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Originally Posted by Dildo Faggins  All afs have rolls they preform well at, the big problem is everyone WANTS them to be badass tackler tanks, when AFs really arent suited for that. They are too slow and heavy. If you want to tackle people fly a damn interceptor or interdictor. Afs are meant to be fast anti-tacklers in fleets. They watch the incoming interceptors, and meet the ones that are smart enough to flt at your fleet at an angle head on. You have two major advantages working for you in a well setup af. First, you will do enough damage to take down a cruiser or smaller in a relatively quick amount of time. Second, your not going to be near the top of anyones to kill list until you agro them. Use these facts to your advantage.
First off, since your job is defending your fleet from intis, you can get away with using an Afterburner over a mwd, which though it will make you slower, but you dont need the mobility. You arent chasing people down. You are defending ships, big ships that wont be moving fast. If you want to chase people down, again, why the hell arent you in an inti? Secondly, you dont need a warp scram in a good fleet setup. A webber to make it so your tech2 weapons with best ammo can rape upon them, and you can kill many ships before they even know what the hell hit them, yet alone care to panic for the warp button.
These reasons are why wolf is one of my favorite AFs in the game. My setup is amazingly simple and equally effective. 2x gyro2, 1x overdrive2, 1 sar2, ab2, web2, then throw on enough dps to appease god. End result is a ship that can absolutely rape even a cruiser before it knows what the hell is happening. If your feeling really manly, throw that sar off in favor for another gyro. Use AF's for what they were meant for. Extremely high damage anti interceptor types. Using an AF to try and tackle people just makes me sad. Some here might say destroyers are a lot better at anti tackler work. Those people have obviously never flown a destroyer in a fleet. Destroyers pop like bubblewrap in fleet combat. They are too fat. |
Problem most people have with AFs is they dont have a distinct role that other ships dont do better like most every other T2 ship.. recons and hacs are both better than the AF at anti support.. where intys and dictors are useful to the fleet and each is needed thats not true of an AF, no one ever holds the fleet up because they dont have enough AFs. Theres a few exceptions to that but not many, the ishkur almost does enough dps on its own to be worth it, but the enyo annd most other races AFs dont do much more dmg than a ranis, and you give up a huge amount of other utilities to get that small dmg increase over the inty.
PS myrm is a sick BC and owns all the other BCs. It can get you through a lvl4 at about the same speed as a domi or raven if you have the skills for it... its only real weakness is its drone bay is smaller than the domis so it cant have light/med drones to compliment its heavies.