Ships & Modules

With only four turrets, faction is totally worth it.

With Motion Prediction 4 and both BS skills at 4 I'd say train Motion Prediction and both BS skills to 5 as soon as possible.

Seriously,
3x Heat Sink + 2 TEs.

Would it be better to replace the TC with another hardner or boost amplifier, and have the 3/2 in the lows?

Personally, I'd go for four heat sinks and a tracking enhancer. I also use three tracking computers with two running scripts (one each) and one unscripted. I find that four slots for tank (whether it's an XLSB with either three hardeners or two hardeners and an AB it doesn't matter) is sufficient for most every mission I do.

i've been flying with four heat sinks and one (officer) TE for a while now. on the other hand, i always use two TCs, so ymmv.

[Nightmare, New Setup 1]
Caldari Navy Power Diagnostic System
Caldari Navy Power Diagnostic System
True Sansha Heat Sink
True Sansha Heat Sink
True Sansha Heat Sink

Gist X-Type X-Large Shield Booster
Pith X-Type Shield Boost Amplifier
Pithum C-Type Adaptive Invulnerability Field
Pithum C-Type Adaptive Invulnerability Field
Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II

Tachyon Beam Laser II, Multifrequency L
Tachyon Beam Laser II, Multifrequency L
Tachyon Beam Laser II, Multifrequency L
Tachyon Beam Laser II, Multifrequency L
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]

Large Capacitor Control Circuit I
Large Capacitor Control Circuit I
Large Capacitor Control Circuit I



Train for T2 guns....

If you could just let me know where you run missions from that would be great ;)

Uhh no, the reason to use T2 is that the T2 skill makes guns do more damage... l2p. Amarr BS 4/5 means you dont need TE's/TC's, besides that fact that anything buring right at you has super low transversal. TBH tho the fit I lnked was way too cap stable because I was too lazy to refit it in EFT with the Gist x MWD and SS Sensor boost. AND if you're doing L4's that are heavy TD'n you then you need to just get a raven with some faction launchers (Because missile spec 5 DOES NOT make T2 lauchers ROF faster then faction) and pewpew the stuff.

I don't really do missions a lot but I've used this and it works for most missions http://puu.sh/3zqt4.png

You can fit a prop for missions that have a lot of gates or fit tachs for sniping missions

Covered that. Faction do 95% of the damage at 76% of the capacitor consumption when using T1 and faction crystals. That leaves using T2 damage crystals to "make guns do more damage" which gets trumped by pulse lasers.



Tracking enhancers and computers do more than boost tracking, they boost optimal range and falloff. I rather like being able to eke out 44km optimal with tachyons. Of course I also like being able to peg frigates at 15km and under and avoiding as much as possible situations such as the one I find my machariel in all too frequently where NPC frigates are able to avoid all but its first round of fire at them until they get in so close not even ACs will hit them and I have to deploy drones.

I'm still puzzled by that one. The frigates come rushing in, orbit one of the ships I have in the mission area, and the entire time my machariel can't even touch them. It can't touch them when they're coming in from 40km out, it can't touch them as they close in, it can't touch them as it burns out to 40km, and I generally have to resort to using drones to off them. All things considered I doubt that enhancing the tracking on my ships, especially on tachyon lasers, is going to help reduce the chances of something like that happening, but at the very least it provides a placebo effect.



Or an armageddon. It would take many players a bit to recover from either fit we posted if they were to build it from scratch and didn't already have comparable modules laying about, and a cheaper alternative to a navy raven is useful.