Firestorm Delta
Aphotic Machina
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Posted - 2015.12.19 07:19:18 -
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Chainsaw Plankton wrote:barghest has has the damage advantage for a while, it just got ever so slightly better
Old barghest 7 launchers * 1.25 damage bonus = 8.75 Effective launchers
Now barghest 6 launchers *1.5 damage bonus = 9 effective launchers
golem 4 launchers * 2 = 8 effective launchers.
also with the mordus bonus you don't have to volley count ever (unless you go crazy range sniping with sensor boosters and stuff)
On efficiency: sure the golem uses less ammo, but if more dps clears missions faster then income rises. ammo is cheap and surprisingly small increases in income easily out weigh more ammo use. A little more input for a bunch more output, now that's the kind of efficiency I like.
Arty vargur: I'd keep the guns ungrouped all the time. so much overkill. I'd also consider a t2 rate of fire rig, because damn arty is slow.
One extra effective launcher with no application bonuses will leave the Barghest performing worse than the Golem against small targets, especially with Explosion velocity bonus from the Golem making up for the worst stat on Cruise missiles.
Rapid heavies would be better on the Barghest of course, but Cruise would still probably work better on the Golem, unless you need mobility in which case Barghest all the way. Of course to me that is still a cardinal sin as I believe the Golem should only ever have Torps which are considerably better on the Golem than anything else and with the addition of the MGC they just got even better. Faction torps and Rage torps can get some more application or range and Jav torps can reach out to about 90km with the range script, and that was before they just buffed them.
I will second that ammo is actually fairly cheap all things considered, the difference in cost would be negligible even over hundreds of missions. The Navy Raven (Still call it the CNR) used to have the 8.75 effective launchers before they traded rate of fire for application and yet it still was the preferred Cruise platform before the Bastion module became a thing.
Of course what you should fly for missions is entirely up to what you enjoy. I started flying the Golem forever ago because I liked the old Torp explosions and wanted to use them in missions but my Raven wasn't cut out for that. At the time the Golem was pretty much the only ship that could actually use torps in a mission and perform quite well. I've stuck with it since and continued to improve and enhance my fitting and skills for it.
While I can fly many other good missions ships I just enjoy the Golem too much to really use them. |