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Blaster v Railgun for PvP?
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Vedias
Minmatar Death Squad
Broken Chains Alliance
#1 - 2012-06-10 14:21:57 UTC
At the moment i'm training for a t2 blaster Rokh, but still thinking about railguns. What's the pros and cons? Whats better overall? I can always train for a Megathron or something, but still.


Railgun or Blaster?
Rokh or Megathron?

Thaks in advance Lol
Lin-Young Borovskova
Doomheim
#2 - 2012-06-10 14:43:11 UTC
Gate/station camping = blaster Megathron

Fleet = Rails Rokh

brb
Vedias
Minmatar Death Squad
Broken Chains Alliance
#3 - 2012-06-10 14:45:21 UTC
Lin-Young Borovskova wrote:
Gate/station camping = blaster Megathron

Fleet = Rails Rokh


Thanks! Appreciate the help. Smile
sabre906
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2012-06-10 16:00:46 UTC
Put ACs on that Rokh.Big smile
IIshira
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#5 - 2012-06-10 16:35:07 UTC
sabre906 wrote:
Put ACs on that Rokh.Big smile


Sadly it would probably be better than blasters but it crushes my heart to see autocannons on anything Caldari!

A nasty rusted autocannon on a Caldari ship... For the love of the Caldari State give the Rohk better bonuses...
Liam Mirren
#6 - 2012-06-10 17:16:52 UTC
Vedias wrote:
At the moment i'm training for a t2 blaster Rokh, but still thinking about railguns. What's the pros and cons? Whats better overall? I can always train for a Megathron or something, but still.


Railgun or Blaster?
Rokh or Megathron?

Thaks in advance Lol



Ship and fitting choice depend on what you're going to do, what strategy you'll be using and what others in that fleet (if any) will be doing. As such there is no single simple answer to any of those questions other than "megathron generally doesn't really perform well in a fleet". It all depends on the type of PVP you'll be doing, where, with and against whom.

Solo or small gang tends to favour blasters (and thus the mega, not saying the Rokh can't fit them but the mega generally performs better with it) and fleets tend to use rails, IF they'd use hybrids (it's mostly lasers or projectiles, not hybrids).

Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Alara IonStorm
#7 - 2012-06-10 21:38:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Alara IonStorm
IIshira wrote:
sabre906 wrote:
Put ACs on that Rokh.Big smile


Sadly it would probably be better than blasters but it crushes my heart to see autocannons on anything Caldari!

It really would not.

The damage difference alone is huge but a couple TE's and Null hits 25+29km for above +600. Hybrid T2 Range Ammo Tracks better then Minmatar T1 Ammo for more damage. Barrage only hits like 10km further mostly in falloff for 60% the DPS with 2 TE's.

With the Null, Dmg, Fitting, Tracking Buffs you don't want Autocannons anywhere near the Rokh and for good reason.

Neutron is the new black and it looks good.
Caitlyn Tufy
Perkone
Caldari State
#8 - 2012-06-10 22:26:21 UTC  |  Edited by: Caitlyn Tufy
sabre906 wrote:
Put ACs on that Rokh.Big smile


Nah, hybrids are ok now. The problem really is just ship bonuses - compare for instance Tengu's hybrid subsystem with Proteus' version and you'll see it - range can't make up for that. It's most obvious on medium turrets, that's why Ferox is so inferior to Drake, whereas Rokh at least has a purpose as (very) long range sniper.
Velarra
#9 - 2012-06-10 23:07:42 UTC
IIshira wrote:
sabre906 wrote:
Put ACs on that Rokh.Big smile



A nasty rusted autocannon on a Caldari ship... For the love of the Caldari State give the Rohk better bonuses...


Or make a Hybrid Navy Rokh? Big smile
Copine Callmeknau
Dirty Vagrants
Intergalactic Space Hobos
#10 - 2012-06-11 05:07:22 UTC
IIshira wrote:
sabre906 wrote:
Put ACs on that Rokh.Big smile


Sadly it would probably be better than blasters but it crushes my heart to see autocannons on anything Caldari!

That's because you're an idiot

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