Templar Dane
Amarrian Retribution
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Posted - 2011.02.24 00:21:00 -
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Edited by: Templar Dane on 24/02/2011 00:23:58
 Originally by: Bjron
I wish to post my thoughts.
Two boats, one thrasher and one rax.
Ac's and Blasters.
Both with the same purpose in life, frigate control and doing level 1 and 2 missions.
The Thrasher is using frigate sized guns and a rocket. (T I)
MWD and 1 shield extender, one EM resist. (T II)
2 G-stabs II.
1 Damage rig.
Kills frigs, destroyers and does good against cruisers.
Rax.
Full blasters, T I (both setup ups using meta 3 guns)
Target painter.
MWD.
Web.
lows are just tank, damage control, plate and repper with some PDU.
Sucks ass, cant hit a webbed and painted frigate in level 4 at face hug range or up to 2,500. manged to hit some times at 3-4,000.
Cant really hit a destroyer either.
Here is the kicker, I had a caracel webbed and painted and still could not hit. close range, webb/paint kill MWD and slow down to orbit.
The Thrasher hits, every. singe. time. Even with MWD on at 1,500M. No painter and no web and I can destroy frigs and destroyers.
The rax is,
1)slower
2)has a painter and a web
3)is moving slower
4)still cant hit cruiser's with sized blasters.
I have about equal skills in both hybrid and projectile.
One would hope a slower (webbed) target that is painted would be easy to hit with blasters.
Some how my thrasher is better in almost every way over the rax besides straight out tank. The rax will last longer.
Either I am
1) doing it wrong
2)blasters suck
3)Proj is OP
4)some combo of the above.
I think a tracking speed adjustment for blasters would be a good start, at least try it on the test server?
I for some reason do not remember blasters sucking this bad when I was playing in 2008 before I quit, and then came back.
I could be completely wrong, and if so I accept that. But I ask you to show me what I am doing wrong.
In theory with equal skills between hybrid and projectile, the blasters should out damage a/c's when in rage.
From what I have seen, they do not.
I love the rax, I don;t know why I think it just looks good, as does the thrasher. But I am starting to think that fitting medium a/c's or atry to the rax would improve the ships actual preformance over blasters and rails.
It sounds like you were orbiting the caracal. That is unwise, since your own movement affects your tracking as well as the target's. If you are in a gank situation, it is better to use keep at range of your optimal.
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