
E Vile
Fifth Exiled Legion SMASH Alliance
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Posted - 2007.12.11 15:49:00 -
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Originally by: Derek Sigres I'd have to say that the Nighthawk in the real world can probably put out more DPS than the drake because of the above mentioned factors. Of course the drake is an odd duck in that for its most common tank setup (the much maligned passive tank) it generally sacrifices almost all of it's extra damage mods. Course, if you use Core Defense Purger rigs, you can sacrifice two of the low slot shield regen mods for BCS's, but you DO lose a bit of tank in the end.
As far as why flight a nighthawk or a cerb, it's an issue of preference. The nighthawk has VERY strong resists and does the cerb and both can yield impressive DPS for using cruiser class weapons. A Cerb will be able to outrange and in all likelyhood out gun a Drake in actual play (though it certainly won't be able to kill a decent drake by itself). And when it comes to the question of out tanking a drake, the issue is not as simple as, which absorbs more damage. The Drake as a passive tanker can tank near it's max DPS indefinitely no matter what you do to it. Other ships can out tank it for a limited time and that time can easily be cut down with nos/neuts. To be honest though, a ship would have to have some very impressive tanking going on to out tank the drake in terms of it's ability to absorb DPS if the drake is set up for it's absolute maximum tank (sacrificing mobility, firepower, and every dirty trick in the Eve universe while it's at it), given that the drake can easily top 300 DPS tank when you factor in it's resists.
Passive nighthawk > Passive drake in all areas
I can fit a large booster on a cerb with a cap booster and a mwd. Has one helova boost goes about 1250m/s with sig under 200 with range of about 130k/m. Missles on cerb go about 7.5k Compair that to your raven and the raven is just not hitting the smaller ships like a cerb. It really depends on what you plan on wanting to kill more. For roaming gangs I like the cerb. It's quick compaired to the others. Best range, and versitility of what you can hit. For home defense and large fleets I like the nighthawk, or even a vulture for war links.
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