Missions & Complexes

I am currently tri boxing 2 Machs and one noctis. They are deced out and do 1250dps each (t1 ammo for tracking) / (including drones). The Machs have a amazing tank (crystals / deadspace). I have a 3rd toon just for salvaging. My question is ... Is a Vargur worth replacing one of the Machs... As I can fly that as well... looks like more tanking less ganking and a little slower. Using a 3rd toon seems to slow me down some so it might be kinda an even trade.... and my computer sounds like it might exploded from fans..LOL so what should I do...

So what will be best combo.
So is Vargur in my situation worth it.

your gpu fan will not be the only one panting.

I usually recommend Vargur over Mach when you fly on single account, because it is faster to salvage on the fly instead of changing into Noctis every couple of missions. In your case it is theoretically faster because you'd have DPS with salvage ability on 2 ships but multitasking would be pretty difficult. The DPS of the Vargur allows you to salvage and loot all the important wrecks while completing the mission without slowing down. With another Mach you'd be killing too fast to salvage most of the stuff on the fly, so you'd be forced to slow down a bit to get the wrecks. If you plan to come back in a Noctis after mission completion, it's not worth it, marauders are made specifically for not switching ships for salvage.

So basically try it out. I don't think it would change much in terms of isk/h in your case.

Similar ships what ever you pick u cant go wrong mach does more raw dps and lock faster it is nimble too act like cruiser,also have bigger drone bay can refit for arty with no problem.

Varg can target more stuff but lock slower it can be better tanked(use less tank mods even) tracking bonus can help too but not huge advantage as long as u use 800mm(AC),it haz amazing cargo hold so u can stack various type of ammo and not rly pay attention it is simply huge it will use much less ammo and u can do amazing things with 3 spare high including removing local shield booster making more room for stuff.

In any way if you dual boxing doing it with same ships stream line process and make thing easy.same tracking/damage/rof/speed helps.

Except when it isn't :D

With Vargur as 3rd ship you will get dps increas but you will suffer from not enough time to salvage the wrecks, unless your Vargur stays behind the rest of your dps ships. If you want to salvage anyway, Noctis would be probably more efficient as it has all its high slots dedicated to tractor beams and salvagers while Vargur has only 2 tractors and 2 salvagers.

I am flying Vargur and I am happy when I am done salvaging large wrecks at the same time I kill last ship in the pocket. With 2 more ships to deal damage, I wouldn't bother with salvaging at all.

I've tried 4 times to go from Mach to Vargur and every time i ended up back at Mach lol. everything just feels like a slow space-turd after flying the mach for so long, it really is the sports car of the battleship class.

Would it be too much to have a Machariel tattooed to one's left butt cheek I wonder?

problem with 2 x mach + vargur is that you will be killing faster then you can loot and salvage unless you load your marauder with lot of tractors and salvagers, in which case you start wondering why you took marauder instead of noctis.
However plus is that you don't have to worry about agro in the missions (and this will be be even more annoying when they implement new AI) - marauder can stand in there and salvage/loot in peace while noctis tends to be come unhappy when pocket agros on it.

vargue if you have marauder 5 else mach