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Eagle Worth it?
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Vricrolatious
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Brothers of Tangra
#21 - 2011-12-02 22:42:33 UTC
Used to fly in Sniper HAC fleets a while back and was hoping that it would be useful again come this expansion, but it doesn't look like it. Played with it on SiSi and wasn't happy to find that you still can't fit 250mm rails on it, so my Sniper fit is unchanged. I've seen a couple blaster fits that worked out well enough if you wanted to get that close to your target, but that's a too close for comfort for me.

As someone noted at the start of the thread, a Naga is probably the better option now as it can fit a full rack of 425mm's and probably has a similar amount of hitpoints thanks to the lower amount on the Tier 3 BCs. I'll hold out hope that my Eagle will see combat again, but not a lot of Sniper HAC fleets these days.

Just my thoughts on it, perhaps you'll have better luck though.

WIDot, Best Dot, Even Sans Dot! -Vric
Alara IonStorm
#22 - 2011-12-02 22:57:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Alara IonStorm
Vricrolatious wrote:
but not a lot of Sniper HAC fleets these days.

There seem to be 2 Types of HAC's you see.

AB Armor HAC's and Kiting HAC's. The problem brawling HAC's, like the Beagle, Sac, Deimos and Ishtar is that Battlecruisers end up pulling the same EHP and even more Dmg. When a 2x Nano Cane can keep pace with most Cruiser with the same EHP or more, 1.5x the DPS with the same accuracy, 2 Medium Neuts and a ton more Cap at half the cost and insured... Well the uses for HAC's just tend to fade away.

When you look at it outside of Kiting and Sig Tanking Battleships Guns, basically roles eaten up by the Zealot, Vaga and Cynabal Combat Cruisers have pretty much lost there place in EVE. T2 Support Cruisers have done well since there is no EWAR / Logi Battlecruisers but besides that meh.

If they want to bring back HAC's and even T1 / Faction Cruiser they have to excel in there roles in a way that is not just Tank / DPS. Something the Hurricane and Drake can not do better. Like the Vaga and Zealot do.
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