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Drazin DawnTreader
Cutthroat Mercenary Corp
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Posted - 2009.12.09 23:24:00 -
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Save your Isk.
Use a Maelstrom while you finish off some important lvl 5 skills.
The Mael has excellent range, truly amazing tank and unbelievable alpha to rip through level 4's with ease. Drones take care of the small stuff. Comeback in a salvage boat or use an alt.
Chances are you will make some mistakes while you get comfortable with battleship capabilities and its better to lose a fully insured maelstrom than a very expensive Mach.
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Drazin DawnTreader
Cutthroat Mercenary Corp
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Posted - 2009.12.10 22:26:00 -
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Setting up a Mach and Mael with similar setups yields similar results.
The Mach, is more agile and slightly faster and gets a little over 120 DPS more due to its extra low slots.
1,131 vs 1,005.
The extra dps also comes with extra alpha.
14,120 vs 12,469.
The Mach also gets better base range.
96km vs 74km (unfortunetly it cant target beyond 77km to use the added range without additional modules or gang bonuses)
The Maelstrom gets much more tank however.
3,160 vs 1,592
The Mach uses more faction modules and costs nearly a billion isk more.
Personally, I would prefer the much more powerful tank for when things go wrong over the slightly better damage and speed. Plus I am cheap and prefer the more isk efficient Maelstrom.
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Drazin DawnTreader
Cutthroat Mercenary Corp
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Posted - 2009.12.11 15:06:00 -
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 Originally by: Kithran
Speed 510/287 (a bit more than slightly faster)
Alignment 13.2s/22.8s (a lot more agile)
Cap 6m 36s/6m 25s
DPS 813/739
Alpha 2459/2342
Range 4.1+59/3.7+36 (a lot more falloff thus effectively more dps)
Sustained Def 348/394
Reinforced Def 538/669
Signature 340/460 (this combined with the far greater speed should mitigate a lot of the tank benefit from the mael)
You say you are using AC's but are only getting 813 DPS? What are you using 3 of them? With AC's the Mach should be close to 1400 DPS and I have Frigates with better Sustained DPS than that. And I dont even want to know how you managed 22s align time on the Mael.
You asked for advice, And that advice is to fly a cheaper battleship until your skills and abilities are good enough to fly an expensive ship like the mach. I mean damn... even with "No Skills" selected in EFT my setup is twice as good as yours.
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Drazin DawnTreader
Cutthroat Mercenary Corp
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Posted - 2009.12.11 15:59:00 -
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You will not recieve any of my fits, you couldn't fit them anyway. You should realize that if you can't figure out how I Get the numbers I get, then you probably dont have the skills or the experience to do what you are planning to do.
Oh and 1400 DPS... you do use drones and Gyros right?
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Drazin DawnTreader
Cutthroat Mercenary Corp
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Posted - 2009.12.11 16:55:00 -
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over heating was not a factor in my setups.
You seem to have your own ideas on how you want to fit your ships. My setups require perfect fitting skills because thats how I trained my character(s). You can fly a 1bil faction BS and not be capable of fitting it for its optimal performance if you want, Its your Isk. My advice to you since the beginning was to fly a Maelstrom that performs just as well and tanks twice as much while you get comfortable with the size and performance of a BS vs a hurricane. You are intent on using the mach, thats your perogative and my assistance in this matter is finished.
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