Are cruise better verse smaller targets? neat didnt know

Cruise Missiles got a rather large buff a while back, they deal more damage and always have been better against smaller targets, they're just even better now.

Does this apply at close ranges as well? Any tips for tanking out my raven? Is it normal that these cruisers are getting equal dps and more tank then a raven??

Ok, so I hope that this does not come off as a rant out of frustration, but I am asking for some genuine insight here. I have played eve for many years and I understand that BS were changed so that they are not the be all end all of ships. But I fail to see them having any real purpose outside POS bashing, and killing each other/capital ships. The last couple days I have been banging my head against a wall trying to fit my raven to be worth a damn against any ship smaller then a station. I have fit it with rigors, target painters and webs, used faction torps, etc. Yet, I am getting taken out easily by T1 cruisers and faction cruisers. I have max tanking and missile skills, and I know how to fit my ship, as I have played for quite some time. I just fail to see how a ship worth 5 times that of a cruiser, with so many downsides (slow lumbering hulls, terrible lock times) has such a limited and pathetic purpose. It is a battleship, should it not be capable of actual battle?

I am not sure if it is a problem with missiles, or if all battleship have this problem. Or maybe that it is just the raven. It could be the latter seeing as if I really try, the best tank I can get on a raven is 110k ehp. I know cruisers that can almost double that. What am I doing wrong? I get the whole explosion velocity/radius mechanic and have fit my ship accordingly with webs painters and rigs, as well as faction missiles. But I just seems every time I am outmatched. I lost the last time to a navy vexor who somehow supposedly managed to get 46k armor hit points, no not EHP, but armor hit points. I could not achieve that on my raven if I fit the entire ship for tank and fit no weapon systems. I am just getting really frusterated, I like flying battleships, but they feel so lack luster. Please help!

navy vexor who somehow supposedly managed to get 46k armor hit points, no not EHP, but armor hit points.

Figured this was just blowing smoke but it can be done. Dual 1600 plates, links, T1 trimarks and HG slaves gets around 45k armor so a hardwiring could probably get you there but that's a pretty extreme case and I wouldn't worry about running into that much. Going with T2 trimarks and going overboard on the hardwiring can actually get you in excess of 50k armor HP. I would also wonder if that was really a fit someone was using or just a theorycraft, being a drone boat it could work but its speed and agility are very bad and two plates already takes a fitting mod for grid with only two slots filled.

Are cruise better verse smaller targets? neat didnt know

Ok, so I hope that this does not come off as a rant out of frustration, but I am asking for some genuine insight here. I have played eve for many years and I understand that BS were changed so that they are not the be all end all of ships. But I fail to see them having any real purpose outside POS bashing, and killing each other/capital ships. The last couple days I have been banging my head against a wall trying to fit my raven to be worth a damn against any ship smaller then a station. I have fit it with rigors, target painters and webs, used faction torps, etc. Yet, I am getting taken out easily by T1 cruisers and faction cruisers. I have max tanking and missile skills, and I know how to fit my ship, as I have played for quite some time. I just fail to see how a ship worth 5 times that of a cruiser, with so many downsides (slow lumbering hulls, terrible lock times) has such a limited and pathetic purpose. It is a battleship, should it not be capable of actual battle?

I am not sure if it is a problem with missiles, or if all battleship have this problem. Or maybe that it is just the raven. It could be the latter seeing as if I really try, the best tank I can get on a raven is 110k ehp. I know cruisers that can almost double that. What am I doing wrong? I get the whole explosion velocity/radius mechanic and have fit my ship accordingly with webs painters and rigs, as well as faction missiles. But I just seems every time I am outmatched. I lost the last time to a navy vexor who somehow supposedly managed to get 46k armor hit points, no not EHP, but armor hit points. I could not achieve that on my raven if I fit the entire ship for tank and fit no weapon systems. I am just getting really frusterated, I like flying battleships, but they feel so lack luster. Please help!

We live in an age where people will blob the living crap out of anything larger than a cruiser.

Do note that if BSes did everything well that Maeltstome listed as a weakness, they'd be overpowered, or at least you'd hear screams to that effect.

In my view, they're *really* good at making MONEY. If you run missions (Lvl 4s), a BS will at some point be your main breadwinner, and will always remain particularly useful for that. Other ships (in the hands of a skilled pilot) might do better in terms of ISK/hour, but rarely - if ever - in a way as low-effort as you'd be able to manage in a BS, particularly with lower skills.

Yes, it's rather odd that they'd be less useful for PVP (though they can still pull that off in the right role) - for a variety of reasons that at least in the world of EVE *do* make sense - but you won't hear a whole lotta complaints when they're pulling in the iskies on the regular.