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Serra Hawke
State War Academy Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.12.01 01:53:00 -
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So here's the story. I have been looking into a caldari battlecruiser for some time now. I have been browsing the interwebs for a while, and of the 3 ships, the naga is more for pvp, which leaves the drake and the ferox. I personally like using hybrid turrets over launchers, which lead me to want to run a ferox. So I was looking up fits for it, and basically the only advice people would give to others came down to basically "get a drake." Is the ferox really that bad? I would prefer to not have to waste all my turret training to get missile skills, as the drake can't have turrets, which not only sucks in that way but also because it can't fit a salvager. Also the drake is like 20m ISK more. Can I get away with using a ferox and not get slaughtered every mission I run? From all the stuff on paper the drake is the same as the ferox except it has more HP and uses missiles instead of hybrids.
Anything to help me understand would be awesome. |
Gneeznow
Ship spinners inc
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Posted - 2012.12.01 02:02:00 -
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Ferox is a great ship, great brawler with blasters and a competent sniper with rails. It's comfortable with an active tank or passive tank too. People prefer the drake because it's easy mode and doesn't require imagination or knowledge of gunnery to use. |
Alara IonStorm
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Posted - 2012.12.01 02:21:00 -
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Can you use a Ferox for missions, yes. is it great no.
It has one big weakness for PvE. No Damage Bonus and only 6 Turrets.
Assuming competent fitting skills and level 3-4 gunnery, cap and core skills it could do level 3 missions in a fit like this well enough.
[Ferox, Low Skill PvE] Magnetic Vortex Stabilizer I Magnetic Vortex Stabilizer I Magnetic Vortex Stabilizer I Fourier Transform Tracking Program
Large Shield Booster II Shield Boost Amplifier I Kinetic Deflection Field II Thermic Dissipation Field II Cap Recharger II
250mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Antimatter Charge M 250mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Antimatter Charge M 250mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Antimatter Charge M 250mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Antimatter Charge M 250mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Antimatter Charge M 250mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Antimatter Charge M Small Tractor Beam I
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I
Hobgoblin I x5
I used baser mods but put T2 wherever you can and try to get Battlecruiser IV at least. If you need more fitting use the spot where the TE is for a PDU / RCU / CoPro. An Afterburner for Gate Missions instead of the Cap Recharcher is acceptable as is a TP / Web / ECCM for Gurisatas / TC ect. If you find you can spare the slot use it. Small Capbooster w/ 200's isn't bad either if you are having cap problems.
As for Salvaging approaching wrecks in this tub is a fools errand, the ship is to cumbersome and the money is to little. Use a Tractor Beam to loot what is in range and grab mission objectives. If you want to Salvage the field use this.
[Cormorant, Basic Salvage Ship] Capacitor Power Relay II Expanded Cargohold II
Cap Recharger II Cap Recharger II Limited 1MN MicroWarpdrive I
Small Tractor Beam I Small Tractor Beam I Small Tractor Beam I Salvager I Salvager I Salvager I Salvager I Salvager I
Small Salvage Tackle I Small Salvage Tackle I Small Salvage Tackle I
This is the setup as how it will look in 4 Days on Tuesday. Right now it has 4 Mids 1 Low so modify accordingly.
You could get away with a cheaper Condor as well. Noctis is the premium but at 70mil a hull that is more of a future endeavor to pinch pennies towards.
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Gal'o Sengen
State War Academy Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.12.01 02:33:00 -
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Medium Rails do anemic damage even on ships bonused for Damage, and the Ferox has no Damage bonus. I like the ship but Medium Rails are just so bad.
So basically, get a Drake. |
Karmu Ivanostrov
Drunken Old Farts Massa Interitum
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Posted - 2012.12.01 02:46:00 -
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Look, is it a tad less optimal to run a Ferox than a Drake? Yeah... but dont bulge to the "get a drake" crap... If you like the Ferox, go fly it, its your game after all =) |
Piugattuk
Perkone Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.12.01 02:54:00 -
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Lvl 3 missions is fine in Ferox but 4 forget it, it will not kill fast enough to handle incoming dps, a brutix will be better. |
Verity Sovereign
Pator Tech School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.12.01 18:22:00 -
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Its worth noting that the Ferox will be changed soon anyway... Right now, with different tiers of BCs, the lowest tier is crap, and they made the ferox the lowest tier of the caldari BCs
but basically, at this moment: Heavy missiles >> railguns : they have more range, more damage, no tracking issues, deal selectable, pure DPS 7 missile launchers > 6 turret slots missile damage bonus > turret optimal bonus (again, the missiles still have more range) 5469 base shield HP > 4883 base shield HP (same recharge time, similar stats for armor and hull) Drake Cap > Ferox cap (same cap/sec recharge, but the drake has a larger reservoir, and the ferox needs cap to fire) Drake fitting > Ferox fitting 6 med slots > 5 mid slots (same amount of lows)
Its not that the ferox is crap, it can do a lot of things just fine... but the drake does outclass it by a significant/large margin in multiple areas....
