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Rodney Spears
Black Adder Dynamic Broken Toys
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Posted - 2012.05.27 00:29:00 -
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Running lvl3's now. I had been running them with a Hurricane, all t2 equipped except guns. I felt I needed a break so I bought a Drake, all t2 fitted except for launchers. Obviously the Drake is tons easier to run missions in, but only after 1 week of using the Drake, it's boring me to tears. While I love the new missile graphics, it's not enough to keep me in a missile boat for long. Having flown Mimatar ships my entire Eve career, I thought moving to missile boats would be fun because of the new graphics, but nah, not my play style, too boring.
So, back to Minmatar, I'm wanting to move up from my Hurricane, while she's been a good ship, I'm needing to move on to lvl4 soon. Which is the next ship in progression? Kind of wanting to move to a BS for lvl4's, just because I think they're cool. |
Alara IonStorm
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Posted - 2012.05.27 00:41:00 -
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Next is the Maelstrom with either meta 4 Autocannons, Afterburners and TE's for long falloff or Artillery without the Afterburner and TC with Tracking Scripts. By either I mean mission to mission, you want a set of both guns. Tempest doesn't have near the tank for the cost difference.
That or you can go Typhoon, I hear you like Missiles. |
Rodney Spears
Black Adder Dynamic Broken Toys
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Posted - 2012.05.27 00:49:00 -
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Alara IonStorm wrote:Next is the Maelstrom with either meta 4 Autocannons, Afterburners and TE's for long falloff or Artillery without the Afterburner and TC with Tracking Scripts. By either I mean mission to mission, you want a set of both guns. Tempest doesn't have near the tank for the cost difference.
That or you can go Typhoon, I hear you like Missiles.
Haha, yeah no. The wierd thing is, I think the Typhoon is the best looking of the 3 standard BS's for Minmatar. Don't ask me why, I'm not one of those Eve players that think the ugly ships are good looking. I think the Drake is ******** looking, while my favorite looking ships are the Gallente Hyperion and Megathron. Also like the Amarr BS's alot, so I'm not sure how or why I like the Typhoon at all. I wish it wasn't a missile boat.
So Maelstrom I'll probably go arty because I never did like having to Afterburn my way into range of one ship, then once it's dead, afterburn my way to another. Would you reccomend getting t2 guns for a BS before I switch into lvl4's? |
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
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Posted - 2012.05.27 01:07:00 -
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Rodney Spears wrote:So Maelstrom I'll probably go arty because I never did like having to Afterburn my way into range of one ship, then once it's dead, afterburn my way to another. Would you reccomend getting t2 guns for a BS before I switch into lvl4's?
If you don't like burning in to range, you'll just love burning out to a range where you can track. Take the advice on offer and switch out guns based on the mission at hand.
T2 isn't really necessary, but it sure is nice to have. The extra range you can eke out of Barrage is quite nice (providing you aren't screwed by the damage profile). |
Alara IonStorm
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Posted - 2012.05.27 01:13:00 -
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Rodney Spears wrote: Haha, yeah no. The wierd thing is, I think the Typhoon is the best looking of the 3 standard BS's for Minmatar. Don't ask me why,
It reminds me of this.
Sad to say the only T2 Large Weapons I don't have are Heavy Drones and Torpedo's so... =(
Rodney Spears wrote: I'm not one of those Eve players that think the ugly ships are good looking. I think the Drake is ******** looking, while my favorite looking ships are the Gallente Hyperion and Megathron. Also like the Amarr BS's alot, so I'm not sure how or why I like the Typhoon at all. I wish it wasn't a missile boat.
I like the Raven, like an Industrial Bird of Prey. Drake looks nice too. Megathron is IMO the nicest looking ship.
Rodney Spears wrote: So Maelstrom I'll probably go arty because I never did like having to Afterburn my way into range of one ship, then once it's dead, afterburn my way to another. Would you reccomend getting t2 guns for a BS before I switch into lvl4's?
