saronsen summary of 5.0

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You're not necessarily wrong. I'm just pointing out that bombers have gone from being effective against caps to effective against snubs. This was probably unintentional.

It is and isn't intentional, to give you an awesome and useful answer. As you probably know, I personally like pushing rebalanced/reworked ships' power level about as high as we can get away with initially and then tone them down as required. Fighter-Bombers in particular we pushed quite a bit as they were decidedly "meh" before 5.0. We very likely overshot a bit, in particular with the Shirogane. Nothing we can't fix with some number tweaks though.

After Hotfix 3 I'd like to see how bombers perform as scorchers/neuts got sizeable buffs, primarily in efficiency (the most effective stat for anti-cap bomber weapons, honestly), and we added a good hullbuster option on the heavy slots in the form of buffed Hellfire Rocket Pods to make Neutralizer loadouts more viable. As the little bit of math a few posts ago shows, a heavy bomber can dump nearly 200K damage before really running out of core. When you're hitting something like a Corsair Battlecruiser's 900K HP engine that's going to add up quick.

Cap shields of course remain stronger than before, but I think the buffs are going to make up for it sooner or later.

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