stoicfaux
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Posted - 2014.04.08 02:49:00 -
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stoicfaux wrote:Gypsio III wrote:stoicfaux wrote:This... is not looking good for the Rattlesnake.
I'm pretty confident it'll get the bonus to sentries too. The Domi will have the niche of flexibility, with the range and tracking bonuses and the ability to use bonused light drones, while the Rattler will go down the pure DPS route. I disagree about the sentries. Two bonused heavies and the missile velocity bonus swapped to a kin/therm damage means the Rattlesnake is going down the road of "short" range brawler. (Short as in greatly reduced damage projection.)
So... Summer Rattlesnake with 3 Drone Nav IIs gives Ogre IIs a ~2900m/s MWD speed. Three DDAIIs gives a raw DPS of 1,268. Currently, pre-summer Rattlesnake Gardes with 3 DDAs do 751 DPS. Which means that for every second a heavy is flying towards the target, it needs 1.45 seconds on target to break even, e.g. 10 seconds of traveling means 14.5 seconds of being on the target before the DPS advantage kicks over Gardes (which have been firing the full 24.5 seconds.)
A Core Port Admiral NPC has 24,250 EHP versus thermal. The heavies' DPS will take 19.1 seconds to kill the NPC battleship versus 32.3s for the current Gardes. That means the heavies need to spend less than 13.2 seconds traveling (<38km range.)
A Serpentis Chief Protector cruiser NPC has 6,086 EHP versus thermal. The heavie's DPS will kill it in 4.8s (ignoring gun resolution) whereas the sentries require 8.1 seconds. That leaves the heavies just 3.3 seconds of travel time (<10km.) So you'll probably be better off using missiles on cruisers.
Cruise Fury missiles against cruisers are a no go, even with T2 rigor/flare rigs and a TP, leaving just T1/Precision cruise missiles.
* Cruise with T1/Prec = 304DPS * 1.5 (for therm/kin bonus) = 456 DPS.
* RHML with Fury = 324 DPS * 1.5 = 486 DPS.
Thus, RHMLs will do more DPS against cruisers then the Cruise launchers.
tl;dr - Ergo, it's a secret plot by CCP Rise to get the Summer Rattlesnake to mount RHMLs in order to increase RHML sales and thus "prove" the correctness of RHMLs.
WASABI: Warp Acceleration System Ancillary Boost Injected(Gäó)
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