Ships & Modules

Which destroyer, and which cruiser?

If you're using one of the mining cruisers or some of the drone cruisers, there is no damage bonus for the guns. Potentially you're also using a different ammo type which stresses, say, range over damage. Perhaps you have more points in the small gun skill than the medium gun skill (5% to damage per level). Perhaps your destroyer is using close-range guns, which have higher damage multipliers than long-range ones.

This leaves aside the question of whether you're using damage mods of some kind, and drone DPS (destroyers mostly can't fit drones, the drones on most cruisers can add 100-200dps easy) and so on.

So, yeah, basically what you're missing is, well, every single mechanic in Eve.

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Gallente-specific advice:

If you want to shoot things, make sure you're in a thorax using blasters initially, and train up your propulsion skills as well as your gun skills and armor tank so that you can drive up close enough to actually shoot things in the face with them.

If you just want to kill stuff and aren't that worried about how to do it, focus on the Vexor. Use railguns, go heavier on defense than on damage mods, and train drones to V _immediately_ so you can get 5 medium drones into space.

More generally, you don't _have_ to switch races, but generally speaking if you want to focus on guns Gallente is not going to be your strongest choice. Gallente has the shortest-range, highest damage guns in the game (blasters) and the longest-range, lowest-damage guns in the game (railguns) and there's sort of a big range gap in the middle that you have to fill in with either a lot of propulsion or drones. If you're a gun guy I'd go Amarr, as they have a much larger donut of damage application for both of their gun types and can sort of reliably hit without too much int he way of acrobatics. Minmatar is OK, but at some point you'll need to fill range gaps with missiles still.

One thing to remember about destroyers is they are glass cannons. They can put out a lot of damage but they can't take it. Also their sig radius is bigger than most frigates so they are hit for more damage by cruiser class weapons.

Against frigates yes, they do.

ugh, did you only put one turret on it?

It's a sad verse we live in.

The OP is obviously a new player asking for advice as he perseveres with the steep learning curve. Some of you are making yourselves out to be right pr1cks.

Is this supposed to be funny?

It's not. Mainly due to two things:

1.) A titan is by no means to a battleship what a cruiser is to a destroyer (i.e. cruisers and destroyers can in many instances be used for similar tasks in PvE).
2.) The established fact that thread starter is new to this game and are asking for help. He probably don't even know what an Abaddon is, and most certainly not what an Avatar is.