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Originally Posted by Sancus  Flying a Myrmidon well does not require significantly more gunnery than missile skills, the secondary gunnery skills vs missile skills are entirely a wash, and the only difference is you require Small Projectiles V - heavy missiles V and Medium Projectile V are the same. So the Myrm is ahead by like 5 days, here. Both require Battlecruisers V, so that's a wash. The Myrm requires Drone Interfacing V, but the Nighthawk requires Caldari Cruiser V -- these two things are a wash, except that in all reality, Drone Interfacing V is a far more generally valuable skill than Caldari Cruiser V, so you're probably better off at this point.
Past this point though, stuff just starts to stack up on the Nighthawk, it requires Mechanic V, Weapon Upgrades V, Warfare Link Specialist IV, Heavy Assault Ships IV, Assault Ships IV, Leadership V...
The kicker is that with Drone Interfacing IV, and Battlecruiser IV, your Myrm is still doing more dps than the Nighthawk. It also insures, unlike the Nighthawk which costs like 200 million that you lose if it dies.
Also, don't forget that tanking really awesomely is an entirely useless capability to 90% of players -- it's only really good for tanking plexes, and the like, for missioning and other PvE you just need a minimum tank that will hold, and the rest is all a question of how much dps you can do to raise your killing efficiency. So I'd say really good tank + awesome dps is much better general purpose than awesome tank + pathetic dps. |
The point was that you have to cross train projectiles. If you're Caldari, you probably already have missile skills. However, the Gallente player probably has most of their points in hybrids, not projectiles. You also forgot about Heavy Drone Interfacing V, Gallente Drone Spec IV, Scout Drone Operation V, and all the other ancilliary drone skills (Sharpshooting, Navigation, Durability) that a missile boat with 25m3 drone bay can leave at like III or IV or even ignore completely because light drones don't do much damage and they can't catch interceptors anyway.
Also, PvE? Just use a Raven, it's infinitely better than any battlecruiser or command ship. The new Level five missions are basically going to require a fully faction fitted Navy Raven anyway from what I'm hearing on the test server, things like 25+ battleships per pocket that all aggro instantly.