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Cyclone question
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Piugattuk
Litla Sundlaugin
#1 - 2013-01-01 06:15:51 UTC
I'm new to Mini ships so bear with my question.
used the cyclone for lvl 3's missions and it was to my surprise was very impressed with the performance of the ship overall.

That said my hi was probably typical five 650's and three Heavy missiles launcher.
I am planning on level 4's but wondering does 650's have enough umph to take down Guristas BS?
Or would 725's be better fit in hi, although I'm worried about not hitting cruisers with 725's...is this a problem my low's do have tracking and damage mods X 3 in low, which rigs would you recommend, the ship is shield tanked so mids are used with shield mods.

My skills for mini ships and cannons is low but working on that.
To mare
Advanced Technology
#2 - 2013-01-01 08:58:21 UTC
1st there is no shuch a thing like 725 you have 720 artillery or 425 autocannon i assume you mean the 720 .
2nd doing lv4 in a cyclone will be slow and painful due to the low dps of arty and the split weapon nature of the ship.
3rd you will get more isk doing lv3 in a hurricane than lv4 in a cyclone
Dato Koppla
Spaghetti Militia
#3 - 2013-01-01 09:07:14 UTC
In a nutshell, stick to L3s with your Cyclone while saving money for and training towards a Maelstrom, focus on getting t2 large autocannons (although you can still to L4s with a meta AC mael)
Schmata Bastanold
In Boobiez We Trust
#4 - 2013-01-01 09:38:47 UTC
Dato Koppla wrote:
In a nutshell, stick to L3s with your Cyclone while saving money for and training towards a Maelstrom, focus on getting t2 large autocannons (although you can still to L4s with a meta AC mael)


This.

Cyclone is a great BC but has little too wimpy punch for L4s. Mael is natural stepping stone from BC ships when you decide to go into L4s in minnie ship progression and Varg/Mach would be "end game" depending on whether you wanna stay pure Minnie or cross with Gallente.

And as Dato wrote, Mael with meta guns is ok at beginning but ffs when you eventually reach Varg/Mach level have a decency of training and fitting T2 weapons :)

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Piugattuk
Litla Sundlaugin
#5 - 2013-01-01 15:22:33 UTC
Great answers thanks.
I have T-2 everything in Caldari and Gallente but have decided to give mini's a try and am going to train for a maelstrom eventually a vul would be in order.
I was thinking the same, LVL 4's would be a problem, it's a great platform for taking out cruisers and insta popping frig but those tackle frigs once they were in range to web I only had missiles and drones to kill them so yeah maybe I'll keep using it in lvl 3's to get used to artillery guns.
Caleidascope
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2013-01-01 17:28:21 UTC
Now that we have MJD, you could do a fairly successful arti sniper. Get the Mael, fit arti, and try something easy like l4 due of death.

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Piugattuk
Litla Sundlaugin
#7 - 2013-01-02 03:54:07 UTC
Caleidascope wrote:
Now that we have MJD, you could do a fairly successful arti sniper. Get the Mael, fit arti, and try something easy like l4 due of death.

Oh yeah, going to do LVL 4's in a arti maelstrom should be quicker.