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The base problem is that there is simply no way you can fit a decent armor or shield tank onto a gallente blaster boat without a massive rework of ships and/or modules. Armor tanks drop their speed/agility too much, they don't have the slots to shield tank. There's simply no way that's going to happen.

There's a simple strategy to fix Gallente blaster boats, one that's already hinted at here: Taranis Uber Alles. The Taranis is by far the most successful Gallente blaster boat because of its high damage, speed, low sig, and high structure. Blasters and a sig/speed/structure tank make it a challenging but fun boat to fly. The Talos/Deimos/Thorax should be able to sig/speed tank and use structure as a buffer until they get in close to kill things. To do this, they need three things:
1. Dual prop so that they can get in close by pulsing the MWD and then stay close/fast using AB/scram.
2. Decent structure buffer that doesn't kill their speed
3. A way to modestly slow down opponents that doesn't eat scarse midslots

To do this:
1. Buff reinforced bulkheads by removing the speed penalty. The speed penalty makes them worthless to the very ships that would like to use them to get more buffer while they dive in close.
2. Slightly buff overdrive injectors speed bonus - with a propmod, they result in lower top speeds than nanofibers *and* don't give the agility bonus that nanofibers do. Gallente should prefer overdrives (especially with the hybrid cargo size buff) while Minmatar prefer nanofibers, but overdrives need a slight buff for them to be competitive.
3. Add light and medium stasis web drones with a 4/8% velocity reduction to use because Gallente blaster ships lack midslots.
4. Give us some structure repair drones to use on each other between fights.

Basically, the following fits, which fit with the current SiSi hybrid fitting requirements, should be made to be a competitive blaster boats that you want to fly like a giant Taranis. They currently aren't viable because of the problems with RB2/Overdrives and the lack of necessary drones:

Talos, Talanis
HIghs: 8x Neutron Blaster Canon
Mids: MWD2/AB 2/Warp Scram 2/Stasis Web 2
Lows: DC2/RB2/2x Overdrive Injector/1x MFS
Rigs: Polycarb/Hybrid damage
Drones: 5x Light stasis webifier drones

Deimos, Deiranis
Highs: 5x Heavy Neutron Blaster, 1x named medium neut
Mids: Named MWD/AB2/Scram2
Lows: DC2/2xRB2/2xMFS/1xOverdrive
Rigs: Polycarb/Dynamic Fuel Valve
Drones: 2x med web/3x light web/armor+hull rep drones

Thorax, Thoranis
Highs: 5x Heavy Neutron Blaster
Mids: Named MWD/AB2/Scram2
Lows: DC2/2xRB2/1xOverdrive/1xMFS2
RIgs: ACR/Polycarb/Collision Accel
Drones: 2x med web/3x light web/armor+hull rep drones

With the Combat Booster change, these bonuses will be very nice, so I wouldn't exactly want to junk them.

And the webbing drones above: webbing drones are viewed as useless because of stacking penalties; the talos can get away with 1 heavy because they move just fast enough to catch most cruisers.

The Talos may have a tanking issue, but thats kindof the point.

Agreed, its about understanding the role of a ship. Sure, Gallente ships have a harder time switching targets and reaching them, but when you do, you apply stupid amounts of damage. Use a fast crusier to tackle, and with the tracking bonus, logistics melt even faster.

Maybe its the WH PvP slugfests we do on top of wormholes..

If you're referring to the 7.5% rep bonus, it's generally accepted that local repping is an inferior option for pvp (granted it works on the myrmidon if you put 3 medium repairers on, but not many others can do that). This is why you don't see many hyperions, or armour tanked brutixes etc. The idea with changing that bonus to aid speed is to let blaster boats do what they're designed to do, better, and local repping isn't one of those things.

Kindof missing the point here. The 15% boosters will give close to 20% rep bonus for up to 2 hours and cost roughly 8-15 mil ISK. Because they are removing the side effects of boosters and changing that skill to +5% booster bonus, theres no drawbacks besides a little isk investment. and 1.375*1.19=163% normal repping strength, which is pretty nice.

Holy crap hell ya I toltaly missed that and did not even know they were removing penitals on boosters. Any hope that there going to make the legal in High sec.?

Can't wait to test this out in proper pvp, I too had missed the change to boosters... myrm ftw

Dominix doesn't need to change anything - especially not for a tank bonus lol
Most other gallente ships might need a few tweaks, but they are NOT as bad as people make them.
They just have to be flown using special tactics and have a minor overhaul.

Hybrid turrets except a few of the guns sticking out seems pretty reasonable
The ammunition need a revamp as they are too chaotic.
Overdrives, nanofiber internals and inertia stabilizers definately need to be reworked
Blasterships need to accelerate faster (lower mass? better agility?)
Minmatar need to be fastest (higher velocity, higher mass? worse agility?)

Plates - make sure the Gallente ships can fit a MWD+plate and still have better or same mass as minmatar ships?
Armor rigs - make sure they don't reduce a vital attribute for Gallente. Make them nerf sensor strength or scan resolution instead...

Pinky

We're beating a dead horse here. CCP has stopped reading this thread long ago and clearly no longer doesn't care about our opinion because they consider current changes as final. And probably dropped the whole balancing process over 10 days ago like an anvil.

You people can keep arguing all you want but the next response you get out of CCP out of this whole ordeal is a message that the thread is locked.

This was just an excuse to get us shafted again.

This video is Crucible in a nutshell:

http://youtu.be/Un2slS7q5Zw

True - for some reason I feel totally humiliated having spent time and energy to check changes, predict impacts and consequences and dig up arguments for and against various stuff...