Ships & Modules

This.

i misswrote what i was asking, my bad, i was asking about the boosts mainly as my boosting toons doens't have combat skills so i wont' bring him in PVP

The boosts are standard and what they give you depends on what your boosting, so here's an example of the difference between a no-link ship and an linked ship. (Linked ''Boosted'' with a Vulture with T2 command links and a mindlinked clone)


Without a Booster
[Statistics - Goldiiee]
Effective HP: 50,932 (Eve: 40,301)
Tank Ability: 3,126.22 DPS
Shield Resists - EM: 87.70%, Ex: 75.39%, Ki: 79.45%, Th: 80.31%
Armor Resists - EM: 91.50%, Ex: 23.50%, Ki: 36.25%, Th: 72.38%
Capacitor (Stable at 88.99%)
Targeting range - 87,500 m
Scan Res - 275.00 mm
Sensor strength -23.20
Warp Align Time - 8.43s
Volley Damage: 3,213.30
DPS: 1,044.15

With a Vulture T2 Links Booster, with Caldari Navy Mindlink.
[Statistics - Goldiiee]
Effective HP: 64,939 (Eve: 51,945)
Tank Ability: 5,283.07 DPS
Shield Resists - EM: 90.46%, Ex: 80.92%, Ki: 82.49%, Th: 84.74%
Armor Resists - EM: 91.50%, Ex: 23.50%, Ki: 36.25%, Th: 72.38%
Targeting range - 152,698 m
Scan Res - 302.50 mm
Sensor strength -35.21
Warp Align Time - 7.59s
Capacitor (Stable at 88.99%)
Volley Damage: 3,213.30
DPS: 1,044.15

So yes your Vulture pilot will add effectiveness to your other pilot, as long as it is not in warp or getting killed by the scanning toon your aggressors brought to find it. It might be good to note that the ISK spent on training and shipping and implants for a Command Links toon it could be cheaper to put top end deadspace mods on your PVP toon's frigates

Edit.

some of the numbers in this thread seem to be exaggerated just a tad.

That's quite true. The reason to go CS over boosting T3s in wormholes though is the fact that you usually don't warp off a camped hole to set up alive, spawning in decloakrange of the hole surrounded by 10-20 cruisers with mild dictorsupport/instalegions.

About Nighthawk .. unless you want it for links it's not quite as good as Tengu in L4 missions. There are some PvE activities where it makes sense, but not solo and not in hi sec as far as I'm aware.

Tengu vs Nighthawk. Nighthawk has more buffer, less agility (and warp speed), one less rig slot. Damage wise Tengu wins unless you take into account drones so it really depends if what you are doing really benefits from flight of light drones. Tengu has less wasted volleys and substantially better range with missiles because of missile speed bonus. Both are confined to doing only kin damage most of the time. Tengu more so.

Tengu problem is that if you load it with 4x CN BCU's it's a bit too fragile to get away with it if someone takes note.

For links in shield PvE I personally would prefer usually Minmatar commands. Information warfare is not that useful for PvE usually.

I can and do fly both.

If they were overpowered you would see them being used a lot more on small scale combat. But they are very rare on that because T3 are better most of the time and cost just a tad more.

You can rig it / fit it to keep up with cruisers. But that is not without it's issues (like the CPU hit from rigs, for example) and most definitely is not a "solo" concept which OP seemed to be asking for.

Can't put a MMJD on a T3.

I'm still maintaining the non-use of Command Ships is because of the skill training time, and because all of the CS prerequisite skills are pretty much worthless on their own. You can get into a T3 in like a third of the time. In addition, Cruiser V is very useful as Eve is pretty much Cruisers Online right now, BC V doesn't do **** for your character on its own as the T1 battlecruisers are pretty much relegated to suicide ganking duty and nothing else. The Sleipnir and Eos are absolutely nuts in small gang combat, T3s don't even come close.