VHF balance

[mjolnir]

Werewolf: Completely agree with you there.. Needs agility to be equal to Titan, and a class 10 to replace the 9 (like Wraths have). Its really easy to hit, so the 16,000 armor needs to stay.

Wrath has just 4 lvl 10s, yet Werewolf could get 5 as it is definitelly nowhere near Wrath

BD HF: Doesn't need a big change.. Its already got pretty low armor (I'd suggest just lowering the armor a bit, 600 or so.). First; The Chimaera VHF has 2,000 more armor (BD: 9600, Chim: 12,400), and almost the same exact agility, turning, etc. Lowering the guns would make it completely useless. Ask Terrance. We went head-to-head. His Sabre with Inferno against my BD without an inferno. I didn't have the firepower to drop his shield, he did (even without the inferno, Krakens..). The agility is the only thing that keeps the BD alive. Its a vanilla hitbox, so missiles kill them pretty well, its got less armor than the Eagle (BD: 9,600, Eagle: 9,900). In fact, it has the LOWEST armor value of every VHF in the game, except the Hammerhead, which isn't a class-10 gun/shield ship (level 8 and 9 guns).

Its agility isn't so much that it deserves a weaponry decrease. The Chimaera definitely needs an armor decrease.. 2,000 more armor for an unnoticeable change in agility. I'd say around 10,600 armor (or 10,000 if BD is reduced to 9,000) so that it has only 1,000 more armor than the BD. Those two are almost identical ships, except for the armor..

Difference in agility between Chimaera and BD is actually quite big, the armor on Chimaera doesn't not help at all against explosives as you know.

BD with Daitos is balanced against Chimaera with anything on. Since the BD can hit the Chimaera more often but does less damage per hit. BD with Codenames or Krakens is not balanced against Chimaera.. and BD with inferno and Daitos is almost uber => if you know how to hit with inferno his shields will always be down, when they are you can "spray and pray" with daitos while he tries to dent your shield.

I for one think it should keep the agility to be different, but I can't see how lowering gun Class to 9 or 2x8 4x9 makes it useless. If you use the "normal" BD loadout which is now 2 Debilitators 4 Daitos you won't see any difference.

It was actually Terrance that suggested this FYI, not me.

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