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am little disappointment about loss of ewar immunity

I started this game as a battleship pilot about 3 years ago. They told me it was stupid, that T3 cruisers and plenty of other things made my chosen ship class useless (except pirate faction). I trained all battleship skills exclusively anyways.

Then I made a salvager alt (literally a perfect Noctis pilot with all V everything), thinking it would be nice to have a mission runner and then a Noctis clean up after. Then they nerfed salvaging into utter uselessness (high-sec wise, at least).

Disappointed, I kept going because I had hope that the promised day would come. I told them I was training marauders to V. They told me it was stupid,that it was worth nowhere near the crazy SP investment. I persevered.

Now, after 3 years, I finally have a pilot that can fly all 4 marauders perfectly, and an alt that can fly a Golem perfectly.

And then they are waving the nerf bat at marauders now. WHY? As a PVE player for 3 years, I can definitely tell you PVE in this game is already terribly dull, and the convenience of bastion went a long way towards keeping me playing this.

You killed salvaging. You let T1 battleships get outclassed by cruisers and command ships. And now, instead of balancing and fixing useless (at its role) battleships like the Rokh (a sniper ship outdamaged at the same range by a Naga) you nerf bastion.

Bs and marauders in general need 2x m3 of the cargo space increased so you can fit more cap booster charges..
would be nice with drone bay increage but not a necessity.

here's an example how much damage marauder can take:

https://zkillboard.com/kill/53653842/

As you can see it died pretty fast and took only 60k damage.

I am just saying that he only tanked 65k damage, and he had 2 cap boosters.
I would expect him to tank at least 100k.


I am just saying alone marauder in pvp is not very good.

If Marauders are losing EWAR immunity I will be unsubscribing. It's already impossible to run L4s without them because of broken NPC EWAR. I have about 20 consecutive minutes of free time a day to play so I don't have time to sit jammed for six weeks by a single NPC frigate.

A 5% nerf doesn't sound like much on the face of it, but 5% of "permanently jammed/disrupted/dampened" is still "permanently jammed/disrupted/dampened".

It wouldn't even be necessary if CCP could be bothered to make NPC EWAR reasonable, but with the present system of "there is a single Guristas elite frigate in existence in New Eden, therefore all 20,000 players on the server are permajammed" it is an absolute requirement for 100% immunity.

Either make NPC EWAR less utterly insane or restore Bastion Module. It's a bizzare change to make that will render mission running entirely pointless. Unless that's the whole point, of course. In which case just remove missions.

You are putting too much emphasis on the immunity change. It now has a 95% resistance instead of total immunity. Also your sensor strength increases by 1000. This really is the same as being immune for the most part.

Actually I need to test something on the sensor strength. There may be a very good possibility that it will make a bastioned marauder very hard to combat scan. Not sure though with the sig size.

Lol I feel your pain on the training blues. I had an alt train up tengu, ishtar, and max out sentry then the nerf bat went into full swing on all of them. (Thanks PL :P).

As to your idea of the effect on the tracking disrupts though as i keep stating it's only a 5% effect over all and stacking penalties still apply so at best they could maybe get 10% effect of thier total of maybe a 60% full effect so your looking at a real time effect of possibly 6%. ( yes i'm pulling numbers out of my ass on the fly cause #effort but this is a realistic example to show the math).

I did a test on my golem with a curse and 3 missile disrupts with both range and precision scripts in. My toon is recon 5, the overall effect did nothing for range, (golem has a 200k + missile range) and there was no decernable difference due to the explosion radius vs the volly dmg i did on the curse.

I would imagine considering the hull and bastion bonus of pally that this would be about the same thing you will find if you preform the same test. While they can apply it the effect seems negligible.

Killmails show actual damage taken, not damage ignored through resists. Say he had 80% resists across the board, that means he tanked 325k damage, so what do you consider a good level of tanking for a solo subcap vs a fleet of 10?

No, 5% of tracking disrupted means those rats who would knock 50k off the range of a non bastion ship will knock 2.5k off the range of a bastion ship, probably less thanks to stacking. If you can't deal with 2.5k less effective range (on a ship with a built in range bonus no less) you are beyond hope. 99% of people will never notice it, because they are not terrible.