EVE General Discussion

With the New Orthrus Meta that has become wildly rampant and with the huge buff to missiles incoming with both range and the increased missiles resistances I wish to know if CCP is going to be buffing the damage that defender Missiles do to make up for the Missile buff and if CCP is going to bother making Defender Missiles more viable of an Option in pvp.

Alot of people find them to be incredibly useless, and to a large extent in pvp they are, but I have been recently using them against Cerbs and the Orthrus and have found them to Mitigate dps to a much more manageable level and have been sticking them in my utility slot on alot of ships that I fly.

Does CCP have plans in order to modify/buff this game Mechanic?

Huge buff to missiles? Have you read the thread concerning missile changes? That said, a change to defender missiles would actually make sense given the hitpoint changes so you can pretty much forget about it.

Do defenders even work against missiles fired from Mordu Ships? A while back I did some testing against NPC defenders (which I assume use the same intercept code for player defenders) whose effectiveness was abysmal against 15km/s HMLs, and were completely ineffective at short and long ranges. (Mordu ships have 16km/s to 19km/s light and heavy missiles.)

Player defenders may fare better due to players timing the launch better, but with the graphics lag (missiles can hit before the GUI shows them hitting) and lag in general, I have doubts.

IMHO, due to various reasons, defenders are pretty much useless and need to be dropped in favor of a CIWS module (.e.g. abstracted gun/laser point defense.)

I use the defender missiles in pvp, alot of times I am flying a ship that has space for one launcher with my guns, so I stick in a light missiles launcher with defender missiles in it and it reduces the dps from ships say the Orthrus and the Cerberus by 1/5th effectively canceling out one of there launchers. The Mitigation in dps doesnt seem like alot but it increases your survivability against some highly OP ships which is great in pvp.

With the defense buff to missiles incoming because of smart bomb damage, it pretty much cancels out the defender missiles entirely so even that little niche use becomes rather useless.

Hence I would like to see a buff to the defender missiles to coincide with the defence buff missiles are getting to make them more difficult to firewall.

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