DEV Zoom wrote:Thanks, that's more useful info.
Btw slightly off topic but here's my take on what happened:
1. Before the patch a lot of the modules were unused due to bad balance, and there were very few ways to competitively fit the robots with the remaining modules.
2. People basically accepted that there were one or two ways at most to fit a certain robot and were happy that it all worked fine, even if it was boring as hell.
3. The patch tried to diversify the way robots can be fitted.
4. This effectively destroyed those few "best" fits.
5. People are still stuck in the past and are desperately trying to fit the robots based on their hard-earned knowledge of those "best" .
1. those modules are still not getting used, drainers anyone? although I do admit theory crafting with some of the Nexus modules is interesting, lower EP players still need to concentrate on core skills before even thinking about the more exotic modules, after the patch those core skills are still more important.
2. You had a lot more choice fitting bots pre patch, now it is DPS or GTF, ewar runs out of accumulator after a few cycles and that is on top of the lower RNG nature of them, Enwar will run out of accumulator before it has done it's job on ONE heavy.
3. Only on 3 or 4 bots which are now FOTM, everything else is pretty subpar, even then there is one cookie cutter fit which EVERYONE is using, check kill boards, maybe you think this May have diversified PVE but it has wrecked PVP.
4. No, those fits are still viable on the FOTM bots.
5. I'm not stuck in the past at all, just stupid putting all my EP into a bot that probably takes the most EP in game to maximise that is now just a distraction at best.
You have actually made the choice of modules for DPS bots set in stone, now they don't need to fit reactor sealings or ECCM anymore ( which they didn't anyway but now they have become redundant modules)
As Syndic put it, why bring anything but DPS, they are much more effective because they now have no counters, it's become tuners online.