With Autocannons having 40km Falloff you should buy the guns for close range Missions. You don't have to do a lot of AB'ing since most NPC's hang inside the kill zone anyway and follow you as you move. You can usually switch targets pretty quick. They eat the Cruisers which you will be delegating your Drones too and their are a lot of Missions with 20-40 Cruiser Spawns in them. It is a lot quicker. For the cost of the Guns they are worth it 100% even if you use them less because their are a lot of close range missions.
You can use the website EVE Survival to pick which guns you will want. It lists the enemy and their ranges. As well Chrukers will tell you NPC Orbit distance and there speed / EWAR in their NPC Section (Deadspace = Mission.).
Meta 4 Guns are great, you lose T2 Ammo which isn't a very big PvE setback though going fr it soon is better then not for Barrage and Quake. but you keep the base T2 Gun damage minus the 2-10% from the Spec Skill. I would recommend Min BS 4 and L Projectile 4 with gun support skills at around 4. T2 Drones are a must though.
I used a Maelstrom and while I hated it for all the opposite of all the reasons you hate Missiles (I am a Missile person.) I completed every mission reasonably with Meta 4 Guns and Level 4 Support Skills. |
Lili Lu
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Posted - 2012.05.27 01:17:00 -
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Actually the typhoon is a very different missile boat. Reason being is the split weapons. You have to put at least a couple guns on with the 5 cruise launchers and you will need good drone skills for tech II sentries. It takes a long time but once you have all 3 weapons systems trained up you are constantly clicking and adjusting in missions. Unlike with most missile boats where you basically only count volleys so as to not waste so much ammo. With a phoon you do that and have to consider your gun tracking and range of ammo along with those of your sentries or the range of your control on your medium or light drones.
It took me a long time but I have tech II cruises, torps, arty, ac, sentry drone, and heavy drones. The fun also comes with adjusting your fittings amonsta ll the weapons systems for each mission.
If you want to make missions somewhat fun and not just a boring efficiency grind to make isk then the phoon and republic fleet phoon are the ship for you. |
Orlacc
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Posted - 2012.05.27 01:34:00 -
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I went Cane>Arti Mael>AC Mael>Mach. Enjoyed it. |
Rodney Spears
Black Adder Dynamic Broken Toys
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Posted - 2012.05.27 05:44:00 -
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Thanks for the replies. Yeah, Another thing I don't like about the Phoon is needing two weapon systems. I'm not good at multitasking as it is, and worry about two different weapon systems for me I think wouldn't be fun at all. I cringe just thinking about it honestly. Luckily I have t2 drones through light and medium thank goodness. Although I've never used medium drones ever. I'm really thinking I'll be shooting for a Machariel in the long run. So yeah, we'll see what happens.
And I'm still on the fence betwee arty and AC. I know I said I want Arty but i already have t2 AC ability though for a Hurricane. Getting to t2 Ac's for a BS wouldn't be much. |
Sup B1tches
Quovis CORE Alliance
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Posted - 2012.05.27 09:35:00 -
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Scouts are pretty fine on the Mael, especially the 1400's; you need AWU to 5 and engineering 5 to be able to fit them properly.
If you are torn between AC and arties, try some 1200's... their DPS is not much less than 1400's, but have way better tracking and half the firing time too |
Rodney Spears
Black Adder Dynamic Broken Toys
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Posted - 2012.05.27 17:31:00 -
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Sup B1tches wrote:Scouts are pretty fine on the Mael, especially the 1400's; you need AWU to 5 and engineering 5 to be able to fit them properly.
If you are torn between AC and arties, try some 1200's... their DPS is not much less than 1400's, but have way better tracking and half the firing time too
Ahh great advice, thanks. Just started training Engineer 5 two days ago, so I'll get there. What is AWU? Can't log on atm to look it up. |
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Marcus Gideon
Federal Defense Operations Gentlemen's Interstellar Nightclub
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Posted - 2012.05.27 17:37:00 -
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Advanced Weapon Upgrades, comes after getting Weapon Upgrades to 5 first |
Rodney Spears
Black Adder Dynamic Broken Toys
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Posted - 2012.05.27 17:56:00 -
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Oh ok duh, thanks. Yeah I have that to lvl4 I'm pretty sure. I'll have to recheck
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