El Yatta
Mercenary Forces
Exquisite Malevolence
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Posted - 2007.03.15 16:36:00 -
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 Originally by: Fi T'Zeh
Contrary to popular beleif there are several ways to avoid death by DDD.
1) A BS Can tank it, provided you know which one it is your enemy has.
2) See cyno, run cyno - you usually have about 15 seconds to leave between it being fired and you dying. Be aligned. If you aren't aligned in a fleet you deserve to die anyway. Infact, a frigate or cruiser should be able to escape even if they aren't aligned.
3) Don't jump a fleet of t1 ships into a bubble camp when it's known the enemy has a Titan.
I'm not going to have a go at you because of your alliance, but dont you see the MASSIVE flaw in your arguments?
3) Boils down to, not fighting.
2) Boils down to, stopping fighting. If someone is trying to blow up some caps to save their POS, or shoot at your fleet or station, they HAVE to stop doing this to warp out - and in the case of the caps, they cant pick up where they left off afterwards because the dreads will be back up to full HP and good cap.
What part of "not fighting" is fun? Dont get me wrong, having a terror weapon so awesome that your enemy is petrified of fighting you sounds COOL... but then you realise that fighting is cool, and actually PLAYING the game is fun, and now you cant do that. Any neither can your opponent. Essentially, two gangs = fun, 2 gangs + 1 titan in system = fun taken away for both sides, 2 gangs + 2 titans = log off.
As for no 1), it works great, if there is only ONE titan. But thats not the case now, and it wont ever be again.
I believe only one ship, the Rokh, can be useful in a full-ranged fleet fitting and still tank two titans, providing they are the same damage type (EXP). I beleive with t2 rigs, HP skills to 5, and sacrificing 1 of 3 MFS to fit DCU, 1600 and an EM armorhardener it can tank 2 EM ones (not 100% on this) and if they are fired in the "wrong" order, one EM and one EXP. You might need a leviathan of your own in gang to tank two of different damage types anyway. This is only one ship, any other fleet-useful non-capital WILL die to two DDs, and you and your allies have access to 3+, and your enemies to 2+.
Even in the rather ludicrous example of a maxed-out rigged rokh with a leviathan in gang, surviving two DDs, before the next major content patch plenty of people will be able to field 3, 4, 5 titans at once. Your "counter" 1) is useless.
So: if your enemy has 2+ titans, do not fight them. Where is the fun in that?
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