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Kazang
Gallente Wrecking Shots
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Posted - 2009.11.05 10:12:00 -
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Yes you can fit it like a vaga but that is far from optimal as it's pretty much inferior to the vaga in damage, utility and GFTO-ability. Really the only reason to do this is if you really want to fly a vaga right now but can't because you don't have minny cruiser V.
Its best used as super rupture with a 1600 and trimarks. Its doesn't really do any more damage than a rupture but it has much higher HP and with moderate pimping (amarr navy eanm) and a slave set it gets a really nice amount of EHP. It still goes 1700m/s and aligns as fast as a regular stabber. On top of the huge buffer it's sig radius is tiny at only 94m, which lets it get under the tracking of medium guns quite easily, it feels more like an AF than a cruiser.
Then of course that fact that everyone wants to kill you can be both annoying and it's greatest strength. People will have a go thinking easy loot and its just a cruiser only to find it can be pretty tricky to kill. Without slaves its not so impressive, its still pretty sweet but rather expensive for something that does die easily if you mess up. I would stick with the rupture until your confident with what you can pull off then make the step up to a fleet stabber and i would never fly the fleet stabber in any kind of fleet fight where it would be called primary.
Anyway the fleet stabber is underrated and is a excellent, but expensive toy, when used as a super rupture but is little more than a impatient man's vaga if you choose to nano it. Sounds like you should just fly a stabber or a rupture for your cruiser skirmishes.
Kazang
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Kazang
Gallente Wrecking Shots
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Posted - 2009.11.05 13:52:00 -
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Originally by: Vaerah Vahrokha
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Its best used as super rupture with a 1600 and trimarks. Its doesn't really do any more damage than a rupture but it has much higher HP and with moderate pimping (amarr navy eanm) and a slave set it gets a really nice amount of EHP. It still goes 1700m/s and aligns as fast as a regular stabber.
Isn't a stabber an agile ship to get a point but not as fragile as a frigate?
Don't you kinda nullify all of that by putting an huge plate + trimarks on it?
No you don't nullify all of that. The Fleet Stabber with trimarks and a 1600 plate has the same agility as a regular stabber(without plates etc) but less straight line speed, but it still has less speed than the regular stabber anyway as it does not get a speed bonus. It is just incredibly light and agile thanks to it's base stats. 1700m/s is still faster than every cruiser other than a vaga/stabber.
Regardless you do not want to use a fleet stabber as primary tackle unless you have money to throw away and insist on using ships outside of their best role. Their are other ships much better suited to that kind of tackling.
Personally I like to think of the fleet stabber as a diemos that doesn't suck.
Kazang
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Kazang
Gallente Wrecking Shots
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Posted - 2009.11.05 14:31:00 -
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Your math is wrong and not only that but the effective dps of medium drones is less than that of light drones, and vaga combat ranges between 28km and 15km its not fixed at 20km.
The vaga will be doing more effective dps than the stabber at the varying ranges and there is really no reason to use the fleet stabber over the vaga.
Kazang
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