PLEASE do a video series on VERSUS. Caracal VS Vexor / Caracal VS Omen etc. I think you’d make HUGE gains on following and interaction showing recommended fits and breakdown advice on how you would perform in each ship. With such a huge influx of Caracals and kiting missile boats, be the guy that teaches the community how to defeat it!!!
I’ve been running a standard Caracal with medium rapids, 2x nosferatus, 2x shield boosters, cap battery, and ballistic control. It can rip apart t7 pretty quick, and as long as you are smart about ranges, stays alive very well. Basically orbit cruisers/battle cruisers at 8km and steal their batteries while keeping double shield boosters running to stay alive. It’s a very fun and active play style. Downside is no “get away” tricks. The second a gray appears warp away instantly. -SmallToaster
@@captainbenzie ahoy captain can you please cover the blackbird? i know it's early even for me but i'm considering it if it's good for pve ? it looks like a pvp ship but what about pve also the main reason cuz it's a beauty!
If you're going to be that close you might as well use torpedos. They have reduced efficiency vs frigs, but Torps will shred apart cruisers in way rapids can only dream of.
I recently got the free caracal trainer from road to set sail but my economic growth has been a bit slower as I recently got tech 5, so I gotta stick to t3 encounters and anoms in my special cormorant trainer until I train cruisers and missiles skills. Alpha clone too. I sort of make around 200k isk a day and that’s when I actually get time to sit down and rat for a whole. Been High sec semi afk mining too. I can only enjoy this fun after I get richer which aint gonna happen soon.😭😭😭😭😭😭
Listen Captain, if that's you're real name! I have a bone to pick with you. I have been gong through your videos and every time I see a different one I say to myself 'Wow, that looks super cool, I want to try that!'. And then I do. I have been jumping around the ship spectrum, as it were, for the last few days!. Its killing me! My skills are all over the place, I have no money left, I don't know how to stop! In all seriousness though, these videos are fantastic and are really helping me in what can be a massive amount of information! Thanks for all you do!
@@captainbenzie Well, I tried the kiting build you suggested above. Took me a long time to get it all together. Tested it out on a T5 anomaly to see whats what. Performed well. Easy. Decided to try it out on a T7 and got destroyed while on autopilot. Pretty pissed off about it. I know what everyone is going to say. Don't travel to nullsec blah blah. I understand the challenges of nullsec and the fact I can get killed there. I accept those risks if I decide to go there. But when it takes so long to get anywhere you should be able to safely travel. Its a big shame because I was enjoying this game. I don't know if I will continue to play if this is not reversed. Sigh.
Great video, captain! I'm enjoying my caracal trainer so much since I saw the video excoundrel posted about it. Knowing I could warp in at a certain distance made it work for me. Made millions of isk in the meanwhile. Was wondering when to upgrade to caracal navy, but after seeing this I'll probably go for caracal standard issue for quite some time. I'm not planning on going omega anytime soon
This is a sweet Ship! I am using one fitted with Challenger Missiles as well as an Armor repairer, which I seen works better than the Shield Booster. It works wonders in the rare T7 Encounters vs the occasional Battlecruisers such as the Ferrox and Prophecy. An extra benefit I prefer vs a web is to use a Sensor Dampener which is great against Guidance disruptors the npcs use. At a range of 36km it is quite the effective weapon.
Have you considered a Tutorial on the Caracal Navy Issue vs the Caracal Sniper ships? I would love to get your input on how they compare. Think about it Captain and thanks for all your guides.
@@captainbenzie I just got the BP and am getting the materials together to build one. I love the extra rig slots which will make it an excellent Tank Ship. Will definitely challenge my Moa tank.
Caracal trainer with 2 shield boosters, an afterburner, 2 nos and 4 rapid missiles is working a lot better for me than a kiting build, mostly because it’s been a lot quicker to kill things.
@@tact1calshot989 New player here, since nos only has a range of ~8km, does it mean that I should orbit at that range instead of rapid missile's range?
