Just to be clear, Inty fleets are my favorite fleets and i hate to see this gone with combat interceptor changes, we hunt for capital ships, dreads, carriers, rorquals anything big. This is the fleet I look forward to every single weekend together with about 80 other pilots. There’s something about smallest ship class being able to bring down capital ships, to me it’s a very interesting gameplay. The last rorqual we managed to kill seconds before their response fleet arrived. We also met strong counters being deployed on us: smartbombing battleships, more capitals, corm fleet, AF fleet and more. In these engagements we had lost ships (5k ehp is roughly average tank on these combat interceptors) and had to abandon our targets because of these counters. I can tell you more ways to counter but that should give an idea, so the argument that there is no strong counter is not making sense to me because I see it very often deployed against our inty fleet. One of the reason of nullified combat ceptor is preferred is because its DPS and second, in most ratting/mining systems people bubble the gates and being nullified enables combat interceptor fleet to scatter and warp to celestials or anomalies catching targets. Even with being able to immediately warp to celestials I still very often hear fleet members said on comms that they missed a tackle by a few seconds big or small targets (including several rorquals). Taking away the nullification means that it will be much more difficult to secure tackle and bringing the fight to these targets because we have to clear bubbles first before warping to celestials. I really cant see combat interceptor having any role if the nullification is removed, and as many has pointed out without nullification there are many other ships that can do better in tank, dps, and even speed than combat interceptors. If people are just gonna say git gud, then how much more git gud should one has to be? we are literally using the smallest ships to engage the biggest ships in the game. This smallest class vs biggest class fights are the few remaining interesting gameplay in EVE. Maybe if we have a CSM who actually knows how to use interceptors we may not get this change? I mean how many people put autocannons on their raptors? https://zkillboard.com/kill/61383568/ https://zkillboard.com/kill/64609556/
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