GB balancing for 4.87

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thats right - and due to shield regen - they ll even be longer than twice as long.

however - the way people describe it - the appearence of a gunboat "ruins" their fun .... even players claiming to fly gunboats say the utmost ease of their "win buttons" ruins it for them

that kind of implies that they "do their job" in a much shorter time than one might consider appropriate or reasonable ... and also with a lot less skill ( whatever the pros of the community consider a reasonable skill level )

but now you say that taking twice as long makes them useless.

thats a big step from being win machines to utterly useless by just doubling their kill time ( not even touching their durability in combat )

so - yes, i am a bit at a loss about the absulte harshness of judgement of the GB class effectiveness as decribed in that thread

from godly to pointless just by doubling their kill time.

mind you, in my opinion - gunboats are pretty much what they are meant to be right now. if the gunboats are the stone, the snubs are the scissors and the cruisers are the papers. - with that concept it does indeed take less skill for the stone vs. the scissors - as is the intention.



also - like blodo wrote ( or maybe wanted to write )

the intention is to promote the other weapons. - if the basic turrets are the same DPS ... but at a lot less skill requirement than - lets say... 3 razors. - the nerfing of the basics means that one can still apply the same DPS like 4.86 ... but not with basics anymore...

now you need to take 3 razors and kill them quick in the old 4.85 manner ( chase view i guess ) - or you take the nerf ... mount basics ... use a lot "less skill" as so many of you guys say... at the cost of taking more than twice as long.

its a choice that sounds reasonable to me, even if i think it does not need a change.

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