Ships & Modules

Hi there!

Soon I'll have the skills for flying an Interceptor, and as I'm Minmatar and I like Gallente too, I though about the Claw and the Taranis. However, as training the racial frigate skill to level 5 takes about 9 days, I would like to make a good decision (I won't have more than one for a while). As I've never flied that kind of ship and never had a real chance of testing myself at PVP, I would like to hear your advices and tips.
These are my reasons for flying them:

Claw:
- The fastest interceptor
- Can be fitted with artilleries and missiles for good long range shooting >>> outside webfier/scrambler range
- It's Minmatar
- Bad thing?: it's generally more expensive than the Taranis

Taranis:
- The hardest punching interceptor, if fitted with blasters >>> inside webfier/scrambler range
- Can use drones >>> even more damage
- It's Gallente
- A popular interceptor
- Cheaper than the Claw
- Bad thing: one of the slowest interceptors

My conclussion is that the Taranis might be for more experienced pilots, but I suppose that's not always true. Please give me your thoughts and tips, specially if you fly one of these.
Thankie, and fly safe!

taranis hands down. the only combat ceptor that rivals it is the kite fit (is there any other way to fit it?) crusader.

dual prop/neutron fit is fantastic.

as a side bonus, you get the ares. 3 mids and 4 lows, very flexible and very good fleet tackler.

I am quite fond of the Taranis-class of Interceptor based on a few factors:
- I favor blasters and this thing has a very high blaster output for a 'ceptor
- Drones for additional DPS
- Properly set up, near-impossible to track
- Properly set up, you can insta-lock a pod
- It can take a couple hits and not immediately die in a fire
- It can punish other Tech 2 frigates quite effectively
- It makes a great hunter/killer to take out other 'ceptors

Tanaris

Also, I find it funny that being minmatar is a pro now. Clearly a new generation has come to eve.

Just an FYI he also said that the Tanaris being Gallente was a pro aswell.

Scorpionidae

Good day Komodo Askold:

I've found the Taranis to be faster than the Claw; but that's my own experience.

The Taranis can fit rails or blasters. A number of my corp mates prefer the rail version; and they've done very well with it. Personally, I prefer blasters.

The drones are nice, but even with top notch drone skills, their damage is more icing on the cake than a substantial part of the cake.

Given equally skilled pilots, the Taranis should beat the claw every single time.

Thank you.

Taranis is more versatile. More med slots aka dual prop / scram or web/scram configurations.
Can do face melting DPS with neutrons, all around performance with SAR and Ions, has impressive structure HP = great EHP with just DC II for tank etc...can even be fitted with 125mm rails for lul kiting setups (tho the Raptor is more lul for that).

The Claw is not as versatile - what kills it to boot with is the 2x mid slot configuration.
In order to surpass the tank of a ranis - since it cannot out-dps it - it's usually plated (400mm passive or 200mm + SAR), thus slower. It can tho overheat to respectable DPS, and the 400mm / neut setup has pretty good chances winning duels against a ranis and/or a crusader, as well as most T1 frigs.

Scram is almost one-way for all combat ceptors - especially the 2x mid slotted ones (Crusader / Claw) and almost a no-brainer for the ranis which with blasters cannot even scratch a target past 6-7km.

The "orbit @ range and pwn with arties or rails" is a joke most of the times, usually because of the very low DPS and inadequate alpha. Range bonused ships like the Navy Slicer are the few exceptions. For high-alpha, respectable DPS long range anti-frig work, Destroyers do a far better job.