SmilingVagrant
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
2033
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Posted - 2013.08.20 22:40:00 -
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The reason for the Vagabonds popularity is simple: It's a good ship. Shield tanked, fast, decent range and enough powergrid and CPU to put a non gimpy fit on it. It works readily as a solo boat, makes a great heavy tackle/dps platform for a gang. Long story short: The vagabond has a "point". It has a role. Many of the others do not.
The weakness of several other platforms has as much to do with their weapons selection as anything else.
Lets talk Spaceships and Roles:
Vagabond: Role, skirmisher, heavy tackle. The vagabonds fitting options, general speed and DPS make it great for this role. It's a success! Medium Autocannons are in a great place in the meta as it now stands, which further boosts the capabilities of this ship, making it not only a great gang boat, but a great solo boat as well.
Munnin: Role, DPS, usually long range. Medium artillery is in a great place in this game. The strength of the munnin as a platform leans almost entirely on it's weapon system. If medium arty was to be nerfed hard in the near future? The munnin would become a trash ship no one uses.
Eagle: Suffers from the fact that medium rails are pretty garbage right now. Boost the rails and this ship will be right up there with the munnin as a long range DPS platform. In fact it would likely be a little bit better due to stiffer tank and better overall tracking on rails.
Cerberus: Suffers from powergrid issues. HML's are not really an option anymore, and a full rack of HAM's + a decent shield tank pretty much fucks up your fitting options. If I was going to do anything to this ship I'd drop the utility high, subtract a mid and add a low + add some PG. It may be worth mentioning that even with a full rack of HAM's + 3 BCS you are just going to be eaking out the same damage that a Vagabond does, are considerably slower and well.... This ship needs help. It could be a lovely ship however. There is potential there for it to be a great medium to large gang hac.
Ishtar: Was honestly in a decent place already. It's a baby dominix. It's a great PVE boat as well. The small buffs it is getting are more than enough to keep it competitive.
Deimos: Slow as hell with blasters. A rail setup could be interesting if medium rails weren't garbage.
Sacrilege: Drop a mid for a low and I'll fall in love with this ship. Tia.
Zealot: The best medium gang ahac in the game. I'm not even going to justify anything by typing it up. |