Skill Discussions

I can fly an (almost) perfect Tengu, doing 741 dps with HML's and I was planning to train for a Machariel to do missions mostly.

Looking at EFT and actually graphing the dps it does, with perfect Machariel skills(autocannons) the dps matches that of the Tengu at 35km(and obviously surpasses it below).

Is it worth my time to spend months to perfect Machariel skills? Or is there something I'm missing about the Machariel that makes it better at mission running?

Also, any recommendations about what would be an upgrade for missions after the Tengu if not Machariel?

My main flies a perfect tengu and machariel..Mach is much much faster. Your damage projection and range stats are not comparable as the tengu is still lobbing missiles and machariel is instant damage at 60km. Tengu has ten seconds between damage hit at 60km (purely a guess as I'm not a stat junky) while the Mach is hitting every 2-3 seconds. So your getting close to 1000 volley damage three times more than the tengus single volley in a roughly ten second period...could be more or slightly less as these are general numbers from my trials and memory.

From experience the Mach is faster at completing missions than the tengu..period (sole tengu pilots still will argue with me, but they've never flown a perfect Mach either).

Where the tengu gets all its love and claimed "superior mission runner" is the fact it can be cap stable and serve as a more or less afk mission ship. Also missile pilots ask what transversal and tracking is. So the idea of a non cap stable mission runner where you are micro managing range, cap and transversal terrifies the tenguian bears.

Mach is more fun zipping around insta popping frigs and cruisers without the wait of your missiles getting there..especially now with their changes.

Edit/addition: Missiles are now inferior imo with the changes, HAMs can be argued for. My tengu is now my cloaky scout and my drake is now smartbomb fit.

I think originally people may have thought transversal velocity was the important number, and the term stuck for the general concept of "ships moving sideways with respect to each other", which is probably all he meant by that. But yeah, angular velocity is the more directly applicable number.

Thanks for the replies, training for a Mach atm.