Player Features and Ideas Discussion

T3 Cruisers have the same issues with oversized AB fits, and is very likely what they want to "look into" for those. (They may have found a pretty elegant solution for it the way they just handled the T3Ds.)

T3Ds will see another "nerf", but I think it's going to be about risk/investment instead of about power- I don't think they can adjust the power much further down when you look at the more uber frigates and dessies like Daredevil, Garmur or Sabre and other T2 stuff like AFs and inties....instead I think they will bring the ISK/skill requirements up to better match the T3Ds abilities. (And to help maybe make them a rarer sight in places like FW, where low cost-mostly frigate PvP has always been the norm....there's plenty of other ships that could be out there terrorizing FW complexes, but they all cost 3 times as much isk and similarly more skill investment.)

Speaking of the other two T3Ds.....I wish they would hurry up and come out with those already.

I've got all those related gunnery skills to 5, and am not using any tracking rigs or tracking implants. I've actually mixed it up a fair bit between aurora and the faction red crystal (infrared? can't remember off hand). TBH I'm getting more damage/volley with aurora.

My gunnery support skills are all maxed as well. I'm seeing 216 cold dps with aurora out to 49/52 km in prop mode. This looks promising, the only ships that can engage over that range is the Garmur ( 60km's while moving at 6-7km/s). With the 1 MN MWD in Prop mode+links, I'm seeing speeds at 2.9km/s, with the 1MN AB it's not even funny (1.2km/s in Prop+links). I wish CCP just left the base speed intact. I sure hope in the next balance pass they give back the confessor's base speed, this ship is just too slow as is. Every fight you engage is a committed fight now, so you gotta bulk up that tank to dual/triple rep+ dual nos if you want to survive.

http://i.imgur.com/dfQg7wz.png

svipul largely unaffected, confessor no longer on the list. Basically what we predicted.

I keep seeing the Sabre on top ship list for small scale/solo pvp, and it looks to be better than the Confessor. Darn it, I should've just train for that ship instead of the T3D's mostly because it has one powerful feature that the T3D's don't have.......NERF IMMUNITY.

Exactly that. Whenever someone tries to warp out of your bubble, you count as a party in the engagement.

Bubbles don't give aggression timers, tho, so you can double bubble the target from inbound and outbound - a very, very severe oversight by CCP.

Agreed. It appears that CCP tried to nerf both ships in a similar fashion which is a huge mistake because they are so very different. Hopefully they've come to understand this and don't make the same mistake when balancing the other two T3 prior to their release.

CCP seems to be completely oblivious to the handicap that 10% reduction in Small Energy Turret activation cost is to all Amarr Ships as a whole and like you said in another post "they should add it as a double bonus along with the weapon damage bonus" so that Amarr ships can get a more useful bonus in place like Optimal Range bonus. In all likelihood when the other 2 T3D's come out, the Confessor is gonna be at the bottom of the pile in that class of ships due to the Amarr handicap skill. I'm all for Amarr but CCP is forcing me to become a Heretic and migrating to the Barbarians. So for now I'm gonna abandon the Confessor and switch over to the Svipul.

[Update EVE]
[Jump Clone to NPC Null]
[Activate Svipul]

"WTF!"
4 of the 6 AC's fit now useless. DPS now 112, hot.
#FacePalm

It's going to be a tough ride limping home.

#NERFEDinNULL

It's p bad, only saving grace for Amarr is the Scorch Ammo, and even that is 82% EM, 18% Thermal by damage vs. 58% EM and 42% Thermal for Multifrequency.