EVE New Citizens Q&A

Gallente have two ship lines..drones and blasters. All Bc/BS will have drones, but Gallente droneboats emphasize them. These are the Myrmidon and the Dominix. Droneboats tend to be very versatile and good for dealing with frigates, but both the Myrrm and the Domi are slow. The Domi can do hilarious bullshit like filling the hislots with energy neutralizers to cap everything out while its drones do all the damage.

Blasters are rather different. Blasters do bullshit amounts of damage but have no real range. The point of blaster boats is to run up into someone's face and melt it off. Gallente blasterboats do stupid amounts of damage to anything they can hit, the primary weakness being that they're boned if they cannot get in range.

Gallente, unlike Amarr, do not really have any snipers. They can fit railguns, but their hybrid boats are generally specialized for blaster use. Railgun snipers are the Caldari thing.

Amarr ships are laserboats, almost all of them. They tend to be bricks. Very slow...but they can get away with being slow, because lasers have the highest optimal range of any close-range weapon system (with pulse lasers. Beam lasers are the opposite when compared to other long-range weapon systems, with the lowest range and highest damage). A harbinger with Scorch (t2 pulse laser ammo) loaded can comfortably hit out to 20km. Battleships can hit out way more. Amarr ships also tank hard and deal a lot of damage.

The primary weakness other than the fact that they are slow is that pulse lasers, while they track fantastically at their optimal ranges, have poor tracking in absolute terms. If a ship gets very close to a laserboat, it will miss all over the place as long as it keeps up transversal. And beam lasers, while they do great damage at a good range, don't have the alpha of artillery or the ridiculous range of railguns.

The big difference are viable fittings. You don't want to slow your ship down as a blaster boat, yet you can't possible kite damage because you have to be within webber range to do any damage with a blaster boats. Amarr don't got that problem. Laser boat don't really care about being locked down by a Rapier or Arazu. If your Brutix is stopped you lose 90% of you damage.

As bigger fleets get as less blasters you want because you wont get in range in time. Unless you camp stations, what blaster boats are used for the most. In doubt laser boats will deal more damage on the battlefield, no matter what your paper damage tells you. Pretty much all Amarrships are faster then Gallenteboats. That speed thing is a lie that wasn't true even before all the speed nerfs, still players who can't fly Amarr keep repeating it. Not that you would care as an Apoc can hit at 65km with short range guns before fitting any range mods.

Both races ships got problems but Gallente ships got all the problems Amarr and a few more on top of that. In addition Gallente can't really do anything about theirs. While Amarr can change fittings to counter, blaster boats just sit there and die. That's why tracking is not an issue. You stick two webbers on the target (from 60km with faction mods and gang links) and even Tachyons will hit any target just fine. Add painters on top of that and it gets silly.

CCP tried to fix blasters with the last patch while ignoring (once again) the underlying problem that range control got much more powerfull over the years while range of blasters stayed pretty much the same. Yes, yes, you can use Null but then you might as well fit rails.

And the famous NeutDomi was actually a NosDomi (that was nerfed out of existence). If you try to suck somebody dry you will end up with no capa yourself. Technically you can do that but if you really use a domi you set it up for remote repping instead these days. That works very well tho.

Gallente ships are greeeeen