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Rebalance Ishtar Sentries to 7.5% damage bonus per level.
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Chihiro Chugakusei
Fortune Hunters - Navy Operations
#1 - 2015-09-10 23:34:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Chihiro Chugakusei
The Ishtar got nerfed. Ishtar Sentries got nerfed, and a general drone nerf was put in right afterwards. It is my opinion that because of this the current strength of sentries is lower than what CCP intended, and that it was never revisited after drone damage amplifiers got reduced. Right now ishtar sentries need max skills for the ship to just be decent (485 dps with gardes and all max skills).

I'd like to see a tweak for this. Right now I just fly a vexor navy issue for my sentries, and I don't see the point of the ishtar.

Keep it up, +1
Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#2 - 2015-09-11 00:02:50 UTC
...no.

Ishtars online was ******* horrible. We do not need it back. If anything, they should lose the sentry bonus entirely, not buff the bastard things.
Vic Jefferson
Stimulus
Rote Kapelle
#3 - 2015-09-11 01:27:07 UTC
Chihiro Chugakusei wrote:
I'd like to see a tweak for this. Right now I just fly a vexor navy issue for my sentries, and I don't see the point of the ishtar.


Bigger Drone Bay - kill a VNI's drones and it has no replacements.
TII resists - Speaks for itself.
I'm sure an objective look at their other stats would reveal more things as well. Ishtars with heavies are just fine if you need more damage. It is good that you have a choice between more damage in heavies and longer and potentially better alpha and range with sentries.

Vote Vic Jefferson for CSM X.....XI.....XII?
Samillian
Angry Mustellid
#4 - 2015-09-11 07:43:36 UTC
To be blunt, Ishtars had it coming and it should have happened sooner.

Not supported.

NBSI shall be the whole of the Law
Celthric Kanerian
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2015-09-11 08:53:03 UTC
Chihiro Chugakusei wrote:
Right now ishtar sentries need max skills for the ship to just be decent (485 dps with gardes and all max skills). .


That is still A LOT of dps for a HAC, nonetheless, a cruiser...

The Ishtar is still incredibly powerful and could use some more nerfing tweaking to it, but I doubt CCP will go further.
Rek Seven
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2015-09-11 09:12:14 UTC
The ishtar was a joke in the beginning, then it became awesome and now it's back to being a joke Sad

The problem was never with the ship, it was with sentries them selves. IMO sentries mechanics should have been changed so that sentries remained in a close fixed position in relation to the owner... but that time has passed and now every thing tastes vanilla.

The wishlist is pretty much complete...