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Best Cruiser Weapon for hitting tackling Interceptors?
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YuuKnow
The Scope
#1 - 2013-01-20 14:37:41 UTC
Opinions? I've yet to find something that's effective.

yk
Rynnik
Evasion Gaming
The Ancients.
#2 - 2013-01-20 14:40:52 UTC
Drones.

There is a reason one of the standards of measure for an interceptor fit is how well it can deal with a flight of warriors.
Shereza
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2013-01-20 15:02:21 UTC
IIRC rapid light launchers with precision ammo from a caracal should do okay as well. The bellicose could probably do decently enough with them as well, though with the TP bonus it might actually do better with fury than precision, and with enough bandwidth for a full wing of drones and enough drone bay for 3 spares it'd certainly field more warriors than the caracal could.

All things considered though if you can forgo anything involving cruisers a good nos/neut dragoon would probably be a better choice strictly from the perspective of killing interceptors. Killing other things, and surviving, aren't necessarily included when flying a destroyer.
YuuKnow
The Scope
#4 - 2013-01-20 15:12:40 UTC
What I've found is that the ceptors can easily kill the drones and stay outside of med neut range as their help arrives. A Bship neut can usually do the trick, but at the cost of needing a bship rather than a cruiser

yk
Jiska Ensa
Estrale Frontiers
#5 - 2013-01-20 15:16:27 UTC
Anything with medium or small autocannons seems to work as well. Or maybe i'm just bad.
Rynnik
Evasion Gaming
The Ancients.
#6 - 2013-01-20 15:31:39 UTC
YuuKnow wrote:
can easily kill the drones and stay outside of med neut range as their help arrives.


Inties can 'easily' kill the drones if they are setup to do that. Which means they have made other sacrifices. You would probably get more explicit help though if you further defined the specific situation... There isn't a 'simple' answer for most of these sorts of questions - after all that is part of what makes EVE PvP so interesting.
Ildryn
IDLE INTENTIONS
#7 - 2013-01-20 15:58:35 UTC
ECM
Sensor Damps
sabre906
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2013-01-20 16:06:02 UTC
Rynnik wrote:
YuuKnow wrote:
can easily kill the drones and stay outside of med neut range as their help arrives.


Inties can 'easily' kill the drones if they are setup to do that. Which means they have made other sacrifices. You would probably get more explicit help though if you further defined the specific situation... There isn't a 'simple' answer for most of these sorts of questions - after all that is part of what makes EVE PvP so interesting.


They kill drones and stay outside of neut and web range well enough without much real sacrifices. The question is what sacrifices you're willing to make. Dual 180mms with 3 tracking scripted TCs can butcher them so fast they won't know what happened. But then you're left with lol armor tank.
Garviel Tarrant
Beyond Divinity Inc
Shadow Cartel
#9 - 2013-01-20 17:28:36 UTC
A proper ceptor will easily pew drones.


Probably a AC rupture if he is orbiting at 20 and a dual web thorax if he is in close.

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Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#10 - 2013-01-20 18:00:41 UTC
YuuKnow wrote:
Opinions? I've yet to find something that's effective.

yk


220mm ACs + overheated web

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
Mra Rednu
Vanishing Point.
#11 - 2013-01-20 18:09:23 UTC
Energy neut.
Moonasha
Orcses and Goblinz
#12 - 2013-01-21 02:30:43 UTC
A drone bonused cruiser will chew them up, especially with a damage amp in the lows
Vilnius Zar
SDC Multi Ten
#13 - 2013-01-21 02:44:45 UTC
It depends on the range.

Assuming you fit 2 TE in the fits for comparison then weirdly it's the shield thorax with heavy neutrons and null (all tested without drones obviously) in most cases. Lasers have terrible tracking, even moreso with Scorch and ACs are too far in falloff with normal ammo and have tracking issues with Barrage up till 30km, Heavy neutrons with 2 TE and null outperform the rest by a vast amount when dealing with an orbiting Stiletto at up till 30km, from 30 to 40km ACs take over with barrage.