A review of the Nestor: It sucks

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The point that it is one of the best RR-doctrine ships is reason enough not to allow it a Covert Cloak.

I mean, what’s this stupid discussion even about? Some guy who has barely any experience in PvP complaining about “stats” issues so he can’t fit a Sniper-Kite-Beam-Laser Nestor that also apply dronedamage to 150km. Wtf? Nestor’s are the SoE’s fleet support ships and they fit their role pretty nice in WH space.

  • you can squeeze 5 (!!!) of them through a hole compared to the mass of one other combat battleship
  • each of them provide twice the RR-power of a full-skilled Guardian
  • while also having 2-3 times the Armor Buffer of a Guardian (which often cannot benefit so much from it’s small signature/speed because in these fights massive amounts of Web and/or Paints are present)
  • being MUCH more neutralizer-resistant than Guardians
    • 2 Cap batteries=44% neut resistance vs. usually 0% neut resistance on a Guardian (AB+Sensorbooster or DualSensorbooster is standard fit)
    • ~13k total cap (~24k effective cap after resist) vs. 2.8k cap on a Guardian
    • being able to come in a HeavyCapbooster fit using 3200er charges forever if the fleet is clever enough to re-supply it in-fight by just dropping more boosters should one Nestor come under threat of being neuted dry
    • being able to also come in Cap-Chain fits like the Guardian to provide even more cap-warfare stability and support other ships that are neutralized
  • offering 50% higher base ECM resist (Sensor Strenght) from the getgo than a Guardian (36 Nestor, 22.8 Guardian without Sebo, the Guardian needs an ECCM scripted Sebo Running to surpass the Nestor with 44 Strength)
  • and providing the firepower of a full set of Sentries/Heavies
  • and having an aligntime after jump that enables it to keep up with any T3, HAC or BS doctrine
  • and offering a freaking RefittingService ON FIELD without the need of Mobile Depots

This freakin’ ship is godlike. If it would be any better it would be borderline OP. It doesn’t need more PG or anything else, simply because you would never fit a full rack of Lasers on it, not even talking about BeamLasers. Even if you just use them in a small gang of only 3-5 Nestors for Ninjafarming, half of the HighSlots would be RRs and then MAYBE some DualHeavy Pulses for some additional punch.

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