Gamesguy
Amarr
Black Nova Corp
Band of Brothers
   |
Posted - 2008.05.05 12:02:00 -
[1]
Edited by: Gamesguy on 05/05/2008 12:02:01
 Originally by: Draahkness
Missiles con and pros:
* Double nerfed vs small speedy targets. Speed and sig radius both reduce damage. Compare being double webbed in an interceptor and then shot by a blaster and a torp.
Not true. Missiles are superior vs small targets that don't have their mwd active. Double web an inty at 1km and try shooting it with a blasterthron, you won't hit it, its your drones that kill it.
Where as a torp raven, 10% of 1k dps is still 100 dps, far more than any frig can tank.
The main problem with missiles against fast targets(note that "small and speedy" is mutually exclusive, you're either small OR you're "speedy") is missile velocity, gun boats can reduce transversal, missiles cannot partially negate explosion velocity. The best example of this is perhaps a crow vs a crusader. Gun inties excel at killing other inties due to this reason alone.
Quote:
All in all my conclusion is that missiles are great wepons on small speedy ships, most notably Crow, Malediciton, nano-Cerb and nano-Sac. As your ship type, and missiles, gets larger they become progressivly less useful in pvp. At least the type of pvp currently popular in .0 with either small fast ships or large fleets at range. On gates in low sec, where fights between few numbers of bs at point blank is still common, torp raven and torp phoon can be very good damage dealers.
The phoenix is a bit of a discussion in itself. For one it has a set damage from any range from 1km to 130km. On the other hand it is completely useless against the pos modules who usually has too low sig radius. It also has difficulties defending itself if enemy battleships warps in.
Missile boats also excel in a support role in fleet. Assault missile cerbs murder most small ships and while everyone laughs at a drake in fleet, properly setup it is better than almost all hacs against hostile support.
And its not as if Caldari is short on conventional fleet ships, see rokh, eagle, vulture, falcon, etc.
|