- Drone HP role bonus reduced to 250% (was 500%)
It’s a nerf in a big way for Gila. Just try Gila in different mediocore DED 5/10 combat anomalies or Abyss T3-T4 to notice how easy is possible to lose a drone with current 500% HP buff. Better reduce the Drone DPS by a %, but keep the Drone hit points bonus on. The most filigree way to balance the Gila is to increase the bandwidth for ‘Augmented’ drones to 15Mbit/sec. This will make them inapplicable for Gilas, but will left them applicable for other drone boats like Vexor with his 75 Mbit/sec. Only ‘Augmented’ medium drones pushing the Gila’s DPS from 700 to above 800 value. The Rapid Light Missiles boosts the burst DPS only, but their bonus can be reduced from 10% to 8%. These changes will not let to use cheap Gila fits to farm Abyss T4-5. In 0.0 combat anomalies almost everybody is using VNI for long time now.
- Bonus to Drone Max Velocity removed
- Signature radius increased to 145 (was 135)
How this will work for 0.0 farming BTW? With current AFK cloaky camping it’s needy in a cheap farming tool.
- Max Velocity reduced to 145 was (150)
- Mass increased to 14250000 (was 13250000)
- Agility reduced to .66 (was .63)
- Signature Radius increased to 325 (was 295)
Feels bad for Ferox. It’s a huge nerf by all 4 agility parameters - a Shield BC weighs almost like Ammar Armor BC and he has the biggest Signature at the same time (more than a tanky Drake by default) by having the lowest speed in the class group. What this means “Agility reduced to .66 (was .63)” btw? It’s reduced or increased?
It’s strange that there aren’t any rebalance steps for boosh fleets in this patch.