Tyler Lowe
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Posted - 2006.03.04 20:26:00 -
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Great setup, and one extremely close to one of my builds for the Ferox.
I had previously used this setup:
5x XR3200 heavy missle
1x Prototype Cloak
1x Medium Diminishing Power Destabilizer
3x tech II large shield extender
1x passive npc specific shield resistance amp
1x passive npc specific shield resistance amp
4x Type D shield power relay
While this setup was extremely efficient at NPCing in empire low sec, it could not break the tanks on NPC battleships once I started hunting in 0.0, so the anti pirate stuff (cloak, energy destab) had to go in favor of higher damage output.
My new build uses an active hardener, and fairs quite well up to single spawns of 1.75 million ISK bounty NPC's, but features an active shield tank.
5x XR3200 heavy launchers
2x 720mm prototype (I started in a Cyclone so I had more skill with projectile than hybrids, and cap use is zero)
1x Medium Shield boost II
1x Shield boost amplifier
1x NPC specific active hardener
1x NPC spefic active hardener
1x large shield extender II
2x Power Diagnostic System II
2x Ballistic Control Unit II
After reading the OP's setup, I may try some hybrid passive regen/ active boost tanks and see how that works out. Likely substituing the amp for an additional extender and seeing how the additional free regen matches up to the amplifier.
For the people wondering "why not rails?"
1. By using missiles, you free a tremendous amount of powergrid for use in your mids, and in order to set a passive tank engine up, you'll need it for the large shield extenders.
2. A purely passive tank has another advantage in that it is Nosferatu proof. Missles require zero cap activation to fire, which maintains this advantage nicely (and there are NPC's that use Nos).
3. Any range bonus on the rails that pushes their max falloff past your missle range is of very limited usefulness.
4. If you are relatively new, and want to stay within the Caldari ships, your next stop is probably a Raven, which you will want to mount with either cruise or torps. By using a Ferox setup which favors missles, you can see immediate gain to your offense, trianing up skills such as guided missle precision, and warheadupgrades, allow with all of the basic missile skills, which will directly benefit your offensive capabilities in the Raven, rather than getting sidetracked into turret skills.
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