Ships & Modules

All of the marauders also have an apparently often overlooked application bonus their pirate counterparts lack. The paladin will outrange a Nightmare, allowing higher damage crystals to be used farther. The Kronos similarly has a falloff bonus to help decrease the damage loss there at range, potentially meaning less travel in blaster fits. Vargur has tracking over the mach and the Paladin has a TP bonus.

All of the above also can do missions on a 3 slot, undersized tank leaving every other mid/low/rig slot to further push that damage and application.

The Machariel is the only pirate BS that warps faster than a marauder and is significantly more agile than a marauder.

The Nestor and Barghest each get one of those advantages, but neither is considered that good for missioning.

If the claim was about the Mach alone, sure, the agility and warp speed negate some need for additional tracking, but not all, and being at range while dealing the same damage, as in the case of the other pirate BS to marauder comparisons, will still yield better results. Considering the tracking is also reduced from stated on targets under 400m sig rad and rarely is anything at 0 angular velocity that tracking bonus adds up damage.

A Vargur can easily have 4 gyros and 3 TCs as well.

The mach singularly is a really good missioning ship, but not as far ahead of the vargur or paladin when the damage type is right as you make it seem. Against the other pirate BS's I'm not so sure the lead over marauders as a whole is as significant where it exists at all.

Also, as far as training AWU 5 is something you would want anyways and BS 5 only makes the mach better as well. Electronic upgrades 5 is more iffy admittedly unless you find yourself needing T2 RCU's regularly.

You better of switching to faction crystals to match range than switching to scorch.

Is it even worth doing missions for Amarr, the LP store just plan sucks compared to SOE? And what are the benefits for doing the Amar epic arc missions?

its called being efficient.. may as well run lv4's in a frig if you want to show how well you can fly a ship. Like PVP'ing in pirate and Tac destroyers, why ?? well they better for the job at hand.

And the only good reasons to mission for Amarr are:

1. Standings for locators
2. Standings for Amarr market hub

Their LP stores suck. Do yourself a favor and move to Apanake for SOE, make 20k+ LP/hr and actually buy something good with it.

I said that like a year ago but it seems to be holding pretty well. SoE has a ton of ways to sink LP, with most other LP stores you get 2-3 items that have decent conversion rates, with soe you have 6 implants, 2 ships, 2 probe launchers, 2 sets of scan probes. according to fuzzworks it looks to be holding around 1800 isk/lp.

It helps that SOE items don't need those god-awful tags, so you can actually USE that LP, instead of having to hunt down and buy tons of tags too.