After Testing much of the Babaroga in PVE content, I believe its performance is very underwhelming considering the MAX high output damage takes so long to max up however the Lowest end DPS when initially firing a single weapon is significantly lower than base damage of just 2 weapon hardpoints’ seen on other Marauder ships. As an example the damage output of the paladin exceeds on a moderate scale with just 2 guns firing on a battleship class NPC will destroy 2 ships by the time the Babaroga destroys 1 battleship NPC. Looks like this Babaroga does not excel in the world of PVE which is unfortunate. PVP looks like it would be best suited! Any other pilots notice this as well?
Which is intentional. And fit with all the other Triglavian ships, most of them plain suck in PvE compared to the competition.
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Not too surprising given its also Therm/Exp locked DPS wise, now have you also tried using it in some of the other more neish PVE scenarios like Pirate FOB bashing or vs Drifters things like that?
I could imagine it working great when bashing FOBs, because that thing has enough HP to enable the Babaroga to fully spool up.
We tested it in WH sites and the Babaroga is quite good against the Drifter Boss if you escalate the site, but not as good as a Golem. And the more ships you have, the worse it becomes, because it simply can’t spool up fully.
And, you can simply use a Golem if you would want to use a “special” ship for them. The Golem can shoot against 20% Shield Thermal resist and 0% Armor EM resist, while the Babaroga need to fire against 20% Therm, 49% Exp on Shield and then 50% Therm and 50% Exp on Armor, cutting it’s damage in half.
In the sites itself, it’s still a lot slower than the other Marauders, only against the highest HP Sleeper Battleships you can barely come close to a Paladin for example. Against everything else, you are off a lot worse.
golem: 4 x t2 Torpedo + 3 x faction BCS = 2548dps
babaroga: 1 x t2 Disintegrator + 3 x ERS = 892 BASE dps & 4683 MAX dps
so, only when babaroga reach 2548+(2548-892) = 4204dps, it delt the same damage as golem in total, which is about 334509 dmg and needs 53 shoots and 131.44 seconds.
sooo, you’ve come to essentially the same conclusion most of us came to after reading the stats after the fanfest reveal?
it’s a great structure bashing platform.
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Performance depends on the situation.
For a single weapon that starts slow but spools up the longer it continually hits a single target to outperform weapon platforms with no spool-up time and multiple weapons which can split focus and attack multiple targets at the same time, the situation requires single targets that have a lot of hitpoints rather than many weaker targets.
Most PvE missions and sites in EVE consist of many weaker targets, which makes the Barbaroga less useful than one ofthe other Marauders.
For structure bashing, Marauder 1v1s or similar situations it’s hard to find a battleship stronger than a Barbaroga.
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the issue is.. there are no high sec or low sec npc’s that will have enough ehp for you to get to full spoolage, yes average dps is half. might wana see a head shrink over it.
pretty much bud… i got to 52k dps and didnt get a chance to try again with boosters pretty sure i would have got around 57k dps if i did
Yeah, that ship is simply not designed to do NPC content. And thats not problem, because it excels in other situations (namely: breaking caps and sieging structures).
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