Strill
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Posted - 2008.11.01 22:45:00 -
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Edited by: Strill on 01/11/2008 22:45:56
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With an afterburner, there would be more total capacitor and less demand on cap and, while it would be far slower against mwd opponents that might want to maintain distance from you, they would be forced to use their mwd against your ab, thus draining their already penalized cap and increasing their sig radius while you are able to keep steadily rumbling toward them on the strength of your afterburner.
This is a losing situation even if you eventually catch them. They are doing damage to you but you are doing no damage to them. The damage advantage you get from blasters is slim already. If you cut down your damage even more with travel times then you end up doing less damage than a medium range setup, which means there was no point in using a blaster ship.
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So, against mwd battleships, wouldn't a bs fitted instead with an afterburner do well, or are there battleships that can easily run their mwd for the duration of a fight and therefore dictate range indefinitely? If I'm not mistaken, maybe that would be true of Minmatar battleships, since if they kept out of range of your blasters they wouldn't even need to use their cap to shield boost anyway, so their cap could be used solely to run their mwd in that situation.
Even a dominix or a typhoon can run a MWD for 80 seconds without a cap booster. 80 seconds is way more than enough time to make the fight unwinnable for you.
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It also occurs to me that a mwd would be necessary to get within optimal of smaller/faster ships like battlecruisers which would otherwise have no problem staying out of blaster range if you only had an afterburner. But then, even if you had a mwd, if those ships were also fitted with a mwd then you'd have the same problem regardless.
It's even worse with post-patch webifiers, afterburners, and warp scramblers.
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So what's the bottom line on mwd/ab on a blasterboat? Are mwd's the only choice for blaster setups, or is there something to be said for going with an ab instead?
If you somehow have some way of magically warping in on top of your target during every fight, then sure fit an afterburner and speed tank them. If not, fit a MWD. If you can't get in range, you're dead.
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