Veryez
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.09.10 06:06:00 -
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Korgan Nailo wrote:
...Just a few thoughts.
First off CCP will (and should) never balance ships around PVE. Ships are balanced around PvP, as they should be.
Second, no race performs well running level 4 missions with low skills, caldari is probably best because of the 'never miss' feature of missiles. Yes the raven lost some of it's luster with the missile nerf a few years ago, but it still works. As far as shield tanking goes, yes using an XL booster allows you to fit a very large tank, but as you're skills get better, you'll find tanking isn't as important as DPS in missions. The DPS of lasers is amazing, especially having Tach's with faction MF hitting past 40k in optimal, (using faction crystals makes sence in PvE since they last so long).
Yes, the Mach is fast and has good damage projection, but the nightmare has much better damage projection and nobody complains about using that in missions. It's a great ship. There is nothing wrong with the paladin either, it can fit pulse or beams, ab or MWD fairly easily, it even has the mids to fit ECCM when you run against guristas, no such luck w/the Golem and the Vargur.
While lasers have trouble against angels and (to an extent) guristas, they shred Bloods, Sansha, Drones, mercs, and Serps. Sounds like they are ok to me.
As far as lower cap use, no. Remember what I said above, ship balance is based on PvP. Lasers are a great weapon platform, I hardly want to see them on every ship I face.
Lastly, the abaddon isn't a great mission ship. It's either a great damage or great tank ship and works very well in PvP. You'd probably enjoy a pulse apoc far more (and yes, you can use scorch since it lasts a very long time).
Amarr has some of the best ships in the game, the geddon is far and away my favorite PvP battleship. Of course it's not a solo ship, but in small gangs, it brings a world of hurt very quickly, I've been high damage dealer more often than not when flying that ship. The curse, pilgrim, absolution, harb, zealot, sac, crusader, devoter, apoc, and abaddon are all fine ships (and I've been known to use them all) even the purifer (though it needs a bit more cpu).
One final bit, the grass always looks greener on the other side of the street, but until you fly them, you really don't know how good or bad a ship (or race of ships) is. |