Wormholes

Black Hole = Mordu ship doctrine :)

Overall I like the changes. Right now w-space fleets seem to skew heavily toward armor-based brawling. I like that we're giving skirmish fleets a place where they'll really excel. It means that WH corps will want to have their pilots cross-trained, but that's not really a bad thing.

Sounds like the cruisers that get bonuses to light weapons are going to ruin your plans.

90% love it. Especially on board with the new black holes, exactly the kind of unique environment I wanted to see.

My one point of concern is the energy transfer in Cat Vars. I recognize the worry about spider-tanking carriers, but I feel like this is going to hurt logi cruisers a lot and make it hard to have subcap fights in these systems. I can easily see people trying to avoid fights the way they avoid black holes now if it becomes impossible to maintain a logi chain.

If carriers are the primary concern, why not make the nerf specific to capital energy transfer arrays? That way subcap logi are as effective as ever and the spider-tanks are nerfed to an acceptable degree.

I have a concern related to cataclysmic variable system, particularly the highest classes.

By adding a debuff to remote cap transfers any logi from a carrier would require triage. This negates all potential dps from the carrier. You would therefore need a larger group of players than is currently needed to run any given site in C5-6 space as capitals are a vital part in making those sites interesting (ie capital escalations). Large groups will no doubt have the numbers needed to work around this, but I fear that medium sized groups could find this game-breaking.

Doesn't that result in "coveted" space that entities might fight over?

The pulsar changes will not have the effect you plan. The increased effectiveness of NOS/Neut will actually be detrimental to a fleet trying to engage in cap warfare as it will also double the effectiveness of cap batteries on the defending ships. Fitting a battery will be essential in these environments, meaning the bonus to nos/neut is negated.

First of all - Thank you CCP Fozzie for publishing that Devblog.

Now to the point :)

I think those changes are quite OK with few small concerns:

1. Black Hole - all is nice and balanced I guess in matter of PvP way, on the other hand penalty to web strength might be a problem for PvE content: for example on site with capital escalations dreadnoughts will need double number of webifier ships, but this is a minor issue, which can be easy countered by changing in tactics. So basically its OK.

2. Magnetar - like in the case of black hole - all seems to be balanced and ok. Again - minor issue with PvE but like above minor change in tactics and all ok :)

3. Red Giant - perfect change. Being honest with you CCP Fozzie - smartbomb bonus which existed there was kinda lonely without bomb bonuses ^^ - of course I agree with issues wrote above - removing POS modules will be easy with bombers, such as bombing someone on hole. Is that bad - honestly I do not know, but I hope someone maybe will find some nice solution to that.

4. Pulsar - very nice change which leads to an end of "immortal" Chimera's and Phoenix'es - now Bhaalgorns will be insane inside there ^^ - very encouraging to PvP.

5. Wolf Rayet - this is a strange change for me, but at the end I think it will serve as good as it works inside pulsar. Of course I'm a bit concern about those Revelation or Archon pilots with Slave implants and armor riggs - it will take forever to burn through their buffer, but like i wrote kinda same mechanics exists in pulsar (maybe Slave implants should be changed so they bonus armor repping just like Crystal ones - and please fellow capsuleers don't try to kill me - its just loud thinking :) )

6. Cataclysmic Variable - this is the most controversial change, because in c6 class it will put a lot of pressure on conventional logistic ships, no matter if it will be PvE or PvP Content, and since this effect encourage using of that kind of ships I think it is a big downside (I lived for like 1,5 year inside c6 Cataclysmic Variable WH), Maybe this should be implemented for capital ships only (if main reason of that change was counter capital spider fleets)?

Well - big picture here looks very nice, as this changes in my opinion makes stuff more balanced and adds some downsides where there was none - its fair in my opinion, but Cataclysmic Variable needs more love.

I can get behind this change.

Putting g all the effects in line with each other will now allow you to choose a system based on a gameplay aspect instead of which hole is best.

I think the wolf rayet and black holes will synergize well with the new dynamic wormholes.

If the small weapons bonus affects rapid light missiles, does it also affect drones?

Love the changes coming to black holes, giving missiles and shield pilots in higher class wormholes a better chance of changing the overall Armor T3 meta.