Ships & Modules

Is there any1 using Rattlesnake with success? (both PVP and PVE)

To me it seems that this ships is sub-par to all other ships of the same class, or am I wrong?

LM

I ran a mission with it last night.

It's not the fastest, but I was exhausted, on a laptop and sloppy...it's the most forgiving hull I can think of that can still kill at a respectable rate.

And, that's what I use mine for - lazy/tired/carefree missioning and it excels in that role. I could fit it differently and clear faster at a cost of durability but I have other things for that.

I believe an active rattler has a genuinely sick DPS/tank capability but it's oft overlooked as everyone and their mother passive fits them.

If what you want is great projection, awesome tank and decent dps while having loads of utility

Yea the rattler is pretty amazing.

Have you guys not seen the rattlers fielded in the last few AT's?

Another huge benefit of a rattler is that it works extremely well (in PVE) when fitted with just t2 modules. Other top end PVE ships need a lot of expensive shiny stuff to work.

Ty for all your answers, but I'm not yet convinced that RS is on pair with other Faction BSs.

I tried in EFT all the combination suggested and other faction fitting but its always much worse than others ( e.g. Machariels, Vargur etc... and even Dominix).

It's just average and does not excel in anything.

It also explain why a mach bpc cost as three times and a RS bpc imho.

AY

Find me another BS that'll have (racial defences) 140k EHP, tank over 1200 DPS with a mere T2 tank, still put out over 800 DPS and is 100% cap stable I.e. zero cap use for /anything/


Can't tell me that's not excelling.

With 4 x DDA's and T2 sentries you will find they both do the same dps. If you fit 2 omni's to the RS it will have the same drone optimal as the domi. It will have a better tank. You could argue that you could could put 2 omnis on the domi to increase range, and tracking, but that doesn't make it a better drone boat imo. The highs you could carried away an argue missiles over hybrids too if you want. In the end they both drone boats with the RS giving the same drone dps but with a much better tank, passive or active.

not at all. usually worst case is you need a bit of faction to make it all fit. faction damage mods are just nice to have, and anything on the tank is mostly pimping for the hell of it.



odyssey added a lot to the domi build cost. heck the extra materials are greater than the base materials. mineral prices are sliding a bit, so roughly the domi should be about 2x what it used to cost.



honestly sounds pretty boring to me.

Well... that's what I am saying. Rattle has insane tank while having same dps with a tech 1 dominix. In the mean time that domi has good tank for anything PvE. Why do you need to bother to buy a faction BS when you can have same dps with better tracking.

Only reason is insane tank of rattle. Honestly no other pirate BS so close to any other tech 1 BS.

Mach is on par or better than marauders for PvE. Extremelly good PvP ship too.
Bhaalgorn is the BS pilgrim. Ok not cloak but you got the point. Nothing tech 1 come close.
Vindicator is a monster boat too.
Nightmare crazy laser tracking and damage projection with only problem of it being em+thermal damage. Mostly compared with marauders.

Then looks like we have rattlesnake, coward guristas overtanked faction BS with needs to put in 2 omnis (as we all know tracking actually means dps) just to be equal with t1 BS.

I think changing the resist bonus to something aggresive should just push rattler to be a great pirate ship. Maybe even some jamming power. As guristas are nuts with them.. I and mostly rest of eve would like to play exciting ships not passive tanking abominations with lows filled with shield power relays.