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Kalorian
Lyrix Industries
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Posted - 2009.02.03 05:31:00 -
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Hello all,
I've played eve off and on over the last 4+ years and I've spent most of my time running business ventures and what not. Finally, I've decided to go out and experiment with a little "yarr".
I flew out with my newly fitted passive-shield tank myrm (great shields but the cap is horrible.. not sure if I like this setup in the long run). Found a target ratting in a belt and easily dispatched of him. After which I came across another pilot in system and thought I was hunting him when indead he was hunting me.
Finally the guy caught up with me and the explosions begin. He is flying a vengeance keeping orbit on me at 19km which is out of my range of my close ranged blasters. My drones are the only thing that can do damage/touch him. He slowly starts to widdle away my drones. I realize that the battle could be a stalemate (as we had already been locked/scram on each other for the past 20 minutes) so I decided to align to a safe spot and launch the rest of my drones as his armor was going down and he was dumping a lot of cap into repping.
Finally his disruption dropped and I scooped the drones and warped.
/end long story
Now as I mentioned I am fairly new to pvp but is this a normal disadvantage of the myrm? Do all gallente ships have a close range attack preference based on their weapons?
I've got a new character that flys around in a rifter as a pirate and I seem to get a lot more success with that little ship than I am with the bigger myrm on my main. Thoughts? (besides calling me a newb :-P)
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Kalorian
Lyrix Industries
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Posted - 2009.02.03 05:37:00 -
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hah, thanks for your input. There was a lot of debate on this setup but it was one of the top voted solo pvp setups on battle-clinic. I understand the myrm has an armor rep bonus but it seemed like this setup would keep the shields going. For almost 10k shields the ship would regenerate the 10k shields in roughly 300 seconds.
But even if the passive tank is bad as a "defensive" measure. That still does not answer the main issue of target vs distance and the role of this ship. Ideal weaponry etc.. |
Kalorian
Lyrix Industries
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Posted - 2009.02.03 07:09:00 -
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Thanks for the insights all.
Looks like I have some definent planning to do. I jumped into a Myrm as its one ship that has intrigued me since its release and had never flown it due to my operations keeping me in hulks/rorqs/freighters etc..
Would the setup I have right now be an ideal rat setup?
Yes all lows are Shield Power Relays. Mid slots have large shield extenders and and invlunerability fields. High slots were all neutron blasters with a drone interfacing unit.
So it looks like I need to setup my myrmiddon to be heavier on the armor and use its bonus in armor and rep. Use the midslots for more tackling based gear and perhaps a shield enhancement or 2. Switch my weaponry to rails and switch out ammo based on distance of ship perhaps.
Thanks for the insights all and keep the suggestions coming :) learning a mile a minute.
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Kalorian
Lyrix Industries
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Posted - 2009.02.03 18:19:00 -
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Again thank you to everyone for posting further insight learning quite a bit.
@DollaGeneral - No. I am not that kind of person and if you got to know me and my previous business ventures you would know that is not in my nature. I am trying to move old assets out of a low sec area I operated out of to move it down to another region where I plan to join a corporation and get more involved in the game again. My actual character is no where near the same region as the equipment I want moved. So if you are interested in helping out please let me know :)
I think I will equip my myrm to focus on armor. I may keep the blaster setup but I want better range. So going to take a look into that more and compare rails + drones. Otherwise I may just stick with blasters and look for targets I can get up close and personal with.
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