The Talos has the sexiest ship model in the game.
Turn your graphics settings up to max and undock, and then you will need to loosen your belt as the excitement rises through your pants as you zoom in on the ship enough to fill your entire monitor.
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Yeah once you get used to a Marauder, basically everything feels slow as hell. I have a max-skilled Rattlesnake from the old days that easily deals 1400dps with cruises and drones, having more than enough tank and excellent range - and even this one feels sooo slow compared what the marauders do. I don’t even want to imagine how it feels to grind through these missions with only 700 or 500 dps, might be fun for an experiment and a few runs, but not as ISK printing activity.
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IMO it’s more that it lacks application.
I just tried an old RNI and it was fine. Sure, not as fast as marauders, but besides drone BS when I was nova fit everything went down in 1-2 salvos - once ammo swapped.
Now it also needs to be range tanking while marauding are more akin to face tanking, which is more convenient.
Now idea what paper DPS was ^^ But I remember I enjoyed RNI after having tested RS.
But yes, I also think the ×2 DPS from marauder was too much.
Not sure I entirely agree with you there. The Kronos is damn sexy…
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When you activate the bastion and the Kronos lifts her skirt, it is quite attractive.
Solidly in the top 4 and higher rating than the base Megathron hull, but not quite as pretty as the Talos in my book.
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For Level 3 and 4s, I’d recommend using another HAC, the Eagle. It’s pretty incredible once you know how to pilot it correctly. It has range, amazing tank, T2 resistances, and more.
If you want to jump from cruisers up and go to BC, you can choose Naga as it gives you a ton more DPS and damage from super far range. Without any range modules, you can get 100% damage using Faction Antimatter from 60+KM - with 1-2 tracking speed/range enchancers, you can hit with AM damage at over 100km. And then as you switch to ammo with more range you can easily hit up to 250km.
The only problem with Naga is you won’t have drones. So you gotta make sure you have a MJD or what I like to do is dual prop, with AB and MWD. This allows you to keep distance without any cooldown wait. But MJD will give you 100km jump every 2 mins or so. So it’s not too bad.
When Sniping, with or without drones, you want to always keep distance and make sure the angle of your ship lines up with the enemy you are shooting. Some of the best sniping shots occur when burning directly away from enemies. Get used to some manual piloting and you will be able to take care of any enemies from 20km and beyond. Less than that, you should burn away or jump, or use drones of course.
Talos seems to be like the Eagle so its good for L3 and L4, but will always be way less damage than what an attack battlecruiser can do.
Have fun and enjoy! Being able to pilot at any distance and never worry about close/fast targets takes practice but once you have it down, you never worry.