EVE General Discussion

I have had the exact opposite experience. The Gallente still suck, I know, cause it's what i fly. I"m cross training to Minmatar because there is no reason to continue to put myself in harms way. The Gallente are an armor tanked race by and large. The issue with the close range brawler is that you can't be -slow- and live. Since we can be kited AC to blaster, and never close the gap to even get a Minmatar ship in our falloff range because we are too slow, it's a losing proposition every time, and because you burn all your cap trying to get in range. Even OH'ed you're gonna be at half cap or below when you do get in range, making you all the more susceptible to capacitor warfare modules. The new buff is nice, but has not yet brought the Gallente into focus as a viable and competitive PVP option. The fitting options on hybrids still forces you to chose between damage and tank, and that goes a long way in taking your range away from you because if don't fit ions or electrons you will not have a tank. Ions give you the same tank, but less cap as electrons, which means you have to forgo the range necessary to engage with. If you go with neutrons you are going to realize immediately that you won't have a tank and your cap is gone ridiculously fast. You will also notice you explode effortlessly while you try to catch something with your scram/web. The reality is that a 10k engagement range is not a viable option for the Gallente. The Tracking bonus and damage bonus don't matter if you cant HIT someone because they are exactly 1 meter too far away. You could be able to a million dps with a blaster at 5k, but it won't matter because you can't get anyone in that range because A no one is dumb enough, and B you're too slow even if someone is dumb enough.

As much as I would love to believe that someday the Gallente will actually be PVPable, but for now, we're just cannon fodder until we have -PERFECT- skills. And by the time you have perfect skills you'll have already realized you should be cross training in to Minmatar.

Firstly, not mocking, but I am genuinely having trouble reading that, if your not native English speaking good on you, you write better English than I probably do of your native otherwise, well yeah learn to write, please.

Secondly I specifically said both the laser and HAM legions are used in PVE a lot. Both my mates use laser legions in Sanctums.

And as that other clever man I cant be bothered to quote says, maybe its your fittings/skills not the ships.

@Fix My Lasers

No it doesnt but considering your short range weapon system of a Medium type can fight in optimal out to 40k with poor skills and T1 crystals.

Thats not bad, you can also insta change ammo, select range in a way I as a Minmatar simply cannot.

Just see it this way, we can pick our damage type if we wait 10 seconds to reload. Yay for us. You can instantly change to fit the range you are fighting at Yay for you.

Well I really dont see what your point is at the moment, you dont like the damage types dealt by lasers, fair enough, your excellent range flexibility really does make up for that lets be honest.

In regards to the ships and fitting them, I personally fly Minmatar mostly, however I fly Baddons for Pew Pew (with lasers, yes).

I rat in a Harb (for the better optimal and the joy of buying ammo once and the better drone bay). I also rat in a Geddon which runs the Cap for 9 Minutes with everything running (Including a repper). Stable with AB off. Paladins, Navy Geddons and Navy Apocs as well as many other Amarr ships are used to rat here in provi, the majority of ratters are, to be honest, using lasers.

Damage Type - Because you have 10 seconds before every engagement to change ammo type, thats a bizarre comment to make.
And also Minmatar T2 ammo as Im sure you know deals only two damage types, and I find myself using barrage a lot, to get any kind of DPS out of them at the ranges I tend to end up fighting at in either fleet fights or kiting.

Range - I lose my first premised advantage of damage selection at range anyways, do to being practically limited to barrage.
Even with barrage, I cannot do any real damage at 44k which happens to be the optimal range of the T1 radio crystals on medium Amarr turrets

\Constructive

Constructive? Yes, very!
Man, don't disgrace yourself.

if they do that amarr is going to be way too powerfull they are srtrong enough as it is

A 1.2B fitted Tengu will still die in a Bubble to T1 frigs and some EWAR. It's all relative to what you are doing or trying to do.

Yes fix lasers. Give them better tracking .. here we go..

Multifreq is 70% EM and 30% TH. It is the highest TH/EM ratio.

"INAPPROPRIATE GUNS" by this you mean I should mount ACs or Hybrids? Because those 2 systems are great for shooting any rats, unlike lasers.

A : thermal/kinetic combo works pretty well against any NPC .. sure they are not best at some cases but still they could be at second place of choice..

B : Dont know..