for range control and high tracking you will be in a world of hurt... but if you have your target will choke on huge chunks of incoming damage.

i dont know, this sounds like a whole bunch of hot air to me. im not saying i dont believe you, im sure you got on the killmails. but the mega pulse oracles and arty tornadoes did all the work for sure. unless you can give me some examples, im afraid youre not contributing anything to the thread. large rails have nothing to offer over arties and mega pulses with scorch.

in addition, this does not address the issue with medium rails, which are awful.



but really, id love to get some sort of response from CCP regarding upcoming plans for overall ship balancing and Gallente fixing.

yep, there's a reason WoW moved away from RNG effects. they make pvp ******* stupid.

actually, arties have the smallest optimal of all long range weapons. the 1200mm for example even has a bigger falloff than optimal.



they do however have the biggest falloff.

bump, id still like an answer

Your example is flawed a faster Armor Cane would not be much of an issue. It would not have it's Nano Agility / Speed, Dmg and Range enjoyed by the much used Shield Counterpart. It's use as a rush Armor DPS Ship would see some improvements but inside Blaster Range where it would fight it would have a difficult time competing.

The benefits to Gallente far outstretch the 3 Minmatar Hulls this would help. Add in more Hybrid Balancing and this is a step in the right direction.

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Hmmm, as a secondary effect of ECCM I could see it reducing Sig Radius.

Sig radius is a reflection of a ships electronic signature, I could see the distortion put out by ECCM effectively having a low key but noticeable effect on lock times, missile accuracy, scanning efficiency, etc.