Ships & Modules

The Naga?

Very useful. My first hand accounts of using all the new BCs.

Hybrid and Assault ship rebalance made lots of caldari ships that were bad Good. I have had lots of good results in the Moa and Ferox as blaster ships. That can hit out to 20+km with blasters with null.

The OPT range bonus on their blaster boats with the change to Null is very good. OPT range bonus is not just for rails anymore.

What exactly do you mean by this?

Because as far as I can tell the other T3s are markedly better when fitted to DPS up to 70km, and only after that does the Naga have any advantages. The problem with this being that any range beyond this is mostly unhelpful for small gang purposes.

I'll add something just for the sake of adding something. The obvious HML drake and blaster...erhmm autocannon ferox are decent fleet ships. Other ships include merlin and it's variants, EEE SHEE EMMM and co.

A null using boaster ferox has great range now. AC ferox still has a place but the blaster Dps with null range bonus is solid and you don't need to cross train.

I have some ideas to make the rook solid for solo picky hunting.. but does anyone have any good fits for the falcon and rook?

Caldari ships, despite the latest hybrid boost, remain basically sub par at this point, and I that recommend anyone thinking of starting a toon select one of the other three races. This is not to say that Calari ships are so inferior that PvP with them is impossible, only that a new player is better served to look elsewhere.

With that said, to answer the original question:

Frigates: Caldari frigates tend to be slow, relatively tough to fit, and with low paper DPS. Their T1 frigates are situational and rely on tricks and noob mistakes from enemies to work at all.

Harpy: Every time a serial killer is arrested you see their neighbors and coworkers on TV. They always say how quiet he was, how he kept to himself and they never knew. The Harpy is the maniac of eve frigates.

Hawk: Had an epic, and often underrated tank prior to the buff. Now it can control range as well. You see a lot of these in low sec, and that is the surest judge of actual utility. Pirates use what works, forum and eft warriors use what look good on paper.

Hookbill: might well be the king of the dogfighters. It's actually fast, and it has five midslots. It is, however, very tough for a new player to fit.


Cruisers: In every way worse that the other race's cruisers. They are slower, heavier, fewer drones, tighter fittings, and (if I recall correctly) even have fewer slots than the same tech levels.

Caracal / Navy Caracal: A fine gang support ship for low or null sec. Maintain some range, stay aligned to some celestial, and spam light (assault launchers) or heavy missiles. Avoid the temptation to overtank.

Cerberus: This can spam heavy missiles out to a couple hundred kilometers -- cool, but rarely useful. It does nothing that the Tech 3 BC's don't already do better, and at twice the cost.

Falcon: The most hated ship in the game.

Blackbird / Rook Use these if you don't want people to attack you.


Battlecruisers:

Drake: It might not be the best BC in the game (they are ALL fantastic), but it is certainly a great ship. Avoid the temptation to overtank -- use those midslots to better purpose.


Battleships: Slow, crap weapon systems, and limited mislots. What's not to hate.

Raven: In Khazakhstan the word "Raven" means human waste or feces. It must in Iceland as well. Okay, I made all that up, but it aught to be true.

Scorpion: This is apparently good in the type of battles I have never actually been a part of. Since I have participated in most kinds of battles at one time or other, I am not sure what this would be, but I keep hearing it. Whatever. Caldari BS's are crap.

I'm thinking mainly of the Shield Scorch Oracle and the Barrage Nano Tornado, which have much better speed, applied DPS, and somewhat better tank (how much better depending on the exact fit you use) than the 425 Naga up to the roughly 70km point. I don't deny that the Naga is much better for landing at 100 and doing DPS from there, but I don't understand why that's any better than having an Oracle at 50 or 70, doing much higher damage and travelling much faster.

Let's not start measuring our epeens, we both live and fight in lowsec.


HM spam is less of a problem than you might think as the the Nado and the Oracle are surprisingly resilient, and the missiles take forever to get to that range. Moreover, as a counter to Drakes the EM damage of Scorch is a lot more effective than than the Kin/Therm of railguns.


Problem here is that the sniper Naga won't be in the middle of the fleet that the ECM are landing 70-100 off, because it doesn't have the tracking or the tank to fight effectively at close range. Who knows how far away from the Naga the ECM will actually be, while the Oracle/Nado, which was hanging out 30km away from "0" will be able to burn into range in seconds, most likely.

Falcon.


I have never been sad they were in any fleet I had. they are good in nearly all situations.

For solo work.. I like to fit mine with 2 Med Smart bombs, Warp disruptor, MWD and 2 Hobgoblins. It takes a while to kill people but it can be rewarding.

Smart bombs are to keep the "Unjamed drones" away. Or can be used as a offensive weapon if your bored.

See below.

http://narwhals.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12206231

What about the Command Ships. Is the Nighthawk no good anymore? What about the Vulture now with hybrid buff?

The vulture is not intended to do dps, it can do it in a "help, I'm a gang link fit I can't depend myself. I really hope no one attacks me right now" solo thingy but ever there it's mediocre at best, and its support dps is laughable. Another gripe about the vulture is that it doesn't get even close to the EHP a Damnation can get in gang link fit.