Ships & Modules

Lose the nano pump and do a tech 2 laser ROF rig. It will net you another 50-80 dps. That thing is seriously over tanked. If you are doing 1000-1300 dps, a 300-500 dps tank is overkill.

I'd even drop the DC for a tracking enhancer and drop the CR II for a sensor booster with scan-res script so you can lock those scrambling frigs up and insta pop them before they get under your guns. I don't remember the last time I actually launched my drones when using my paladin.

Its your billion isk though, so if you want to over tank for a few missions until you're more comfortable that it won't go boom then that is fine. There are a few missions where It melts rats so fast that I still have shield left when the last rat goes pop.


Also take conflag for use against BS and BC under 40km. It has significantly more damage than INMF, especially vs targets that are weaker to Thermal than they are to EM damage. The tracking penalty on conflag means INMF is better vs cruisers, dessies, and the odd frig that you can still track.

[Paladin, New Setup 1]
True Sansha Heat Sink
True Sansha Heat Sink
True Sansha Heat Sink
Tracking Enhancer II
True Sansha Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane
True Sansha Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane
Large Armor Repairer II

Large Micro Jump Drive
Tracking Computer II, Tracking Speed Script
Tracking Computer II, Tracking Speed Script
Heavy Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I, Cap Booster 800

Tachyon Beam Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency L
Tachyon Beam Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency L
Tachyon Beam Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency L
Tachyon Beam Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency L
Bastion Module I
Small Tractor Beam II
Salvager II
Salvager II

Large Energy Collision Accelerator II
Large Auxiliary Nano Pump I


Tracking speed scripts in both computers with Gleam, INMF, INGamma and INXray should cover all ranges 0-120kish
Booster is for security as I tend to forget to cycle the repper off. Probly run the Gunnery rig for ROF rather then the one fitted.

Point being you do NOT need alot of bling crap on your Palidan. I think this fit is around 1.2b

Mind your cap, Pulse the rep and drop the frigs 25k+ anything under and you may need to use drones.



MissBehaving

While I am most certainly not going to defend that fit, there's valid reason for those Tach with such optimals. Longer range crystals don't only do less dps but they also are skewing more into EM only which results it terrible applied dps loss against non-em targets, and Scorch is almost exclusively EM.

Put simply; when for instance shooting Guristas at 50km you could do it with pulse+scorch but you'll be MUCH better off using beams due to crystal choices.

It's not impossible using Conflagration Crystals, but even then only half your damage will be something they have moderately low resists too, with huge resists on the EM side. Not efficient, but it'll work.

Using anything else will hit you too hard on the Thermal side of the crystal, as EM is the majority damage on every single crystal bar Conflag.

This^

Don't use lasers for fighting targets that have high EM resists.

I use a tach Paladin and I'm happy with it. The DPS is higher than Scorch. Now if you're up close with Conflagration pulses do more DPS

Wait, when did THAT fit not count as blinged any more?