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This guide aims to provide an overview of the different ships and their roles rather than specific fits. For these, take a look at the individual ship's page (eg [[Atron]]). | This guide aims to provide an overview of the different ships and their roles rather than specific fits. For these, take a look at the individual ship's page (eg [[Atron]]). | ||
The Gallente Federation is one of the four playable factions and has a unique and distinct line of ships. | The Gallente Federation is one of the four playable factions and has a unique and distinct line of ships. | ||
{{RaceShipInfo|Gallente}} | {{RaceShipInfo|Gallente}} | ||
== | ==General Traits== | ||
The following characteristics are shared across most or all Gallente ships: | |||
* '''[[Turrets#Hybrid_turrets|Hybrid Turrets]]''': many Gallente ships have bonuses for hybrid turrets. Hybrid turrets use some capacitor energy to fire, like lasers, but they are less cap-hungry than lasers; they use physical ammunition, like projectile guns, but they have a shorter reload time (5 seconds). Different ammunition types offer trade-offs between range, damage, and capacitor load, but all hybrid turret ammunition deals a mixture of kinetic and thermal damage. | |||
** Close-ranged blasters track very well and have very high potential DPS, but have short ranges even compared to the other short-ranged weapons (autocannon and pulse lasers). Some Gallente ships are particularly suited to brawling at minimum range with blasters, though they can adopt other tactics too. | |||
** Long-ranged railguns lack the alpha damage of artillery but can achieve extraordinarily long ranges. Caldari hybrid turret ships are more associated with railguns, but some Gallente turret ships can work well with railguns too. | |||
* '''[[Drones]]''': many Gallente ships have bonuses for drones which make it viable to use drones as your main weapon--or even your only weapon; notable examples are the Algos, Vexor, Myrmidon and Dominix. Almost all Gallente ships have substantial dronebays and drone bandwidth for their size and class. | |||
* '''[[Tanking#Armor_tanking|Armor tanks]]'''. Some Gallente ships have bonuses for armor repairers, which let them mount especially good active armor tanks. Some examples include the Incursus, Brutix, and Hyperion. Almost all Gallente ships armor tank well. | |||
* '''[[Electronic_warfare#Remote_Sensor_Dampening|Sensor Dampening]]'''. The Gallente racial EWAR speciality is sensor dampening, which cuts down enemy target locking range and/or slows down enemy targeting speed. Reducing target locking range works well against snipers and kiters; reducing targeting speed works well on large ships (which take a while to lock anything up anyway) and on [[Logistics|logistics ships]], which have to re-target their allies frequently in order to apply remote support. | |||
* '''Tough hulls'''. Gallente ships have unusually tough hull ("structure") hit points, which means they tend to live a little longer when things turn bad and damage is getting through both the shields and the armor. | |||
If there is a broader hallmark of Gallente ships, it is perhaps '''damage''': most Gallente combat ships can muster a lot of potential DPS at short range. The Vexor, for example, can achieve eye-watering potential DPS for a T1 cruiser if fitted with blasters, thanks to having damage bonuses to ''both'' turrets and drones. On the other hand, Gallente ships can be a little more fragile (the ships with tanking bonuses have bonuses to active armor tanks, not the resistance bonuses found on Amarr ships), with the lineup including some true "glass cannon" ships such as the Catalyst, and when fitted for DPS Gallente ships need to get to and maintain close ranges with their targets. | |||
=== | ==Notable Uses== | ||
'''PvE''' | |||
The long range and fully selectable damage of drones (set against the locking of hybrid turrets to kinetic and thermal damage) makes the line of Gallente drone boats very popular for PvE combat, as it means that pilots can pack drones to target the damage type that their NPC enemies are weakest to. A typical mission-runner progression might involve the Incursus or Tristan and then the Algos for L1s, the Vexor for L2s, the Myrmidon for L3s, and the Dominix for L4s. | |||
Gallente drone ships are also popular as basic [[Careers#Ratting|ratting]] ships in nullsec space, and for initial forays into low-tier [[Abyssal Deadspace]] PvE challenges; in both of these use-cases, Gallente ships are eventually elbowed aside in more advanced uses by Guristas ships such as the [[Gila]]. | |||
The Catalyst, with its many high slots, makes a good basic salvaging ship. | |||
'''PvP''' | |||
Gallente ships | Short-range brawling with blasters is one of the core Gallente ship archetypes, and unsurprisingly many Gallente ships wind up being used for this in PvP: notable examples include the Catalyst, Thorax, Brutix and Megathron. Railguns do work on these hulls, though. The Megathron can snipe well, and the Brutix can be turned into a surprisingly fast kiting ship. | ||
The Gallente drone boats are some of the most versatile and unpredictable hulls available for PvP. The hulls without direct bonuses for weapons other than drones, such as the Myrmidon and Dominix, are often fitted with projectile turrets (for additional capacitor-free DPS), energy neutralizers (for [[capacitor warfare]]), or remote repair modules (a g of group of Dominixes can "tank" by repairing each other). Large dronebays mean that drone boat pilots can select damage types, and can bring along extra tactical options such as ECM drones. Drones carry on fighting even if their mothership is affected by EWAR or has its capacitor neuted out. | |||
Drone boats are less popular, however, for highly mobile small gangs (drones tend to get left behind in tactical warps) and in large fleets fighting at long range (normal drones take too long to travel to their target, while sentry drones get left behind in fleet movements). Drones also cannot be [[Overheating|overheated]], unlike hull-mounted weapons systems. | |||
Thanks to its very attractive ratio of high potential DPS to cheap cost, the Catalyst is popular with [[Suicide ganking|suicide gankers]]. | |||
==Skills== | |||
Gallente ships share many core skills with the ships of the other three main factions. Very new pilots should consider EVE University's [[Short Skill Plan]]; relatively new pilots should consider [[The Magic 14|the 14 skills which affect every ship]], the [[Fitting skills|fitting skills]] which make it easier to fit modules onto ships, and the [[Support skills|support skills]] which underpin much of your ship's performance. For longer-term training, EVE University's [[Pyramid Skill Plan]] offers one useful way of conceiving of your goals. | |||
That said, there are some considerations which are specific to Gallente ships. Probably the most prominent one is the early importance of good [[Drones#Skills|drone skills]]. In particular, any Gallente pilot will want to train the "core" skill of this category, {{sk|Drones}}, to level V quickly. Drones V is a relatively quick train compared to some advanced skills, but it's likely to be one of the first level Vs that a new Gallente pilot trains, and it will require some patience. It ''is'' worthwhile: being able to control a full flight of five drones really matters with many Gallente ships. At the latest, a pilot will want to have Drones V when they start using cruisers, as the Vexor is a fine and versatile ship. | |||
The good news about the early investment in drone skills is that every race's ships eventually have significant dronebays, and so all pilots will one day have to polish these skills; Gallente pilots will just have a head start on others. | |||
Gallente pilots will also want to prioritize skills for armor tanking, and capacitor skills to keep their turrets running. Any Gallente pilots with an interest in electronic warfare should look into the skills {{sk|Sensor Linking}}, {{sk|Signal Suppression}}, {{sk|Long Distance Jamming}}, {{sk|Frequency Modulation}}. A fairly new character with these skills trained even just to III or IV can have a significant battlefield impact, and they open up the road to some very powerful advanced ships such as the [[Keres]] and [[Lachesis]]. | |||
==Ships== | ==Ships== | ||