Beverly Sparks
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Posted - 2010.07.11 12:57:00 -
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 Originally by: Ackbarre
Caldari make some good ships for PVP as long as you understand their role. Either as ECM support or missile support. Drakes make great dps boats or more commonly as bait ships. Caracals often get ignored by other fleets same thing with Kestrels. Plus missiles aren't affected by sig radius only by targets speed. And if he's webbed and scrammed you'll get more damage out of missiles anyways.
Missile support? I suppose you use that when the enemy is using AoE tracking disruptors. Being ignored in a fleet is not a good thing.
Also Sig radius does affect missile damage. I think you have more things to learn.
If someone is webbed and scrammed, you get more damage out of guns too.
I see a few big problems with Caldari.
Missiles become less effective when distances get longer, and as gangs get bigger. If you are nearly alphaing target, the missile damage does not get there in time.
They are not very adaptable. No real armor tanks, in a guardian supported armor tank world is a problem. Not to say that there aren't shield tanking gangs out there, it's just that when the choice is armor tank Caldari have very few ships to choose from. Shield tank gangs also tend to be smaller ships, that perform more hit and run type of warfare, Caldari are slow with very low alpha, and poor DPS. That combination often doesn't fit in that well.
The 2 ends of the spectrum for tanking are Amarr and Caldari. At BS level, Amarr out classes everyone, especially Caldari for the first reason noted above. So you are going to cater to the strongest race, and thus Armor tank is preferred tank. The Rokh is not really a bad ship, as it "Can" fit an acceptable armor tank, plus do reasonable damage. However, unlike the Mega, it doesn't get 5 heavy/sentries drones to augment the lowish damage of rails. having fit it the other day though, I do think you can make a pretty nice CR BS out of it though, with nearly 40km effective range, 750DPS and 90k ehp armor tank, which I think is not too shabby.
I gotta run, but those some of my opinions on Caldari.
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