I fly Navy Caracal, and farming ISK from 6/8 story missions. I always have both missles type (one equiped, and one in ship cargo). Frigates, and Destroyers (espessialy elites) are first with rapid missles, than quick retreat, and switch for regural missles to finish crusiers, and battle crusiers. Probobly not best solution but it is quite safe and easy. But i get to over 900 speed and 300dps so it is ok.
This is quite strange but I was only able to find this video after looking into your channel. It did not show anywhere in my subscribed channels list not did I receive any notification.
I have just started getting into these after my Vexor got jumped and destroyed (still lacking my wounds after that loss.) I have noticed that in both the advanced encounters and T5 and above anomolies you encounter a few troubling things : one More ships are showing up activating warp disruptors - death unless your out of range and two: Often times in a second or third wave the ships use both nosferatos as well as the energy neutralizers. Normally these would be out of range of you but for whatever reason they always pop in conveniently in range to start massively draining your capacitor forcing one to flee to a nearby planet to recover or be destroyed. Just a word of warning to the pilots seeking higher isk riches. I intend to double up my webifiers to try slowing them down to get my range away.. Be careful out there.
Hi Cpt Benzie, just looking at the details of both the rapid and standard medium missile launchers: rapids have longer reload time 35s vs standard 10s. Flight velocity of rapids are only 3750m/s versus standard 4300m/s. So rapids are not reloading magazines nor can fly faster. The only parameter a rapid missile is faster than standard is activation time 6.24s vs 12s and explosion velocity 170m/s vs 81m/s. My question is why the rapid missile launchers called rapid? One important thing you should mention that your missile range of 40km is with all bonuses added and that depends mostly on your rigs, skills, etc. Better to first show details in marketplace section with basic parameters then on fitted ship with bonuses. Basic range is only 27.85km if I remember correctly and that makes a huge difference. Hope this helps others to see why they won't have exactly the same 40km range.
The capacitor in my Caracal isn't stable unless I put 2 Nos in the mid slot. Same goes with my Caracal Navy Issue, I have to put 3 nos, if I fit 1 web the charge rate lowers a lot, sometimes to negative values. Why?
@@captainbenzie I've been juggling between ship and weapon skills because I wasn't sure what was best, it's good to get an educated answer to improve your game appreciate it 💯
I’m using a Moa, cap stable with 75-80% shield resistance across the board. 400 dps. Easily chewing through t7’s never seeing lower than 50% on shield or cap. Up close and personal......
I absolutely love your videos! You've gotten me skilling up in frigates and cruisers now. Cruisers more by accident, hah. Anyway, question: I've witnessed a Chinese player (language barrier) clear a Medium T7 anomoly all by themself with a Condor II. How?! Do you have any advice on fitting out my condor to make this work? The best I've gotten is clearing a large T5 by the skin of my teeth with my condor II (torpedo, torpedo, nos, nos, afterburner, shield booster. 2 speed rigs and 2 missile rigs.) Thanks for any tips here!
i ve been doing solo small t7 by my condor 2, with 2 small missile. its pretty easy tho, i dont get any dmg from them as long i orbit with afterburner on. 1.5km/s with my condor 2, its called speed tanking right. the only cons is time. its time consuming. i need 15 mins to clear 1 wave at small t7. and there is 5 waves.
I am quite frankly amazed, due to fitting my Caracal with a semi conducted memory cell and a capacitor control circuit. These two engineering rigs changed the entire play style of the ship. No more kiting! Those rigs have given me the ability to tank. YAY! Kiting is a play style that I find too detached. To put it in your words capz, I like it 'up close and personal.' Always been a tank in other RPG's and this is no different. Just a question? Would I be better off in a MOA ship due to my preferred playing style? Not interested in going back to frigates. It's an interesting conundrum because, on one hand, you have less attack and much higher shields while on the other you have a much higher attack and much less in shields. With my current ship, I have over 300 DPS and that's just going to go up as I train in missiles. Your thoughts on this issue would be very much appreciated, Captain Benzie.
