Hello everyone,
I've been wanting to swap to Caldari for a while but am having a little trouble on trying to decide on a hull type/ship to run my LVL 4 High Sec missions in. I was thinking using a Nighthawk, but all of the builds I've put together don't seem really effective (enough pew, not enough tank). BS hulls I'm trying to decide between the Raven, Golem, Scorpion Navy Issue and Rattlesnake (m Gallente BS skill is high to make a effective use of the ship). I'm just wondering what the General consensus is. Thanks in advance.

Well right now I'm using a Absolution w/ pulse lasers, which with the build I have works on the missions just is a little more time consuming ( 347 DPS, EHP 92.7K and cap stable) and requires me to be constantly moving. The idea behind going to BS, was just to remain stationary but provide sustained tank/DPS at snipe ranges. Watching my brother and a friend use their 'hawks in the same manner was got me on this path. Time to do a little theory crafting on PYFA. Thanks again.

Then Navy Raven definitely. But since you have laser skills, consider the Nightmare as well. There is nothing better against EM/Therm weak rats. Downside: you really need to micromanage your cap on this ship.

Yeah, that's what PYFA is showing me , any suggestions?

[Raven Navy Issue, Dual ASB]

Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
[Utility Low Slot]

Heavy Capacitor Booster II, Cap Booster 800
Thermic Dissipation Field II
Thermic Dissipation Field II
Kinetic Deflection Field II
Kinetic Deflection Field II
Large Shield Booster II

'Arbalest' Cruise Launcher I, Caldari Navy Scourge Cruise Missile
'Arbalest' Cruise Launcher I, Caldari Navy Scourge Cruise Missile
'Arbalest' Cruise Launcher I, Caldari Navy Scourge Cruise Missile
'Arbalest' Cruise Launcher I, Caldari Navy Scourge Cruise Missile
'Arbalest' Cruise Launcher I, Caldari Navy Scourge Cruise Missile
'Arbalest' Cruise Launcher I, Caldari Navy Scourge Cruise Missile
'Arbalest' Cruise Launcher I, Caldari Navy Scourge Cruise Missile
Small Tractor Beam I

Large Warhead Rigor Catalyst I
Large Warhead Rigor Catalyst I
Large Warhead Rigor Catalyst I

Hobgoblin II x5
Hammerhead II x5

Denuo, quick question: I haven't used cap boosters before but why not use 800's over 400's? Evelopedia has the cargo volume as the same. Thanks again

Hello everyone,
I've been wanting to swap to Caldari for a while but am having a little trouble on trying to decide on a hull type/ship to run my LVL 4 High Sec missions in. I was thinking using a Nighthawk, but all of the builds I've put together don't seem really effective (enough pew, not enough tank). BS hulls I'm trying to decide between the Raven, Golem, Scorpion Navy Issue and Rattlesnake (m Gallente BS skill is high to make a effective use of the ship). I'm just wondering what the General consensus is. Thanks in advance.

The new Ancillary Shield Boosters don't take advantage of bigger cap booster charges. In fact it's vice versa.

Ancillary shield boosters cosume 1 cap booster charge per cycle - no matter what size the cap booster charge has. A x-large ASB has a capacity of 160m3. One 400 cap charge is 16m3 (= 10 charges per shield booster). A 800 cap chare is 32m3 (= 5 charges per shield booster). So you can run the ASB 10 cycles with 400 charges and only 5 cycles with 800s.

Please keep in mind: once an ASB runs out of charges the reload time is 60sec! The shield booster isn't usable in this time. That's why two ASBs. Run one while the other reloads. If things go wrong you can use an ASB without boosters as well (don't hit reload then, switch off auto-reload for that module). But they need much more cap compared to ordinary shield boosters then. So this isn't viable for prolonged use.

As mentioned one ABS runs only 40sec...while the other reloads 60sec. That's why aggro and shield booster management is important here. Don't run the shield boosters non stop. Pulse them only. This way one cap booster lasts more than 40sec...enough time to reload the other. And don't forget to put enough charges in your cargo ^^ Pick only those missiles you really need in your mission. Rest for cap boosters. They are cheap, consider them as ammo.

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BTW: ofc there's a standard shield booster fitting for the CNR. But to make it really work you need deadspace boosters here. Which makes the ship more expensive. I try to aim for a ~800 DPS tank in missions - rat specific. Maybe this can be done with t2 standard shield boosters, I never tried it tbh. With deadspace shield boosters this is possible. But with cheap ASBs as well. Bonus: you're not vulnerable to neuting - in case you do Blood missions.

Don't listen to this information on ASBs as it's not true.

If you're using 400's then either the booster will compesate for the rest with capacitor or it will use 2 chargers (not sure as I've never used one)

The individual ASBs require a certain amount of cap per cycle reguardless of whether you use a smaller charge or not, so it's going to need to get that cap from somewhere.

Now, in reference to the question that was actually asked. 800 booster will give you more cap than 400's.
I think based on skills and all a single 800 will give you more than 2 400.(not sure though)

You really oughtn't answer questions you don't know the answer to.

ASBs work exactly as described. As long as you have charges, they do not use cap and they do not consume more 400s than 800s. As such, you always want to use the smaller boosters as more fit per load.

You've also mucked up the question about cap boosters. A single 800 gives exactly the same amount of cap as two 400s. The difference is that the single 800 is injected all at once whereas the 400s are injected over two cycles. Obviously the downside to 800s is that you have to reload more often (and eat up more cargo space to hold the same number of charges).

So wait... will 400's give just as much shield boost as 800's, if so then there's something really broken

That's correct: in an XL ASB 400s give just as much boost as 800s with no drawbacks -- plus more of them fit in the module so you can boost longer.

Intended.

Edit: Not to say they could not add variable boosts in the future, but currently the amount of shield boost is based on the module not the charge.

[Raven Navy Issue, Dual ASB]
Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System
Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System
Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System
Co-Processor II
Co-Processor II

X-Large Ancillary Shield Booster, Cap Booster 400
X-Large Ancillary Shield Booster, Cap Booster 400
Shield Boost Amplifier II
Kinetic Deflection Field II
Thermic Dissipation Field II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II

Cruise Missile Launcher II, Mjolnir Fury Cruise Missile
Cruise Missile Launcher II, Mjolnir Fury Cruise Missile
Cruise Missile Launcher II, Mjolnir Fury Cruise Missile
Cruise Missile Launcher II, Mjolnir Fury Cruise Missile
Cruise Missile Launcher II, Mjolnir Fury Cruise Missile
Cruise Missile Launcher II, Mjolnir Fury Cruise Missile
Cruise Missile Launcher II, Mjolnir Fury Cruise Missile
Small Tractor Beam II

Large Warhead Rigor Catalyst II
Large Warhead Rigor Catalyst II
Large Warhead Flare Catalyst I

DUDE, you want to tank an army?

Anyway, good luck with hitting stuff with furys :D

Large Warhead Rigor Catalyst II
Large Warhead Rigor Catalyst II
Large Warhead Flare Catalyst I