Ships & Modules

Salutations Fellow Eve Pilots,


Ive been playing eve for a few years now and specialise in Heavy assault Cruisers and T3 cruisers for both Pvp and Pve and have had enormous success with them.

Recently, I have been maxing out skills because I am running out of things to train and have just finished 3 out of the 4 battleship classes so they can be flown with perfect skills, Having done this I am trying to figure out a use for them, or some sort of niche that they can fill that outperforms other ships of a smaller class.

I am finding it difficult, I wonder if its simply because I do not understand how the ship is supposed to be flown or if my eft is broken.

I can take a ship, say the Cerberus for instance Fit it up with Ham Missiles and easily break 600 dps with my skills with a reasonable Tank and can anom with them, or use them for pvp and the ship works perfectly, it has lower sig despite being shield tanked, moderate dps, its agile and has some nice speed.

I try to set up a battleship and they take forever to move, with nearly max skills Im barely able to push 800 dps, and the enormous sig radius seems to negate the little bit of extra ehp you get with the ship. The performance of everything is just horribad.

I take the Megathron and barely break 550 dps with Rails or 700 with blasters, Yes you can use void and get over 800 but your ability to hit anything without being right on top of it doesnt exist.

I take a Hyperion and can Rail fit it with t2 sentries and actually break 1k dps and be able to hit things in the mid range.

Rokh gets ****** dps, but has a little extra tank

Raven can get massive dps but cant hit **** more than 10km away and torpedos are so slow a cruiser with an mwd can out range the missile before it hits.

All of these ships get a much larger tank then their Hac equivalents but they dont seem to serve any purpose outside of being a shiney meat shield against a hostile fleet. And they are so unwieldy without an enormous amount of subcap suport they are sitting ducks.

(Also I am purposely leaving drone boats, Domi and Geddon out of this, they are just op)

My question is what is the purpose of the Bs, what roll do they perform that an Oracle or Tornado couldn't do for a fraction of the cost, or a well fit Ahac.

I understand every ship in eve is suppose to have a niche that its cappable of filling, but try as I might after playing with EFT and trying ships out to figure out how they fly I cannot seem to find any use of these ships at all? What do they do?

And yes people can argue Missions Missions Missions bleagh bleagh, but one a player has a descent amount of experience and is specialised with more then 5m points using a BS for LvL 4's is no longer efficient as a T3 does is 3x faster.

Someone please shed some light on what use these ships seem to have in Eve?

(Exception being the Maelstrom for Alpha)

I have perfect Battleship skills for Caldari, Gallente and Amarr, this includes BS5, t2 large weapons, torps, blasters, rails lasers, Armor tank, Shield tank etc.

I see no use for them that a Hac or T3 cannot do better and more efficiently, outside of a low sp character needing more survivablity to run Lvl 4 missions.

Insurable, mass producible ship of the line.

It's whole purpose is to absorb silly amounts of damage with repping support while it sits there and lobs volkswagons at the other guy.

A great replaceable tool for set piece fights ( I.e. Fights for structures ).

Other equally obvious role is as cap fleet bait....

Actually you are getting close to that with battlecruisers. Exceeding it with a T3 and its also a little misleading. While your T1 battleship might have 150k ehp it takes damage far in excess of T3's, HAC and even battlecruisers. Given that, in most cases it has far less practical EHP than other smaller ships that are faster and have a smaller sig.

Also regarding brute force, while your battleship might be doing 1k dps, its applies its damage sporadically or not at all in some cases depending on the target, its speed and sig radius.

To answer the OP's question, other than marauders, blops and specialized battleships like the Domi, Geddon and possibly the Scorpion, there is no actual reason to use T1 battleships other than range which is going to give you cruiser like dps anyway.

As for insurance, the insurance after spending 50 million barely covers the costs of the rigs let alone the hull.

hmmmm, that dose not sound right, i get more dps out of unbonused beam lazors than you do out a blaster mega....that shouldn't be the case.

the battle ship class is all about big metrics, that's about it really soo they are somewhat situational and extremely vulnerable solo

a barrel roll imo.

i like your signature.

3 Mags, Full rack T2 Neutrons, Faction Antimatter (Cal Navy) Pulls a little over 800
Switch ammo to Void just barely 900 with a max range of 12km

Why no mention of smart bombs? . . They look like they'd roll well.