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Sivlan
Amarr
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Posted - 2006.08.28 17:17:00 -
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So I'm flying around as Amarr and, obviously, using lasers. All of my ships have some bonus to laser usage, so it seems like the logical choice. However, reading the boards it appears that lasers are very easy to defend against in PvP. Now I noticed that my character also had Small Projectile Turrets trained to Level 4 (yes, I'm still not that familiar with this inhereted character) so I was thinking about getting a few guns to augment the lasers so I can do some explosive damage along with the EM/thermal damage that my lasers are doing.
Is mixing weapons this way a viable tactic "later" in the game (I'm high sec ratting and missing running right now), or is it more effective to concentrate on the weapons your ship has a bonus in?
My thoughts are that my lasers give me pretty good EM damage for the shields, and I can add the exp from the projectiles once the enemy shiels are low. But only having NPCs to safely try these tactics on, I'm not really sure how effective this will end up being.
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jbob2000
Gallente
The Taining corp
Knights Of the Southerncross
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Posted - 2006.08.28 17:41:00 -
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Its really not that effective because most ships recieve a damage bonus to thier guns to make them effective. If those guns don't have that bonus, they often suck.
Now, laser ships generally dont get a damage bonus to thier guns, only a cap reduction bonus, so it can be effective in some cases to fit different guns on amarr ships. However, for the most part it isnt very effective.
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Reincarnator
Amarr
Brute Force Missions inc
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Posted - 2006.08.28 18:38:00 -
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Sivlan
Amarr
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Posted - 2006.08.28 19:02:00 -
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So would it be worth it to train up another weapon type to use instead of lasers? I have small projectile weapons at IV already, so I guess I can switch to those...
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Vasiliyan
PAX Interstellar Services
Veritas Immortalis
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Posted - 2006.08.29 00:41:00 -
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Projectiles have been used on Amarr ships to good effect before, particularly on the Punisher. It's still not a good idea to mix weapons with signifigantly different optimal/tracking properties though.
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Brastagi
Caldari
g guild
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Posted - 2006.08.29 06:39:00 -
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As I read from other thread. Best way is to see if that Amarr ship has bonus on cap reduction using energy turret. You can fit projectiles on it.
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Caleb Paine
Infinite Technologies
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Posted - 2006.08.29 07:57:00 -
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Projectiles work really well on some Amarr ships, if it only gets a bonus to laser cap reduction then you can use different weapontypes quite easily. Most notably the Punisher, Maller, Prophecy and Apocalypse.
Remember though that you have to make a choice what to train up, if you train projectiles you can only really use these mentioned shiptypes, if you stick to lasers you can use all Amarr ships including the T2's.
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