User:Uryence/TTT

Target/Threat Triage

This is primarily a personal-use page, though other pilots might find it useful. If focuses on PvP. It attempts a practical taxonomy which cuts across the rationality of race and ship type. It is a work-in-progress and naturally incomplete.

RLML cruisers

Can fit other medium missiles, but often met with RLMLs because excellent application and range murders small stuff, while doing tolerable DPS.

• Caracal
• Cerberus: Caracal on steroids. Fits for large fleet doctrines might not be RLML.
• Osprey Navy Issue: Caracal-style RLML use, but can kite effectively.
• Orthrus: long-range, damage-bonused missiles and tackle range bonuses make this a kiting monster—albeit an expensive one.

Falloff AC kiting cruisers

• Stabber: great falloff and speed but the capacitor dies if you think the word "microwarpdrive" or the phrase "active tank"
• Vagabond: Stabber falloff, even greater speed, ADC and T2 resists. Squishier than other HACs, but that doesn't matter if it pins you down and you can't catch it.
• Cynabal: Stabber falloff, high speed, inherent warp speed/accel bonus as though it was hyperspatial rigged.

Combat Battlecruisers

• Harbinger: lasers, armour tank
• Prophecy: drones, armour tank with res bonus, no mounted weapon bonus (= utility high slot potential / eccentric weapons)
• Hurricane: guns, flexible tank, flexible fit
• Cyclone: missiles, active shield tank bonus
• Brutix: hybrids, active armour tank bonus; nevertheless can also be nano'd for some doctrines.
• Myrmidon: drones, active armour tank bonus, no mounted weapon bonus
• Ferox: hybrids, range bonus, popular low-SP mass fleet doctrine ship, shield tank
• Drake: missiles, shield tank, shield res bonus

Attack Battlecruisers

Fit large (not medium) guns with all that implies for damage and range. Weak tanks. Glass cannons.

• Oracle
• Tornado
• Talos
• Naga

Recons

Combats and Forces are significantly different. It's worth knowing the difference. e.g. Combats can't light a hard cyno or a covops cyno; Forces can. People get the two sets confused more often than is entirely healthy, given the implications of mixing one type up for another.

Combat Recons

Don't appear on d-scan, which means you do know about them if you ever get on grid with them, but they can enter a system sans d-scan evidence, without even the brief appearance a cloak ship can make while recloaking.

• Curse: neuts, drones.
• Huginn: webs (and painting), struggles to fit arty, surprising DPS with ACs.
• Lachesis: long tackle (and damps).
• Rook: ECM.

Force Recons

Can light hard cynos and covops cynos. Can warp while cloaked. Fuel use bonuses and short cyno durations.

• Pilgrim: neuts, drones; shorter range than Curse.
• Rapier: webs, missiles.
• Arazu: long tackle.
• Falcon: ECM.

Trig Ships

Spooling damage: potentially ferocious DPS, but can be stopped in its tracks by jams/damps/neuts. Generally fast hulls for class and size. Frigs and destroyers prone to kiting. Armor res bonuses common. Inherent hull bonuses for:

• neut cap need
• remote armour rep cap need
• smart bomb cap need
• remote armor rep range

DD ships:

• Damavik: frigate, armor res bonus
• Nergal: AF (ADC, MWD bloom reduction), as Damavik but range bonus too
• Kikimora: multiple range bonuses; kiter.
  • Draugur: command dessie. Booshing and bursts, tough defences. Can be very hard tackle.
• Vedmak: fast, mid-ranged, a little more fragile than some other Trig ships.
  • Ikitursa: HAC (ADC), much tougher than the Vedmak, tracking bonus, and a lengthened damage ramp for even more potential DPS. Expensive.
• Drekavac: combat BC; armor res bonus
• Leshak: battleship; very high ramp damage. Popular for high-end PvE.

Logi:

• Rodiva: T1 logi cruiser; remote cap transfer bonuses rather than remote armor rep bonuses
• Zarmazd: T2 logi cruiser; as Rodiva, but with range bonus, more repping power, rep drone bonus

Both logi cruisers use a spool up / ramp up mechanic similar to Entropic Disintegrators, but for repairs.