Next winter expansion, we present to you 40 re balanced ships..And next summer we will give you re balanced battlecruisers.. YAAARRRR we are awome at CCP.

NOW GIVE US YOUR MONEY STUPID PEASANTS.

Take the Cyclone (Mimatar) great ship for PvE due to the bonus to shield booster

Only drakes you say? I recall CFC was using Mass Arty Canes a 18month ago? give and take a few month. and because 50% of eves players fly in alliances that form DRAKE only fleet the numbers will be screwed.

The reason why Shield tanking is better then Armor tanking for Fleets is 1# Speed 2# better gank on lowslots

Thats why Hurricane & Drakes are the two ships mostly used in fleet combat

I think they should do something about all the Battle Cruiser but that will come in the Summer expansion.

Only thing is destroyers are no way overpowered in comparison to frigates. While this may be intentional, the relative costs of say a destroyer compared to a t2 frig (which might actually be able to live 1v1 against a destroyer; a t1 frig will almost certainly die) is something to look into.

In reality a 1v1 a Myrm will dominate the Drake flown right,

If they ever fix cruise missiles, I actually think the game will get fun, A cruise is slow enough to truly firewall reliably and Torpswould be amazing to actually slug with, IMO orps whould have the most raw DPS in Game to make up fr terrible tacking and flight time, but hell even a 1400 howi can hit a cruiser with a painter on him, a Torp never will.

But if they made them AOE weapons again like the olden days Torp would be worth it, firing into blobs hitting 4-5 ships, it whould be similiar to bombs….Sounds like a blast. AOE but DMG would be dispersed so a Trp could do 1k DMG but instead of hitting all 4 ships for 1k it would be like 250 DMG+25% etc

What im pissed about is Missiles are supposed to be the primary for Cald, with Hybrids as second because hybrids are truly owned by Gal.

So instead of giving us our 5% resist bonus ships always in Hybrid format they need to pull a Drake and finally give us Missiles and the resist bonus.

Look at how bad the Rokh was until now, imagine if it had equal 25% bonus with missiles and Cruises were actually fixxed.

And the Kestrel to me should be the close range missile brawler, Sorry but the MOA is just a Rax minus the drones it really should be a missile boat with its bonus being with HAMS not HML`s.
The problem is they arent specific enough in bonuses sometimes, if you want a long range hybrid ship give it 10% bonus to rail range and 5% range to blasters etc.

IMO the raven is the perfect example of how without 25% bonus to tank missile ships have to overcome to much in flight time and tracking [esp Torps] to be useful, a Rail gun at 100 KM can track a fast frig, but missiles can never track them and th lag between targets in fleet fights is by far to long.

I think the snipers like the Rokh should be just like the Apoc T2 while our primary ship should mirror the Abby but with missiles instead, and dress all ships down from there, let it be known T3 BS is Brawler, T2 BS is Sniper, T1 BS is Multi-Role non better by a tont just purposed that way.

So Merlin IMO should be a brawling Rocket boat, Moa should be brawling HAM boat similiar to Hawk and Kestrel should be super fast Sniper/Blaster boat like the Harpy, and Caracal should be a fast moving Hybrid boat.

Think about it in space missile ships would be the sluggers. And really the reason the Drake was and is used so much is because A.it was ratters choice so you could have a militia of sorts. B. We had no great BS, hybrids sucked and now they made our sniper ship no our brawler the one with EHP bonus.

Its simple ABby/Rohk/Mael/Hyp all primarily close range brawlers. T2 all snipers and T1 multipurpose like the Phoon or Geddon.

I would think CCP would understand the main popular ships for Cald all have missiles and tanks, its simple, they need to do the same with al classes.

I did some quick napkin math, using full level 5 skills, and a GSF drake fit, and the drake went from 89.9k EHP to 77k.

people dont expect it.