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Are torpedoes good for mission running?
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Riot Girl
You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack
#21 - 2012-09-18 19:19:02 UTC
Wow that really sucks. I only chose Caldari so I could get a head start with missile support skills for when I want to fly the Amarr missile boats later on. Now I'm really stuck...

Oh god.
Lili Lu
#22 - 2012-09-18 19:19:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Lili Lu
And your comfortable little world is about to change.Smile

Change is coming for missiles. You need to read other subforums.Blink Regardless, prior to the Tengu what was the king of pve, CNR. You may want to look at it again. You also may want to look at torps again. CCP hasn't yet got to a full rebalance of large missiles and the ships that use them, but they certainly are getting to HMs and HAMs.

It will no longer be so easy as train Drake and Tengu, and fill the lows with BCUs and the mids with tank. This is a good thing.
Bugsy VanHalen
Society of lost Souls
#23 - 2012-09-18 19:20:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Bugsy VanHalen
Precision tech 2 cruise are not crap. When combined with rigor and flare rigs they kill even elite frigs very well. They take a little longer to kill the small targets such as elite frigs than heavy missiles do, but they more than make up for it by taking down the BS spawns way faster with fury missiles. I often 1 volleyed cruisers with precision cruise missiles. generally I kill the frigs with T2 small drones, but if they are being excessively annoying 1 volley of precision cruise don't leave much for the drones to finish off.

No matter what ship you fly, if you are fitting large primary weapon systems you need light drones for the small stuff, and good drone skills to back them up. poorly skilled even tech 2 drones are crap.

LVL 4 mission running gets much easier when you have the skills to make good use of T2 drones. Some ships like the DOM and Phoon you can hold a flight of light drones for dealing with the frigates and a flight of T2 sentries to deploy after the frigates are gone to add a big boost to DPS against the BS's. 5 T2 sentries are like adding 5 large arttys to your ship.

With good skills T2 sentrys will often one shoot frigs at 40-50 km out. once they get close though send out the light drones or ignore the frigs until everything else is dead.

I tried torps for a while but the applied DPS just sucks. Fury Cruise missiles do as much damage, and leave you the option of switching to precision when needed. Same damage as torps with way better range. Also with the right skills and mods cruise missiles can hit from over 200km away. NPC's can not hit you at that range if you want to kite them.
Riot Girl
You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack
#24 - 2012-09-18 19:26:23 UTC
I think it's just my extremely poor DPS which makes missiles so boring for me. I can just lock a target, press the fire button and go and get myself a cup of coffee. Maybe they will become more exciting later...

Oh god.
Bugsy VanHalen
Society of lost Souls
#25 - 2012-09-18 19:28:59 UTC
If you want exciting, missiles are not for you.

I have heard with the right fit blaster BS with dual rep can be fun. lots of micro management and massive DPS if flown right.
Riot Girl
You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack
#26 - 2012-09-18 19:34:28 UTC
I've been looking into a blaster Rokh.

Oh god.
Cedo Nulli
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#27 - 2012-09-19 04:02:00 UTC
Torps ... only usable in a 3xTP golem.

Heavies .. about to be hit with -20% damage nerf ... "yaaay"
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