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catalyst ganking?
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Iskander Phoenix
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-08-18 16:38:29 UTC
after doing some reading it seems that catalysts are the only ships people seem to use at all for ganking? is there any reason to use this over other races destroyers? better bonuses or something?
Mildew Wolf
#2 - 2013-08-18 16:45:31 UTC
They do good dps with blasters. Some other ships are also used usually for volley damage.. Tornado thrasher etc
Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#3 - 2013-08-18 18:17:25 UTC
fit a passive scanner too

if there's a tank you may not have enough time for the volleys needed to break it

even a retriever can withstand 1 gank-destroyer for long enough, even with 2 mlu's fitted
Kahega Amielden
Rifterlings
#4 - 2013-08-18 18:37:38 UTC
Most features that ships are balanced by are not relevant when suicide ganking. The only relevant features are cost (affects how profitable a gank is) and alpha/DPS.

Thus, people are either going to use high-alpha artillery ships or high-DPS blasterboats.
Gallastian Khanid
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2013-08-18 20:52:49 UTC
Iskander Phoenix wrote:
after doing some reading it seems that catalysts are the only ships people seem to use at all for ganking? is there any reason to use this over other races destroyers? better bonuses or something?


Blasters are the highest dps, lowest range weapon system. In a gank you generally get a warp in on your target, so range isn't an issue. Hence, blasters are a logical choice for ganking.

You sometimes use artillery because of the high alpha. If you know you can get 2 shots then immediately concorded that effectively doubles your dps, since the time you do that damage over is the time between shots (one cycle time) and the damage you do is two volleys worth of damage.
Sabriz Adoudel
Move along there is nothing here
#6 - 2013-08-19 01:12:14 UTC
Catalysts sacrifice range for damage. I can do almost 700 DPS with a tech 2 gankalyst fit, but (even with good support skills) I can only apply that damage at short range (2400m or so).

The other gank ship that is used a fair bit is the Thrasher, because it can one-shot pods with a very, very cheap fit. Whilst a Catalyst can also one-shot pods and fires faster, there is less room for error.

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