Ships & Modules

Whelp! If we're just looking @ weapon systems and thier ammuntion alone. I'd say:

Blaster > Pulse Laser > Autocannon > Missile Launcher

Since you claim to know otherwise. I'm sure you know it's not as simple as your simple question. Even before the changes. The dynamic aspects of the game makes coming to firm conclusions difficult.

How a engagement would go down between ships using these weapon systems would include alot of other contributing factors.

Point i'm making is your question is silly.

You might as well start posting specific setups and scenarios; throwing in a serious number of assumptions and qualifiers empirically. It's simple to partake in player versus player. Having to discribe the multiple situation you could encounter and their outcomes is difficult.


With that all said. A Drake with a optimum setup is still, all around, the most optimum ship available to players currently.


See what I did there? = )

Hybrids have their place not much matches them for close range brawling and the ships with 10% falloff per level bonus with hybrids are quite potent (and generally underestimated) when coupled with a couple of tracking enhancers.

Is that why Hybrid Ferox pwns AC Ferox?

Yeah, hybrids still suck. Winmatar still wins.

According to EFT, the Blasterox does more damage between 5450m and 18500m, so if you can stay in that range, the blaster ship will win, but if you're at extreme close range, or outside of tackle range, the Autorox will win.

I personally use a Laserox because of the Rule of Cool.

Thanks a lot for the info!

Guess I'll do some missions for the starters, to get used to the game.

Strangely my Kronos has around ~730 DPS with rails. I was hoping for more :D
Well at least compared to my tach Nightmare ~900 DPS it still looks so-so ;/

Yes, it's without drones, just weapons on both ships.

I'm just comparing the ships and trying to find the best way.

Large Hybrids got better but balance is not finished so ship bonus etc are still somewhat "awkward", next balance is about cruiser (and their T2 options I guess) and battle cruiser (and their T2 options too) and this is for next winter so battleships is not for tomorrow.

If you really want to smash missions or anoms/lvl 4's just cross train to get Machariel and faction/DED fit it. I've never seen anything else running Sanctums that fast with no help of any kind (less than 15min)

If you want a rough overview, i'd say that the main difference is that Caldari got an upswing with the Rokh becomming a viable mid-long range BS (that slight DPS push was just the nudge it needed; a higher profileration of other LR ships made it even more appealing) and the Naga comparing better to his brethren than Eagles (and Cerbs) did in the past.

Gallente got what is likely the best Tier 3 BC (though the class is reasonably well balanced within itself) in the Talos, capable of both Rail and Blaster setups. Moros is once again king of Dreads, Dreads are better overall and Vindis more appealing as a result. On the downside various Blaster-rush on smaller ships got directly countered by these changes, and i'd say negative overall for the common Gallente shipline that now have to contend with more, and faster, snipers.

Wether it changed some order of racial balance i'm not sure, but it did make attempts at any such orders among larger fleets less appearant, which is a good thing for them.

Mach is a great mission ship, but dont discount the Kronos so fast.

If anything the Mach lacks good kinetic ammo type and a well fit Kronos can do more DPS than most standard Mach fits past the 40km mark.

Different ships for different targets.

T2 Rail ammo : +25% tracking, Optimal range reduced 75%

So if you don't fit a web on that one seems silly yet, then you have drones, then +25% tracking T2 ammo 'kaboum meh dps!!" on guns that now track quite good and after this manage to get pined, stop flying space ships