Tempest is actually pretty good for low sec pve(ratting, annos, plexing), since a pvp fitted nano pest is far harder to catch and gank than a brick tanked maelstrom.

If this doesn't matter to you or you are in highsec, maelstrom is better.



Wrong on both therms.

Edit, to flesh this out a bit:

If you play a Tempest like a mach it isn't that bad(a bit slower, less gank, less range and less tank). However 1100+ dps @ 3.6+34km(what translates in around 700-600 dps at 15-28km) is still not bad for a pvp ship with plain T2 fitting that can shoot crosses or squares in low sec with the same fitting.

As for armor, the performance of this fittings is bad in solo ac setups since it got very poor dps, tank and range(and the combination of all this 3 things get you utterly murdered against gangs). Any gallente hull or the phoon will beat it at this.

You can fly it with artillery for armor fleets, but it is not something special and it takes a faction BS to archive at least some useful compromise between bad tank and bad alpha(this is what the Tempest does as armor artillery platform).

Yeah you can play a tempest like a gimped mach, but why would you want to? Maelstrom outperforms it in every way in pve.

If you shield fit your tempest in pvp you're basically giving the opposition a free battleship kill. Armour tempests still put out good DPS along with it's 2 utility highs and more options for mids. You can even see CCP intended it to be armour tanked since both the regular Tempest and the TFI have more base armour hitpoints than shield.

Yeah you can play a tempest like a gimped mach, but why would you want to? Maelstrom outperforms it in every way in pve.

If you shield fit your tempest in pvp you're basically giving the opposition a free battleship kill. Armour tempests still put out good DPS along with it's 2 utility highs and more options for mids. You can even see CCP intended it to be armour tanked since both the regular Tempest and the TFI have more base armour hitpoints than shield.

Because a gimped mach is still miles better than flying a armor tanked hurricane with another 12km neut range(the pest is not much more if you armor tank it). The pest even outganks the maelstrom for most annos/plexes, because it can adjust ranges quick and having a mobile pvp ship instead of a tanked brick is a very sensible idea for people that don't relay on pure blue locals or high sec and don't want to pos/cloak up once somebody comes out to play.

As for free BS kills, I still think it funny that even so many years after the projectile buff nobody takes a nano tempest serious. Feel free to look at some of my KMs I used the nano pest a lot.

A armor pest does bad dps, got poor range and poor tank/ehp. Literally every other BS can do better for brawling and it even got pushed further down the pile with the odyssey changes to the other BS. Blaster ships gank and tank harder now(hype tanks twice at much while outganking the armor pest at any range), domis got a useful bonus they actually can use in pvp, phoon was the better option and is the far better option now, raven got a massive speed and CM buff and the new apoc is nearly as fast as the pest before the changes(navy apoc even feels a bit faster than the old pest) while sporting ungodly effective tracking values and twice the range, not as falloff but optimal(like 91km optimal a very fast BS).

CCP did swap around armor and shield with the projectile buff that made the shield pest good, on requests of so many people that don't know how to fly the hull.

So you're talking about some hypothetical situation that you should never find yourself in.

Ok

tempest dont go very well ALLtogether. They are however extremely good armour brawlers along with the fleet issue version.

If you play a Tempest like a mach it isn't that bad(a bit slower, less gank, less range and less tank). However 1100+ dps @ 3.6+34km(what translates in around 700-600 dps at 15-28km) is still not bad for a pvp ship with plain T2 fitting that can shoot crosses or squares in low sec with the same fitting.