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Simi Kusoni
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Posted - 2012.02.01 00:13:00 -
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I never quite understood the MWD+Cloak trick, it's been around for years, is nearly flawless, yet is generally used pretty rarely.
You would have thought it's use would become more and more common as time goes on, but it's still pretty rare to see people using it. Even people not wanting to gimp their fits isn't really a good reason not to use it when in LS you can just refit in destination system.
Meh, anyway just my observation on it. Other than finding it odd people don't use it more I don't particularly care either way, if you absolutely need to kill "everything" that passes through, move to NPC null. |
Simi Kusoni
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Posted - 2012.02.01 00:39:00 -
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King Rothgar wrote:Not all ships can perform the mwd+cloak trick, basically only cruiser hulls and below (maybe a nano-cane) can pull it off. Armor BC's and bigger are just to slow to align to do it. Even many haulers can't manage it. Regardless, I see absolutely nothing wrong with ships fit to run low sec gate camps being able to run low sec gate camps with reasonable success. It doesn't bother me now and it didn't bother me when I camped low sec gates for a living. It's really no different than fitting stabs.
This trick also has the disadvantage of forcing you to remain on field for 10s or more. That's a pretty long time when you're trying to escape hostiles. I've decloaked my share of people trying to use the mwd+cloak trick and subsequently nuked them. This setup does not make you invincible nor is it fool proof.
Actually I've seen a dominix pull this trick off repeatedly  |
Simi Kusoni
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Posted - 2012.02.03 02:03:00 -
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Cearain wrote:The cloaks are expensive and they do have certain drawbacks - as you say. Yes you can refit in a station but then do you carry the cloak in cargo or keep going back to whatever station in the system you want to fight in?
As far as the op, the mwd cloak trick is one of the best mechanics in the game.
Actually I was talking in terms of people doing PvE, you can fit a nice hac or faction cruiser and use the MWD trick to get around. Then scan out sites system by system, and refit as needed. Or, since it's PvE, sometimes you don't even need to refit.
It's just like a cheaper version of flying a T3  |
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