Cythrawl
Caldari
Central Defiance
Terror In The System
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Posted - 2007.06.08 18:23:00 -
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I think the major problem here is looking at the affectiveness of a Vulture VS all the other Logistic versions of the command ships.
Vulture Vs. Damnation
Both suck in all honesty. Granted, a damnation can be fitted with 3 nos and 4 pulse and go in close range and wreak some havoc. Hard tanking they do well, but not much better.
Vulture Vs. Claymore
Claymores are hard ships. Hard. Their natural Minny t2 ship resists make their shield tanking one of the best in the game when applied to fighting an omnitank situation, plus the 37.5 bonus to rep amount. Cap intensive tank, but the guns and missiles don't use cap. Do a 5 auto/3 nos setup and you can make one of these things hurt. Plus that extra bit of drone bay does add in.
Vulture Vs. Eos
Eos is by far the best of all the command ships. All of them. Including the Heavy Assault variety. It can put out a dps amount unequal amongst all its peers while STILL fitting a horribly hard tank that only suffers one less low slot. The massive drone bay lends itself to a wide variety of tactical drone deployment along with combat varieties. Eos can change tactics on the fly, going from a DPS beast to a cap-killer or ECM ship. You can even make a medium range sniper boat out of it with the room to fit sentry drones to add even more damage to the already impressive amount.
Vulture is the red-headed stepchild of the sniper ships. It suffers the fault of being a 1x gun bonus over an Eagle which you get even before the Vulture if you'd went down the HAC route first. That doesn't make it better. It in fact only gives it a slight edge which is removed if a HAC pilot specs to 5. 25% dps bonus to hybrids makes the Eagle just as deadly, excepting to the fact you have a greater chance of damage with the Vulture due to more guns to fire. The true difference is the Vulture is a thicker ship with the ability to run gang mods. Otherwise it's just a suped up Ferox, only 50% more optimal when taking it to the damage/range board.
Making a Vulture into a blaster boat is asking for trouble. While it can be done, it suffers trying to fit a decent tank to make up for being right in the thick of things. You can't solo with this ship. Like all Caldari, it just not made for it.
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 Originally by: Black Torment
OH GOD, DROWNING IN TINFOIL
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