Now i wanna buy a caracal now.. But since i bought a Vexor trainer.. Can u make a fitting guide for it? U did make one for the Vexor on the Beta version... Can u make one for the Vexor trainer? :3
@@sinmaan7568 same... My vexor trainer is literally just collecting dust in my hangar.. Im trying to grind isk for the drones but its hard since im still Tier 5
Hey cap, my friend and I had gotten our hounds a few days ago and during testing we only managed to get 14 dmg per hit on any ship we fired at. Can you inform us on what in the world we are doing wrong
Hounds equip medium torpedoes that apply we’ll only to large ships, if you were shooting frigates, you will be applying terribly due to sig radius/explosion velocity math.
Don't bother with medium missiles, you lose too much damage for excessive range. My caracal trainer had 34km range with rapids which is plenty enough, i used it to solo T6 story missions (for patriotism and super soft drink primarily). Upgraded to navy caracal now, just does the same thing but faster because more dps.
@@captainbenzie i never do that because i want to watch videos in bulk when i have free time, so i just go to subscriptions page. But i saw your video on my main page, and then it wasn't on my sub page, so i thought i had to say about this strange situation.
PLEASE do a video series on VERSUS.
Caracal VS Vexor / Caracal VS Omen etc. I think you’d make HUGE gains on following and interaction showing recommended fits and breakdown advice on how you would perform in each ship.
With such a huge influx of Caracals and kiting missile boats, be the guy that teaches the community how to defeat it!!!
I’ve been running a standard Caracal with medium rapids, 2x nosferatus, 2x shield boosters, cap battery, and ballistic control. It can rip apart t7 pretty quick, and as long as you are smart about ranges, stays alive very well. Basically orbit cruisers/battle cruisers at 8km and steal their batteries while keeping double shield boosters running to stay alive. It’s a very fun and active play style.
Downside is no “get away” tricks. The second a gray appears warp away instantly.
-SmallToaster
thanks for the tip mr toaster!
@@captainbenzie ahoy captain can you please cover the blackbird? i know it's early even for me but i'm considering it if it's good for pve ? it looks like a pvp ship but what about pve also the main reason cuz it's a beauty!
@@captainbenzie no problem. looking forward to it ^^
nyx ni-kunni was asleep when that happen 😂😂😂 “web” reason ehy
If you're going to be that close you might as well use torpedos. They have reduced efficiency vs frigs, but Torps will shred apart cruisers in way rapids can only dream of.
Im currently doing quite well using the humble Kestrel for both encounters and anomalies, if you are careful with the tank you can do quite a lot.
Saw you warp by in game the other day. Thank you for the great videos.
I recently got the free caracal trainer from road to set sail but my economic growth has been a bit slower as I recently got tech 5, so I gotta stick to t3 encounters and anoms in my special cormorant trainer until I train cruisers and missiles skills. Alpha clone too. I sort of make around 200k isk a day and that’s when I actually get time to sit down and rat for a whole. Been High sec semi afk mining too. I can only enjoy this fun after I get richer which aint gonna happen soon.😭😭😭😭😭😭
@@captainbenzie thanks cap, I’ll check out ur guides too!
Lol I was buying these in bulk. These are my corps disposable ships. We have a war at 3pm tomorrow so yeah lol
caracals are and will always be my favorite ship
Well, I've fitted mine out as much as I can and will take it for a spin.
Listen Captain, if that's you're real name! I have a bone to pick with you. I have been gong through your videos and every time I see a different one I say to myself 'Wow, that looks super cool, I want to try that!'. And then I do. I have been jumping around the ship spectrum, as it were, for the last few days!. Its killing me! My skills are all over the place, I have no money left, I don't know how to stop!
In all seriousness though, these videos are fantastic and are really helping me in what can be a massive amount of information! Thanks for all you do!
@@captainbenzie Well, I tried the kiting build you suggested above. Took me a long time to get it all together. Tested it out on a T5 anomaly to see whats what. Performed well. Easy. Decided to try it out on a T7 and got destroyed while on autopilot. Pretty pissed off about it. I know what everyone is going to say. Don't travel to nullsec blah blah. I understand the challenges of nullsec and the fact I can get killed there. I accept those risks if I decide to go there. But when it takes so long to get anywhere you should be able to safely travel. Its a big shame because I was enjoying this game. I don't know if I will continue to play if this is not reversed. Sigh.
