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CCP Quant has conjured up some data magic added some grains of crunched numbers and voilá! ready is the damage profile chart 2015.


This chart shows the accumulated damage in 2015 grouped by ship group and refined by weapon group.

A high resolution (vector) version of this 2015 chart is available here.
As comparison check out the damage profiles 2014.

Let the analysis begin!

oh good grief. Well the drone damage is off because it should have been double, but the ishtar nerf kinda hit it a bit. I'd expect it to be more around 3 or so.

But you could drive off some of the cruiser dps by merely moving the T3's over to a battle-cruiser status (they are pretty much in total, except in name). It'll fit better with the T3 destroyer lines (t3's are midpoint lines between frigate, cruiser and battleships (aka destroyers and battlecruisers).

Just the normal stuff I've harped about for a while.

Its nice to see the dispersion smoothing out, even in a small way. It will be fun to track how the addition of all the new cruiser and destroyer hulls impact things - most likely a lot :) Plus with all the capital revisions coming this should be a very interesting data set to explore after another 6 months. To be fair though, we should probably restrict this to combat hulls for simplicity's sake if nothing else. Looking fwd. to being able to see the #s behind this as opposed to just the pretty picture - though it is pretty hehe

I'm not sure why everyone is saying drones are OP. I've been flying a Domi in PvE for years and a lot of other ships beat it in specific situations. The only benefit of the domi is that it does decent in most situations but it excels at none. At least in PvE anyway

You really need another one but after the drone related rebalance.

I think this is wonderful work (though, rowsum() and colsum() are baller functions). Overall, I think it is fine that most of the action is in the cruisers, as these are goals within reach of newer players and affordable. However, I hope CCP uses this for balancing. Surely, some weapon systems/ship types are meant to do more damage than others, but it becomes fairly clear that drones and stealth bombers were OP, while BCs were UP. It also shows the sad state of affairs of AFs and Command Ships, and the huge imbalance in the T3Ds in favor of the Svipul and Confessor, which are both used for different purposes.

I'm gonna have to say that the Svipul clearly takes "best newcomer" award here. That single ship is out-damaging all other Minnie frigs, destroyers and HACs combined?!

Projectile weapons

T3Ds
Dreadnaught

Considering that Arties are arguably more prolific that ACs, you can't really convince someone ACs are good and keep a straight face.
It's the hulls. Sabres and Svipuls overbloat the value of ACs by being dumb ships in their own light.

And so far, no one is really bothered that the laser damage type is by far the dimmest column in the chart?

The "elegant" weapon system that can swap crystal type at a moment's notice and can project damage very well is the one that is used the least....


It's a simple fix:

50% energy turret capacitor usage reduction for all amarr laser boats as a role bonus and replace any existing cap usage reduction bonuses with a proper ship bonus. (laser boats with a marauder style setup of half the usual turret count and 100% damage bonus obviously have that already implemented, even though both sansha and blood raider ship lines need some more fitting and capacitor related love)

The price we currently pay for using lasers is too high for laser boats to be interesting enough to players - like the inability to swap damage type and the insane cap usage lasers have is not enough, but we also have extremely mediocre laser hulls with that stupid energy turret capacitor usage reduction bonus that is just stealing the spot for a proper ship bonus....

Agreed.