Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I might spin it in station for old times sake more often . It is nice to see a buff to the tempest. but this change is not enough to compel me to undock in one. To many drawbacks in the battleship class really to make it worth while more often than not. *shrugs*

shield ishtar is kill.
All hail the armor ishtar with heavies, 100k EHP, and spider tank

Hey, with the new fleet warp changes, you CAN be him.

Do you realize how whiny you sound? What's the point in buffing other ships if it has the same balancing impact by making the playing field more level? Drones are OP. This is a great move.

And this has as much to do with blobs as it does with small groups. After drone assignment, in fact, it's really more of an issue with small groups where the most preferred PvP ships are drone boats.



It's kinda like the old hurricane - had too much fitting and speed to be that good. Was nerfing ACs the solution there? No.


On the contrary, check out current shield fits, and see how it would be impacted with -1 midslot. You'll either be (armor) tanky or have a punch, but not both.



You realize that a nerf to one weapon system is also a comparative buff to every other weapon system, right? And hey, get a pest ;)

I'm not really looking forward to refitting my Ishtars, but that's not really important.

+1 to these changes.

I'm not sure that the Tempest buff will do the trick, but cheers for trying. It needed some love.

Hey,

That DDA change not good imo. You are not nerfing the Ishtar specifically (what Needs to be done), you are nerfing every drone boat in the game.

It would much be better to change the sentry damage bonus completly from the ishtar rather than killing an entire weapon system and by this, ships who use also sentrys but are not ridiculous overpowered (Domis, Rattlesnakes) and in addition ships who use normal drones (Gila, worm etc)

Your sig is rather misleading as it doesn't group battleships (T1s, Marauders, BLOPs), frigates, Battlecruisers, or other similar hulls together.

Pretty much.

I was initially sad about this change since I use my Ishtar exclusively for missions and not PVP. It's just a good way to spend a couple hours ever few weeks waiting for CCP to fix null sec.

I armour infinite armour tank my Ishtar and use mids for nav computer, drone tracking, cap recharger and afterburner. Now that I'm losing a mid-slot I can ditch the remote armour repairer I used to repair my drones in-space and a cap recharger. I'm still easily, laughably cap stable and repairing 574 hp/9 sec. I get a free low slot which I can put a Drone Damge Amplifier II in which will boost my drone's damage. Hopefully it will help mitigate my ship moving slower.

I have to agree. There is no reason a cruiser sized hull should provide bonuses to a battleship sized weapon system.

The ship itself is fine - it's the sentry drone bonuses speifically that are causing it to be unbalanced. Fix the bonuses and the ship will fall into line.