{"id":4351,"date":"2012-10-01T16:31:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T16:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=4351"},"modified":"2012-10-01T16:34:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T16:34:37","slug":"life-in-eve-quick-post-on-the-hurricane-nerf-eveonline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/life-in-eve-quick-post-on-the-hurricane-nerf-eveonline\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in Eve: Quick Post on the Hurricane Nerf #eveonline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quoting CCP Fozzie:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since we plan to reduce the powergrid needs of all medium artillery by 10% across the board, we are also planning to subtract 225 Power Grid from the Hurricane.<\/p>\n<p>The upshot is that [&#8230;] fitting a standard shield autocannon cane with neutralizers and a Large Shield Extender will require dropping a few guns down to 220mm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lots of people are freaking out about this. This is a bit ridiculous for two reasons.<\/p>\n<p>1. The hurricane deserves this adjustment. Like the Drake, it&#8217;s too good: better than most any other battlecruiser class in the game.<\/p>\n<p>2. No one actually went and looked at what they could do with a Hurricane with the new powergrid totals.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Hurricane, Post-PG-nerf 425s Shieldtank w Neuts]<br \/>\nDamage Control II<br \/>\nGyrostabilizer II<br \/>\nGyrostabilizer II<br \/>\nGyrostabilizer II<br \/>\nNanofiber Internal Structure II<br \/>\nNanofiber Internal Structure II<\/p>\n<p>Experimental 10MN MicroWarpdrive I<br \/>\nWarp Scrambler II<br \/>\nAdaptive Invulnerability Field II<br \/>\nLarge Shield Extender II<\/p>\n<p>425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet Phased Plasma M<br \/>\n425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet Phased Plasma M<br \/>\n425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet Phased Plasma M<br \/>\n425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet Phased Plasma M<br \/>\n425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet Phased Plasma M<br \/>\n425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet Phased Plasma M<br \/>\nMedium Unstable Power Fluctuator I<br \/>\nMedium Unstable Power Fluctuator I<\/p>\n<p>Medium Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I<br \/>\nMedium Core Defense Field Extender I<br \/>\nMedium Core Defense Field Extender I<\/p>\n<p>Warrior II x5<br \/>\nLight Armor Maintenance Bot I x1\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the current &#8216;cane has a powergrid of 1687 with perfect skills. Subtract 225 powergrid, and you have 1462.5 powergrid.<\/p>\n<p>This fit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Requires 1461.35 powergrid.<\/li>\n<li>Rolls out at 1552 m\/s.<\/li>\n<li>Does a whopping 698 DPS.<\/li>\n<li>Still has a solid shield tank.<\/li>\n<li>Still has two medium-sized neutralizers, just like it always does.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In short, with good skills, this really doesn&#8217;t change much.<\/p>\n<p>With less-than-perfect skills, you still don&#8217;t have to drop down to 220mm autocannons &#8212; you just put in a couple Meta3- or Meta4-level 425s to squeeze everything in.<\/p>\n<p>(And even if you do switch to 220s, the damage is quite close to 425s, with better tracking &#8212; if anything, this change will make hurricanes even more dangerous as anti-support ships.)<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t even talk about the Drake changes &#8212; it&#8217;s been a long time coming, and if anything I don&#8217;t think it goes far enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoting CCP Fozzie: Since we plan to reduce the powergrid needs of all medium artillery by 10% across the board,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-4351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-mmos","tag-eve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4354,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions\/4354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}