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Ere Colliseru
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Posted - 2009.09.08 08:43:00 -
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Edited by: Ere Colliseru on 08/09/2009 08:43:37 Hi, I started out with railguns some 9 month ago. Now as I am looking up some fittings either for salvaging&ratting in low sec or for pvp most of the fittings are presented with blaster. Thats even with having such a ridiculus small range compared to railguns.
Can you please tell me why blaster seem to be prefered over rails?
Cheers!
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Asuka Smith
Gallente StarHunt
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Posted - 2009.09.08 08:45:00 -
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Blaster is only preferred in PVP, and it is due to the higher DPS.
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TimMc
Gallente Brutal Deliverance Tactical Narcotics Team
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Posted - 2009.09.08 08:53:00 -
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Depends on the rat. Against serprentis I prefer blasters because more damage, and being off the 0km warpin on a belt gives you a few more seconds to warp out.
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xXxZeroCoolxXx
Caldari B'haxed Productions The Dominium
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Posted - 2009.09.08 09:02:00 -
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Blaster vs Railguns are an age old debate. Blasters fare well in PVP but blasters on a Megathron with an afterburner for missions works well too because of how fast you kill rats.
Blasters fire faster and have higher damage than railguns which results in smaller range. That's the flipside of your medal.
Railguns give you the option to stay outta damage range and snipe down stuff as you already noticed.
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Duchess Starbuckington
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Posted - 2009.09.08 12:24:00 -
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Train lasers. They pwn both.
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Cardiana
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Posted - 2009.09.08 12:44:00 -
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it is really simple to explain. most engagements happen at the gate in and around 15km and since blaster have a much higher damage then rails. so there u go.
pulse lasers are like the middle ground. they arev very good atm.
then come rails with yet longer range but the damage is usually not tooooo great.
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Darthewok
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.09.08 13:44:00 -
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situation:
1-3 ship solo/small gang PVP: blasters because you need every bit of damage you can get to beat the opponent/ other team.
>3 ship large gangs: rails because your gang has enough damage to destroy opposing ships in seconds, leaving you little to no time to MWD into blaster range. besides, you might not want to be so close to enemy blobs as this means you are easily tackled. rails gives you the ability to hit relatively widely dispersed targets from a relatively safe distance.
sort of what the above posters have said.
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Duchess Starbuckington
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Posted - 2009.09.08 15:21:00 -
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Originally by: Cardiana
then come rails with yet longer range but the damage if you're lucky will make the enemy laugh so hard they fall off their chair unless you're using battleship sized guns
Fixed.
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Zhilia Mann
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Posted - 2009.09.08 16:09:00 -
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Originally by: Duchess Starbuckington
Originally by: Cardiana
then come rails with yet longer range but the damage if you're lucky will make the enemy laugh so hard they fall off their chair unless you're using battleship sized guns
Fixed.
Neither honest nor fair. Vexors can use rails effectively. Taranii can use rails effectively. Ishkurs/Ishtars can use rails effectively. Ares almost has to use 75mm rails.
Pure gank boats, of course, rely on blasters. Not everything is a pure gank boat.
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Duchess Starbuckington
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Posted - 2009.09.08 17:38:00 -
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Originally by: Zhilia Mann
Originally by: Duchess Starbuckington
Originally by: Cardiana
then come rails with yet longer range but the damage if you're lucky will make the enemy laugh so hard they fall off their chair unless you're using battleship sized guns
Fixed.
Neither honest nor fair. Vexors can use rails effectively. Taranii can use rails effectively. Ishkurs/Ishtars can use rails effectively. Ares almost has to use 75mm rails.
Pure gank boats, of course, rely on blasters. Not everything is a pure gank boat.
Vexors - can use pretty much anything you've got the grid for. Drones are their main weapon.
Taranis - sure they can. But why bother? Fit blasters or get a Crow. Ishkur/Ishtar - see Vexor Ares - is a tackle inty, and thus guns are a distant third priority behind speed and tackle ability.
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Renarla
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Posted - 2009.09.08 17:51:00 -
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All Railguns are pretty much a joke imo. Pulse Lasers with Scorch out-range and out-damage Railguns with Antimatter of any size. Blasters are only slightly less pathetic because of their huge potential DPS, but unless your shooting an immobile Battleship you'll rarely get even close to what you see in EFT. However, on another note, I now have one of those annoying sigs. |
Ralavina
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Posted - 2009.09.08 18:01:00 -
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Originally by: Ere Colliseru
Can you please tell me why blaster seem to be prefered over rails?
Cheers!
Blaster: Higher (highest) DPS, better tracking Rails: Much longer range... um. Yeah, longer range. Ralara's banned again so this is my alt :p |
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