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SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited April 2010 in PvP Gameplay
I love flying cruisers I really do however I can not find a single reason to justify playing one in PvP when I compare it to my escort class...


Can someone give me a reason for a RA5 fed to fly anything but an escort?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Tsvaox wrote:
    I love flying cruisers I really do however I can not find a single reason to justify playing one in PvP when I compare it to my escort class...


    Can someone give me a reason for a RA5 fed to fly anything but an escort?

    cruisers can heal for substantially larger amounts than escorts can.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    faithborn wrote:
    cruisers can heal for substantially larger amounts than escorts can.

    But they cannot out heal the dps of an escort. Plus extend shields puts your RSP on a global cd :(
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    how many different targets can you heal with your rsp?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Tsvaox wrote:
    But they cannot out heal the dps of an escort. Plus extend shields puts your RSP on a global cd :(

    Actually, yes, they can.

    My question to you is, are you looking for an answer, or stating a fact of the game by asking if cruisers are useful.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    I see way more cruisers than escorts tbh.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Becaue cruisers are the only ones keeping the battle going when all the escorts are dead and respawning.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    cuz they go pop real fast.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    i have a bop with only a couple of heals and sadly i all to often see i am near the top of the healing lists, sometimes the top. Granted a lot of that will have gone towards keeping my sorry TRIBBLE alive but i see cruisers with what i can only consider pitiful heal amonts.

    I have seen some cruisers on both sides do some incredible work keeping themselves and others up, if they can do it, then it just shows it can be done. Next time you are in a group with one of those try asking them what they do, you will find most of the time it is not magic. There is a surprisingly small step between a bad player and a decent player and a decent player and a good player.

    Good dps is required, but good cruisers win games.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Tsvaox wrote:
    But they cannot out heal the dps of an escort. Plus extend shields puts your RSP on a global cd :(

    That is not true... I've been in several matches where a cruiser more than survived an attack by me and other Escorts pounding its shield, and yet it still took us out.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    It depends how you like to fight. A cruiser is a tough nut to crack, but its damage output is less than an escort. I you like to burst down an opponent use an escort, if you like slowly grinding down the opposition then a cruiser is for you.

    I also find that a cruiser works best with informal pugs while an escort works best as part of a co-ordinated wolf pack.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Tsvaox wrote:
    Can someone give me a reason for a RA5 fed to fly anything but an escort?

    So you can win? An all-escort group is just giving the klingons a free victory.

    Cruisers mix it up a bit. Are harder to kill.

    And god forbid you guys roll with some science ships. ;)

    I hear they're somewhat useful at that level of PVP.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Agree with above, whole escort group would make a fight last seconds for us kling as you would be dog food
    Cruisers and sci ships in a group would last longer
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    So you can win? An all-escort group is just giving the klingons a free victory.
    I'll bet a substantial sum of money that an all Escort group would be vastly more effective than the average Fed pug configuration. Do you have any idea how fast ships blow up, even under RSP, from the combined fire of two or more Escorts rolling cooldowns?

    The only FvK games that I lose (I play Klingon) are those in which the Fed team has 4 or more Escorts with competent pilots.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    I'll bet a substantial sum of money that an all Escort group would be vastly more effective than the average Fed pug configuration. Do you have any idea how fast ships blow up, even under RSP, from the combined fire of two or more Escorts rolling cooldowns?

    The only FvK games that I lose (I play Klingon) are those in which the Fed team has 4 or more Escorts with competent pilots.

    in all seriousness, all that a klink team needs to do to win against an all escort team is SNB the highest dps guy, crack him in 3 seconds, and then spike down the rest of the targets. If done right it should take 10 seconds TOPS before the entire team is dead.

    Klinks have the advantage of the first strike, if they cannot capitalize on that then it is their fault.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    I'll bet a substantial sum of money that an all Escort group would be vastly more effective than the average Fed pug configuration. Do you have any idea how fast ships blow up, even under.

    Eschewing the use of science ships for another escort is simply bad tactics.

    All-escort-groups set themselves up to be manhandled by the klingon defense force. And deserve the losses they incur.
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