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Drake Is Balanced, Don't Nerf It
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Ituhata Saken
Killboard Padding Services
#81 - 2012-06-21 15:20:12 UTC
The drake is my favorite boat. It's wafer thin hull is a work of art. Big smile I've used mine for level 4's and null pvp and personally, I look forward to these changes. To me it signals the drakes transformation from an excellent tanking pve boat whose primary role in pvp is to be in a large sheild logi fleet making it hard to kill and in the past has been used to clog up system resources and relied on the lag to kee pthe enemy from overcoming natural regeneration hp....to one of less potency in level 4's but more suitable for pvp combat.

Strictly looking at it from a dps race standpoint, in a 1v1, the changes to the drake are neutral if not a direct buff.

So close...
Lin-Young Borovskova
Doomheim
#82 - 2012-06-21 15:22:45 UTC
Tore Vest wrote:
Im glad I can fly all sub capital ships out there (allmost)
So....
nurf nurf nurf Cool




Same here but doesn't mean you shouldn't have an opinion about balance.
Time I've "wasted" cross training to get those ships would be much better invested if I had specialised in a single race in optimal conditions but thing is that in Eve if you don't fly drakes or Hurricanes your options are quite limited and you'll finish to train them.

I've cross trained because I had no other choice, not because it was fun. Training whatever in Eve is painful so no, I haven't done it because I like or think it's awesomely fun to wait 3+months training to get a fecking weapon size of choice.

brb
Seishi Maru
doMAL S.A.
#83 - 2012-06-21 15:30:20 UTC
Sang-in Tiers wrote:
Alavaria Fera wrote:
Qvar Dar'Zanar wrote:
Arakazzi wrote:
Why did you have to begin a new thread just for that?

By the way I think Gallente have a even worse deal than Caldari.

I think that we can all agree that CCP has to nerf minmatar...

There's vets from back in the day who would like to get more use from their Amarr ships, so lets do that.

Bost Amarr nerf minmatar and the world is perfect. )



You realize that just before minmatar was booster ammar were considered OMFG superior overpowered when comapred to everything else? Pay attention to history of game. Minmatar is not even close to being overpowered, they are just the current flavor. Their advantages are minimal when compared to what amarr used to have over other races.

2 years ago was APOC or nothing for fleet and zealots of nothing for medium ships. The current minmatar shisp do not even close to have advantage enough to claim that. The only bad thing is.. a fleet to use minmatar strenghts must be all minmatar. That is the SINGLE reason why there is this current effect on ship populations. The past flavor of the months did not require whole fleets to be homogeneous (or at least not as much).

Minmatar are not even the most agile race anymore!

I get a bit angry when I see so many people writting garbage as: Minmatar are overpowered because they can deal Em or thermal or explosive damage! Then at next sentence say that amarr sux because EM and thermal damage are useless against armor ships!!! Then on next sentence claim that minmatar are overpowered because they can shield tank. Not a single argument support the other!


Fact is current game mechanics favor a certain type of ship. Increase grid max lock range and suddenly APOCs and Rokhs will make all maelstroms disapear... simple example of how things can be done without re startign the cycle of boost A-? boost B-> Boost C-> Boost A->.....