Shassandra
Gallente
Kinetic Vector
Ka-Tet
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Posted - 2007.10.04 08:53:00 -
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Alright, where to begin.
T2 heavy drones (I've trained for all of them) are a godsend for ratting. Can move about. I'd actually think heavies would be better than sentries for ratting due to the fact that enemies might move within or out of the sentry optimal range, even the sentry falloff.
Heavies are also better when doing roaming, as you never know how far the enemy ends up being away from you.
Sentries are however good when doing defensive gatecamps, as you can position the sentries around their optimal range, fit a tank and perhaps some guns and set those guns to about the same optimal range (or close if you want to take out those smaller ships).
In regards to t2 hybrids, yes, they're great. If you're going for a ship that uses primarily guns I'd suggest them ohh yeah. For a primary droneship I do wonder if it's worth training for the t2 guns as droneships tend to have great tank with drones for damage, instead of either tank or gank setup, but a full-gank droner can be a serious pain for just about anyone, so putting on guns might just be a very good idea.
As for stealth bombers and CovOps, as SB's require a whole new set of training (Cruise missiles) I'd not advise training for them until you have other ships you're happy to fly for the many months it'll take to fully train your missile skills to a point where your SB will be great. Covops is much the same due to the focus on scanning, which although isn't a requirement is a nice thing to be able to do while flying them.
Assault Frigs are fun to fly! There's really not much else to say about them, they're just fun to fly. Of course, once you've trained Racial Frigate level 5, you might as well do Evasive Maneuvering level 5 (helps all ships) and get Interceptors as well. I can't say much else than "Dogfight at 7km/s is fun!". Of course any AF will take out any Ceptor unless it's a truly no-skill AF pilot. Once you happen to get close enough for web/scram, ceptor is dead :D
Anyhow, I think this is enough of a rant, and I'm sure people will disprove my claim that AF>Ceptors.
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