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Breakin Stuff
Goonfeet
Special Planetary Emergency Response Group
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Posted - 2014.09.01 08:10:00 -
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-5/+5 makes Projectiles omnislayer weapons and the most desirable as the difference between cutting through shields and armor will be negligible. Kinda like how they are currently most efficient overall due to the truncated damage profile they have now.
There needs to be a choice that is meaningful when you choose your kit
Do you fit to kill armor or shields?
+5/-5 means the difference between shields and armor is negligible. 10% variance vs. The 20% variance of rails and plasma.
Given the high damage profile I fail to see how doing it this way would not make the CR the most efficient weapon in the game overall. |
Breakin Stuff
Goonfeet
Special Planetary Emergency Response Group
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Posted - 2014.09.01 10:03:00 -
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And changing projectiles to completely assrip armor and be reduced to shields significantly will make shields less UP and will decrease the attractiveness of raw HP tanking with plates.
In short it will make your choice of tank + weapon far more meaningful.
If projectiles are +5/-5 then there is only a 10% DPS difference between armor and shields. The RR/GAR have a 20% base efficiency gap. If projectiles only have the 10% gap then they are the obvious choice from an efficiency standpoint.
But bringing the projectiles to -20/+20 or -15/+15 makes shields more viable by far and reduces the overarching efficiency of always running a high armor buffer. It makes every Caldari and Minmatar fit more viable as opposed to being "why bother? Every weapon is efficient at murdering us."
Because there is no racial armor-cracker profile shields suffer massively marginal utility to begin with, especially given the amarr shieldshredder profiles.
Explosives are pretty much the outlier, being used by most of the races anyway to a greater or lesser extent, and besides RE they are rarely used. Swarms dont count as they have zero efficacy versus dropsuits.
Mass drivers are only used by a few rabid bastards given that it is not particularly efficient as a slayer weapon and it is derided as a "noob tube." Hilariously it is really only efficient as a commando weapon. |
Breakin Stuff
Goonfeet
Special Planetary Emergency Response Group
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Posted - 2014.09.01 10:21:00 -
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Actually as long as Im not fighting projectiles and lasers I tend to do just fine with my cal/min fits. I use the caldari weapons from extremely long ranges and refuse to brawl. When I run a calsent/minsent it works very well vs. Assaults, scouts, commandos, etc.
Its a death sentence the instant you encounter an amarr or gallente sentinel. Reducing the efficacy of projectiles vs. Shields significantly increases the survivability of all shield suits. Putting the cr damage to 5% gives armor a buff over sjield but maintains the status quo to shields. IE the projectiles disintegrate you. |
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