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Maeltstome
The Burning Red
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Posted - 2012.12.01 18:59:00 -
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a properly fit naga will eat a drake for breakfast in missions. You only need to tank 450ish dps for level 4's... thats easy with a few basic faction mods. |
EvEa Deva
State War Academy Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.12.02 06:06:00 -
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Ferox is ok in PvP and not too many FCs will primary you, so maybe a longer lifespan for newer PvPers, problem with it in PvP is not alot of mids so hard to tank it and have a point.
Ferox in PvE should be fine for lvl 3 missions, maybe lvl 4s if you have a gang, would suck solo in 4s
Drake is better and even if they nerf the **** out of the drake it will still be better. |
Ferahgo
Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.
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Posted - 2012.12.02 06:48:00 -
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If you prefer hybrid turrets over missiles, why are you flying caldari and not gallente? |
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Casirio
DEEP-SPACE CO-OP LTD Exhale.
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Posted - 2012.12.02 07:02:00 -
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when it comes to pve..which is boring in itself anyways..fly whatever the hell you want. |
Serra Hawke
Matari Enterprises
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Posted - 2012.12.02 14:34:00 -
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Ferahgo wrote:If you prefer hybrid turrets over missiles, why are you flying caldari and not gallente?
mainly because I have caldari training and absolutly nothing in gallente ships whatsoever.
The drake is better. I understand that. but based on what you guys have said, the ferox is a better fit for me. In the time it would take to train into missiles to a halfway decent level I could be flying a rokh. It seems like it would take quite a few days to train into either gallente ships/missiles, so the ferox is better in that sense because I can actually use it now, not in a week and a half from now. And that week and a half I just saved from that means I can train to max out some of the gunnery/turret skills.
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Teardrop Butterfly
Brutor Tribe Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.12.02 15:11:00 -
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Alara IonStorm wrote:It has one big weakness for PvE. No Damage Bonus and only 6 Turrets.
That's 2 weaknesses |
Alara IonStorm
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Posted - 2012.12.02 17:08:00 -
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Teardrop Butterfly wrote:Alara IonStorm wrote:It has one big weakness for PvE. No Damage Bonus and only 6 Turrets. That's 2 weaknesses Not really just to factors in the same weakness. |
Sergeant Acht Scultz
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.12.02 18:41:00 -
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Ferahgo wrote:If you prefer hybrid turrets over missiles, why are you flying caldari and not gallente?
Didn't knew hybrids are not Caldari main weapon system along side with missiles, I didn't even knew they have half of their ships who fit those.
Indeed, play Caldari should mean missiles or HTFU... |
Kosetzu
Avitus Lugus
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Posted - 2012.12.02 19:50:00 -
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Training the ship skills to fly Gallente instead of Caldari shouldn't take you very long at all. I would wait until the expansion hits in a few days and then see if the Ferox is viable then, if not crosstrain Gallente, it shouldn't take you more than a couple days, as the Battlecruiser skill isn't racial yet.
Caldari hybrid ships are mostly geared towards having good range on their ships, while Gallente has more damage bonuses on theirs. For missions the damage is usually better over the extra range Caldari gets.
The Hybrid ships for level 4's are almost all Gallente as well. The Rokh has no faction version of it so there's not any progression after it unless you crosstrain Gallente, while Gallente has multiple hybrid Battleships, and navy/pirate faction as well as T2 versions with hybrids.
