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Malkuth Rapid Light versus regular missile launchers
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Wokum
The Grey Eagles
#1 - 2016-12-12 19:50:30 UTC
I'm confused because the Malkuth have a reload of 35s compared to the regular reload of 10s yet they have a faster rate of fire, 16 compared to 7.41. How can you have faster RoF if it takes longer to reload?
Orakkus
ImperiaI Federation
Goonswarm Federation
#2 - 2016-12-12 20:01:56 UTC
Wokum wrote:
I'm confused because the Malkuth have a reload of 35s compared to the regular reload of 10s yet they have a faster rate of fire, 16 compared to 7.41. How can you have faster RoF if it takes longer to reload?


The Rate of fire is only applied to how long it takes before the next round is shot, not how long it take for the module to get reloaded.

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Do Little
Bluenose Trading
#3 - 2016-12-12 20:04:29 UTC
The rate of fire assume missiles are in the magazine. Reload replenishes the magazine from the cargo hold. Rapid lights are a cruiser weapon that can apply a lot of damage - until they use up their ammo, the reload seems to take forever! I fit them to my Gila - which uses drones at its primary weapon system. The missiles are basically point defense weapons.
Solonius Rex
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2016-12-12 20:31:21 UTC
Wokum wrote:
I'm confused because the Malkuth have a reload of 35s compared to the regular reload of 10s yet they have a faster rate of fire, 16 compared to 7.41. How can you have faster RoF if it takes longer to reload?


When you reload, you load 35 shots.

Each shot takes 7.41 seconds to fire.

Each time you fire, you lose a round.

When the amount of rounds reaches zero, your missile launcher reloads.

Reloading takes 35 seconds.

So essentially its:

Fire.
7.41 second cycling time.
Fire.
7.41 second cycling time.
Fire.
7.41 second cycling time.
Fire.
7.41 second cycling time.
Fire.
Out of Ammunition in the launcher.
35 second reload time.

Rinse and repeat.
Memphis Baas
#5 - 2016-12-12 20:58:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Memphis Baas
Also it's not because of Malkuth. Malkuth is a meta name, each type of missile launcher has a Malkuth version, an Arbalest version, and other regular or named versions. Malkuth is like the brand name. You can find Malkuth rockets, Malkuth cruise missiles, Makluth torpedoes, etc.

35s reload time is typical of "Rapid" missile launchers. It's just how CCP designed them. Scroll down towards the middle of this EVE University guide. Some weapons have different stats than other weapons.

You have to take all stats into consideration. CCP intended the RLMLs to NOT be used for sustained fire. You shoot heavy fire for a bit then you have to stop and reload. Use Heavy or Heavy Assault launchers instead of RLML's if that's a problem.
SurrenderMonkey
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#6 - 2016-12-12 21:19:02 UTC
Wokum wrote:
I'm confused because the Malkuth have a reload of 35s compared to the regular reload of 10s yet they have a faster rate of fire, 16 compared to 7.41. How can you have faster RoF if it takes longer to reload?


You're comparing two completely different types of missile launcher. Ignore the Malkuth part for now.

You're comparing a light missile launcher to a RAPID light missile launcher.

The normal light missile launcher is a frigate-sized module.
The rapid light missile launcher is a cruiser-sized module that fires the same missiles as a normal light missile launcher, but at a very high ROF. It is very good at killing smaller ships, because it has frigate application with much better base DPS thanks to the increased rate of fire.

The flip side is that it takes a loooooong time to reload.

"Malkuth" only distinguishes a meta level missile launcher from a plain old meta-0 one (e.g., Light Missile Launcher I or Heavy Missile Launcher I).

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Memphis Baas
#7 - 2016-12-12 21:31:01 UTC
Also, "Rate of Fire" is an unfortunate name that CCP picked because they're Icelanders and English isn't their primary language. What they call "Rate of Fire" is actually the delay between shots. RoF would be measured in rounds/second, not seconds.

So anyway, a RoF of 16 is worse than a RoF of 7.41 (because you fire every 16 seconds instead of every 7).
Gregorius Goldstein
Queens of the Drone Age
#8 - 2016-12-13 08:27:56 UTC  |  Edited by: Gregorius Goldstein
The "Malkuth" line is the "needs less CPU" meta line of modules. Lower DPS than most other modules but if you have low skills and you can fit one more Malkuth than you could fit Prototype launchers they are worth a shot. If you have plenty of CPU you should never fit Malkuth AFAIK.