Player Features and Ideas Discussion

A travel fit interceptor (shield buffer, 2s align) can get around 9k ehp to even it's lowest resist damage type. Up to 11k if you're exceptionally paranoid about smartbombs (you shouldn't be). Then it's warp speed will allow it to skate past most pipebombers due to server issues. So in a hypothetical where an interceptor was warping through a gate with six 8hi pipebombs humping it, half would miss and the other half wouldn't do enough damage to pop it. Since most pipebombs only run 7 bombs at most, a travel fit interceptor could tank 5 full blasts. Then, in this situation, since no one wants to admit they didn't hit it because they were watching pornography, it gives the impression that six battleships weren't enough to kill an interceptor. This is all assuming all pipebombs are using the same damage type and that damage type just happens to be that interceptor's weakest. If our hypothetical gang of pipebombers were using mixed damage, then the amount of pulses necessary to take out an interceptor only increases.

All to say, no, he wasn't too far off the mark.

I'm not trying to argue this is overpowered, but the vast majority of the perception of imbalance surrounding interceptors have more to do with server issues and game functionality than their actual stats or capabilities. Not to mention people being little girls about not being able to effortlessly murder anything that pops up on their overview.