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Rexxorr
Perkone
Caldari State
#21 - 2013-11-14 07:12:55 UTC
arkan099 Sotken wrote:
I recently purchased a Golem because math told me that I would make more ISK running missions in a golem.
The DPS with torps is disappointing, even though I'm doing more damage I still manage to kill a BS in three volleys. I can do this with my cruise missiles as well, only they fly faster and reach further out.....

I was wondering what others are able to achieve when killing NPC rats. I can typically kill cruisers with a single volley. BS typically 3 or 4. Is it possible to do better damage or is this the cap?

Maybe a different ship altogether?




Depends on the mission as to which marauder, weapons are most effective.

Golem will do very well in say sansha "pirate invasion" with lots of large battleships at long ranges using cruise missiles, and not as well with guristas "intercept the saboteurs" with its many fast frigs.

The Vargur using autocannons in "intercept the saboteurs" will blap frigs as soon as you can lock them and clear the room in no time, But will take longer in "pirate invasion" having to travel closer to long range battleships in order to apply its dps.

As far as isk making , yes marauders are better provided you loot/salvage as you kill rats and move on when last rat dies. If you want to blitz or kill rats as fast as possible, then other ships may be a better choice.
Texty
State War Academy
Caldari State
#22 - 2013-11-14 13:39:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Texty
stoicfaux wrote:
Texty wrote:
Mer88 wrote:
i find cruise golem to be meh just because i have a lot of angel missions and they tend to use a lot of defender missiles killing 1/4 of my dps.

I thought NPC defenders were virtually abolished when missile effects were revamped. They are using them again now?

I'm pretty sure they never stopped: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3404613 Instead, defender launches just became harder to see.

However, they do act funny against fast missiles or at long range, see post #10 in the link.


I had forgotten about this thread but it seems to have been kindly necroed :)
stoicfaux, thanks for the link (although yours has a dot at the end so it goes 404) and all the work you put into it. Very informative.
Onyx Soulbane
Federation of Xyphos
#23 - 2013-11-14 14:21:34 UTC
Zor'katar wrote:
arkan099 Sotken wrote:
TFI?

tempest?

Typhoon. Haven't tried it myself yet, but a lot of people are enamored with its DPS output with cruises and sentries.


I am capped in all races and weapon systems and a cruise TFI with sentrys is what i use 99% of the time. I generally run in amarr space so between the TFI and Nightmare, it handles that just fine with the best efficiency. Once in a while i will dust off the golem and loot sometimes if i am on the phone or something, but for the most part everything else just sits in the hanger until it's time again to jump into the new flavor of the month anytime they do thier "rebalance" thang whenever they decide to do it. I learned many years ago to keep a fleet on standby for this purpose. I have been here a long long time, i am hip to CCP's "rebalance" efforts :)
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