Ships & Modules

I've yet to experience anyone decreeing that "Hybrids are awesome" either in game or out of game. What I have experienced is quite to the contrary actually, that the buff has helped, but not enough.

Rails now has +10% of very little dps, +5% of very little tracking. Blasters now has +0% of very little range. Gallante slowboats has +5% of very slow speed.

Did it occur to CCP that adding very little percentage of very little is still very little?

If you're going to give +5% of something, make it 5% of AC range/dps, etc.

There is nothing wrong with them.

Suck as much as your skills to ?

I have every of my Blaster skills maxed and i have been using them for some time now. And even before the Blasters was boosted now i still found them to be awesome in close range.

You can see my skills here if you want to see that i'm not a newb.

Well done on missing the point. The problem is that lasers and ACs are, if not pretty awesome, then certainly more than good enough up close, while offering much greater tactical flexibility than blasters.

Changing blasters won't solve the problem of ACs and lasers being too good in blasters' domain. Pulse and ACs track too well.

If this was actually true, or even an issue to begin with, it would indeed be troublesome.

It's a good thing for the rest of us, that it's just a figment of your imagination .

OP/whoever: Can we get a background argument with some real examples, instead of numbers pulled out of context, please?

Hmm, quite a difficult subject.

I started training Hybrids, but they performed too poorly to bother with.

The thing is lasers use electric cap energy to do DPS.

Projectiles use Kinetic energy to do DPS.

The hybrids use both, would this make them doubly powerful perhaps?

The expense of cap and ammo should count more, they do need more of a buff before I train them furthermore.

Then maybe we can progress to advanced weapon options, such as explosive rounds, penetrative rounds, accumulated heat damage on targets increasing damage, flak cannons, multi headed missile, shield or armer specific penetrative ammo types.

Dunno. Seems like things are just going in circles.

How about a carebear haven, all weapon fire is met by Concord, a few 1.1 systems, for the strict pacifists?

Is that the real issue here?

there's still quite the space for improvement, but yes, at least not flat out broken atm. More like a bit underperforming.
In the blaster front, there's still space for some more damage, and the hulls still need a bit more mobility.

I disagree. Because the attempted balancing goes completely into the wrong direction.
Gallente are not designed for close combat and sniping, in fact their design is from all the races the most incompatible with it, therefore continuing to force them into those roles will only result in failure.
This is why people can´t agree wether it´s the weapons or the hulls that needs changes and how exactly those changes should look like: they all presume Gallente has to fill these roles, but since they aren´t suited for it, there are no satisfactory solutions.