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Hello one and all! We are planning a big set of ship and module updates for this Winter, including 13 new ships, module tiericide and much more. This thread will introduce 4 of the new ships, a new line of Empire Navy Ewar Frigates.

These ships are designed to use their racial ewar bonuses (primary ewar for Amarr and Caldari, secondary for Gallente and Minmatar) in unusual ways, skewed towards solo and microgang combat. Overall we don't expect these ships to eclipse Electronic Attack Frigates for fleet support roles, but the combination of ewar with significant frigate damage puts them into their own category.

These ships will be available in all standard combat LP stores for their respective factions.

Crucifier Navy Issue
Amarr Frigate bonuses (per skill level):
20% bonus to Small Energy Turret damage
7.5% bonus to Weapon Disruptor effectiveness
Misc Bonus:
-85% penalty to Weapon Disruptor optimal range and falloff
-85% reduction to Weapon Disruptor activation cost and CPU requirements

Slot layout: 3 H, 4 M, 3 L, 2 Turret
3 Rig Slots, 400 Calibration
Fittings: 42 PWG, 160 CPU
Defense (shields / armour / hull): 375 / 700 / 525
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / average cap per second): 500 / 250s / 2
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / warp speed / align time): 340 / 3.35 / 1,064,000 / 5 / 4.94s
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 10 / 20
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 64km / 640 / 5
Sensor strength: 14 Radar
Signature radius: 38


Griffin Navy Issue
Caldari Frigate bonuses (per skill level):
20% bonus to Small Hybrid Turret damage
20% bonus to ECM strength
Misc Bonus:
-85% penalty to ECM optimal range and falloff
-85% reduction to ECM Jammer activation cost and CPU requirements

Slot layout: 3 H, 5 M, 2 L, 2 Turret, 1 Launcher
3 Rig Slots, 400 Calibration
Fittings: 40 PWG, 180 CPU
Defense (shields / armour / hull): 700 / 400 / 500
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / average cap per second): 425 / 212.5s / 2
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / warp speed / align time): 325 / 3.45 / 1,056,000 / 5 / 5.05s
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 5 / 5
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 65km / 600 / 5
Sensor strength: 17 Gravimetric
Signature radius: 40


Maulus Navy Issue
Gallente Frigate bonuses (per skill level):
10% bonus to Drone tracking and hitpoints
10% bonus to Warp Scrambler range (This bonus does not apply to Warp Disruptors)
Misc Bonus:
+2 scramble strength to all Warp Scramblers (This bonus does not apply to Warp Disruptors)

Slot layout: 2 H, 3 M, 4 L, 2 Turret
3 Rig Slots, 400 Calibration
Fittings: 35 PWG, 150 CPU
Defense (shields / armour / hull): 400 / 525 / 550
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / average cap per second): 330 / 165s / 2
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / warp speed / align time): 315 / 3.35 / 1,063,000 / 5 / 4.94s
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 25 / 50
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 64.5km / 620 / 5
Sensor strength: 16 Magnetometric
Signature radius: 42


Vigil Fleet Issue
Minmatar Frigate bonuses (per skill level):
5% bonus to Rocket explosion velocity
25% bonus to explosive Rocket damage, 20% bonus to em, thermal and kinetic Rocket damage
Misc Bonus:
+50% Stasis Webifier range

Slot layout: 3 H, 4 M, 3 L, 1 Turret, 2 Launchers
3 Rig Slots, 400 Calibration
Fittings: 38 PWG, 190 CPU
Defense (shields / armour / hull): 525 / 525 / 425
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / average cap per second): 300 / 150s / 2
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / warp speed / align time): 400 / 3.2 / 1,080,000 / 5 / 4.79s
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 15 / 15
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 65km / 660 / 5
Sensor strength: 13 Ladar
Signature radius: 34

Let us know what you think!

Do you expect these to cost about the same as their combat counterparts (slicer comet etc)?

this maulus already need a nerf

man, not more recon bonuses :\

and why do I want +1 scram strength?

CCP Turbo Dinosaur must love the Griffin Navy Issue

Edit: Holy balls these are going to be fun
Edit of Edit: )))))))))))))) Dis Gon B Gud

Don't get me wrong, I love more ships.

Yet, I have to wonder? There is so much more even on the T1 side of ships and such that need focus, why bring these out.

I see tons of people fly say X ship over Y and Z (Looking at Sabber vs others ships in it's class and many other little odd ones. CCP has the stats).

Amarr and Caldari have more Ewar ships than Gallante and Minnie. Plus their ewar is much more effective at combat control over another players ship.

---These ships are fine, but Fozzie, we need the information on the changes to EWAR as well.
---This is one of the peas in the pod, with ewar rebalance being the other pea.

nice too have a hybrid caldari navy ship, maybe osprey could go this way instead of trying too compete with so many caracals and gila/ orthrus, some weird combos here, maybe tone done the damage a little also targeting range is rather high for what is short range e-war, ive noticed this trend of adding loads of extra range than is needed on ships.

any chance you will finally take the nerfbat to T3 cruisers in the winter patch? .. its sooo.. long overdue

i can imagine how much people will hate a dps blaster griffin in small FW sites though, maybe a counter too the OP T3 dessies.

Ho boy! Time to bust out the spreadsheets! Theory crafting these is gonna be fun for the T3dd group.