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Of course carriers are seeing more use, they are cheap and not quite as disposable as dreads.
They have far better range and application than commonly used dread fits, they can get reps and are still cheaper than dreads.
As for drone death balls, they still exist although now it is light fighters. You don't need to assign fighters to have 30 or 40 flights engage a single target.
I'm not sure they are getting more use than prior to Citadel, they are just being used in different ways since the split off of remote reps. I remember remote repping carrier blobs being far bigger than what we see now.

They're killing more and dying more since the Citadel changes. While you're right that this isn't a straight apples to apples comparison given the changes to capital RR and the split into Carriers and FAXes it's still pretty compelling.

It's also worth noting that FAXes aren't seeing nearly the use Carriers are, though if you combine the Carrier Kill and Loss numbers with the FAX loss number you do come out with something closer to the old Carrier ISK Efficiency it's still higher overall than it was before.

Overall I'd say there's fairly compelling evidence that Carriers are indeed seeing more use than pre-Citadel even with these tweaks. More use than Dreads too, actually.

Um... Marauders have never been PvP focused ships, and they've never been competing with Dreads.

Bastion is not comparable to Siege.

I'm sorry you feel this way but your complaint is basically going to be viewed as "yup, working as intended" by CCP and the vast majority of the player base.

At no point did I say Marauders were only usable in PvE, I said they were PvE focused ships and that's what they're balanced around. What they are not supposed to be is Battleship sized dreads and they are not supposed to be dealing similar damage to HAW fit dreads.

Bastion is a tank and damage projection focused module, it is not a damage boost.

That doesn't stop it from being hilariously effective in PvP though.

Wrong thread for that feedback mate...

Oh man, so many things wrong with this...

First off CCP flatly stated that the Marauder is a PvE focused ship in their own rework of the things. Whether or not you find a Pirate BS better for PvE is somewhat irrelevant to that, and certainly doesn't make Marauders PvP focused, that's just laughable.

Second, while Pirate BSes certainly overshadow Marauders in raw DPS the Marauders get substantial tank, application, and projection bonuses which make them better for generally lower skilled pilots and actually let them complete some missions faster than a pirate BS due to being able to project more damage further and score cleaner hits. Pirate BSes still end up with an edge at the high end of both player skill and SP totals, but not by that much.

Lastly, comparing a HAW dread to a Marauder is a bit funny as well, especially for PvE, since you can't bring a dread into High Sec space where most Level 4 mission running happens.