EVE General Discussion

Pre-nerf Dramiel :)

Actually, if you really want to consider all 3 - DPS, tank and speed - then I would look at it this way:

DPS - Needs to be able to kill the smallest ships while also provide significant hits for higher EHP's. This sort of limits our choice in the BC and Bship range since they can fit neuts + drones to deal with smaller stuff while being able to apply full DPS on bigger targets.

Tank - Following up on above, Bships win over BC.

Speed - Bship's higher EHP means their fits can be tweaked for more tank or speed, depending on the need. There is a video on YouTube where someone gets some dank kills using a warp-speed rigged Geddon, pretty neat.

Now, considering all of the above, which battleship then? Well, from my experience, most of them suffer from tracking issues except the ones using drones. Also, drones allow more neut power without sacrificing DPS. The obvious choice seems to be the Geddon - but it isn't. Geddon screams "I have neuts, come at me", whereas the Dominix can sport better tank and "play dumb" such as warping-in using autopilot.

So to answer your question, which basically asks to meld together 3 attributes often opposite from each other, you get the king of flexibility, the Dominix.

You won't find a fit for it though, since there is one for almost every situation. You have the solo Domi, the fleet Domi, the armor Domi, the shield Domi, the RR Domi, the neut Domi, the DPS Domi and everything in between. Don't forget the combat scanner Domi but I wouldn't get into it right now.

As you can see, lots of people have lots of different answers. There's a reason for that.

There is no 'best ship', there is only the one that suits you and your playstyle the best, for whatever task you intend it to do.

Personally, I pvp a lot so I find myself preferring to be as versatile as possible. I need to be able to counter on the fly and I like being unpredictable. To accomplish that, I've cross-trained into all races and can fly a vast array of ships, depending on what I need at any given time for any given purpose.

But in this game, there is no such thing as any one ship that does everything better than anything else. Everything has a counter, and no, bigger =/= better.

inb4 "that's what she said"

Imo it looks better than the fish-appearance it currently has.

Any ship with ecm? J...........Baited

Arbitrator.

There are no 'best' ships in Eve, only ones that are designed to do certain things more efficiently than others. What are you trying to accomplish exactly? That will get you a better answer to your question.

Best is most easily measured by number of spikes on the ship.

Phantasm is obviously the best ship of all time.

Tengu and Ishtar's are pretty powerful ships, however I don't use them myself cause I don't like the game easymode.

Exactly. Whatever you have the most fun in.