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Basically I'm guessing their going to end up highly overpowered for PvE but still underpowered for PvP. I they might become a hard target for an A-wing or any other low mass one guns ships but I doubt they will be able to get them to survive a single pass from a heavier fighter. Anything like the heavy X will likely still blow them up very quickly. I even have fears that a JSF or B-22 will still be more than a match for them so I don't see things changing much. I hope I'm wrong but the initial reports I've heard arn't so great. They sound good until you start calculating rate of fire and damage output.

What kills Tier 5 fighters faster: 5 Aces flying their own tricked-out ships or one POB ship? I don't think it'll matter if they bump up the shield strength to the point that the POB ship is near-invincible to normal spawns so long as the firepower isn't increased.

I think "overpowered" in PvE depends on your point of view. A POB ship is a 4-5 man group. Any group of 4-5 fighters would rip apart PvE content.

Any 4-5 man group expecting to have poor chances against any one-man fighter in PvP is massivly underpowered.

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Coran_Sienar wrote:
What kills Tier 5 fighters faster: 5 Aces flying their own tricked-out ships or one POB ship? I don't think it'll matter if they bump up the shield strength to the point that the POB ship is near-invincible to normal spawns so long as the firepower isn't increased.

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I'm not talking about fighters. I'm talking about going against targets like the vette and gunships. They arn't so bad against those targets as it is. I still doubt they last very long in pvp.

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Coran_Sienar wrote:
What kills Tier 5 fighters faster: 5 Aces flying their own tricked-out ships or one POB ship? I don't think it'll matter if they bump up the shield strength to the point that the POB ship is near-invincible to normal spawns so long as the firepower isn't increased.

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see I think they need further increase in power cause PvP they are basically causing 1 hit kills now but they should be stronger PvE damage wise in range of 5-7.5k I'd think would be nice with normal crafted eff's and refires

I just want Pub 24 while I am young enough to enjoy it.

Why is it when they have some garbage publish that no one wants or needs, it gets pushed out double time. Yet when they have a publish that many players are looking forward too, they can't seem to push the damn thing out the door. I'm thinking that we aren't going to see Pub 24 until next week now. I guess they need more time to add bugs to it.

Cant wait for these changes to come in. For them to be easily PvP effective they need

A) a mitigation rate

B) Wider shots so you can hit those annoying Jedi Uberfighters

C) Maybe 1k range on guns?

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=in_testing&message.id=83098 target=_blank>...Clicky Time......just touch this....

imo each turret needs a gun and a tube, they need armor pieces up to 15k (you can't stunt armor), and we need a wo3 fix.

i take out gunboats in like 15 seconds. with 3-4 friends with me firing on that gunboat it would go down in about6 seconds. POB's need a bit more in the guns dept as well i think. 5k dmg is nice, but it needs to be up around 7.

we should keep in mind though... baby steps. it started with elite equipment, now the equipment gets bonuses. maybe soon the balancing act will be complete.

Gimbal turret control would help POB immensely and make them rather dangerous in PvP.