[johnnymathis]

Right now I am flying the drake in PvP, with a standard HAM setup.

http://www.battlecli...m/index.ph...ic,22179.0.html

More or less that setup, but with a couple minor differences, nothing really important. With Battlecruisers V and my high missile skills, this ship fights very well.

However, I feel that I want to take it a step up. I want to start using Heavy Assault Ships instead. My options for missile users are the Cerberus and the Sacrilege. I would like to use the same general tactic I use now, basically get up close, just outside blaster range (for most people) and unleash the fury.

Cerberus:
PROS:
*Range bonuses can give me more manuevering room.
*I don't need to train tanking because my shield tanking is already good.

CONS:
*Kinetic bonus only.
*Range bonus may or may not be useful.

Sacrilege:
PROS:
*Tanking bonus
*Cap bonus
*Damage bonus applies to all types

CONS:
*My armor tanking is pretty much crap.
*I've already trained one Cruiser to V, I'm not too crazy about another one
*No range bonuses.

I've been having trouble deciding and my corpmates are useless (it all depends on your playstyle, do you like to deal damage?...yes...well then I don't really know). Any advice for an aspiring HAC pilot?

[samroski]

Best of luck my friend- would love to help you with this- but have no clue. Theta or DrakOne should be able to give some advice if they notice.

[Dark0ne]

I'm in a Cerb soloing plexes in Branch/Tenal, which is pretty much where the Cerb shines (against kin/therm damage).

I deal about 560 DPS and tank 200 DPS, but with a sig radius atleast twice as low as the Drake the DPS it can tank is excellent. The range bonus is definately worthwhile, with my HAMs hitting out to 60k or so with the right rigs.

It depends what you want to do really. The Drake is still probably the best tanked Caldari ship for missions bar the Nighthawk, which is a chore to train towards. The Cerb is the best ship, in my opinion, for plexing and faction hunting in 0.0 with an excellent align time and small sig radius. HACs are always nice to train towards for PVP roaming gangs.