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should I spend the time (advice)

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Desh Bouksani
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-08-20 13:01:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Desh Bouksani
To train up lasers...

I'm a pretty new player and I am definitely still a noob and I'm still trying to figure out my style of play. I love small gang fights the most.

I'm sitting at about 25m skill points. All racial frigates, destroyers, and battlecruisers 5. (Thanks to the old BC skill) cruisers all 4, because I can't figure out which T2 cruisers I like best. I haven't trained any battleship skill yet because I feel I'm too new to be flying battleships and they are a huge skill investment so I don't wanna touch them until I'm sure of what I want.

I mostly fly minmatar.. I can use t2 light missiles, rockets, heavy missiles, hams, small autocannons, small artillery, medium autocannons, medium artillery, small blasters, and small railguns.

I can use tech 2 drones except large and sentry but I plan to get there pretty soon. (Fan of drones)

I like to armor and shield tank depending on my mood or situation.

I love webbing and I love cap warfare.

I'm glad I have good projectile skills because of their versatility and same goes for my missiles skills.

Basically I love the larger amarr ships and I love the bhaalgorn and hope to fly it one day. Also love the Oracle and abaddon. I also feel if I ever flew a carrier I'd probably want to fly amarr. I love minmatar too. I love the versatility they have and the style of their ships.

Basically my question is. Should I waste a month getting t2 medium lasers or stay focused for now. I know if I get t2 medium lasers I'll probably start training for large lasers before I train large projectiles.

Sorry for the long post just wanted to give as much info as possible.
Siyk
UK Corp
Goonswarm Federation
#2 - 2013-08-20 13:04:32 UTC
yeh
dexington
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#3 - 2013-08-20 13:05:20 UTC
maybe..

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.
William Walker
Dark Venture Corporation
Kitchen Sinkhole
#4 - 2013-08-20 13:06:04 UTC
Yes, get lasers. Great for PVE! Save money and use standards ;P

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Solaris Ecladia
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2013-08-20 13:08:41 UTC
Scorch is OP but conflag sucks **** unless youre shooting a bigger target than what your guns are (med shooting large).
Shederov Blood
Deadly Viper Kitten Mitten Sewing Company
#6 - 2013-08-20 13:27:30 UTC
Desh Bouksani wrote:
Should I waste a month getting t2 medium lasers or stay focused for now.
From the rest of your post, I don't think you know what that means. P

Who put the goat in there?
Desh Bouksani
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2013-08-20 13:37:14 UTC
Shederov Blood wrote:
Desh Bouksani wrote:
Should I waste a month getting t2 medium lasers or stay focused for now.
From the rest of your post, I don't think you know what that means. P


Haha it's true it's true.
ISD LackOfFaith
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#8 - 2013-08-20 15:46:02 UTC
The most prominent medium laser ships are:

  • Omen - fast, high damage, medium drones; T2 lasers give it the ability to kite around with Scorch, along with better brawling ability
  • Maller - giant brick with moderate damage, usually dismissed as bait; very poor against frigates. T2 lasers give it range flexibility it really needs, plus a bit more damage out of Conflagration
  • Harbinger - even bigger brick, with big damage. Becomes a meatgrinder when fully T2 fit. Has trouble catching things, so Scorch can help it a lot.
  • Zealot - kiting HAC lacking drones. T2 lasers are basically mandatory. Meta 4 beam lasers might work, but meh.
  • Phantasm - cross between Maller and Harbinger, and faster than both. Shield tanking faction laser boat. Sort of sucks right now because everything was buffed around it.
  • Ashimmu - neut and web bonused beast. Usually gets shot first because it can completely shut down ships by nuking their cap and webbing them to 10% of their speed. You usually have to pick two of the three: decent damage, good tank, good neuting. The damage is never spectacular, but that's not really its role anyway.


All of these greatly benefit from T2 lasers, mainly due to the addition of Scorch. So far as beam lasers go, T2 also helps by adding Gleam into the mix, which can really help if something caught up to you and you can't hit it.

Anyway, T2 lasers are definitely worth it, but only you can tell if they're worth it for you, right now. Hope this helped!

ISD LackOfFaith

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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#9 - 2013-08-20 16:25:09 UTC
No one has ever regretted fitting T2 Heavy Pulses with Scorch.



No one.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Taiwanistan
#10 - 2013-08-20 17:09:53 UTC
why don't you train what you guys roam with.

TA on wis: "when we have a feature that is its own functional ecosystem of gameplay then hooks into the greater ecosystem of EVE as a whole, and it provides good replayability."