Am I the only one or is anybody else thinking that interceptors are the complete loosers of the recent frigate buf. Execpt maybe from the Taranis most of them suffer either from too less damage output or from too less medium slots. What do you think?

Not at all. T2 inties still go way faster and have a longer point range due to inty bonuses. With overheat, an ares can point out to 34ish KM with Level 4 interceptor. An atron cannot do that. And it sure as hell cannot go 5km/sec

I think if you argue from the angle of cost effectiveness, then certainly t1 inties are the way to go. But it's not like any of you Minmatar fw pilots are isk starved anyway :)

And with the exception of perhaps the ranis, T2 inties are meant to be fleet ships. Reminds me of a thread where a guy wanted advice on how to fly a Huginn solo despite it being a fleet ship. I LOLed at that one.

TL;DR : In fact ceptors are useless, only good for pointing single targets for ganks, and even then with severe limitations (speed of the ceptor's fleet, valid target, etc.)

I respectfully disagree. I was in a lowsec FW fleet a little while back, and we had a mix of battlecruisers and a few assault frigs and interceptors. We engaged onto a sniper fleet via a cloaky warp in, but there was a fuckup and we landed 35km off of them. I was flying a jag at the time, and myself and a few other pilots in jags and stilettos were one of the main reasons we pulled that fight out and won. We moved in, scrammed a few targets and held them while our canes caught up, then ran like hell once the drones and **** were on us. Rinse, repeat, etc.

Same could've been achieved with a lach in case you were in a shield gang or with a prot in an armor gang, with much more EHP . Obviously , for greater cost, but the discussion here is effectivness not cost, otherwise we're going back to T1 frigs ....

Same could've been achieved with a lach in case you were in a shield gang or with a prot in an armor gang, with much more EHP . Obviously , for greater cost, but the discussion here is effectivness not cost, otherwise we're going back to T1 frigs ....

Interceptors are fine they still intercept things better than t1 frigs do to microwarpdrive sig radious reduction/Speed. Ships in EVE are not designed around 1v1s. Interceptors fulfill their role nicely in fleets and small gangs.

Interceptors aren't supposed to have DPS. They're tackle ships, after all. Their speed is more than adaquate tank for them, so EHP isn't an issue either.

The only problem with interceptors that I can see (judging by the hundreds I've lost...) is that they are far too easy to kill for large ships. Oracles, for example, can insta almost any inty from 40km with scorch. For those keeping score, that's battleship-sized guns tracking a ship doing 5km/s. Something is horribly wrong there. But it's not an easy fix: Interceptors already have a small sig radius, so the problem is that big guns hit small targets too easily. The only viable fix I can see would be to do what was done with titan guns, make them suffer a significant damage penalty when firing upon small vessels.

I'd love to see a situation where an interceptor and other small-sig, fast ships only had to worry about drones, destroyers, and other frigtes (and bombs, because I'm a terrible pilot and fly straight into them). Being one shot by HAC's and battleships makes them, as has been said in this thread, useless in large fights.

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i'm a keres

i'm better at pointing stuff and can survive thanks to my damps

i am so pretty

Something is horribly wrong if you lose a ceptor to an Oracle at 40km while doing 5km/s, which I would say is the pilot.

What if arty nados are hitting your 5KM ares at 60-70km ?

What if arty nados are hitting your 5KM ares at 60-70km ?

What if arty nados are hitting your 5KM ares at 60-70km ?