EVE General Discussion

Turns out as well as boosting hybrids this winter, CCP boosted Winmattar even more.

Lies!

I took on two drakes and a falcon in my solo pawnmobile cyclone and still lost.

That's why was silly to train hybrids just because of that rumour, and will still be for a long time.

Will take a month or two for people to realise those hybrids and ships using them are still far, I mean very far behind, of projectiles and lasers or missiles.

Too many game mechanics would need to be changed to keep actual level of guns/ships buffs = will not happen

Too many problems to be solved about ships survivability to in fact be able to use their weapons properly in other environments than station and gate camps, witch would make them closer to projectiles and lasers = will not happen

Hybrids buff is an utopia because you'll make them another copy of projectiles or lasers, so if you expect a decent hybrids buff and keep exactly the same mechanics like:

Ship base speed

Ship hp

Sucking active ARMOR tank

Rigs/mods penalty

Ships bonus

Stupid web range/strength on BLASTER HULLS

Stupid shut down of MWD with a simple meta 1 warp scrambler

Blasters bonus dps being ridiculous benefit of the huge drawbacks

Rails being has always not the best choice when you have to one shot stuff to succeed cleaning the area fast (reccons/logis)

So, is the stuff buffed? -yes, obviously.
Can you fit your Diemost now with neutrons and have a decent tank? -no

Will those blaster ships or rails ships get the crap out of some stuff?-yes, meta 1 arty's can do that too.

ATM is clearly not enough and the needed changes so those finally are the best choice for other thing than gank miners forgot their appointment.

I'm happy some stuff got buffed for minie too, I don't think they needed but since it's there there's no reason for me to use my primary trained race guns/ships over my secondary one has I don't fly Nyx's or Thany's.
Hope lachesis and arazu will get some speed boost, still fitted with AC's and only points, Damps are still crap.
Happy Oneiros becomes more useful for gangs now.

That's it.

You'll have to explain that analogy... sorry

I'm guessing that Death Knights are the best looking, but also require far more training to use effectively. Their skill set doesn't reward brainless min-maxing and straight forward grinding, but it grants a flexibility that causes causes other players to complain SO loudly, they fail to ever realize they were simply outwitted by superior players.

Don't know anything about WOW, but I'm pretty sure I nailed the analogy.

fairly close. they do allow for massive flexibility, they can either be awesome tanks, awesome damage dealers, or really good damage dealers that are next to impossible to kill one on one and even in 2 on one engagements if they know what to do they can still easily come out on top.
they also start half way through the game by starting at level 55 instead of level 1 and they come out of the starting area 3 hours later at level 60 with gear to kick anyones ass.
and their tactics consist of only 5-6 skills where pretty much every other class has at least a dozen.

EDIT: death knights are what made me start looking elsewhere for an MMO and I wanted something not grind-based and that's how I came across eve and I'm VERY glad I came to that conclusion.

T2 ammo is overhauled , not sure about missiles... or at least thats what i heard somewhere..

different ship, different weapon systems, different fleet composition is for different type of encounters.

I guess that is quite obvious. Nobody want really balanced game. There are tweaks, so one "specific ship" cant be beated by any other combination only with that "specific ship" .

But you dont really want gallante blasters/rails to be exact the same as autocannons, otherwise why not fly minmatar straight away.

Well, the Hulk's two highest resistances are explosive and then kinetic, so I can't see this being too useful for the majority of gankers. Seems to me like less of a "buff," and more of a "turn it into a usable ammo type."

The buff wasn't that big, not even close.