Massacre Missions; Sustained DPS vs Burst DPS

[Arya]

Hi all. I want to build a Combat Anaconda and a Federal Corvette, so I'm dipping my toes in Massacre Missions. Right now I've got an A-Rated FDL, but after reading Zi's outstanding guide I'm wondering what sort of weapon setup would be effective. Zi recommends five Pulse Lasers - I'm using 3 Multicannons and two PAs.

What's better for this sort of prolonged combat? Pure Sustained DPS, or Sustained with Burst backing it up?

[Liethkorious]

sustained is better for capacitor but honestly you need some burst damage to beat shield charge boosters. lasers are recommended because once you win a combat zone you usually get a death ball to murder enemy spawns.

[Arya]

I like the idea of Lasers because it would save me from running out of ammo every few minutes, but my concern is - do they do enough hull damage to be effective? I haven't used Pulse Lasers for an awfully long time, I don't know how well they stack up.

[Shredz]

Originally posted by 狼 Wolfey:

I like the idea of Lasers because it would save me from running out of ammo every few minutes, but my concern is - do they do enough hull damage to be effective? I haven't used Pulse Lasers for an awfully long time, I don't know how well they stack up.

The Focused Weapon Mod can increase your armor penetration. And DPS too.

[Arya]

Originally posted by cabalzero:

The Focused Weapon Mod can increase your armor penetration. And DPS too.

Isn't it about to be removed from the game?

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Everything is to be reshuffled very soon, so it's not the best time to plan your weapons' loadout.

[Arya]

Originally posted by Dolphin Bottlenose:

Everything is to be reshuffled very soon, so it's not the best time to plan your weapons' loadout.

In that case I'll fit lasers and then wait and watch how 2.3 plays out. Lasers still kill space jerks, right? Or did 2.2 mess that up as well?

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Right now I have rapid fire G5 pulses - they have a lot of damage increase, hull penetration, while very conservative with a distributor. All you want it one package. But that's what FDevs don't want us to have, so it wouldn't stay like that for much longer, till the next patch in several weeks.

[Lich Lord]

On FDL i run H Beam, and 4G MC , i have resources to reload in flight though. The beam shreds shields in seconds and the MC finish them off.

[Agony_Aunt]

Ships in CZ have a lot of HRPs, so whatever you do, don't skimp on the kinetics. Ships that i tear through in RES or signal sources take a lot more time to kill in CZ because of the extra hull strength they all have.

[Zi]

I`m slill really dont see the point of use ammo weapons in the long run ;P I use npcs for that. They always have ammo and tons of missiles, and I always have my pulses to get off shields. And my ramming speed :D if shields too high and enemy ship is goin to use many scbs. Ramming cures. Even using BW shield. But this in rare case, usually dont need.

Prefer to be more manoeuvrable and fast.
But its just me. And not doing any engineers, again.

Thanks for kind words about guide!

[M.Spengler]

You should get a high sustained DPS value, if you can stay on target all the time.
Pure DPS is only useful for alpha strikes. A weapon without power is a useless weapon.

[Luka]

Actually killing the ships is not the quickest way. If there is a small planatery base in the system, controled by the faction you have to massacre, you can fly down there in a sidie with 2 Dumbfire missile launchers, you can take out all the skimmers, log out, log in, repeat.

The system I'm doing it in is 17 Draconis, so far it's brought me up to 1 bil. Skimmers count as ships in massacre missions :)

[Arya]

Alright! Thanks for all the info guys, I'll swap in some Pulse Lasers and go kick some ass. Much appreciated.

[Zi]

Originally posted by CMDR Luka Tomato:

The system I'm doing it in is 17 Draconis, so far it's brought me up to 1 bil. Skimmers count as ships in massacre missions :)

And this is truly exploit like cheating, expect it to be fixed soon. But still works yeah. Still killing ships in cz are more sporty and fun. This is actually involves gameplay not just mindless grind :)

[WillardTFoxx]

+1