Missions & Complexes

Prove it, ie show me a 1hr video, or it didn't happen.
So now your vague statement of the best ship changes as you whole page talks about blitzing. Every ship in eve has its purpose. Yours may do missions quicker, but doesn't mean you can make a blanket statement that murauders are not the best.
I made the statement that my Golem will run ALL missions better than a pirate ship, you have yet to prove otherwise.
If the OP had said he wants to blitz missions I would not have made the statement.

conflag paladin is a beast, scorch... not so much. IN multi (and I'm pretty sure gamma) out damages scorch. However scorch has a tracking advantage, but I'm not sure how much that plays into things. most frigs/dessy get one shot, and most cruisers get 2 shot anyways.

Also with the paladin the damage type isn't that bad. works pretty well in amarr and caldari space. not sure about gallente. and I would avoid minmatar. Most of the gurista missions aren't a problem as they have blitzes. I'm not going to suggest you use a paladin for them but it can work reasonably well. I've said in the past paladin + machariel is probably my favorite pair of mission bs.

my armor marauders typically run a damage control, EANM, and c-type medium rep.

not sure the range nerfs on polarized weapons make them very useful. but I haven't tried them. the few missions where I think I would want to try them I'm thinking the mach is just better thanks to the warp speed + agility.

Kronos yea I like it, but for the most part I feel that its damage advantage isn't really any better than the machs speed advantage.

vargur I'm pretty meh about. mach does more damage and goes way faster. Vargur tanks more. not very useful most of the time.


in eve being a jack of all trades is usually not the right move. flying a golem is as far as I'm concerned almost never the right move. and "all missions" is a pretty ridiculous thing to argue over. Have fun using your golem in recon, or the anomaly. (insert joke about mining and courier missions)

Sure the golem has the best damage type selection ability, but has way to many disadvantages imo. delayed damage, damage application, target painters, slot layout. meh

So basically we are now arguing about whether the Golem is overpowered and needs nerfing ???

Polarized Marauders is bad advice. Why are you giving bad advice in your thread Arthur?

For unknown reasons, people seem to frown on folks that uses the Barghests for PVE. But seriously how well can a RHML Barghest do Lev 4 full clear compared to a Cruise Golem?

Marauders are the only platform I'd run Polarized weapon on ever really (Short of the odd safe tower bash in a Vindi) So it's the best advice to give, once the pilot is comfortable with the ship of course.

I'm starting to get that as I recently discovered with the increase clearing speed with the Paladins when I added a 4th heatsink and dropping the tank from 1180 down to 830 dps. But using Polarized weapons on Marauders is just begging for gankers to add you to their watchlist with 5 Catalysts on standby. I just can't fathom why anyone would want to take such a risk.


Btw: could you post your Lev 5 Golem fit please?

Are you doing lev 5s in this Golem solo? How efficiently can this Golem do lev 5s? Why RHML instead of Cruise? And those heavy neuts are to ward off potential gankers?

Can dual Passive tanked Rattlers with 1.3k passive tank doing 840 dps each do lev 5s?

Zero missions have every foe at 60km.

I've been playing around with a Kronos blaster fit and it's quite a riot. You can pretty much hit even frigates out to around 80km and it melts anything within 40km. 1800 applied DPS is nothing to laugh at...