EVE New Citizens Q&A

Was just wondering how missiles do in PvP currently? I remember from way back that CCP kept on balancing the weapon systems, and the viability of weapon systems shift. I am currently dabbling in Hybrids (Caldari) but think I would enjoy missiles more. This is a new character so changing focus to any weapon system will not be a problem for me.

After having a look at the ships, I think I like the look of the Worm & Gila for pvp (are they competitive?), much later of course when I have the proper support skills for them.

i spend most of my time in a ham Legion/Sacrilege , they are great
(tip: use faction on anything smaller than a cruiser, reserve rage for big stuff)

Thank you for the replies. I have already set up my training que to fly the Condor as a start, from there I will get the other Caldari missile ships trained, or at least up to Cruiser level. That should keep me busy for the next 6 months, and will then make a decision where to go from there (Minmatar or Pirate Faction).

Yea start with the Condor with LM's. Hookbills and Kestrels are more suited to Rockets.

Bear in mind when flying with a fleet that you will miss out on some killmails if you are rocking Missiles and the rest of the fleet is using turrets. As primaries are called, locked and F1'd, your ammo will still be on it's way to the target as it is vaporized.

The Talwar is the most popular low sp fleet missile ship btw.

Basically light missiles are good, really good. As in "you can't touch me, because you're dead" sort of good. unfortunately, the damage application doesn't move up very well. Rapid light launchers are excellent, but the application from heavy missiles and heavy assault missiles isn't good enough to be worth using. Moving further up the size categories makes it worse.

That's wrong. You don't need to hit or affect a target to get on its killmail. Activating an offensive modul is enough

Thanks! Exactly what I needed to know, and now I know what to aim for. Pity you moved to Null, the type of gameplay you were into certainly looks attractive!

Edit: I am pretty happy to see there is options for missile boats other than Caldari. I love the look of the Hybrid ships, but the missile ones could seriously do with a redesign.

you realize he didn't bring the Corp with him right...business as usual for the rest of us.

Sacrilege is a great ship, well worth the train.

Maybe when you shoot them.

This is correct.

An Inferno Light Missile has a base speed of 3750m/s. Unless some effect makes it go faster, it is never hitting an Interceptor with a microwarpdrive that (typical speed: 4600m/s) that is flying directly away from the missile launcher, for much the same reason that a human throwing a spear cannot ever hope to hit a cheetah that is running at full sprint away from them.

What Feyd means, though, is that missiles don't have a random component to their damage. A blaster firing at an awkward range might be only 25% to hit a target. If it does 100 damage per hit on average, a blaster firing might look like this* over 12 shots:

Miss (0)
Miss (0)
Miss (0)
Miss (0)
Miss (0)
Hit (82)
Miss (0)
Miss (0)
Miss (0)
Hit (103)
Hit (110)
Miss (0)

A missile firing at a target where it only gets a quarter of its damage will instead do this:

Hit (25)
Hit (25)
Hit (25)
Hit (25)
Hit (25)
Hit (25)
Hit (25)
Hit (25)
Hit (25)
Hit (25)
Hit (25)
Hit (25)




* - I ignored some complexity in the blaster damage formula for simplicity - the "your best non-critical hits are the first ones to miss" part of the formula was dropped for simplicity.