Ships & Modules

Considering testing it in a group PVP situation to deal with cruisers, frigs and drones.

With the low Dmg of Rails and the Low Range + the terrible scaling of Damage on medium rails you are plain out better off in a Heavy Missile Drake. Your going to max out at less then 300 "Gun" DPS with Antimatter with a range of 14km at the most Damage.

With Heavy Missiles you can go out to 70km for much more Missile Dmg and Fury Missiles eat Battleships. You will have a stronger tank and between painters and precision missiles you will be more accurate,

Drake is definitely worth the 8mil extra on the Price Tag.

Or just hop into a hurricane or harby and do much better in both pve and pvp.

[Ferox, PVE]
Damage Control II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II

Y-S8 Hydrocarbon I Afterburners
Stasis Webifier II
Invulnerability Field II
Large Shield Extender II
Large Shield Extender II

200mm Railgun II, Antimatter Charge M
200mm Railgun II, Antimatter Charge M
200mm Railgun II, Antimatter Charge M
200mm Railgun II, Antimatter Charge M
200mm Railgun II, Antimatter Charge M
200mm Railgun II, Antimatter Charge M
Drone Link Augmentor I

Medium Core Defence Field Extender I
Medium Core Defence Field Extender I
Medium Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I


Hobgoblin II x5

For PVP you will mostly see lasers and autocannons on a Ferox.

The Ferox and the Prophecy are the worst tier 1 BCs. All the tier 1 BCs really lack utility when compared to their tier 2 counterparts. The only roles these ships can serve is some sort of bait to draw a gang in and survive long enough for your gang to arrive.

The problem here is the tier system. When there were learning skills in the game, when you started with very little sp and the rate of gaining sp was much longer tiers may have made sense. You buy the lesser and wait to train into the better tier.

However, now sp comes very quickly at the beginning. There is no reason to buy a lesser tier/lesser ship because very quickly you have the sp for the better tier/better ship. So the time has come for CCP to drop the tiers.

We are going through another expansion now where CCP felt the need to introduce "new" ships (candy). But think of just how much candy they could introduce if they got rid of the tiers in frigates, cruisers, and BCs and redesigned them around roles. The stats and slots could be evened out while providing thses ships roles that would get them flown. Similar to Tech II ships, which have roles and not tiers, lower skilled or players not wanting to spend for tech II or tech III for whatever reason would use let's say a Celestis or an Augorer because they wouldn't necesarilly be the relative **** they are now.

Maybe the Ferox will benefit and find some utility with the hybrid buff, but its only true salvation would come with the removal of the tier concept.

edit- lol at me, mistakenly said projectile buff, that was so last year

Actually, i have flown the ferox for a few years. I am far from dissapointed. what i find are lots of folks who have never flown it or have little exp with it bashing it for no more reason than it is popular to do so.

A blaster Ferox and a 220mm AC ferox are greart ships. They do good damge with great range with with bonuses to blasters. Yes, they are NOT the best ships out there but they do well for their cost and flexability.

I know lots of you dont like this fit. But it was a fun fit that i threw together and it works well for me. Better than spendin time trainin missles when i can just hop into a min vessal an get all the benefits of my gun trained char.

I do, however, appreciate the feedback.

P.S. an this fit, with my skills does about 350 max damage every 2.1 seconds.... not bad... an it hits small ***** quite well. I think it would function well as an anti frigate and anti drone platform... chaep, effective, ranged and can still fight close due to the good tracking of the dual 150mms....

Ferox and Prophecy are nice - you can invent useful ships from their BPCs.

A fun gang of blasterroxes with web+scram are awesome and unexpectable too.

@ above:

6x Neutron Blasters (or Ion's...can't remember which fit)

Invuln II, 10MN MWD, Warp Scrambler 2x Extenders (or 2nd invuln and 1 extender)

3x Mag Stabs and DC/Nano/ i-stab

Rigs:
Em Rig, 2 extender rigs

IIRC its 500+ dps, but needs to be in a gang since its short on tackle gear. You could set it up for better tank or more damage projection if you know you have a dedicated tackle,

Or you can dedicate to tackle if you have logistics.

Personally, I love the Ferox, its always been my fav. ship even though it underperforms when compared to some others. Sometimes I have to turn EFT off and spend 30M and fly around in it and say "yup, this is why I like this ship."

Take it or leave it, but have fun with whichever you do.

To the nay-sayers: Get over it. If you have fun winning or losing in a ship, thats all that matters!

To the rather rude FLurk, I do lvl 4s. Maybe if you actually read what i say, you will see it says,"i prefer this shipfor lvl3s" NOT :all i do is lvl3s"

Scondly i thought i made it clear that i prefer frig hulls and smaller ships to the huge, slow BSes. The BC is about as high as i really wanna go.

I wouldn't call it "Horribly Gimping," I would call it "flying what makes him enjoy the game a little more. I'll never understand why some people are happy to always think their way is the best and anyone who doesn't go that way must be a moron...