Ships & Modules

Try pulse lasers.

You should break 1000 DPS easily with just 3x T2 Heat Sinks and Conflagration. If you use 4 Heat Sinks, maybe some faction ones, you should be able to do it with IN MF.

Edit; with your skills, you can break 1k with 2x faction HS, 1x T2 HS and a T2 damage rig with IN MF.

I stand corrected, with Conflag i do get 1033dps. Switched back out to pulses, got some conflag crystals and sure enough. So is this the number that everyone is quoting? Because in my opinion, conflag is very limited. With two optimal range scripts, and bastion i get optimal out to 30km, which to me is poor.
I will look into a fourth heat sink, I could part with the DCII, its more of a gank resist, but i think with bastion I should still be alright.
Implants, what implants are you using? Ive seen 3% damage increase implants, but wasnt impressed with the return for the price. Definitely interested in your fit with implants.

Just discovered after some advice, there are TWO damage inplants. Slot 9 for all turrets, and slot 10 for lasers. 10% is defiantly something im going to pursue.

Conflag, i do get 1000+ dps with only 3 heatsinks so maybe the tactic is fit a nano in the lows instead of a fourth heatsink and fly the pally like a mach.

Anyway, thanks for the advice, and for anyone else, your more then welcome to post your pally 1000+ dps fit so I can compare/ unashamedily imitate.

yeah, i wasnt seriously thinking about fitting a nano, like you said makes the bastion a hindrance, so you dont use it, then you dont have a safe tank. But it is about the only way conflag is decent. Not to many missions where the bs orbit at just the right distance for tracking and inside optimal.
As it is im sticking with my tachs, added a fourth heatsink, and am going to buy the two implants.
with tachs and INMF im getting 916 out to 45km, implants will push me to 1007dps.

Not mine, but a saved fit.from an alliance member, but I checked it in EveHQ, With perfect support skills, pulse specialization 4, marauders 4, and a 5% implant and slots 9 and 10 its just over 1200 paper DPS with Conflag. A stupid high omni tank too.

[Paladin, Paladin]
Core X-Type Large Armor Repairer
Corpum A-Type Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane
Corpum A-Type Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane
Imperial Navy Heat Sink
Imperial Navy Heat Sink
Imperial Navy Heat Sink
Imperial Navy Heat Sink

Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
Gist X-Type 100MN Microwarpdrive

Mega Pulse Laser II, Conflagration L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Conflagration L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Conflagration L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Conflagration L
Bastion Module I
Large EMP Smartbomb I
Large EMP Smartbomb I
Large EMP Smartbomb I

Large Processor Overclocking Unit I
Large Targeting System Subcontroller I

best fit for getting yourself ganked. :D

Thanks for the fits,
-Zenith, Im pretty much convinced that conflag has too limited of use. Although the MWD would certainly help. But again, your back up against the bastion, as soon as you have to use it, you lose your dps. Course theres scorch. . .

-Gregor, I worry about tracking in that fit. If you MJD away to get tracking, then your out of range of INMF, and if you are in range, then it seems your dps will suffer from lack of tracking. I run 2 tracking comps. with tracking scripts and a t2 tracking rig and still have trouble getting into the sweet spot for max dps and max tracking.

-Mrwennon, I hate boosters, either you rely on them and use them to much, or you use them in emergencies, and never use them, in which case something else should go there. Clearly Im not a fan, for better or worse.

Im pretty much happy with what im flying now here,
Pally
4 IN heatsinks
2 adaptive nano membranes
Large rep

2 tracking comps with tracking script (and optimal, but almost never used)
After burner
MJD

4 t2 tachs
bastion

T2 CCC
T2 Energy Metastasis Adjuster

Getting 916 dps with INMF

So im getting the implants, and doing a bit more training, should give me 12% more dps.
I do have a final question though, Im torn between tracking and dps. In your guys opinion whats the best combo, heres what ive seen from you guys,
-dps rig & 4th heatsink (stacking penalty being a concern)
-dps rig with 3 heatsink and a tracking enhancer
-or like i have now with tracking rig and a 4th heatsink?

I have played with a nightmare, (in response to future comments) but never got confident with its tank and the potential problem to dc, thus the pally is a better option.

Tracking is indeed highly important, but that fit has 2 TC and a TE, and while a T2 tracking rig will help it will ONLY help when tracking starts to become an issue, like a full transversal cruiser at 20-30km. But the second the target isn't a short range full transversal cruiser that T2 ROF rig will net you better applied dps.

I hadnt thought of that. What im understanding is a rof rig makes the sweet spot sweeter, where as my tracking rig only makes the borders of the sweet spot bigger. But once your in the sweet spot, its a waste.

t2 tracking rig has a 20% boost to tracking
t2 tracking enhancer only does 9.5% boost, but better optimal (ignoring falloff for lasers), better optimal means I can get further away and still be in the sweet spot, (thinking out loud) so i think your completely right, a tracking enhancer does as a whole help more then just a tracking rig. This is exactly the kind of advice i was looking for.
But the other question is whether 5 forms of dps boost is worth it.
And if it is worth it, then what about the tank? One rep, One resist? Assuming we all dont immediately throw down a yurt and load up on tank if it gets to much, although to be honest i dont like the yurts, but i can definitely see the benefit of being jonny on the spot with one and saving yourself from a stupid mistake.

This is without drones, just guns.

And for DCing, with the pally i have enough buffer to jump back on, a nightmare didnt have a lot of room for neglect.