Caldari Hybrid Battleship: Rokh
Gallente Hybrid Battleships: Megathron Hyperion Navy Megathron
Pirate/T2 Vindicator (requires Minmatar Battleship as well as Gallente) Kronos (Marauder, requires Gallente Battleship 5 and Marauders skill) |
Mara Pahrdi
The Order of Anoyia
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Posted - 2012.12.02 22:46:00 -
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Karmu Ivanostrov wrote:Look, is it a tad less optimal to run a Ferox than a Drake? Yeah... but dont bulge to the "get a drake" crap... If you like the Ferox, go fly it, its your game after all =) This.
Unless you're into this isk/h thing, do whatever you like.
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Cephelange du'Krevviq
Hephaestus LLC Get Off My Lawn
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Posted - 2012.12.03 06:20:00 -
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Mara Pahrdi wrote:Karmu Ivanostrov wrote:Look, is it a tad less optimal to run a Ferox than a Drake? Yeah... but dont bulge to the "get a drake" crap... If you like the Ferox, go fly it, its your game after all =) This. Unless you're into this isk/h thing, do whatever you like.
If you're going for the optimal mission runner, then Drake is the better hull (for now, at least). Once the BC tiercide happens, the Ferox might catch up a bit (I hope). I ran Level 3s in a Ferox with very little difficulty; you have to watch what sort of NPCs you'll be facing; aside from that, if you know how to pulse your booster, and how to tank it, you should be fine. |
STSxLight
Blue Republic RvB - BLUE Republic
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Posted - 2012.12.04 22:52:00 -
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The HM nerf is bad for my drake so shall i continue to train for t2 assault for belt ratting and forsake hubs(in a 2 man fleet) or train large t1hybrid with suport skills and go for the naga? 2weeks for t2assault and the same time for large blasters and decent gunnery skills |
Cage Man
Evil Guinea Pigs
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Posted - 2012.12.04 23:32:00 -
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If you set on using hybrids, throw in some gallente training, their ships are build to use them. Rail megathron is not a bad ship.. and its works way better than a rokh. and of course the vindi is better than OK at missions.. |
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Fronkfurter McSheebleton
Squirrel Horde Habitat Against Humanity
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Posted - 2012.12.05 00:26:00 -
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Cage Man wrote:If you set on using hybrids, throw in some gallente training, their ships are build to use them. Rail megathron is not a bad ship.. and its works way better than a rokh. and of course the vindi is better than OK at missions.. Actually, the Hyperion is even faster than the mega, now that it can fit 425's.
As for caldari BCs, use a naga. Its range with antimatter, or plutonium/uranium is you need a bit more range, is phenominal. That alone can serve as a decent enough tank. Just MWD out away from everything and blap it on approach. Triple rep Myrms are like what you'd get if you strapped a beehive to Robocop. |
Tarn Kugisa
Infinite Covenant Tribal Band
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Posted - 2012.12.05 02:12:00 -
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Verity Sovereign wrote: Drake Cap > Ferox cap (same cap/sec recharge, but the drake has a larger reservoir, and the ferox needs cap to fire)
I find this stupid as the ferox needs capacitor to live The drake doesn't need capacitor to fire, and in some cases tank, so why give it a better one I Endorse this Product and/or Service Source Recorder-esque tool for EVE |
Bouh Revetoile
Barricade.
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Posted - 2012.12.05 10:38:00 -
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In fact, for railguns, caldari ships are often better than gallente : you use railguns to hit a long range, and the optimal bonus is more optimal for that. |
Hidden Snake
Genco Fatal Ascension
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Posted - 2012.12.05 12:18:00 -
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Sergeant Acht Scultz wrote:Ferahgo wrote:If you prefer hybrid turrets over missiles, why are you flying caldari and not gallente? Didn't knew hybrids are not Caldari main weapon system along side with missiles, I didn't even knew they have half of their ships who fit those. Indeed, play Caldari should mean missiles or HTFU...
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Foxglove Digitalis
LightningStrikesTwice Elemental Tide
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Posted - 2012.12.05 12:23:00 -
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Cage Man wrote:If you set on using hybrids, throw in some gallente training, their ships are build to use them. Rail megathron is not a bad ship.. and its works way better than a rokh. and of course the vindi is better than OK at missions..
Given the split of the battlecruiser and destroyer skill into 4 racial skills for each, I'd throw in training Frigate 4 and Cruiser 3 for each of the other three races to get the most benefit out of the split- only a couple of days per race. and get BC as high as you can before the split. |
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