Version 5.0 "Fire and Fortune" - Everything I DISLIKED Part 1 - Balance and Stuff

[Levenna]

Behold

To be perfectly honest, the constant I see between the two missile examples are that you're isolated or overextended and heavily outnumbered, with your friendly support too far away to be of any help clearing your tail.




I really hate using this argument but I don't see how you could convince me that missiles are the reason for your death in either of those two situations and that you wouldn't still have just died outright to mortars or even just cruiser tachyons. You even shot down a very good deal of the incoming ordnance in the first one. There was very obviously a lot that went wrong before missiles were even a factor. I agree that missiles are very efficient damage wise but.. if dying to spam is your issue, that honestly speaks to me that you need to look at your fleet fight positioning moreso than missiles being the core issue. They have to be in range before you can spam them.

Well somehow gunboats have suffered when i missile spammed them, but yeah i agree Light mortars are better, but would you sacrifice missile launcher slots for light mortars just to fight gunboats? when you can fire primaries at gunboats if they are away, and knock them down with impacts when you get close.

Speaking from a lot of gunboat fleet fight experience since patch, if a gunboat gets hit by a missile it is very much their own fault. I've run a battlecruiser out of missiles on a cruiser by dodging when they were chainfiring 4 devastators at me, gunboats are obviously a great deal smaller and more agile than that. Primaries are similarly a non-issue. The threat to gunboats from battlecruisers come in the form of EMP flaks and battlecruiser heavies, the former of which has AoE to make it difficult to dodge, the latter of which has sheer velocity and enough single shot damage to be a threat. Cruisers have the much easier job of just sitting on them by being faster.

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