Ships & Modules

Hello Pilots!

I am training atm for Marauders but I do not know which to target because I don't really know which is best for missioning (L4s).

I heard a lot about the Vargur that it's really good (especially with autocannons) but I am heavily trained for Gallente (Well, the gunnery skills at least) and I was wondering how the Kronos fares (with Blasters preferred) to the Vargur. I am a bit scarred about the short range and that it will miss most of the targets (if I sit in between them) Also I am scarred that the tank won't resist if I go in so close (with bastion activated). If you have any suggestions it is greatly appreciated.

Basically what I am looking for is the highest DPS Marauder that can do L4s easily. If it is indeed the Vargur...well, I will train the Autocannon skills for it ...

Possibly the best allround Marauder is the Golem, because it can shoot all damage types.

But it really depends on what space you are flying in and what rats you are shooting.
The racial Marauder is the "best" for its own racial space.

Golem and Vargur are the only ones that can actually choose the damage they shoot, but the Golem does it better.

I think DPS wise they arent that far apart, my Golem does about 1500DPS with Torps, just place yourself in the middle of the battle, activate Bastion and fire at will.

I really do love the Golem, but cannot really say about the others.

Hopes this helps a bit!

Thanks for the advice. I will get a Kronos then because I am really close to it skill wise (as I have no autocannon skills) and then I am going to crosstrain for minmatar.

By the time I will get the Kronos I should have maxed Gunnery skills (already have max drone skills). What else am I missing ?

No problem man, that is indeed with max skills and implants (+5%).
The upside to that is that it can apply that damage to any faction, and not be restricted as much as the Kronos and the Vargur.


OP:

That said, all of the marauder are awesome ships, capable of amazing things.
So whichever you choose, you will surely enjoy it!

Well I guess then it mostly depends on what applied DPS you expect to archive. At 100% falloff you do like 38% of your gun dps and the old Kronos could deliver 1200 dps at 30km with antimatter and garde IIs, could hit everything within 18km with 100% of her nominal gun and sentry dps utilizing a 90% web and was in fact a lot more agile and faster with a mwd and had the much bigger range spectrum where it applied high dps(depending on your choice of drones it could easy reach out to 100km with sentry dps to).

For example in a mordus head-hunters the ship could get into antimatter optimal with rails extreme quick and could utilize Warden and antimatter against any single target in the first pocket, 2 mwd cycles and you are back at the gate, and again in the 2. pocket could just mwd 20km in a 1 o'clock position towards the 2 spawns in front of you and you was in antimatter optimal for the first 2 spawns and only had to move another 2 mwd cycles for the 3 spawn. Compared to the mach or Vargur this was a lot less movement by offering massive range windows and still fairly good on the dps side because you where mostly standing still and shooting in optimal with sentry dps up all the time to, instead of moving a lot.

I had both Kronos and Navy Apoc\Mach on grid at the same time shooting different stuff to get a good benchmark and I didn't really liked it with blasters compared to my Navy Apoc(that does 1200 dps at 30km, also can hit out to 100km with 92km of that full optimal range and moves at 1100m/s) or Mach(where getting in range is not a issue), while I did in fact did like the old Kronos a lot for dual boxing, since you could use the 90% web on a frig while one volley them with the other BS(what means you never have to use small drones), or utilize it at high range while putting the mach/navy apoc on top of a closer spawn, reducing the need of mwding around all over the grid with both hulls quite a bit.