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Each ammunition type has a different range modifier, does a different amount of damage and uses a different amount of your capacitor when fired. The better the range, the lower base damage the ammo deals, creating a sliding scale from short-ranged, high-damage Antimatter to long-ranged, low-damage Iron.

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The two Tech 2 ammunition types for blasters are Null and Void. Void charges turn blasters into the true uncontested highest-DPS weapons in the game, at the cost of even further reducing their already short range and making it difficult to hit targets which are not either larger or effectively stationary. Null charges allow good damage to be projected to a longer range, and are usable by pilots who either cannot keep themselves close to their targets or are forced to extend out to avoid being tackled or the like. The effects of these ammo types on range, tracking speed, and capacitor need is given in the following table:

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The two Tech 2 ammo types for railguns are Spike and Javelin. Javelin lets railguns pretend to be blasters: it has a much shorter range, higher damage, and a tracking bonus. Spike is an extra-long range ammo, with an 80% range bonus but very large penalties to tracking speed. Javelin ammunition is not extremely common, as the range penalty is generally not worth the marginal damage gained over Navy Antimatter. Spike, meanwhile, is the be-all end-all in sniping ammunition, extending railguns' already ridiculous range to the point where even other turrets a full size larger can find it difficult to retaliate.

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Projectile ammo can be split into three tiers, short-ranged (EMP, Fusion and Phased Plasma), medium-ranged (Titanium Sabot and Depleted Uranium) and long-ranged (Proton, Nuclear and Carbonized Lead). All ammo within each tier has the same range and tracking modifiers, but the different types offer different kinds of damage. The medium-ranged tier (Titanium Sabot and Depleted Uranium) has a significant tracking speed bonus.

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The two Tech 2 ammunition types for autocannon are Barrage and Hail. Barrage has a tracking penalty but a 40% falloff increase, and is popular with ships like the [[Vagabond]] which like to skirmish in falloff range. Hail has a penalty to falloff range and a large penalty to optimal range, and to tracking, but it deals very high damage. In practice the range and tracking speed drawbacks mean that Hail rarely offers more DPS, although it can be effective against big, stationary ships or POSs. Barrage does roughly equal amounts of explosive and kinetic damage, while Hail does a lot of explosive damage and a little kinetic on the side.

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The two Tech 2 ammunition types for artillery are Quake and Tremor. Quake, much like Javelin for hybrids, lets artillery pretend to be autocannons, with high damage but much-reduced range. (However, because projectile turret falloff is so long, the Quake optimal range penalty is less of a problem to artillery than Gleam or Javelin's penalty is to railguns or beam lasers.) Tremor has a dramatic 80% range bonus, but a very significant penalty to tracking. Both do a mixture of explosive and kinetic damage.

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Each crystal has a different range modifier, does a different amount of damage and has a different modifier to lasers' capacitor use. The better the range, the lower base damage the ammo deals, creating a sliding scale from short-ranged, high-damage Multifrequency to long-ranged, low-damage Radio.

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The Tech 2 crystals for pulse lasers are Conflagration and Scorch. Conflagration does the most damage of any crystal, at the cost of a 30% tracking speed penalty and a 25% greater capacitor usage. Scorch has a damage only slightly lower than Imperial Navy Multifrequency, but grants 40% increased optimal range, at the cost of 25% tracking. The damage and projection of these crystals is so good that they render tech 1 pulse laser crystals largely obsolete; Conflagration's damage blows Multifrequency out of the water, while Scorch provides good damage at stunningly long ranges, especially at the battleship scale.

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The Tech 2 crystals for beam lasers are Aurora and Gleam. Gleam deals good damage and receives a tracking bonus, but has a much shorter range. Aurora comes with a massive 80% range bonus but low damage and a heavy penalty to tracking speed. Similar to the performance of pulse laser crystals, Gleam is not commonly used as it deals only marginally more damage than the ever-popular Imperial Navy Multifrequency, while Aurora is taken full advantage of in longer-ranged engagements.

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There are three types of Tech 1 exotic plasma, offering various range options.

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Tech 2 Exotic Plasma can only be used with Tech 2, Faction, and Officer Entropic Disintegrators. Mystic offers the damage of Baryon with better range but with a hefty 50% tracking speed penalty, while Occult offers a closer range option with more damage compared to Tetryon but with a 25% tracking speed penalty. Tech 2 Disintegrator ammo is currently unavailable in Extra Large size.

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Remember that [[stacking penalties]] mean that it's usually not worth fitting more than three modules which have the same effect.

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== Names reference ==

! rowspan="2" | Category  

! rowspan="2" | Faction

! colspan="2" | Large  

! colspan="2" | Extra Large

| colspan="2" | ''Frigates, Destroyers''  

| colspan="2" | ''Cruisers, Battlecruisers''  

| colspan="2" | ''Battleships, Attack BCs''  

| colspan="2" | ''Dreadnoughts, Titans''

| rowspan="5" | ''Minmatar''  

| rowspan="3" | Autocannon  

| Quad 800mm

| rowspan="3" | Repeating Cannon

| colspan="2" | 150mm Light

| colspan="2" | 220mm Vulcan

| rowspan="2" | Repeating Cannon

| rowspan="2" | Hexa 2500mm

| colspan="2" | 200mm

| colspan="2" | 425mm

| 800mm

| rowspan="2" | Artillery  

| rowspan="2" | Long  

| colspan="2" | 1200mm

| colspan="2" rowspan="2" | Quad 3500mm Siege

| colspan="2" | 280mm Howitzer

| colspan="2" | 720mm Howitzer

| colspan="2" | 1400mm Howitzer

| rowspan="6" | ''Gallente/Caldari''   

