Lucas Kell
JSR1 AND GOLDEN GUARDIAN PRODUCTIONS
SpaceMonkey's Alliance
415
   |
Posted - 2013.08.01 09:00:00 -
[1] - Quote
Psycros wrote:Does CCP favor Caldari and dislike Gallente? It just seems like Caldari is so much better in PVE than the other races and Gallente is so much worse at....pretty much everything. They keep gimping hybrids and drones which only makes Gallente that much weaker. I've been to Jita twice since coming back to EVE and I've seen very few Gallente ships..in fact I haven't seen a single Dom or Myrm, and that's NEVER happened before. It tells me that people could be starting to give up on Gallente.
What?
Since when are Caldari best for PvE? I mean Tengus are alright, but as a faction they don;t exactly have the full compliment of ships. Missiles truly suck nowadays. Drakes used to be the thing for PvE, OK damage, good defense. Now they are as big as a battleship, slow as an Exhumer and by the time your first volley of missiles hit, a hurricane could have ripped the enemy to pieces.
Here's an example of the difference at the low end. I started 2 new characters, 1 Caldari, and 1 Minmatar. I was working up their standing so I did the SOE epic. Each char had about a week of combat training in their race. I did the caldari chars epic first. Now I've done the epic many times, so I took a destroyer which usually does the trick. By on of the last missions, I couldn't break the enemy tank with missiles. I had to send the other character over ins a slasher (A SLASHER!) to help out and she dusted the enemy off in no time.
Caldari are not only a pain to use in PvE, but because missile skills only affect missiles, all of the Caldari training is wasted time if you later choose to switch factions. Whereas all the others share gunnery skills, so you only lose time on the weapon specific skills.
Gellente are not too bad in PvE, but you need to fit right and use the right tactics. Gallente tend to excel more in PvP. A Dual Dominix setup however is a highly effective PvE setup, and there are others that can be good.
Oh, and Jita is Caldari central, so you are more likely to see Caldari ships there. Try Dodixie.
The Indecisive Noob - A new EVE Fan Blog for news and stuff. |