EVE New Citizens Q&A

I need some advice about which blaster i should fit on a gallente BC or BS.

From my understanding :

- Electrons are the weakest : low damage mod, and range. They have a higher rate of fire however, as well as better tracking speed.

- Ions are the middle choice. Better damage and range than electrons, but lower rate of fire and tracking speed.

- Neutrons have the highest damage and range, but have lower rate of fire and tracking speed than ions and electrons. Also they are the most difficult to fit, due to their high CPU and powergrid demand.

Now, here is what i don't understand. I see a lot of BS fittings with electrons. I can understand why one wouldn't use Neutrons because of the lack of fitting flexiblilty, [u]but why not choose Ion blasters instead? They still allow you to fit 3 mag stabs for greater dps and range, so why choosing a weaker kind of blasters?

And what about neutrons? I am gonna ding AWU 4 soon, so i should be able to fit them on my shield tank brutix.

But i see so few neutron fits, i kinda wonder if i am missing something here. Maybe they are too capacitor vore? I don't know....

Any advice will be appreciated.

Note : I also use Void charges, but my FC keeps telling me i should go for CN antimatter charge M. Agreed they hit hard, but the range penality is a huge pain. Should i follow his advice?

Ok so those electron fits are used because it's the only way to fit those other modules.

Now... on a pure DPS perspective, should i go neutrons? Or is it best to use ions or electrons and compensate with damage modifier modules?

I am just trying to understand why would someone use Neutrons in the first place, since they seem to be rather unpopular.

I honestly don't see what you do in the game. I've found more players that seem to think neutrons + anti-matter are the only ammo and guns worth putting on a ship simply because they think "on-paper" DPS is the way to go.

As is pointed out here - that isn't the case at all but it is a very common mindset... it boggles me.

That is why your comments about ships fitting the smaller guns doesn't seem to fit what I tend to bump into with far more regular frequency. I am glad to see others appreciate the distinctions but I don't see where your neutron comments come from.

Then again, it may be simply due to my hanging with more noob type players and, to most of them whatever the numbers show to be biggest - that is the best (which is far less the case).

It's going to be situation dependent, of course, and it all comes down to your skills. Are neutrons better to fit in a fleet / small gang situation? Yes, almost definitely. Are they going to be best in a solo situation? Almost certainly not.

In a fleet, you will be relying on logistics to keep you up. In which case the things that are important to fit are resists - and you can get a decent resists profile alongside the neutrons.

In a situation without logi, you'll be leaning on a heavier plated fit (max EHP) so you'll more than likely want to drop down the gun size a level to make it fit.

In terms of JUST the numbers, load three fits into EFT, and DPS graph them. That will show you the effective differences between them. I went ahead and did it for you, based on a Mega shooting a Drake:

http://i55.tinypic.com/35m05jr.jpg

As you can see, the difference at point blank ranges is fairly negligible. As soon as you start losing range, the larger guns help.