Ships & Modules

Hi there.

I've tried to search for a LvL 4 Paladin thread, but I couldn't find one. Skipped through the first 20-30 pages of this forum and not finding anything and the search doesn't work for whatever reasons.

So, I'm thinking of moving my mission-running HQ into Amarr-space and was thinking of swaping my ship for a Paladin, because lazors

I've fiddled around in EFT for starters and fitting the Paladin is easy enough for either Mega Pulses or Tachyons.

The one thing I'm uncertain about is the ewar from Sanshas or Bloodraiders and therefore I'm not sure about what solution would be better suited against those.

With Pulses I can get closer and I'm better suited against trackingdisruption, but at 40km I think I'm running into the nos/neutralizers, and with Multifrequency you're only hitting upto 30km with the Mega Pulses.
With the Tachyons I can stay allways out to a minimum of 60km (Multifrequency) but I don't know how much my tracking suffers, especially against frigs and cruisers approching me.

Another thing is, I don't really want to run from the NPCs keeping them at 60+ km if possible.

So what do you use on your Paladin... Pulses or Beams, and how does it work for you against Sansha and Bloods?

The Bastion-module doen't make you immune to NOS/neuts tho. That's exactly the reason why I'm not sure about the Pulses.

T2 Pulses, period.

bastion
mids: MJD , 2 TC with tracking speed, MWD (or if you are good at vector math, 3 TC and no MWD for jumping to accel gates)

ammo: scorch, you won't need anything else, ever.

missions go like this:

multi-room with close spawns to warp in: mjd out, bastion up, nuke everything, mjd to next gate. Repeat until no more rooms
multi-room with far spawns: bastion up, nuke, do fancy math/mwd next gate
single room: bastion up, nuke all, warp out.

Thanks so far, I'll try both setups I guess, but I'm not to keen on using a MJD, but rather go only with a MWD.

this is your answer
Both
its got a massive cargo hold.

carry a mobile depo,
switch as and when you see fit.

Your fears are not entirely unfounded, but consider this much; the Paladin has some ridiculous cap stats. Most L4's against blood raiders with capacitor warfare tend to boil down to having plenty of time to kill the neuting ships (assuming you know how to id the right rats) long before they are even in range to use neuts anyways, so on top of having a really sturdy cap pool, you rarely see it under any pressure.

As far as picking pulses or tachs, just pick one that sounds like you honestly. The Paladin walked away from the Rubicon changes with some nice numbers. While it lost the web bonus it use to have, it got an even stronger and more resilient cap pool and nice projection buff which works incredibly well for either weapon system. Pulses may still need a prop mod to be complete, but with Scorch it can reach out quite a ways, and Tachs can stretch far and wide with Imperial Navy Multi-Frequency, pretty much removing any need to sacrific firepower for range.

In a Paladin, range is going to be one of your main strong points, being able to hit consistently well in excess of other comparable laser boats. It's literally the Stormcrow of Eve: Online's Marauders -- Highly flexible, great reach, and is one of the best laser vomit platforms around.

Mobile depot not very big. That is the most efficient way to go.

the only real answer. tachs out damage scorch at every range, ignoring tracking, although even with tracking vs NPCs I'd take tachs. and inside 30km or so Conflag is pretty awesome. Although if I know I'm going to be inside 30km for most of the mission I'll just use my kronos.

Mhhhh...Pulse....and if they come to close use smartbombs....

tbh: If you run missions you're either not looking for a challenge (like most other mission runners including me) or you're totally wrong. Just put some Tachs, Bastion and a MJD on, learn to jump which may take a few weeks then simply kill the stuff from range while watching videos. If you disconnect while bastion is running you're most likely dead but that's the only thing you have to worry about.

I thought that has been fixed by now. It tries often to warp out until it does... ( I hope)