| rowspan="3" | Blaster

| rowspan="3" | Blaster Cannon

| colspan="2" | Triple Neutron Blaster Cannon

| Ion

| Ion

| Ion

| colspan="2" rowspan="2" | Ion Siege

| Neutron  

| Neutron  

| Neutron  

| rowspan="3" | Railgun

| rowspan="3" | Long

| colspan="2" | Dual 250mm

| colspan="2" rowspan="3" | Dual 1000mm

| colspan="2" | 125mm

| colspan="2" | 200mm

| colspan="2" | 350mm

| colspan="2" | 150mm

| colspan="2" | 250mm

| colspan="2" | 425mm

| rowspan="6" | ''Amarr''  

| rowspan="3" | Pulse

| colspan="2"| Dual Heavy

| colspan="2" | Quad Mega

| colspan="2"| Dual Light

| colspan="2" rowspan="2" | Heavy

| colspan="2" rowspan="2" | Mega

| colspan="2" rowspan="2" | Dual Giga

| colspan="2"| Small Focused

| rowspan="3" | Beam

| rowspan="3" | Long

| colspan="2" | Dual Heavy

| colspan="2" rowspan="3" | Dual Giga

| colspan="2" rowspan="2" | Small Focused

| colspan="2" | Focused Medium

| colspan="2" | Mega

| colspan="2" | Heavy

| colspan="2" | Tachyon

| ''Triglavian''

| Entropic <br> Disintegrator

...multiplied by the damage modifier of the turret.

! scope="col" | Type  

! scope="col" data-sort-type=number | Activation

! scope="col" data-sort-type=number | Range

|-

| 2.0625 x

| 417

|-

| 2.475 x

| 362

|-

| 2.8875 x

| 315

|-

| 5.082 x

| 80

|-

| 7.043 x

| 64

|-

| 1.8375 x

| 438

|-

| 2.953125 x

| 403.2

|-

| 3.675 x

| 379.8

|-

| 1.65 x

| 136.5

|-

| 2.2 x

| 89.25

|-

| 3.025 x

| 73.5

|-

| 1.5 x

| 308.125

|-

| 2 x

| 273.75

|-

| 3 x

| 246.25

|-

| 3 x

| 117

|-

| 4.5 x

| 90

|-

| 0.8 x

| 410

...multiplied by the damage modifier of the turret.

! scope="col" | Type  

! scope="col" data-sort-type=number | Activation

! scope="col" data-sort-type=number | Range

|-

| 2.0625 x  

| 44.68992

|-

| 2.31 x

| 38.8608

|-

| 2.8875 x

| 33.792

|-

| 4.62 x

| 8.352

|-

| 7.97 x

| 6.688

|-

| 1.8375 x

| 46.08

|-

| 2.953125 x

| 42.24

|-

| 3.675 x

| 38.4

|-

| 1.9 x

| 12

|-

| 2.53 x

| 8

|-

| 3.48 x

| 6.56

|-

| 2 x

| 28.8

|-

| 3 x

| 26

|-

| 1.88 x

| 23.328

|-

| 2.5 x

| 12.096

|-

| 3.75 x

| 9.504

|-

| 0.8 x

| 42

...multiplied by the damage modifier of the turret.

! scope="col" | Type

! scope="col" data-sort-type=number | Activation

! scope="col" data-sort-type=number | Range

|-

| 2.0625 x

| 5.7132

|-

| 2.444203042 x

| 4.968

|-

| style="text-align: center;" | 7.88 s

| 2.695 x

| 4.32

|-

| 5.082 x

| 1.125

|-

| 10.672 x

| 0.9

|-

| 1.8375 x

| 6

|-

| 2.953125 x

| 5.52

|-

| 3.675 x

| 5.196

|-

| style="text-align: center;" | 5.85 s

| 1.65 x

| 1.8375

|-

| 2.2 x

| 1.22535

|-

| 3.025 x

| 1.010625

|-

| 2 x

| 3.75

|-

| 3 x

| 3.375

|-

| 2 x

| 1.75

|-

| 3 x

| 1.53125

|-

| 4.5 x

| 1.39205

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| 0.8 x

| 5.45

Note that many Extra Large turrets have extremely low damage multipliers. These low values are compensated for by extremely high multipliers from ship skills, modules, and role bonuses.

! scope="col" | Type

! scope="col" data-sort-type=number | Activation

! scope="col" data-sort-type=number | Range

|-

| 0.309 x

| 1.92

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| 4.12 x

| 0.041515

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| 10.3 x

| 0.0171

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| 0.418 x

| 2.3  

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| 5.57 x

| 0.0437

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| 7.43 x

| 0.0182875

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| 0.574 x

| 1.5

|-

| 7.65 x

| 0.0384864

|-

| 6.38 x

| 0.02182031

|-

| 1 x

| 0.02

== External links ==

* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1d2axN23pAF2m_mAws9d4h6tmttFXUgyw2OGpjTaBIc4/edit#slide=id.p1 A Visual Weapon Identification Guide], a Google Sheet by Mazzic Karde

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