Ships & Modules

Neut. To dry up the frigs.

Nos is for the opposite situation, when you're the frig...

If any frig neuts your vexor down enough to make a nos worth using before your drones kil it you have bigger problems than cap. Use neuts.

Small, a neut is probably the way to go on both I guess come to think of it. Yeah ACs are good but I like light neutrons a lot, void s gives you decent DPS - close to heavy electrons with a fraction of the pg requirement. Of course they don't hit out far but most of the time if I can hold someone in web range, I'll be very close to the them due to momentum and the blasters will melt them. Null s if I fall short.

Skill dependant but nevertheless. If you drop the hybrids for projectiles you have more cap reserve for the neut. Naturally I cannot say how this will work after the winter update.

Since they changed NOS's many moons ago (which need looking at again, they're obviously either underpowered or neuts are overpowered), it basically created a nice simple rule:

Attacking something bigger = Nos.
Attacking something smaller or the same size = Neut.

If you still follow the rules then you are not ready to use a Bhaalgorn

I guess we'll just see about that

Cheers for the responses.

Essentially, one way of looking at it is that the bonuses make the Bhaal and kin have the next size up in terms of Nos/Neuts in terms of effect.

This means you can neut/leech a massive amount in a few cycles.

As the function of Nos is related to your own cap % amount, you run into the problem that with Nos you'd simply fill yourself up or match the cap % with the enemy ship in 1 or 2 cycles, rendering the Nos non-functional and leaving the enemy ship with loads of cap*.

Neuts rely on your own cap to function, so as long as you have cap, you can neut forever. The big bonuses for certain ships mean you can neut an incredible amount of cap over a couple of cycles, far exceeding what the "bigger" ship can do to you, and because you're not limited by the Nos rules, you can cap them out.

Bhaals scare lone supercaps because they can shut a super down in a few cycles.


Obviously, for non-bonused ships when attacking something bigger your neut won't have much effect, and because you're probably being neuted by bigger neuts and therefore have a low cap % level, a Nos will keep working and hopefully provide you with enough cap to keep shooting/mwd'ing/tanking.


*There are some Bhaal fits favouring Nos, but they're crazy fits with things like treble large reps in order to keep cap % down. Not popular or sensible since the changes because neuts are much better at removing cap.