Judge Rhadamanthus
Shining Flame
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.03.27 08:56:00 -
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From a Drop Ship perspective :
AV in it's current iteration is too strong, the vehicles too weak. You think it's OP against tanks, try a DS. Forge guns are Bovine excrement. Huge range, easy use, cheap as chips compared to their targets.
DS are broken. They are just too weak. A forge gun can destroy my shields in a single hit. Due to the nature of the 3rd person view enemies are kind of small so it is very hard to see a shot coming or work out where it hit from. Even a HMG can strip my shields completely by the time I drop in and deliver then evac.
I'm a sitting duck all up in the air in clear view of almost anyone. Killer cheap fire and forget super smart swarms, AI rail gun turrets with super rotation speed and dead eye aim, any small arms fire, Forge guns, tanks, LAV turrets... B.R.O.K.E.N. I'm strong against nothing and vulnerable to everyone on the field.
I think the fix is not too hard a concept - Drop ships should be really really hard to kill and to counter that very weak at killing. Leave the killing to the gunships and the tanks(Soon tm). All i need is to get in then out or provide a spawn point while providing some covering fire if needed. |
Judge Rhadamanthus
Shining Flame
Amarr Empire
26
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Posted - 2013.03.27 15:13:00 -
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Garrett Blacknova wrote:
Lastly, you've mentioned that a forge can take out your shields in one shot. Well... I hate to give you tough advice, but you need to skill up more. My Myron has ~4300 shield, and it probably takes about 3 direct hits from a forge or rail to put me on fire.
I'm testing the Prom atm.
1285 Shields (1 Extender and 1 amp) - CPU issues atm with the prom being so low on base cpu which limits shiels options.
3156 tank (Armour Hardeners and reppers)
Going by your math we are in similar ships, just different racial variants with their respective slot differences. So it's not so much my skills in this case just the forges ability to 1 shot my weaker shields. Where this is an issue is it is very easy for them to open up my armour to the OP swarm and AV. Swarms are a real pain with their tracking.
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