Agent Luther Sloan
Affluence Academy
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Posted - 2014.06.06 12:01:00 -
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I'd just like to mosy in on this 157-page thread and say that a) I've been a Rattlesnake pilot since almost day one. (more like day 30, but you know what I mean) and b) I freakin' love the changes. This is no eft-warrioring, or theoretical speculation. I used the Rattlesnake all the time before the patch, and I've used it in 20-30 lvl 4's after the patch, and I love it it even more than I did before.
First of all, why are so many fit's I've seen active tanked? Who active tanks a Rattler?!? Stick three purgers on there (or three t2 extenders if you're like me and get your jollies from seeing ridiculously high shield hp numbers) and you can tank the universe! I've been blowing through missions so quickly it is crazy - I need to keep max targets locked at all times because every few seconds something explodes - whether it is two frigates/cruisers at a time with my sentries or a battleship with my new uber-cruise. Speaking of the the missiles, I only need to stock thermal and kinetic missiles now, and that's awesome! Therm is better against the EM/Therm-weak rats than EM, and Kin is better against Angels now thanks to the Rattle's awesome damage bonus.
And don't get me started an using a Gecko! If I need to slowboat to a gate, instead of dropping sentries and a mobile depot like I used to, killing everything then refitting for prop/cap, I just deploy my little gecko buddy while slowboating to the gate. Battleships, cruisers, even elite freakin' frigs fall to a Gecko in a couple hits! No, you don't need to web/tp anything, with the three unscripted omni's I was using for my sentries, Gecko's can track and hit pretty much anything short of maybe those pesky little spider drones. And guess what, Hobgoblins still work just fine for those! I haven't even noticed a difference in light drone performance now that the hull bonus doesn't apply to them - with four DDA's they are just fine!
Back to the Gecko - with the Rattler bonus, mine has over 3k shields, around 32 hp/sec recharge, and does well over 700 dps on its own. Last night a Gecko did 4,473 damage in one hit. Granted, it was against a structure with no resists, but still - nearly 4,500 damage FROM A SINGLE DRONE. That's amazing... Yeah the ship is slow - it has always been and always will be slow. If I want to zoom around the battlefield I use my Mach. But when I want to clear missions, I use my Rattlesnake,
You guys keep complaining all you want about the Rattler, I'm gonna fly mine until the servers go dark.
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