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Plato Forko
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Posted - 2014.03.10 18:15:00 -
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Caldari frigs straight-up suck solo. The options are awful, you can either fit dual web with rocket to hold a target in place but deal with awful DPS because you have to try and shoehorn a decent armor tank into your two low slots, or you go MWD and LM and have no fitting room left for any tank at all and get chewed up by drones because the ship is still too freakin slow to get out of its own way. To make matters worse, if you even dare affix a BCS or invuln field to come up with a fit that's actually decent, you'll have to consider downgrading or giving up your DCU and losing a rig slot for overclocking. My terribad blog where I QQ and rage about Amarr FW |
Plato Forko
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Posted - 2014.03.10 18:43:00 -
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Breacher is the best T1 frig making use of rockets and shield, never hard to get a nibble from blaster boats hoping to break the tank. Talwars are LM beasts, with a ~1500 DPS volley it's pretty tough to even approach these without getting raped. Minmatar overall performs better with missiles and shields simply because they're fast enough to really take advantage of the range benefits of missiles and speed benefits of shields. Caldari for some silly reason is the slowest race overall despite using shields. My terribad blog where I QQ and rage about Amarr FW |
Plato Forko
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Posted - 2014.03.10 21:29:00 -
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Being slow is not even the main issue, having to fight for a half-decent compromise between tank and DPS is. Of all the ways to fit all the frigs, the Caldari missile frigs are the most limited because they're bonused for missile damage, but they only have two low slots, meaning you can choose between BCS (DPS) or armor tank. If you choose DPS, your only option is to shield tank, which means you have to settle for less EHP because even one BCS will chew up a huge chunk of your CPU. If you choose to shield tank, though, you're giving up on dual webs and vulnerable to any blaster frig, all of which have more tank, more speed, and more DPS. So yes, basically, dual web and armor-tanked is the only way to fit a rocket Kestrel, and then you're limited to only those targets that don't have enough drones and tank to outlast your pitiful DPS until you pop. Quite a lot of frigs have drones these days, as well as a tracking or falloff bonus that will ensure some of their gun damage also lands. My terribad blog where I QQ and rage about Amarr FW |
Plato Forko
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Posted - 2014.03.25 03:14:00 -
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Bad Messenger wrote:Kestrel is so bad that i have more kills with it than your char has total.
i am sorry you can't afford a nicer ship My terribad blog where I QQ and rage about Amarr FW |
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