EVE New Citizens Q&A

What ships do you prefer, Amarr, Caldari, or Gallente? The ship bonuses for laser or hybrid damage are pretty high and shouldn't really be ignored. The ship kinda determines your weapons more than the other way around.

EDIT: Search for "eve online best PVP ship" and find the more recent threads. I'm seeing a lot of ships all over the place from all the races. Lots of Minmatar, but also lots of the other races.

Hyrbids all the way, especially blasters.

With the exception of T2 scorch users, lasers are strictly a PvE weapon. Their only advantage over all the other weapon system sis that they don't use ammo. That's it, nothing else. Tracking is crap, DPS is crap, and only one fixed damage type that everyone knows to how to easily counter against when they see an Amarr ship coming. PvPers don't need to worry about ammo - the fights are over too fast to care. So just get a blaster tackler and go from there.

The amount of bias in this post is astounding. Anyway lasers are a decent weapon system, in the short range line dual light pulses, heavy pulses, and megapulses are your goto and are even better with scorch which gives you the ability to kite as well as brawl. The beam line isn't widely used but tachyons on an oracle are fun for sniping in gangs. One thing that also makes them great is that unlike every other weapon system, there is no delay when you switch crystal types, meaning you can adapt to the situation faster. Of course they are heavier on cap use, tracking isn't to great, DPS isn't too good but the projection of the DPS makes up for it, and fixed damage isn't too cool either. But what you do get is options, kiting, sniping, brawling, etc. instead of blasters which pretty much limit you to brawling.

I like this. This sounds good, but don't lasers only have Em and thermal damage? My concern is doesn't most if not all armor resisttresist those damage types?

This makes tjings even mre confusing! But are you saying that lasers can damage and crack armour hulls?
Edit: sorry for double post.

Yes, lasers can certainly damage armor hulls. They will be more effective against shields usually, but they can get through armor too.

Any source you would recomend reading? Everything I read on pvp contradicts what another website posted. And I like the sounds of surviving my engagements. Sorry if that makes me "uncool" but won't be able to replace ships that go boom as easily anymore

Different weapon systems, and different ships, have different strategies so it all depends on what strategy you like the most or fits your purpose best. If you over simplify it kinda looks like this.


Gallente:

Gallente turret ships are quite fast and agile meaning they can get their short range weapons to use in the right situation, generally Gall can get the highest dps out of their ships but have trouble applying it (mostly due to range). Also note that their damage types are great for T1 targets but less so for the average T2/T3 target.

blasters are an "in your face" kind of strategy, as such they can do well in solo engagements (although they tend to force you into scram range) and small gangs. They don't do well in large fights due to range issue (targets will forever be outside your effective reach and you'll lose tons of time/cap burning into range). You can kite with blasters if you use Null ammo, but only on specific fits/ships.

Rails works on frigates and on tier 3 BC and BS, medium rails are (in most situations) "crap". On frigs it can work solo but on larger ships it only works in fleets (or the occasional solo sniper). Generally rails aren't used in smaller engagements.


Amarr:

Amarr turret ships tend to be slower and sluggish but well tanked (there are several exceptions) making them less good at "fast in, fast out" solo or small gang gameplay. Generally they're well tanked meaning they can take a hit and live which is very useful in fleets. Downside is that due to a lack of speed/agility and midslots they have difficulty controlling the scenario, they can't outrun or catch up and they can't apply Ewar or tackle much, meaning that they don't' really do too well in solo pvp but they DO excel in gangs and fleets. Lasers have trouble against armor targets but do great against Shield tanked targets (apart from Minnie T2/T3).


Pulse lasers are "decent", their damage is ok, their applied range is good but they use tons of cap to run and may have damage type issues, but when the scenario calls for Scorch ammo then all of a sudden Pulses start to shine with massive range and applied damage at that range.

Beam lasers aren't used a whole lot in pvp, and if used it's almost exclusively Tachyons. They have their use in PVE though, especially when you have to deal with targets at range that are resistant to EM (pulse with scorch for PVE makes sense but it's mostly EM damage, so if you need to fight Guristas for example you're better off with beams as they do more thermal due to different crystals).





So, pick a play style you like that suits your situation and base your decision on that.

Its about play style really. Blasters own but you need to get on top of the enemy or you are useless. Autocannons kite. Pulse lasers counter-kite, Artillery has alpha, beam lasers snipe and rails well, are rails.

I like holes in reistence. How do pulse lasers measure up to blasters? I know they aren't as strong as blasters, but I keap hearing that "scorche" is a godsend to amarr vessles. Though not sure why yet but I am looking it up now.