Ships & Modules

Conflag has a 30% nerf on tracking and uses more cap, the crystals cost more and burn out 10X faster. Bad tradeoff in most conditions, regardless off the higher paper DPS and better thermal damage.

I beg to differ ... In my incursion legion I use conflag exclusively on targets below 20km (Optimal around 17k) in my fit. In that setup and purpose it works very nicely as you have enough tracking and the damage is very sweet on sanshas.

Obviously bigger guns with low tracking to begin with wont be benefitting as much.

I used to carry both and constantly switch between them, now I just use conflag for pvp. The only pvp ship I have left that I still carry MF in is my ashimmu, and that's because it's primary use is popping frigates. The tracking matters there, pretty much all other times it's largely irrelevant. Prime example, BC or BS fleet. Anything I shoot will be webbed 5x over or more, scrambled and I'll be 5-6km away. Tracking is a non-issue, I could hit them with gigapulses. I can see it coming into play if doing a brawler frigate but I only know of one amarr brawler frigate and it uses rockets, not lasers.

If you have something well tackled or with a big fat sig, or if you're not trying to minimize incoming damage and can minimize your traversal, then use conflag. Otherwise, use INMF. You should be carrying both.

It's been my experience, on these forums, the people who are quick to throw around comments regarding "EFT" are usually the ones who have no grasp of the complex situational system of this game themselves. Projection, entry level psychology and all that...

The person you should listen to in this thread is Large Object who gave you the first reply. Look at what he's saying and then read between the lines.

Are there situations when lower tracking and a higher consumption are acceptable trade-offs for a higher raw damage output? There is no "or" to your question.

Most sensible people carry both types of lenses, they're not exclusive or expensive.

- Conflag lasts about 1k shots. Imp multi last exactly 4k shots.
- Conflag has a little higher damage in theory. A big part of that damage is thermal whereas Imp mult has more em damage. Since thermal resists tend to be lower than em resists in pvp, this means that conflag does more effective damage.
- Conflag has higher cap use, this results in less damage than imp multi per cap.
- Conflag has worse tracking

This means that conflag is better IF you have the extra cap IF you don't need normal tracking and IF you're willing to pay 4 times the price. Imperial multi is much more general applicable.



TL,DR: INMF is better apart from very specific circumstances. If you can't recognize those, don't use conflag.

Conflagration is awesome. I don't care much anymore for multifreqs since the T2 ammo boost. Only used when tracking is an issue or making more space bucks (by spending less) when ratting.