Missions & Complexes

I use both

I like kronos more for guristas missions, and the varg more for angel missions, of course a paladin for bloods/sansha/drones! for mercs its fun to switch it up

so get all three!


tbh the varg would probably be better if only for different damage types... although the range on the kronos is pretty sweet. guess it would also depend on where you plan to mission

kronos for guristas and serpentis, it hits their weakest resists, where the vargur can't do large amounts of kinetic damage at all.

Vargur vs angels, blood raiders, drones, and sansha, but keep in mind that its T2 ammo only works well against angels

The paladin would outperform them both on shansha/blood/drones

Most other factions, like thukker, EOM, mercs, etc, have normal PC-type resists...EM hole in shields, EXP hole in armor, etc, so there isn't much of an advantage to using different damage types.

I use both as well, they both have their uses.

Vargur works great against angels, merc and rogue drones amongst others.
Kronos is excellent to use against guristas and serpentis mainly.

So it depends largely on where you do missions, although inn my opinion in the end the vargur wins out only because its more versatile.

That's a bit strong for me - unless you're into ISK/hr, and I'm not so have no qualms doing AE in a megapulse Apoc.

This sounds more like inexperience to me. Kronos and Paladin are the two best marauders. Only thing Vargur can beat them at is killing Angels. Sure, it can change damage types, but only to a point. Kronos is doing Kinetic and Thermal damage. Pretty much every rat in the game is weak to one of those, so it has no need to. Paladin can do pretty good vs anything but Angels. Multifrequency and X-Ray crystals do enough thermal damage to still hit pretty well against Guristas/Serps(weak to therm anyway)/EoM. All three are good for mercs, though. Vargur's biggest problem is fighting in falloff.

And I dunno about you, but I happen to like the bonus on the Paladin and Kronos. Golem's is pretty much required and oddly, the Vargur has no damn ewar bonus, which is a bit messed up imo. Being able to pin something down with a web is great. Using a true sansha web on the paladin/kronos puts it at %82.5 percent speed reduction, and reaching 15km (19.5-ish km overheated) can reach most cruisers that happen to be dumb enough to get close. If you have to pick only one, I would have to ask where you're missioning and what are you fighting mostly. Caldari space fighting mostly Guristas and Serps? Kronos. Minmatar space fighting mostly Angels? Vargur.

or buy another ship that can do that damage type! \o/ having high sp