Originally by: Zirth

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Pboyt, you got some good points. But seriously, what Domis have you fought?

For one, Heavy Drones have a smaller sig resolution than the ishtar, resulting in full damage taken. From a Domi, upto 475dps. Tankable for a while, but not long.

Apart from the fact that you are hit for full damage, the tank is inferior to the Domi. The resists are not to be underestimated, but the fact is that the Dominix starts with alot more hitpoints to compensate for the slightly lower resists. And ontop of that the Dominix will be using Large instead of Medium modules, that alone makes it better. But then there's also the fact that the Domi has 2 more lowslots, resulting in the ability to beef up the resists even more while running a dual-rep tank.

The fact that the Ishtar takes full damage, has less hitpoints and 2 less lowslots means I have a hard time believing you had 1on1 fights with actual PvP-fit Dominix.

Cause a Domi with 5 med slots is very popular with the Heavy Injector. This module allows it to beat the ishtar capacitor wise as well. The larger cargobay also allows the Dominix to beat the Ishtar in terms of out-lasting.

And then there's the final bit, Nosferatu. You'll either be fighting a Blasterdomi with webs, which is going to hurt, as alongside 475 drone dps, you get 6 Large blasters with bonuses to damage. The blasters might not hit for full damage, but it's enough to kill an ishtar quite rapidly, and if not, it'll simply have to wait 5-6minutes for the capacitor boosters to run out.

Or, a Nosdomi. In this case, you can never win as you will be living off of your capacitor boosters. The argument 'run your booster and get a rep cycle off' is fine, but repping doesn't mean much when you are not hardening. Keeping your hardeners on while micromanaging your booster is though, let alone your scrambler will be inactive 80% of the time, at least, resulting in a quick get-a-way if required as long as the Domi alligns. But that's another story, as it is a fact that a module with a 12second duration and a 10 second reload time will more than halve the effectiveness of a tank that runs on a 10second duration repairer.

Ishtar is great, but 1on1 a Domi wins. Somehow though, an ishtar costs 3 times as much.

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