cannona anybody?

[Ironclad]

Mulling over upgrading my weapons, currently I use 2E pulse on the medium slots and 1E or 1F on the small slots.
Thinking of putting in 2D beams on the med and tracking cannons (not multi cannons) on the small mounts.

Can anyone comment on the gimbled cannons?

[de Carabas]

I have the beams on my medium hardpoints and gimballed cannons on the smalls. This is on the Cobra. It works well but I do constantly look for better gimballed multicannons for the small hardpoints instead.

The beams take the shields off sidewinders, eagles etc in one pass. Two for vipers and Cobras (assuming 4 pips to weapons). Somehow multicannons are just more satisfying against the hull

[Akulla]

For me, when I fly my Viper I normally run with a pair of gimbaled multicannons, and beams, I've tried the cannons, big damage but the rate of fire was so slow it was somewhat a disappointment, seems I really had to get in close to be effective.

Only thing I can really suggest is grab a pair and try them out.

[Ironclad]

Thx
Right now i'm in "Paralysis of Analysis" mode
Working my way to afford 2x2D beams (1,000,000cr) takes time, specially when you bounty hunt on and off.
The Cannons will come next.

[anikaiful]

I prefer multi-cannons - couldn't myself hit a barn with a cannon even if I was inside the said barn... unlike with multi-cannons, the projectiles of cannons are sloooow and easy to dodge.

[LtCasey]

I sported 4 class1 gimballed cannons on the Cobra once. Very fun, in close combat. But useless above 500m. The Projektile Speed is simply to Slow.

Actually, I do Mount 4 MG, 2 med and 2 small gimballed. Shreds everything.

For that pirate Lord Killmissions, im thinking about 2 dumbfire launched in the small shots an 2 med beams in gimballed, or Four beams. But I need to Upgrade the reactor first.

[Vespyr]

I have the beams on my medium hardpoints and gimballed cannons on the smalls. This is on the Cobra. It works well but I do constantly look for better gimballed multicannons for the small hardpoints instead.

The beams take the shields off sidewinders, eagles etc in one pass. Two for vipers and Cobras (assuming 4 pips to weapons). Somehow multicannons are just more satisfying against the hull

I've been using a similar setup (pulse instead of beams, but only until I can afford them!) and so far has worked nicely just as you described. I like multicannons because they're relatively inexpensive, have a good ROF, and are effective against pretty much anything. I might try cannons someday but my aim isn't the best, so I'm not sure how well they'll work for me personally.

[de Carabas]

I've been using a similar setup (pulse instead of beams, but only until I can afford them!) and so far has worked nicely just as you described. I like multicannons because they're relatively inexpensive, have a good ROF, and are effective against pretty much anything. I might try cannons someday but my aim isn't the best, so I'm not sure how well they'll work for me personally.

The beams are not cheap and I was happy to spend the money for the effectiveness at removing shields. It's definitely an issue for me being happy with the class 1 slots and I would certainly go for multi-cannons if I could find some better ones. It just seems that I can't find class 1 gimballed multi cannons costing more than about 17k credits!

[Ironclad]

Well finally dropped the hammer on a pair of 2D (I think) beams and a pair of 1E cannons, all gimbled.
The beams are amazing. I used beams on the beta phase, but what can I say...cept Wow!

1-2 passes usually is enough for anything up to and including Cobra's. It is so effective I havent even fired the cannons yet!

Next in line are shield banks and then Military grade plating.

Any suggestions on the shield banks?

[Corium]

Save up and go for the highest class/rating shieldbanks you can without refitting your shield to a different slot.

Personally I have A3 Shields AND shield banks (6charges) and Unless I'm fighting elite annies I'm untouchable and I barely have to pop a bank cell.

As for loadout, I'm currently running 2 Class 2 Beam Lasers and 2 Class 1 Heat seaker missile launchers. Today I'm going to ATTEMPT to swap the lasers out for 2 Plasma Accelerators and see how well they do when coupled with heatseekers.

Note: Class 2 Plasma Accels cost about 2k per 5 shots.... so... this is gunna get expensive.