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Various fighter questions - is there a "best" one?
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Duchess Starbuckington
Doomheim
#1 - 2011-09-09 12:10:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Duchess Starbuckington
Stupid question I know, but is there a best fighter to load up a carrier with? I've been looking over the stats on the 4 types, and seen they all have the same DPS - so it must come down to tracking and damage type.

The Minmatar drones have the best tracking and explosive is a nice damage type, this would seem to make them the best choice overall - but do they orbit close enough for falloff to be a nonissue?

Edit: also, I've seen people refer to Dragonflies as severely handicapped by their tracking. Is this true?

And yes, I'm aware that a carrier's job is RR, but at some point I am quite likely gonna be sitting back and assigning fighters to people so I'd just like some opinions from people with actual experience.
Ultim8Evil
Exit-Strategy
Unchained Alliance
#2 - 2011-09-09 12:28:15 UTC
Einherj for PvP

Firbolg for PvE

Dragonflies are sloooooow and their tracking is poor

Templars are rubbish all round, unless you simply must do EM damage.

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kyrv
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#3 - 2011-09-09 12:30:38 UTC
Apparently so I was told dragonflies are borked, they dont even work so well against guristas. Normally i'd go for furbolgs but the minmatar one is like you said pretty good too. I guess this rule of thumb works best on t1 Thermal-shield / kinetic-armor and explosive, electromagnetic.

Hope that helps.
Alec Freeman
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2011-09-09 12:43:48 UTC
If you have the skills to then run a mix of drones. Its not good to limit yourself to only 1 damage type especially in PvP