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Caldari PvE ships?

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Sheeth Athonille
TerraTroopers
Get Off My Lawn
#21 - 2016-04-13 15:40:36 UTC
Serendipity Lost wrote:

1 - You're new and just working up L3 missions so Pith C-type anything is over priced.
2 - Caldari Navy BCU aren't worth the cost.
3 - all the T2 can be meta modules until you get the skills
4 - Sentry drones are a long train and only come into their own once you have maxed out all the core drones skills

This is a fit for someone w/ 60+ mil skill points and a fat wallet. Here's a fitting lesson for the new guy. Asking for a fit on the forums will give you a good basic idea of how to fit the ship, but historically forum fits assume you have billions of isk and elite skills. The Max/Min crowd also tend to post fits more often than 'regular guys' that don't need the bestest fit for the job.


The above fit has t2 rapid heavy missile launchers, 1 faction (expensive) and then t2 damage mods. Replace all that stuff with the best meta modules and here's what happens

1. Cost goes way down
2. Training time goes way down
3. Fitting requirements go way down (T2 anything is generally cheaper and better than non T2, but the trade of is that they are power grid and cpu hogs - so to fit them all your fitting skills must be at max - which takes a long time)
4. Giving all that up reduces your damage which increases your time to complete the mission.

Add in the training time to get multiple T2 sentries useable and you'll be training for months to actually get into that fit.

It's not a horrible fit, but it's not something you should recommend to a guy just getting into a caracal.


Don't forget the op asked for a fit to start trying towards, and this isn't a bad fit to train towards. Yes, it is a little expensive, but if you're gonna fly a 400 mil isk ship, then putting 220 mil (250 if you drop the damage amp) into the fit isn't a bad idea.

It's a solid goal to work towards that'll take about 20 mil sp to be nearly perfect, and a fair bit of isk, but it's definitely not bad fitting advice for a goal to work towards.
Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#22 - 2016-04-13 20:24:49 UTC
My Raven was equipped with the following:

HIGH
06 x Cruise Missile Launcher I
01 x SMALL TRACTOR BEAM 1
01 x SALVAGER I

MEDIUM
04 x LARGE SHIELD EXTENDERS
01 x 'HYPHNOS' ECM
01 x MEDIUM SHIELD BOOSTER

LOW
01 x EMERGENCY DAMAGE CONTROL
01 x ARMOR KINETIC HARDENER I
01 x ARMOR THREMIC HARDENER I
02 x WARP CORE STABILIZER I

DRONES
02 x WARRIOR I DRONES
03 x HAMMERHEAD I DRONES

UPGRADES
01 x ROCKET FUEL CACHE PARTINTION I
01 x BAY LOADING ACCELERATOR I

Perfection is a dish best served like wasabi .

Bumble's Space Log

Trader20
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#23 - 2016-04-14 15:46:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Trader20
Rattlesnake is for the eft warriors, great paper dps and tank but most of the time impractical. Reason's why not to use RS...

-Some mission require travel between gates so those sentries you love in eft are going to make mission running much slower.
-Using large drones with lol travel time is just fail for blitzing.
-Micro management of dropping and scooping drones while drones are being shot at will get tiresome.
-Use a gecko and hope the rats don't focus fire drones. Also the gecko can get expensive if you lose them a lot.
-Fast frigates will out track most sentries/large drones so you'll be forced to drop lites/meds or dps them down with tp and precision cruise so your drone bonus will not be getting any use against frigates. Or you'll need to sacrifice space for drone rigs/mods/webs to deal with frigs.
-Strong kin/therm missile damage but lacking em/ex damage.

Or if using a RS just pray for missions with limited travel and rats that don't love to shoot drones. Those missions the RS will really shine so maybe keep one on hand to deal with those missions.

I would suggest the SNI cruise/tp with med/lite drones. Less paper damage but more mobile and practical damage and less worry with drone aggro. Or check out a CNR
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