A little backstoryThere have been a lot of requests (to put it mildly) and petitions to do "something" about the so called Amarr problem. Most of those are about Amarr not being competitive when it comes to damage output and therefore not a viable race to fly in PVP.The complaintsThere have been plenty of ideas for a fix put out there and I'm going to count out a few of them:Fix crystals# Adjust the ratio of EM/Thermal in crystals to be Thermal heavier or at least 50/50 split# Introduce Explosive damage crystals# Reduce the cap penalty on the high damage crystalsMore damage# Remove the energy turret capacitor need bonus and replace it with more damage bonuses# Increase the base damage mod of energy weaponsAmarr need more midslots# Need more midslots to fit Ewar/tackling gearThe answer that pretty much covers the damage arguments is: By simply changing damage types or increasing raw DPS doesn't really fix the issue that EM damage is pretty much useless against armor tanking ships due to high natural resistances and the popularity of omni-tanking. We would still have EM drones and EM missiles being less useful than others if we just changed damage types on crystals or increased the damage on energy turrets.The more midslots argument doesn't have any one answer. The Amarr are the tanking and ganking floating rods of gold. While the Minmatar are versatile and the Caldari do electronic warfare the Amarr simply sit there and charge their lasers, secure in their knowledge that God is on their side.The issuesThese are the issues that we've identified with Amarr:# Some ships could need lovin'# Cap usage on Energy Weapons may be too high in some cases# Fitting requirements on some Energy Weapons need adjusting# Base EM resistances on armor are very highBy far the largest problem is that armor tanking is quite a lot more popular than shield tanking and EM by far is the highest resistance on armor for all races. Then once you start looking at the Minmatar ships that get extra 10% resistances to EM on armor by default and their Tech 2 versions go up to 92.5% resistances, well the issue pretty much explains itself.The solution we've been looking at to fix this is quite simple and straight forward. Remove 10% off the EM resistance on all Tech 1 ships and re-calculate the racial bonuses for the Tech 2 ships from there. To maintain a correct ratio between shield tanking and armor tanking we'd also remove 10% from the explosive resistances on shields.That's not to say we won't do anything about the other issues. For example we'll be looking into some of the Amarr ships this patch. However we don't want to change too much in one go so we're trying to pace ourselves and spread the changes over more than one patch.A few examplesJaguar base resistances- Before changesShieldsEM - 75%, Exp - 60%, Kin - 40%, Therm - 60%ArmorEM - 92.5%, Exp - 10%, Kin - 25%, Therm - 67.5%- After changesShieldsEM - 75%, Exp - 50%, Kin - 40%, Therm - 60%ArmorEM - 90%, Exp - 10%, Kin - 25%, Therm - 67.5Zealot base resistances- Before changesShieldsEM - 0%, Exp - 90%, Kin - 70%, Therm - 20%ArmorEM - 60%, Exp - 80%, Kin - 62.5%, Therm - 35%- After changesShieldsEM - 0%, Exp - 80%, Kin - 70%, Therm - 20%ArmorEM - 50%, Exp - 80%, Kin - 62.5%, Therm - 35%Raven base resistances- Before changesShieldsEM - 0%, Exp - 60%, Kin - 40%, Therm - 20%ArmorEM - 60%, Exp - 10%, Kin - 25%, Therm - 45%- After changesShieldsEM - 0%, Exp - 50%, Kin - 40%, Therm - 20%ArmorEM - 50%, Exp - 10%, Kin - 25%, Therm - 45%Whoa, slow down thereThis may seem drastic, but we've given it a lot of thought. We've also spent quite some time on our internal test server shooting each other repeatedly with various ships and setups. We initially thought about moving 10% from EM to some other damage type (or split it between the other three) but felt that would homogenize the base resistances too much. So we applied a healthy dose of Occam to the fold and came out with the current proposal. While EM resistances on armor and Explosive on shield are still the highest resistances and can easily be pushed over 70% they're more in line with the other resistances.More examplesA variation of an omni-tank for a Raven for example would consist of a Photon Scattering Field II and two Invulnerability Fields II. An example of an omni-tank setup for a Dominix would use two Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II's, an Explosive Hardener II and a Damage Control II. Let's look at what that translates to before and after changes.The Raven with shield hardeners running would be getting 79.3% Explosive resistances before the change and 74.1% after. That's effectively a 25% increase in Explosive damage taken. Other resistances on shield are not affected. The Dominix with armor hardeners running would get 80% EM resistances on armor before changes and 75% after them. That's a 25% increase in EM damage taken on armor.The Tech 2 Minmatar ships that have enjoyed a 92.5% EM resistance on armor will now have to make do with 90%.What now?I've just gone over how we intend to fix one of the problems we identified with Amarr and that's something we want to implement as soon as possible but not without heaps of testing. The changes are now active on the Singularity test server and I urge you all to go there and try them out. We don't want to do too much at the same time since that could cause unforeseeable issues, so we'll start here and then figure out if we need to do something else and then what that should be.In conclusionGet on Singularity and test like the wind. Let us know what you think once you've looked thoroughly at it and if you've found something that doesn't work. Enjoy shooting each other in the face!
Ich verstehe den Text bzw. den Gedanken dahinter nicht so richtig. Da der DMG-Output der Amarr (Laser und Armor-Tanker) zu gering ist wird man jetzt die EM-Resistenzen der Panzerung sowie Expo der Schilde senken.Natürlich ist das toll, jetzt kann der Feind EM-Raketen laden und der Amarr hat, z.B. gegen Caldari, den revolutionären Vorteil, dass dessen Expo-Tank schwächer ist.Soweit so gut; nur wo genau liegt der Vorteil?Ich gehe einfach mal in der Annahme/hoffe, dass ich den Text nicht richtig verstanden habe; und, sollte ich damit falsch liegen, lasst mich bitte im Dunkeln.
Ich, als MIssionrunner, bin begeistert. Nicht nur das dieser "Buff" an den Gegner vermutlich spurlos vorbei gehen wird, nein ich verliere auch noch 10% auf meine beiden Resis die ich bisher kaum bis gar nicht steigern musste.Bekomme ich im Ausgleich dafür mehr Schaden? Natürlich nicht! Danke CCP!Im PVP ist das doch völlig Banane. Nimm jeden das gleiche weg und alle haben am Ende wieder das gleiche. Ist genau wie mit dem HP Buff zu Revelation. Wenn alle 50% Mehr HP bekommen ists auch wieder ausgeglichen, dauert nur länger.
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Thema: For the love of god. CCP please stop "buffing" the Amarr race! (Gelesen 19339 mal)
