I remember this path as path when Cathedral has die.
From very situational but powerful in this situations ship become to absolutely useless in combat HP box.
Now for me it just as logistic ship.
You are delusional, the new Cathedral is still a very capable combat ship.
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With cruiser-class ITU on modules? With 1000 flux/s for main battery? With useless main shield(flux and shield effectivity stats and also very slow shield)? With no any armor? With stupid for AI system(damping field) for main battery module?
This ship just nothing for Onslaught(He just outrange new Cathedral and blow-up any trying to atack with strike craft). It no any chanse for Cathedral. But it have deployment cost as two Onslaughts!
Are you just theorycrafting that it sucks or have you given it a shot?
At first give me Cathedral on simulator as opponent and i can blow up this.
On current moment very hard to testing this flying HP box because AI just running from this ship. But Victory or Paragon just annihilate basic variants.
But i definitely know that in comparison with the fire power of the previous Cathedral version new the pettiness is useless. New ship cant kill billions of Remnant frigates, destroyers and cruisers.