The Nosy Gamer: EVE: Equinox Patch Notes - Other Ship And Weapons Balance Changes

Sunday, June 9, 2024

EVE: Equinox Patch Notes - Other Ship And Weapons Balance Changes

EVE Online's Equinox expansion, set to launch on 11 June 2024, is the game's fourth full expansion since the return of the content format in November 2022. The patch notes are fairly extensive and dense. I find reading lengthy patch notes rather boring, so I also like to go to other sources for information. For both the Viridian and Havoc expansions I wrote a series of posts based on the patch notes with other information added to hopefully make absorbing all the information less painful. This seventh post in the series for Equinox will cover the balance changes for all non-carrier class ships and their equipment.

One of the issues developers of MMORPGs face is power creep. EVE Online is no different. Apparently ships are not blowing up at the desired rate.

Targeted Doomsday Weapons

Damage increased from 1 million to 2 million.

This means that a max skilled Titan Doomsday goes from 1.5m to 3m damage.

As capital ship EHP values have increased in recent years, particularly with the addition of navy faction dreadnoughts, we want to bring the doomsday damage back up to a state where it can remain respected and feared.

For the next issue, the developers concentrated on the hull instead of the Higgs Anchor Rig. I like the decision to use a scalpel instead of a sledgehammer to the issue.

Victorious Luxury Yacht

The Yacht has seen some abuse as a nigh uncatchable Wormhole rolling ship. We aim to remove it as a viable roller with the following changes.

PG reduced from 300 to 100.
Mass reduced from 10,000,000 to 1,000,000.
Agility adjusted from 0.4 to 4.0 to keep align time the same after these changes.

The next change makes sense according to the lore as Mordu's Legion provides security for the Upwell Consortium.

Auto-Targeting Missiles

With the Avalanche having a heavy focus on Auto-Targeting Missiles, faction variations of existing Auto-Targeting Missiles have been renamed to ‘Legion’ Auto-Targeting Missiles and are now obtainable in the Mordu’s Legion LP Store for LP and ISK costs of existing missiles of the same size.

And last but not least, Serpentis capital ships received a rebalance of the material requirements for building their Vehement dreadnought and Vendetta supercarrier-class ships.

Vendetta and Vehement

Blueprints for the Vehement and Vendetta have been updated to reduce their build material requirements and be closer to other pirate faction capitals.

Updated build costs will be:

Vehement