Ships & Modules

ive never seen anyone fly a EAF anywhere, how bad are these things and how could they be balanced?
if im wrong about them, please tell me. i just havent seen ANY of them anywhere.

They always explode when entering warp cause they have as much HP as a wet paper bag

Both responders above me are correct :) The paper tank means it takes bravery to fly it, which is sadly a declining attribute of pilots these days....

I particularly enjoy the Hyena - with two webs and a long point, it can very quickly immobilize anything that jumps through the gate if you're parked at zero. You may lose the ship frequently, but if you are snagging much more valuable ships or significant war targets than it is completely worth the cost.

400 plate and lg-slaved Sentinel is fun.

I see them all the time but only with younger players. And those players usually only lose one (rather quickly) and then switch to something stronger.

That being said they are very useful in small gangs - hence why they get primaried all the time.

Never tried that - IIRC the only time when I tried them was pre-QR, so I think I tried to nano it which didn't work out that well.

My main gripe was the huge sig radius (at least that was what stuck with me after my experiments) and my guess/suggestion would be that their sig radius gets reduced when buffing them.

Given the preliminary changes to destroyers, EAFs except the Hyena would be closer to destroyers rather than frigs in regards to sig radius, so it would be a good place to start.

I didn't feel their agility to be much of a problem - it's better than e.g. that of a Vengeance and the sentinel is faster.
Yet I never had a problem using that - but the far better resists/base EHP in combination with the smaller sigradius made it far more viable.

garbage, fix needs to be lower sig more hitpoints. then you will see them
right now its litterly 2 shot form a destroyer and its gone.
and the sig the size of a smaller cruiser. a battlecruiser and easily hit these.

They can keep up with frigate gangs. So if you want an ecm ship in your frigate fleet you don't have to wait for a slower cruiser.

Is that the purpose you mean?

You can't fly it cause you think the hull doesn't look right?

I think it looks pretty good.

I trained EAF a while ago because of Kitsune. But I wasn't too pleased with it due to rather short engagement range and only room enough for 3 ECM mods after prop mods, etc.

Later on, when I trained Gallente frigate 5 for Nemesis, I realized I could now fly the Keres as well. 2-3 range scripted damps plus a range boosted long point and cap stable w/o MWD running means perma-tackle for anything with a locking range of less than 100km.

Unfortunately, it's dps is abysmal. So it's not suitable for solo PvP. But it's great for getting that initial tackle.

I actually took it out on a BC roam as semi-fast tackle. Lock time wasn't so good. But when we leroyed into a FW BS gang twice our size, guess who was the only pilot to get out with his ship? I also flew that silly thing from Fountain to Deklein, back to Outer Ring, and out to Black Rise without getting ganked. Its a fun little ship. Just remember to keep range.