Ships & Modules

I say turn it into a nice hefty blaster brawler. A direct upgrade from the Moa and perhaps a stepping stone to the Vulture.

eaaaaaaagle

-Dr John Damned Dorian

What to buff?
Literally everything.

It needs its resist bonus fixed to 4 % from 5% / lvl ala Fozzie.

I have an Eagle I use for FW plexes. The plexes offer a unique environment in that you can't warp to objects or friends when you're on the gate outside or anywhere in the plex once you enter. It's very niche in what I use it for - chasing off kiters or sniping ewar from extreme range. I also use quality damage implants to really make it shine.

The problem in a nutshell is the damage is anemic. With five 250mm rails and three magstabs - you get 357 DPS non-overheated. Now that does go out to 56km - but that isn't enough in my eyes to justify the price of the HAC. You could use it as a blaster boat - but Caldari cruisers are kind of slow and have weak capacitors to be trying to chase down prey with. The Moa has almost as much EHP after it's boost anyways. If I want to risk a ship in the blaster configuration - the Moa is cheap and fun to do it with.

Any fix to the Eagle should keep it niche in a fashion. I would keep the bonuses as is. Take the sixth utility high and convert it into another turret slot. A sixth 250mm rail would give the Eagle 428 DPS out to 56km. Once you had damage implants and overheat you'd have a powerful sniper. Increase the fittings and capacitor for the sixth gun. Add a sixth mid to capitalize on the tank. Done.

It would still have it's current damage bonus, any higher and it would step on the Deimos's toes.

Caldari cruiser skill bonus: 25% bonus to optimal of medium hybrids and 5% bonus to shield resistance

Heavy assault ship skill bonus: 5% bonus to hybrid turret rof and damage.

If it's damage bonus is too high you'll end up with people using eagles as perfered blaster boats because of the longer range

Question being why would someone fly a Eagle over a Cerberus.

Medium rails are just garbage. So it's not going to be used as a sniper over a cerb or caracal.

I use my eagle as a brawler since the range bonus is insanely good so it's a blaster boat that has both damage and range (you can load null and hit out to 11km, so it's very nice). It's natural kinetic and thermal resists make it an excellent choice to bring against fleet comps that have all thoraxes and all vexors with hammerheads/ogres as their drone choices (*cough* gallente militia *cough*). The eagle could benefit from a speed boost and a capacitor buff.

What it needs is acceptable dmg at longer ranges.
Part of the problem is eagle itself, other part is med rails sux , and other part is the bad ammo scaling

Currently all skills lvl5
eagle with 2 mag stab 5x t2 250mm rail guns dps:
cn antimatter: 317 good
cn uranium: 264 getting meh but still acceptable
cn iridium/spike:184 way too low
for the lulz cn iron:132 omg

looses too much dps as their optimal increases, imho this dmg drop should be lowered , and other thing should be cosidered to offset the optimal bonus , probably tracking , not many other things an ammo could modify :(
this is the problem for the other long range guns aswell, the longer ranged ammos are nearly never used,especially in close range guns, except t2 long range ammo