Missions & Complexes

Must trains for Marauders now

1. Bastion module (gives small bonus to optimal and fall off, raises resist a little, nearly doubles rep amount...and makes you immune to most EWAR like jamming/damping rats). Trade off is 60 second cycle of non-movement, basically a siege cycle.
2. Micro Jump Drive. Not Micro Warp Drive, Jump. For Marauders, its 100 km instant movement from where you where and like 60 second recharge (3 minutes normal activation). Makes for a good web/scram GTFO of dodge and reposition tool. Fun for sniping as well or getting in the thick of things (like WC first room where the rats are over 100 km away and you have blasters).

They don't really need to be trained beyond 3, 4 at most as 5 is next to useless for the benefit it gives. But I love having a double prop Vargur and increased rep with EWAR immunity...can get beyond the webbers for breathing space or in their face Minmatar daka-daka loving. Still working on a better fit, but either 1400mm sniper (recycle time kills it though, but the faction ammo cost is way down for the massive damage it does ) for some of the long range missions or a MWD/MJD fit with 800mm which I am enjoying again. Would be similar to a rail fit or blaster fit kronos dependent on the mission.

I don't know what L4 missions(*) are you referring to but neither AE bonus nor Dread Pirate did call for more than one hardener. And I have been using Reactive because I grew lazy.

As for the magstabs, even this 20-ish dps increase counts towards faster mission completion and honestly, with this ubertank there is not much else worth putting into the slot.

(*) Epic arcs are another story. There I'd recommend using 2 or even 3 hardeners, depending on exact mission.

Tell your Permatank tales somewhere else or actually try it before you bring those silly suggestions and NO, I won't well you why it's crap. Only option is a passive tank but there are some disadvantages then...well...




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I don't know this one and eve-survival doesn't mention it too. Care to share some details about it?

Awesome.

I'm sticking with the rails fit. I like the MJD and the mobile depot, I've started using them and I recommend them. Other than that everything seems to be more or less within expectations.

I do, also, believe that with the bastion module some missions can definitely be completed with only 1 hardener in the Kronos marauder, but I would only suggest doing that if you want to fly the rail fit because otherwise it could get uncomfortable. This is my personal opinion and I encourage everybody to test and try their ideas as they see fit

Thank you for weighing in, and fly safe!

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The thing with bastion is not the single hardner that may do the job, the dps bonus for the 5th dmgmod is just so small it doesn't really matter if you use that or a second hardener. The big problem bastion solves is ewar, no more jamming, dampening, tracking disruption...how many dps do you loose while being unable to shoot the scumbags? thats what makes the real difference...beside the thrill when you realize you will stay in position and get popped if you disconnect for whatever reason (DDoS is only one) within the next 60 seconds and not be able to reconnect in a very short time. So you're better off trashing the shizz and buying a really good ship.


It jumps from exciting to awesome if you sell the Kronos and buy a Vindicator for your blasters.

So everythings fine, they add stuff that doesn't work and don't fix it - if someone complains someone else jumps in just to notify him that the same may happen even without the bugged stuff involved?

No, it's simply bullshizz. It's not about loosing something or not, it's about an obvious bug that CCP gives a damn shizz about, instead they spent time on localization crap, "improved" animations and new outfits for their ingame shop. Funny sidenote here, even the bastion animation doesn't work properly after a year (set autorepeat off and enable right after end of cycle...the "off" animation continues and while the "on" animation is skipped).

The point is: If you do something do it right, not only with one half of your azz! That's what CCP did in the past but since Incarna the quality is going down dramatically but for most people this seems to be OK.

A mostly t2 fit that is cap stable does just fine. I dc a fair amount so the below works for me. I carry a mobile depo to switch to rails when needed.

bastion
4 x balsters

cap recharger
republic fleet 100mn mwd - cheapest one that "bleeds" less cap and help to make this cap stable (only non t2 mod I use)
2 x webs

3 x mag stabs
DC
2 x energized adaptive ( you have a small explosive hole, but I use varg for angels)
large armor rep

2 x T2 cap rigs

I don't like mjd's they too complicated to get too gates, and I need to be cap stable and overtanked as my 2 yr old sony via laptop is a piece of junk that keeps blue screening. even with a clean install.. don't buy one