Ships & Modules

Hey, I'm considering cross training from Gallente to Minmatar because I feel that Gallente is subpar at the moment from what I've heard anyway. Is it true that Hybrid weapons are weak in comparison to the other types of weapons? Or would it be better to stick with Gallente for a while. I really only PvE (Exploration and Missions) but am looking to start PvPing in the near future and not sure whether Gallente are decent for PvP.

The question I'm really trying to ask is are Hybrid weapons good or not?

- Thanks

The problem with Gallente ships is that they aren't a major part of any big fleet doctrine that people commonly hear about (maelstroms, zealots, abaddons etc) but in small gang warfare they are extremly competitive and useful, in a group they can punch well above their weight as long as you learn to slingshot things into web range (always fit a web so void/ogres can track) and get into blaster dps range

Well I flew gallente for awhile in smaller ships and let me tell you blasters are hands down the most damaging weapons in the game. The downside is that they are the shortest range weapons but they allow you to track better at those closer distances unlike Auto Cannons and Pulse Lasers.

As for Rails, kinda meh being outclassed in DPS by Tachyons and they don't have the sheer alpha that 1400s have. They do however do the most damage at the longest range since you'll be in optimal + fallof for longer than lasers or Artillery.

As for their defenses they are pretty damn sturdy armor tankers. They get 3 ships classes that have bonuses to armor repair; Incursus, Myrmidon and the Hyperion. So they can tank they can deal damage and almost all the ships have drone capacity that is above their class.

So if any of that interests you then don't really bother with cross training yet: get more of a feel for them and flesh out your abilities in one race before you branch out into the other.

But if you are dead set on abandoning gallente and moving onto Winmatar then crosstrain away and get the pirate faction ships since the gallente + winmatar ships are arguably the best pirate faction ships. I mean seriously we get the Dramiel the Cynabal and the Machariel for the projectile set and the Daredevil the Vigilant and the Vindicator for the Hybrid set. What's not to like about that? Also everything but the Hybrid Specific skills carry over so I'd say once you do get to the point of crosstrain minmatar is the next natural progression.

True, good point that is often overlooked. In an extended fight, missing shots hurts arties and beams more.

Small rails are also surprisingly viable on frigs. I had decent success flying a rail Talos in a Tengu skirmish/pos bash fleet, but that was in a C5 Pulsar and targets were shield tanked. I blapped some frigs with CNAM, but at that range you could almost as well use blasters and Null. Almost = rails with AM do more dps at maybe 10km more.

Anyway large rails can be usable (Rokh fleets for example?), but I don't really fit medium rails on other ships than Arazu. They just don't seem to cut it in EFT or Tranquility. Probably the same with medium beams, though.

The way I see if a halfassed gallente pilot has more to gain perfecting his gallente skills and then crosstraining then crosstraining before he's perfected his gallente ships.

Yes ;) bonus wise and pre requirements only however.

sentry dominixes assigned to a tackleceptor are very effective and low cost gallente "thing" even if not formally a doctrine. At least until bombs start flying. But yeah, minmatar lineup of ships/weapons are used more in "doctrines".

Uhh.. Deimos? Brutix? Thorax?
I started Minmatar and cross trained to gallente and never had a regret. Also solid recon line-up

So is Amarr (armor tanking, drones, guns).

gallente ship are OKish hybrid weapons (especially blaster) are awesome, with null and 1-2 TE you can use medium blaster to kite even with no bonused range ships, and with void (wich is the only worthy T2 short range ammo) you are just dealing much more damage than any other ship of your same size.
just for T1
incursus is very good (merlin is better tho)
shield gank thorax/brutix/hype/talos with ECM drones are just mean
armor myrm and hype can tank variuos enemy (not to many 2/3 dependin on size) even if now they are a bit overshadowed by ASB tankers.
mega is also good with a good buffer tank and good dps.
then you have all the drone boats wich are in better shape than ever thanks to the DDA