--Lewis Carroll
Part 4 of an ongoing series. Stop by the thread to view all the proposed changes and feel free to get caught up on the previous posts in the series. Today we'll be looking at the T1 Frigate by which all others are measured; the Rifter.
RIFTER:
Unchanged bonuses
Unchanged Slot layout: 4 H, 3 M, 3 L, 3 turrets, 2 launchers
Unchanged fittings: 37 PWG, 125 CPU
Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 450 / 400 / 400
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap per second): 240 / 180 s / 1.33
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 355 / 3.19 / 1067000 / 3.19 s
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 0 / 0
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 22.5km / 660 / 4
Sensor strength: 8 Ladar
Signature radius: 35
No reflection on the Rifter itself, but this post stands to be rather bland. No much has actually changed about the ship, and the fittings that are to be presented already work just fine with the ship as it is now. If anything can be learned from looking at the changes to the Rifter I would think it is this; CCP isn't so much buffing T1 Frigates to make them more appealing to people who don't fly Frigates, but they are trying to make all the T1 Frigates as viable as the most popular of them all, the Rifter. But enough trying to understand the mind of CCP, onto the changes.
Unchanged bonuses
Unchanged Slot layout: 4 H, 3 M, 3 L, 3 turrets, 2 launchers
Unchanged fittings: 37 PWG, 125 CPU
Yup.
Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 450 / 400 / 400
More of the sam- I mean, changed from 391/351/336 giving the Rifter a pretty sizable increase across all three types.
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap per second): 250 / 125 s / 2
Changed from 250/187/1.33, so a very slight increase in recharge.
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 355 / 3.19 / 1067000 / 3.19 s
I very slight change to velocity from 353/3.19/1067000/3.19 which feels more like CCP wanting nice round numbers to work with than anything else.
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 0 / 0
No change.
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 22.5km / 660 / 4
No change.
Sensor strength: 8 Ladar
No change.
Signature radius: 35
No change.
I told you it would be boring...
Fittings
As mentioned above, nothing has really changed. With no adjustments to PG/CPU or Slot Layout, these are all currently viable Rifter fits that I can't claim credit for inventing. They all perform in almost exactly the same way they do now, only receiving an EHP increase across the board which helps the Rifter catch up to recently buffed AFs and Destroyers to some degree. I include them more for the sake of completeness and because I've never done a post that said "Hey, these are Standard Rifters that you should fly, stop copying idiotic things from Battleclinic," than anything else.
[New Rifter, Wensley's Low Buck Fit]
Damage Control II
200mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
Small Armor Repairer II
1MN Afterburner II
J5b Phased Prototype Warp Scrambler I
X5 Prototype Engine Enervator
150mm Light AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP S
150mm Light AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP S
150mm Light AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP S
E5 Prototype Energy Vampire
Small Projectile Burst Aerator I
Small Projectile Ambit Extension I
Small Projectile Ambit Extension I
Effective HP: 4,152 (Eve: 3,404)
Tank Ability: 30.99 DPS
Shield Resists - EM: 12.50%, Ex: 56.25%, Ki: 47.50%, Th: 30.00%
Armor Resists - EM: 66.00%, Ex: 23.50%, Ki: 36.25%, Th: 44.75%
Capacitor (Stable at 28.08%)
Volley Damage: 243.03
DPS: 110.96
Range: .675km Optimal 7,149km Falloff
Propulsion: Speed1,102 m/s Align 5.09
[New Rifter, 200mm AC Passive]
Damage Control II
200mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
Tracking Enhancer II
1MN Afterburner II
J5b Phased Prototype Warp Scrambler I
X5 Prototype Engine Enervator
200mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP S
200mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP S
200mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP S
5W Infectious Power System Malfunction
Small Projectile Burst Aerator I
Small Projectile Ambit Extension I
Small Projectile Ambit Extension I
Effective HP: 4,152 (Eve: 3,404)
Tank Ability: 4.73 DPS
Shield Resists - EM: 12.50%, Ex: 56.25%, Ki: 47.50%, Th: 30.00%
Armor Resists - EM: 66.00%, Ex: 23.50%, Ki: 36.25%, Th: 44.75%
Capacitor (Stable at 31.14%)
Volley Damage: 283.54
DPS: 116.68
Range: .862km Optimal 9.571km Falloff
Propulsion: Speed 1102 m/s Align 5.09 s
[New Rifter, Shields]
Damage Control II
Gyrostabilizer II
Overdrive Injector System II
1MN Afterburner II
J5b Phased Prototype Warp Scrambler I
Medium Azeotropic Ward Salubrity I
125mm Gatling AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP S
125mm Gatling AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP S
125mm Gatling AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP S
5W Infectious Power System Malfunction
Small Core Defense Field Extender I
Small Core Defense Field Extender I
Small Core Defense Field Extender I
Effective HP: 6,056 (Eve: 4,756)
Tank Ability: 20.99 DPS
Shield Resists - EM: 12.50%, Ex: 56.25%, Ki: 47.50%, Th: 30.00%
Armor Resists - EM: 66.00%, Ex: 23.50%, Ki: 36.25%, Th: 44.75%
Capacitor (Stable at 39.07%)
Volley Damage: 222.78
DPS: 115.24
Range: .6km Optimal 5km Falloff
Propulsion: Speed 1305 m/s Align 4.68
FNG
So how do's the new tormentor compare? By the sound of it the only mining frigate to be changed to a combat roll this coming expansion will be the amarr one.
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