Dengar ship is going to make me quit!
I spent well over a year working on profundity and now leviathan only to have one ship nullify all that work. Now I wasted a year building profundity to have a ship that can't beat anything. A 3 Deng...
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My impression was it's not that impressive, just another ship to ignore. I don't have any of the ships being mentioned, so can someone please explain how Dengar's ship is single-handedly turning Prof and Levi to **bleep**? I mean, Prof, Levi, and Executor are the three big journey ships. It's okay if they can beat each other from time to time, I don't think there should be one capital that simply owns the game. If that's the case, why bother? Is one ship really making Executor completely unbeatable!? Actual question.
Levi is very difficult to beat with Profundity. However it could trash Exec.
Exec couldn't beat either of the other two elite cap ships, so it needed an upgrade.
But what you want is a balance of power -- each of the 3 ships that requires the most investment can beat at least one other cap ship among those elite 3. With Profundity only regularly able to beat Exec, boosting Exec vs. Profundity is a fundamentally unsound idea. It results in a 2 ship meta instead of 3, where if you have Exec or Levi, you can beat at least 2 of the enemy's meta fleets, where if you have only Profundity you can only beat Profundities. This locks down your available strategies. In other words, you lose flexibility.
Worse, while Profundity can obviously win mirror matches, b/c of the RNG component to the number of assists you get it's very difficult to strategize your way to a win. You can make these mirrors 100% reliable, but only by bringing in ships that are needed for other fleets (such as the TIE Bomber).
Profundity isn't useless -- that's hyperbole. But it is now worth less than other fleets, yet costs approximately the same to get. While people are overblowing the situation, this is the kernel of legit criticism at the heart of the big kerfuffle.
Not truly the case. Triple attacker Exec can beat Profundity pre PO. Also had a shard mate bump up most of his Exec fleet to R9 and he could regularly beat Levi and would get defense holds against Levi. I will be interested to see the TIE dagger upgrade and what it means against PO and for Levi mirror matches.
Not truly the case. Triple attacker Exec can beat Profundity pre PO. Also had a shard mate bump up most of his Exec fleet to R9 and he could regularly beat Levi and would get defense holds against Levi.
None of this is helping the argument that Profundity is holding its own in the 3-fleet meta. You're actually arguing that Profundity is worse than I was stating.
