Songbird
Gallente
T.I.E. Inc.
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Posted - 2011.08.18 18:39:00 -
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You think you want to fly a gallente BS but you don't, not really, and you just don't know it yet.
You can train up perfect gallente skills - the armor tanking, the large t2 hybrids, the drones but in reality you're just wasting time.
Oh sure - hyperion is as cool looking as it's name suggests - it actually is one of the few gallente designs that rock(together with the incursus) and megathong looks like a giant robot or batmobile.
But they're crappy fighters - that's all that counts.
First of all the domi - terrible, as well as ugly ship( I think they used a ****ing shoe as a model when they made it).
Oh sure you see setups with 1300 DPS but in reality it's a ship that ejects it's guns and hopes they don't die. You have 2 options - use sentry and be stuck in 1 place , or use heavy and wait about a minute for your drones to go from 1 target to another. Failure - thy name is dominix.
BTW that's true for any drone ship - the 1 saving grace to both drone cruisers is that usually 450 DPS coming out of a cruiser is pretty high, plus you can speed around with cruisers.
Mega and it's cousins.
This brings me to hybrids:
- short range(blasters) you are limited to 20 ish km with t2 long range ammo - which in Eve means that some good spitter can outdistance you
- long range(rails) your dps is lower than a good strong fart.
To top it all hybrids have all the bad features of the other guns out there - lots of grid to fit, lots of cap to fire , lots of ammo, lots of time to change the ammo.
The one good quality of rails in fact is their range , which is funny since they are caldari ship weapons and all caldari ships get bonus to range. Talk about screwed.
Mega specifically is 1 gun short of the norm(think armageddon), it's pretty fast but once you put those armor rigs that's gone. It has a tracking bonus - that's a golden bonus in ships like the nightmare and even vargur (although ac's already track pretty good) but in the end you'll be short on cap short on tank and short on killing power or reach, or combination of the 4. Would've been an excellent ship if only it didn't use hybrids.
hyperion, the pretty boy - 8 guns and tanking bonus but not enough grid to fit rails and large reppers or cap recharge for that matter. To go with the repping bonus you only get to use 6 low slots, I think you'll love it. Again if it only didn't use hybrids.
BTW gallente ships are meant for blasters which are usually useless in larger than 2-3 ship fights and usually useless for pve (except for incursions).
Your best bet for pve is going for megathron , incursion fit - lots of buffer tank(nothing active) , gank , tracking and sebo. Since incursion fighting (vanguards) is 10-20 km range you should do okay.
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