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griffin with damage bonus WTF

This is the ECM nerf you should be applying to the whole range, btw.

It's almost like they're all designed to engage at similar ranges and are bonused accordingly.

I Suggest

That's because the Caldari don't have a secondary EWAR bonus. And this doesn't seem to be significantly different. I don't think the Navy Griffin will realistically be able to compete against the other frigates.

The Griffin/Blackbird right now gets 15% ECM Strength per level. Increasing this to 20%/Level for the Navy Griffin, while higher than the 30%/Level the Rook/Falcon get, isn't significant. It's the same strength bonus the Kitsune gets but without the ECM optimal range bonus. But all of those ships can easily operate at range of ~40-70km in ECM falloff, as they don't have the -85% Penalty to ECM Optimal/Falloff. Most of the time you aren't operating inside of long point range even.

Forcing the Navy Griffin into brawl range with blasters is fine, but the ECM strength bonus isn't good enough to compensate for the range penalty. The ship is also the second slowest, with max speed matching the Maulus Navy, slightly less mass, but a worse align time.

Also, why even bother with the Launcher hardpoint if it has a 20%/Level bonus to Hybrid Damage? The one small unbonused drone is rather pathetic - it's the same as the Griffin. Why not just remove it, so we have less to micromanage, and give us 3 turret hardpoints? I can see this ship being the ultimate gambler - roll the dice hard, and hope we can out-DPS a non drone/missile ship while our jams hold.

Some ideas for "unusual ways" of using the ECM bonus:

• High strength bonus to Multispectral ECM so it's actually favored to bring it rather than racial type? Would be hilarious if it was bonused for ECM Burst as well to counter drones.
• 50% reduction to ECM module cycle duration. This way the lower ECM strength is compensated by being in optimal range (so higher jam chance), and more jam attempts.
• Reduction in ECM Module heat damage. More time able to overload these modules to get the additional ECM bonus.

Or can we just admit ECM needs a rebalance completely anyway?

what goal you hope to see with those Navy Ewar frigate?

if result is good or go as what you expect, will that bring us possible of future Navy Ewar Cruiser?

If you fly upon factional wars you see many with stab. Now they need more stab or they die when this ship arrive.

Is nerf to semi afk max stab pussy plexer cyka

I don't see why the Crucifier Navy Issue should have the Weapon Disruption Optimal/Falloff penalty. A normal Crucifier can already brawl in scram range:

[Crucifier, Crucifier - Laser Brawler]
Damage Control II
Heat Sink II
Micro Auxiliary Power Core I

Balmer Series Tracking Disruptor I, Optimal Range Disruption Script
Medium Ancillary Shield Booster, Cap Booster 50
Warp Scrambler II
5MN Y-T8 Compact Microwarpdrive

Small Focused Pulse Laser II, Conflagration S
Small Focused Pulse Laser II, Conflagration S

Small Ancillary Current Router I
Small Energy Burst Aerator I
Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I

I don't see a huge differentiation from the regular Crucifier in the current proposal, other than a damage bonus and forcing it at close range. I'm glad it's not going to become another Energy Neutralizer bonused ship, as the Sentinel fills that role very well.

Since the Navy Maulus and Griffin are forced into close range, and the Fleet Vigil will be an amazing kiter, why not let the Navy Crucifier be a similar kiter to the Navy Slicer, but with EWAR capability to compensate for the lack of optimal range bonus?

It's not just good for that, it's also good for those four WCS Asteros that are running all over null sec.

That is the point of it. You should use it at close range with high DPS blasters or rails.