Saber Damere
Caldari Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2008.11.09 22:10:00 -
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I hate it. Everyone told me when I started with EVE, I should get a Raven as L4 Missionrunner cause it's 'the best'. Now I've wasted so much time in skilling for this ships which just sucks ass. Even with 5 Mio SP you can hardly solo L4 missions without warping out and neither my tank nor my DPS come even close to Serbitas and his Maelstrom and he has just 1,5 Mio SP! Honestly, whoever tells Newbies that Caldari make good Missionrunners is just lying and playing a n00b for a fool. I can really start from scratch now and try to get a new Missionrunner ship for myself.
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Saber Damere
Caldari Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2008.11.10 09:36:00 -
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Edited by: Saber Damere on 10/11/2008 09:39:15
Originally by: brinelan
Sorry to tell you this, but you need more skill points in your tanking and offensive skills to fly a battleship well and not have to warp out that much. Sitting in it != flying it well. Get your tanking skills to at least 4, offensive skills to 4+ and caldari battleship skill to 4 and see if that helps. 5m sp is less then some people have in their tanking skills and way less then some specialized t2 weapon using people have in their chosen weapon system.
And why start over? Just train different skills. You would be surprised how many skills are prereqs to other skills.
Why start over? Well by the time I have enough SP to fly a Raven without having to warp out too often (needing T2 Equip for that, namely T2 Invul Shields, Shield Booster, Shield Booster Amplifier) I can have a new Minmatar Char with 1,5 Mio SP which performs much better in his Maelstrom and has a higher DPS to boost! A DPS you will never reach with the Raven, and now with tomorrows missile-nerf there will be even a bigger gap between the Raven and other BS.
So Raven has the worst tank and worst dps out of all BS and to fly it you need at least 5 Mio, more like 7 Mio SP to get it right. Maelstrom, I don't know if it is the best, but for new chars it will have awesome defense, you can hold stage aggro from all Lvl 4 Missions and still have a high dps and for lousy 1,5 Mio SP.
So you can run L4 Missions two months earlier then in a Raven, faster and cheaper! Now talk about balance...
EDIT: I tried using the Raven Loadout which got a score of 290 on Battleclinic, with 2 Invul Shields, XL-Booster, 2 Amplifiers and stable cap. But without T2 Invul Shields and T2 XL Booster you just get too much damage and can't tank more then 3 BS. I've experimented a bit with different setups, having 4 active shield hardeners and just a large booster or even XL booster, I have a higher defense rating then with the invul shields. but like I said before you really need T2 equip, and that takes a lot of time. for the amplifier by itself it takes about 14 days with learnings and imps, and to get the raven stable will take even longer.
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