Warfare & Tactics

I guess no one's made a xXNoScopeGanjaXx youtube pvp vid showing off the new modules yet? Sometimes the metagame just takes time to reveal itself. I think MJDs as well still receive very little attention and discussion for what is an excellent new module.

I found them to be a bonus.. a significant step up.

Watch out for the words of lemmings, the cookie-cutter cults. They aren't very adapt at thinking for themselves.. spitting out what they heard from some one else they trust, and that person could very will be just a **** lucky PvP pilot.. running glorified killboard stats that don't showcase them using pills/boosters/RR alts to achieve the numbers, all while preying on 'easy' targets.

TDs. For years, very few players were preaching their effectiveness.. while the majority ignored. Something changed.. without the module actually changing.. and now TDs are the rage. Sometimes.. **** changes without **** actually being changed. Ideas change.. I could run off a list of ship/weapon/mod cookie cut changes that happened, without any significant mechanic changes taking place to promote the switch.

And you can't discount all the surrounding parameters of AARs. Rigs.. no penality to piloting. ASBs likely going to promote higher sigs.. no matter how little (and sometimes not so little the sig bloom), that equates to taking more dmg.. it is a Fact and no reason to discount such. Couple points in sig bloom upwards could make the difference from hits landing as 'grazing' to hit' or even 'penetrates'. Increasing sig is going to have a positive impact on your opponent(s) dps curve, fact. No longer being slower going active armor is a HUGE bonus.

Given the changes to hulls, and more to come.. a lot of ships are now supporting utlity highs, more so than in the past. The chance of coming across neuts are more likely.. and the ability to fit NOS more likely as well. ASBs fits generally side-step cap-boosters.. AARs fit usually won't. What's the point? Active armor ships are likely going to have better cap reserves than ASBs.. which leads to resists. Armor are gifted with a capless omni protection mods.. shield omni needs cap, see where this is going? On top of this.. the passive bonuses to active hardeners are now bye-bye.

Oh, and DCU is still more friendly to armor ships.. which happen to be Gallente and Amarr.. which happen to be the two highest structure classes.. again, benefitting from DCU even further.

You can blindly look at the one number.. but it isn't the whole equation of fights/fits. To think that one number you decided to focus on as being the determining factor towards deciding if something is good or bad.. is, imo.. a stupid, half-assed way of figuring things worth.

yeah I found it "working" on my optimal speed tanking comets and firetails, but not the brawler fits. but in longer fights still they are meh ....

repper is never same than plate, if someone can instapop your repper does not help. (example arty trasher)

Alpha and Cap are the reasons I would use plate plus rep combo, personally I feel the SAAR is pretty good, especially on a bonused frigate, it is great on my comet too.

I do doubt the stat posted my calculations suggested that overheated SAAR + 2x Nano pumps is the same as a RT 400m plate +2x Trimarks after 46 seconds, it is also better than overheated MASB + one raw boost from cap at the end after 27s with the rigs 35sec without.

Things change at cruiser level MAAR compares well against LASB and LSE surpassing both around 46 seconds but not (perhaps understandably) against 1600mm plate and XL-ASB.

LAAR+ rigs also can compare not as well to XL-ASB +SBA II over an extended period, here you rely on advantages of armour EHP and mid slot e-war more to offset apparent raw tank.