Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So inevitably the AFs will get a rebalance especially since the T3 dessies is more or less an improved version of them albeit a bit more expensive. So ontop of giving them a rebalance I suggest to give the AF a more specialized role over what they currently do by adding a new highslot module. This module would increase all the damage of the AF, (drones, turrets, missiles, smartbombs) by 100% at the cost of 25% of their speed for 10s. After the 10s the module would go on cooldown for 1min before it could be used again. This would give the AF a strong amount of burst damage for tactical use and would certainly give them a specialized role in pvp.

Thoughts?

Its only a temporary effect and with the cooldown being 1min the average dps increase from the module would become 14.3% which isnt an amazing amount of damage increase. Most weapons systems get an ~15% increase in damage by moving up one step Ex: ion to neutron blasters.

Depending on the fitting of your module, you could amke some 19k+ EHP harpies with enough burst to destroy enemy support and then it's tank will make you outlast anything even if you only have good dps every minutes for 10 seconds.

Yeah I really don't see any good argument for this, OP seems to boil down to "Give AFs a hilariously OP new module because... uhh... T3 destroyers exist. Yeah."

Can you provide anything to actually back up your assertion that AFs are broken?
(Also I find it hilarious that you're proposing something this radical and unbalanced when 2 of the new dessies don't even exist yet.

and never again could a t1 frig solo an af

this is a silly thread

lol get range control with a T1 frig against a missile hawk or a Harpy

im not about to say it wouldn't be obscenely good fun for the first couple of day after this was patched in,
dont lie,
you know the idea is funny,
sort of like a gnat flying around with a Remington shot gun

Double damage is an odd idea that would be very difficult to implement; the only reason it works on faction frigates is because they have a reduced number of turret slots.

Here's what I'd like to see for an AF pass:

All Assault Frigates gain an average of +10% base capacitor and +15% capacitor regen

AMARR

Vengeance

+10 PG
+20% cap regen, +12% capacitor amount (noted for being above average)
Drop utility high slot for 5th low slot
10% increase in overall ship hp; move 30% shield hp into armor

Ship bonuses change to:

Assault Frigate skill:
5% bonus to light missile and rocket damage per level
5% bonus to light missile and rocket launcher RoF per level

Amarr Frigate skill:
10% bonus to rocket and light missile velocity
4% bonus to armor resists per level

Retribution

+15 PG, +10 CPU
+12 m/s to base speed
Small increase in agility


CALDARI

Hawk
+5 PG
Drop utility slot for 3rd low slot
+7 m/s to base speed

Ship bonuses change from
7.5% shield booster amount per level to 4% bonus to shield resists per level

Harpy
+10 PG
+20% to capacitor regen (noted for being above average)
+16 m/s base speed
+18 km base targeting range


Minmatar

Jaguar
+12 PG
+20 CPU
+1 turret slot -1 launcher slot
move 200 hull hp into armor

Ship bonuses change to:

Assault Frigate Skill:
10% bonus to Small Projectile turret falloff per level
7.5% bonus to Shield Booster amount per level

Minmatar Frigate skill
10% bonus to Small Projectile turret damage per level
7.5% bonus to Small Projectile turret tracking speed per level

Wolf
+12 PG
+10 CPU
Move 5th high slot into a 3rd mid
+15% overall base HP

Change minmatar hull bonus of 5% damage to 5% RoF per level.


Gallente

Enyo
+5 PG
+5 CPU
+17% capacitor capacity (noted for being above average)
moderate increase in agility

Gallente frigate skill gains 7.5% bonus to armor repair amount per level.

Ishkur
-5 CPU
-2 PG
drone bay and bandwidth are both expanded to 50

Bonuses change to:

Assault Frigate Skill:
7.5% bonus to armor repair amount per level
5% bonus to drone max speed per level

Gallente Frigate skill:
5% bonus to small hybrid turret RoF per level
10% bonus to drone HP and Damage per level

yeah i would be happy with an agility buff