Projectile ammunition: Difference between revisions

== Rules of the Autocannons ==

The only reasons why you should be taking autocannons into their optimal range is when fighting missile ships or if you've landed on top of a sniping battleship. All other times, fight in your falloff.

Besides Barrage (which gives a bonus so isn't really relevant), all projectile ammo range modifiers apply to your optimal range, not falloff. As we have tiny optimal ranges and huge falloffs, this means we can run about with EMP and not have to worry about losing the range as it stays virtually the same. Barrage does the same damage as EMP and gives a 50% range boost to falloff. It's wonderful, and you should use it.

Because optimal range bonuses on autocannons are as useful as explosive damage bonuses for lasers.

It gives you a 50% boost to falloff and does oodles of explosive damage. The only thing it's a bit useless against are Invul-Field Shield tanks and T2 amarr ships, where EM or Thermal damage are far better.

When fighting missile ships or stationary targets, load in some Hail ammo and you will tear them to shreds. Be warned that it does have a speed penalty, which is why you can't fly around with it loaded all the time. It's best used in conjunction with a passive shield tank or a dura-armour tank to offset the cap recharge penalty.

125mm, 150mm, Dual 180mm, 220mm, Dual 425mm and Dual 650mm autocannons have stupidly low fitting requirements and allow you to either fit massive plates, loads of nos, twin reps, mwds and cap boosters without gimping your setup. This is because they all have identical falloff ranges, so the only thing you gain from using the next tier above is 4-5% more damage and a slightly reduced ammo consumption.

The use a lot less ammo, which is very important when npcing with autocannons as they have the highest rate of fire out of all the guns.

In order of priority:

For Npc's (ratting)