Ships & Modules

The Worm is very far from a missile boat. It gets like 40 DPS with rockets. You can have Gallente frig at level 1 and still fly it just as effectively. It's kind of weird actually. The drones are what makes the ship OP

You wouldn't certainly be the only one at that.

I'm personally thrilled for my future Mega-Harpy or 10mn LML rageboat.

There really isn't much CCP can do to make this one not-amazing to the point of quite easily being problematic unless they seriously break the mold on what Caldari ships usually do or just make it bad.

15km standard smartbombs in sharpshooter? Sign me up.

And then what will the gallente destroyer be? A glorified algos?

this is a horrible idea.

amarr should be laser oriented
minmatar should be projectile oriented
caldari should be missile oriented
and gallente should be hybrid oriented

Firstly, let me say that I would be thrilled if the Caldari D3 is missile oriented.
Now, with that out of the way I do not expect it to be. Call me a pessimist but I fully expect it to be a mini-Naga, fitting rails and getting a bonus to optimal in sharpshooter, or some other bonus that serves the Caldari seconday weapon system of hybrids. If it is not a mini-Naga, which I doubt, but instead is a missile boat I expect it will be largely underpowered and niche, and overall better off forgotten since it it my personal opinion that there are those at CCP who are not big fans of missiles.
Now, that might seem like a rant, and it is, but I think it will probably prove to be accurate. Unless they go really wonky and make it some sort of EWAR boat, in which case the better decision will likely, as it always is, to bring a Falcon.

What would I like to see? Well, if it is a LML boat the forums will alight with cries of OP before there are 10 of them in game, so it would have to be a rocket boat to even have a chance. Sharpshooter should increase rocket range significantly, I would prefer rocket velocity over flight time. Defensive mode is tricky, but missiles are usually touted as a small gang ship, benefiting from help, so why not give it a boost to the increase from shield extenders in defensive mode? This would let it survive until reps land without the **** storm of giving it resists. As for the zippy mode, I really have no idea.

As always, have a nice day

Edit: I was wrong about it being a mini-Naga, but I'll hold back on whether it will be underpowered for now

First - hybrids are not the Caldari "secondary weapon system." It's just as much a Caldari primary weapon system as missiles.

For that reason, I hope the Caldari T3 is hybrid/rail based; maybe a tracking bonus in sharpshooter mode (since we know rails have fairly horrible tracking - not the worst, but not great). Defense mode, I think either a shield resist bonus or perhaps cap usage reduction on shield booster use. Propulsion mode - I like the idea of a warp speed bonus - not as fast as an interceptor, obviously, but maybe on par or a little faster than your basic frigates.

If the caldari D3 does get missiles then it should get a missile speed and range bonus in sharp shooter mode, as well as a reduction to missile explosion radius.

as for what else it get's I frankly couldn't give a damn, the biggest problem with missile vessels has always been targets outrunning your missiles (which is patently ridiculous, the acceleration of a missile in vacuum would be many times higher than a ship and the top speed over a given distance would be much higher too)

If the ECM strenght on this burst was high, I can already feel my teeth shredding to dust as I grind them while resisting the urge to scream at people bitching about logi not repping them...