Ships & Modules

I love the heated debates between CNR, Golem, Tengu, Nighthawk, etc.

Reminds me why I fly all of them and why I never bothered with turrets.

Well this kinda sounds like the route I wanna go down, have a Tengu planned in the next month and then have route from my CNR to a Golem but am dubious about the time spent doing this versus the reward at the end.

Would like to play in a Rokh soon as well so think I may train up my Turret support skills. Oh and I have a Gila I wanna pimp and maybe grab a Rattlesnake.... I love this game :)

Uh-huh

Tell that to my nightmare which can instantly vaporize 4 frigs with a single volley at anywhere between 30-100km and melt battleships with 3-4 volleys...

Tengu is actually pretty poop compared to some of the most powerful turret ships.

It's not. Tengu is hands down one of the best missionrunners there is if you want to min/max missions. The ONLY aspect the tengu is worse than the nightmare is killing lots of ships in a single spot. Few missions require you to actually do that, and the ones that do are rarely worth doing.

Blockade is exceptionally good of an example as to why the tengu is potent as a missionrunner. As for the nightmare it leaves me with a constant disappointment. It just performs really poorly compared to any other high-end missionship with few exceptions.

If however you don't really want to find the best possible income for any given mission, the nightmare is great as it can provide a stable and constant performance. If you like to just warp in, turn your guns on and keep shooting til everything is dead and then warp back. Or if you askew your statistics by only looking at the time from entering the mission to leaving it.

IMO, the Golem isn't worth it. Get a Vargur instead. The Golem requires more training (Missile Projection and Missile Bombardment at V, for example, in order to eke out every last bit of range possible) and is slower in missions than the Vargur due to constant reloading (only 20 volleys versus the 120 volleys for 800mm ACs,) DPS loss to overkill, TP juggling, having to swap ammo due to range, juggling TPs, and having to always use drones to kill frigates (drones are sloooooow to kill with.)

The Tengu is a great high-sec mission runner because it is generally the quickest ship you can skill into that runs level 4s efficiently due to having really good DPS, 100km range, and a superb tank.