Amastat
Caldari
Omegatech
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Posted - 2008.04.17 05:22:00 -
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Hi Ler Rhan, and welcome back to the game.
If you want PvP, every race has their strengths - but I think Gallente would be best for you. They have many blaster-boats which are very powerful and deal great DPS.
I don't know what fighting style you prefer - but usually players would solo PvP in a very high dps ship if possible, either that or a really hard to kill ship. If your ship is not-that-good at tanking and damage, you will have issues solo'ing without support - so you go with strengths.
A common solo PvP ship for the Gallente would probably be the Deimos, Ishtar, Dominix, or the Megathron. The Megathron and Deimos are usually very high powered blaster boats - so it's sort of a kill or be killed rule with them. As for the Ishtar and Dominix, they can often times be tanked out and rip everything to pieces with their drones.
If you remember a Nos-Domi - that is a good example of a PvP Dominix. They don't work as they did a long time ago, but they have not changed that much - and are still very capable of solo'ing or working in a group.
If you want PVE I would recommend using Gallente drone boats, since you can choose damage types and you have damage bonuses on them.
The Amarr you will not be able to get incredibly high amounts of dps out of until you have a lot of SP which will make that possible. They do not have as as many ships capable of matching the damage of the more deadly Gallentean ships (Megathron, Astarte) - however I wouldn't call all of them terrible.
A Pilgrim or a Curse set up properly can be a large threat to a enemy so long you are in a group. Your target can't do much without capacitor :)
The Amarrians have two HAC's that are not that bad either, good balanced of speed and firepower. They also have some very good battleships - and more recently the Apocalypse was tweaked to act as a efficient sniper boat now. The Abaddon is also probably the hardest t1 ship to kill in the entire game - if your more of a tanked now, kill later player, you will like the Abaddon.
The only serious issue I have with the Amarrians is that their lasers only do EM and Thermal damage - so you may have serious issues fighting a tanked Gallentean or another Amarrian player. Also in terms of PVE, you would find it will take forever and a day to finish missions with rats tanked out against EM and Thermal - most rat's tend to not be weakest in EM. Angel Cartel for example you may find would take forever and a day to kill compared to any other npc. |