Currently using a Paladin I’m really dispointed by the lack of DPS of this Ship (Skill at 4/5).
It tanks like a beast but for the Frontier Command Post it’s quite hard to have enough DPS to wreck the ratts on the last wave. (2 green heat sinks ; I refit a 3rd one TII and need 700dps for the sleepers at 55km)
For this reason I think on using an Archon. But I read that the ratts LOVE to stick on our fighters. So is there some module usefull for that ?
I think on the “Drone Navigation Computer II” to increase their speed. Any others advices ?
Sadly, I doubt you will get much use out of a carrier in a wormhole, maybe outside from home defense. But for ratting purpose, the best thing would be to get yourself a Dreadnought.
I heard the Revelation is a great choice, because of good tracking and way lesser ammo consumption. The Siege will surely give you enough DPS and tank to break any site you can encounter in a C4 wormhole.
The only thing I do not recommend is the Moros (or a Naglfar with Kinetic ammo), because it appear Sleeper drones have slightly better resistances in Kinetic.
Also, be extra careful and watch out for new signatures. The Siege last way longer that the Bastion, and big wormhole groups often do what they call “rage rolling” their statics to find wormhole systems where they can catch easy preys. And they will surely pick a fight with a sieged Dreadnought
Half C4 WR have static to C3. If you are in one of those, maybe the solution would to farm static instead. Concidering that EHP/ISK is same / better in C3 .
But I believe there is a way how to configure Rattlesnake with Curator II so it output reasonable amount of DPS with 55 km optimal.
Something like this:
[Rattlesnake, C4 PvE]
Capacitor Flux Coil II
Capacitor Flux Coil II
Damage Control II
Imperial Navy Drone Damage Amplifier
Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System
Imperial Navy Drone Damage Amplifier
Gist X-Type Shield Boost Amplifier
Republic Fleet Large Cap Battery
Pith X-Type X-Large Shield Booster
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Republic Fleet Large Cap Battery
Republic Fleet Large Cap Battery
Drone Link Augmentor II
Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Large Capacitor Control Circuit I
Large Hydraulic Bay Thrusters I
Large Capacitor Control Circuit II
should be able to do the job for the price of the paladin hull itself. Output 1000 DPS at 55 km even with reload time concerned. You need to get ammo to your WH more often, yes, but even if you manufacture vanilla missiles it still does 950 DPS with them. More if you are good and switch Damage control to C3-X. It should be able to still face tank any wave in Frontier Command Post but deal over 1000 DPS with home made ammo.
