Lord WarATron
Amarr
Black Nova Corp
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.04.30 08:29:00 -
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Edited by: Lord WarATron on 30/04/2007 08:28:36
As someone who flys a lot of amarr ships, day in and day out I see their problems. The biggist problem without a doubt is capacitor. The next problem is powergrid - or lack of it. And if you use non-beam Lasers, then CPU is the main problem. Given the ease with which anyone can fit a Rokh, its certainly a issue that needs to be looked at.
Ships such as the abaddon suffer from serious cap problems, even with max cap skills. I have a hauler full of cap charges - Yes - to resupply me when I dock up, or I pester a interceptor to pick me up cap booster charges from - you guessed it - enemy amarr ships!
Cap on a abaddon is not a issue for simple ganks, or engagements taking less than a few mins.
Zealots, I find, are only really good in the 100km sniper role, since you can have a 2 second ROF and machine gun down anything that does is not a Minmatar Hac, or has EANM + DC combo. I am pretty sure that there are Zealot pilots that can massacre Vagabonds or Munins, but the general rule is that you are not doing yourself any favors attacking these ships with a hope of doing massive damage. When you see an Eagle do a simaler sniper job like a zealot, it makes you think.
The next issue is ammo - Crystals burn up - no big deal, however the extremly short range on even long range crystals means that you need several tracking enhancers (because you lack the mids for tracking comps) which further gimps low slot damage mods or tank mods. Check the optimal range of useing gleem on t2 Tach's with even 3 tracking enhancer II's and you wonder if there is much use for this.
There is also the issue of crystals being the most expensive ammo, and its unpredictability with it burning up means you need to carry 8 long range, 8 short range and a backup set of each, meaning 32 crystals at what? Mil each? 32mil of ammo for a BS. You can skimp on spares and do it for 16mil of ammo, but thats something we have to live with, or use t1 ammo insted.
Thankfully the curse and pilgrim and good fun ships you can use for roaming about or solo pvp. Especialy my patented Shield Tanked launcher Curse.
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