Vechloran
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Posted - 2008.06.21 08:05:00 -
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On the perspective of the Minmitar side. I'm a almost 2 year old character, at about 30 mil SP. I started caldari, missles and all that non-sense, trained into just about everything except T2cruisers and guns. Then I started PVPing, oh dear god it was horrible.
So about six months ago I started a minmitar alt and cross trained my main to minmitar. Both are in T2 cruisers with good gun skills and before FW I typically cruised around 0.0 with a rapier and a stabber/vaga.
Come FW, I start with some cheap ships and so I have my main and alt in stabbers since I'm used to them and they have lots of uses and could get into almost all plexes and missions. First four days are great, I lose both stabbers in larger engagements as is expected if you get primaried or just lagged on a gate (got one pod out, other one woke up in station after 5 minutes of lag). My corp finally is moved into FW at this point and so were having more organized gangs run outside of the blob fleets. I decide to pick up a blackbird out of the corp hanger for LOL's and another stabber for the alt.
The last 5 days have seen my blackbird cause more problems for the enemy then my stabber ever could wish. It's enabled my two ships to escape small gate camps by jamming their inty's, its completely shut down an armageddon while my stabber held it and the rest of the fleet soon arrived to annihilate it, and its a huge detirent to most solo-nano pirates roaming around the area. In short, I'm now seriously considering training caldari cruiser 5 to buy a falcon, or just start using a Scorpian if BS's get more usability in FW then they do now (only 1 size plex, and gate camping = not as versatile as the t1 cruisers).
Caldari pilots should just trade out their caracals for Blackbirds, dps isn't going to change a ton, missles are junk anyway. Plus when the enemy fleet wants to pick primary, they'll have to choose from 50 blackbirds, and really, they would be lucky to have any ships able to shoot for most of the fight. Plus alot of the solo-gankers roaming around would lose alot of their interest when they consider not being able to do any damage for quite a bit of time and have to worry about reinforcements coming.
So Caldari players, STOP USING CARACALS! Use your freaking Blackbirds and make nano-fits cry.
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