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Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 1,263
Because def/acc/crit is poorly balanced and allocated to begin with. And so they should go bye bye! Poof! Gone!

We don't even need to consider how nonsensical it is that the enemy using crippling fire to destroy your ship is somehow invisible!

Placate on landing a Crit. Why is this garbage? Well it's garbage because it favors ships that do two things well. Hit, and crit! If you have a ship that can do those things often, you're in! It is particularly useful against targets that are easy to hit and crit!

It is not very useful against targets that are hard to hit and crit. Poopy!

Placate on being hit. Why is this garbage? Well its garbage because it indiscriminately activates regardless of the source of the damage. Sci abilities were never balanced on having to 'hit' the target. Not that many tac abilites are, but lets not visit that just yet. So you have a long duration low damage but very useful hold being broken due to this. Because it happens to pulse a small bit of damage. Or your turret plink plink plink set off the placate. It just doesn't make sense. On the one hand, this is VERY nice for those larger type of ships. They could use some sort of avoidance. NOT a great way to put it in the game though. Giving this to small fast wittle ships is almost criminal. Yah. Cause they NEEDED more defense, they were running out.

I'd like to say, that if this placate could be tweaked to only proc off of incoming energy weapons damage it would be better. And then if we could limit it to cruisers and sci's.....

but I digress.

It is similar to defense in that it ignores facets of the incoming damage. If any damage can cause a placate...well....ok. But not all damage was required to hit before....sooo.

Jam sensors, ams, ss, are boff abilites or console. Yah I know we all love ams. Still they are a little bit higher on the cost scale, and they have a bit of a CD and an immunity that sorta works.

And yes, as has been pointed out, only firing once to kill someone works, but I don't see that becoming a universally adopted strategy.

Cheers happy flying!!

Last edited by thissler; 01-22-2013 at 06:47 AM.