Iron Wraith
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Posted - 2008.02.14 14:05:00 -
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its all about flavour. if every race had ships that competed evenly in the same way the game would never have run for so many years.
when i want a good weapon system to rip ships to pieces with little regard to my own ship i fly a galante blaster boat. my sacrifice is in my tank and my limited range.
when i want a solid armour tanking ship to soak up the pain i fly amarr. my sacrifice is in my damage potential, with a nice bonus to getting the reduced damage out to much longer ranges.
a few examples: my blasterthron both as a lvl4 wingman and a 0.0 gate camping ship or fleet skirmish. it has no tank, neither active or passive. the last one i lost was to a dread and a carrier with a BS pinning me down, no point in tanking for that. it has also gone into a lvl4 angle ganza first and popped a BS before warping out. all in all i'm very happy with that ship despite the freakin insane disadvantages it has over almost any other normally fitted ship. full of juicy flavour
my first lvl4 soloing ship, a dual rep, cap stable apoc with pulses. it was like flying a fortress and watching the hordes bash their brains out on my armour. also full of flavour
my testing into pvp bait ships: i got a 4 large rep apoc to last 1 min 30 seconds against a blasterthron and gank fitted apoc. no other ship i know of could get 4 large reps ticking over. oozing with flavour now.
my next bait ship that saw real combat: a dual rep proh that undocked together with a bait domi to take the brunt of a hostile gang while our team formed up. we lasted long enough for us to muster our defences and despite my and the domi pilots loss our team won the fight with few other losses. also a nicely flavoured ship.
all the ships i fly are different and distinctive. some fit the races guns and some dont. i dont care if a raven is the best lvl4 mission grinder, thats not my flavour. i like my turrets and my favs are blasters followed by pulses. i like being able to go for more damage with the blasters and more tank with the pulses.
so please jonny, stop campaigning to make the ships and weapon systems the same, it really is fun to have the differences.
and regarding the original post, i'd fit projectiles on that specialised ship. when you want to devote 100% of you ship to tanking then its time to look at smaller guns that fit into what cap you have spare. so i do use the "wrong" guns some of my ships because i'm fitting them in a specialised way that the ship was not balanced for. yes i know you think thats wrong, but unless your aiming for a balanced setup then i believe there is nothing wrong with swapping out one weapon system for another.
Because sometimes you just have to go back to your roots:
[2005.02.20 01:08:03] (combat) Your Civilian Light Electron Blaster perfectly strikes Serpentis Smuggler, wrecking for 20.3 damage. |