It's time to take the plunge into capital ships. The research I've done tells me the basics of each, but I'd like the insight and extra information from you guys.

Here are some of my questions. Some of the answers are easy to find with a search, but just in case the articles I've read are outdated I felt I should ask here.

Feel free to offer additional notes/advice outside the realm of my questions.

Here are some questions:

1. If you flew Caldari, would you rather fly a carrier or a dreadnought?
2. What is more useful for an alliance?
3. If you live in 0.0, which is more useful?
4. If you live in wormholes, which is more useful?
5. If you live in low sec, which is more useful?
6. What are the general roles of a carrier?
7. What are the general roles of a dreadnought?

Thanks guys.

1. Carrier, because you can always use it as a packaged ship hauler/mobile base.
2. No idea. Dread probably.
3. No idea. Probably the carrier.
4. Probably the carrier, because turret dreads are better at The Blap and a massively pimped Chimera isn't so bad.
5. Carrier, because caps are nothing but a mobile base anyway.
6. "Small Gang" Triage, POS Repping, Pantheon circlejerking, carrying your **** around.
7. Shooting something that's really big and doesn't move. POS, Sov structure, maybe PI structures.

-Liang

Thanks, Liang.

I've lurked these forums for years and always seen you post helpful responses. I'm glad you replied to my thread. Thanks.

I would have to say go with a Chimera. You will able to provide more help with a carrier than you could with a dread, plus the Phoenix is LAWLful. With a carrier, you can move your own junk, give reps, assist w/ fighters, and a myriad of other good things. With a dread, you blap stuff that is sitting stock-still. Alliances can always use another carrier or dread. But since you fly Caldari, go with the Chimera.

With my moros, I can hit cruisers orbiting around me at 200m/s from 20km with 2 target painters on em =). Well, hit my friends curse real good a pile of times anyway heh

Never train for the phoenix unless you got to steal one

It's time to take the plunge into capital ships. The research I've done tells me the basics of each, but I'd like the insight and extra information from you guys.

Here are some of my questions. Some of the answers are easy to find with a search, but just in case the articles I've read are outdated I felt I should ask here.

Feel free to offer additional notes/advice outside the realm of my questions.

Here are some questions:

1. If you flew Caldari, would you rather fly a carrier or a dreadnought?
2. What is more useful for an alliance?
3. If you live in 0.0, which is more useful?
4. If you live in wormholes, which is more useful?
5. If you live in low sec, which is more useful?
6. What are the general roles of a carrier?
7. What are the general roles of a dreadnought?

Thanks guys.

The Phoenix is the worst dreadnought because capital missiles are so stupidly awful that a Phoenix will do only 30% or so of its paper dps against an unwebbed Archon. Yes, a capital ship can speed-tank it. The Phoenix's paper damage output is almost on par with the Moros, and it has ridiculous alpha, so in theory it should be a decent dread aside from the whole shield-tank thing; but it will never get to apply that damage potential against anything short of a supercapital.

Seriously, the Phoenix is awful. The moros is hilariously better than the other dreadnoughts (Revelation is a distant second). The Naglfar is meh+takes a lot of training, while the Phoenix is just straight up bad for anything that isn't a stationary target with a sig radius the size of the moon. Train Chimera