Great video, captain! I'm enjoying my caracal trainer so much since I saw the video excoundrel posted about it. Knowing I could warp in at a certain distance made it work for me. Made millions of isk in the meanwhile. Was wondering when to upgrade to caracal navy, but after seeing this I'll probably go for caracal standard issue for quite some time. I'm not planning on going omega anytime soon
How did you get caracal trainer
Plz tell me
Thanks Capt! Hadn't seen the Cyclone, so that was an awesome bonus from this video.
This is a sweet Ship! I am using one fitted with Challenger Missiles as well as an Armor repairer, which I seen works better than the Shield Booster. It works wonders in the rare T7 Encounters vs the occasional Battlecruisers such as the Ferrox and Prophecy. An extra benefit I prefer vs a web is to use a Sensor Dampener which is great against Guidance disruptors the npcs use. At a range of 36km it is quite the effective weapon.
Have you considered a Tutorial on the Caracal Navy Issue vs the Caracal Sniper ships? I would love to get your input on how they compare. Think about it Captain and thanks for all your guides.
@@captainbenzie I just got the BP and am getting the materials together to build one. I love the extra rig slots which will make it an excellent Tank Ship. Will definitely challenge my Moa tank.
Caracal trainer with 2 shield boosters, an afterburner, 2 nos and 4 rapid missiles is working a lot better for me than a kiting build, mostly because it’s been a lot quicker to kill things.
James Of Earth that’s what I’m use ing as well
I agree as well. Its been my best build so far.
Wont there be problem with capacity?
You need two semi conductors to break it and battery and shield capacitor if you wanna hand in t-8 areas
@@tact1calshot989 New player here, since nos only has a range of ~8km, does it mean that I should orbit at that range instead of rapid missile's range?
I fly Navy Caracal, and farming ISK from 6/8 story missions. I always have both missles type (one equiped, and one in ship cargo). Frigates, and Destroyers (espessialy elites) are first with rapid missles, than quick retreat, and switch for regural missles to finish crusiers, and battle crusiers. Probobly not best solution but it is quite safe and easy. But i get to over 900 speed and 300dps so it is ok.
Suggestion for future video: Hauling. Your beta video helped a lot, time to do an updated version :)
Ive just traded my Caracal trainer in for an Omen trainer. Half the range but enjoying Amarr so much more already.
This is quite strange but I was only able to find this video after looking into your channel. It did not show anywhere in my subscribed channels list not did I receive any notification.
Lol that screenshot of the dead caracal is me. And thats false info. I was asleep and afk and woke up as a capsule lol
The Klingon Empire approves this design.... it looks like a Klingon Bird of prey.... and it's awesome
Also it has close resemblance with the Romulan Valdor Class Warbirds.
I have just started getting into these after my Vexor got jumped and destroyed (still lacking my wounds after that loss.) I have noticed that in both the advanced encounters and T5 and above anomolies you encounter a few troubling things : one More ships are showing up activating warp disruptors - death unless your out of range and two: Often times in a second or third wave the ships use both nosferatos as well as the energy neutralizers. Normally these would be out of range of you but for whatever reason they always pop in conveniently in range to start massively draining your capacitor forcing one to flee to a nearby planet to recover or be destroyed. Just a word of warning to the pilots seeking higher isk riches. I intend to double up my webifiers to try slowing them down to get my range away.. Be careful out there.
Hi Cpt Benzie,
just looking at the details of both the rapid and standard medium missile launchers:
rapids have longer reload time 35s vs standard 10s.
Flight velocity of rapids are only 3750m/s versus standard 4300m/s.
So rapids are not reloading magazines nor can fly faster.
The only parameter a rapid missile is faster than standard is activation time 6.24s vs 12s and explosion velocity 170m/s vs 81m/s.
My question is why the rapid missile launchers called rapid?
One important thing you should mention that your missile range of 40km is with all bonuses added and that depends mostly on your rigs, skills, etc. Better to first show details in marketplace section with basic parameters then on fitted ship with bonuses. Basic range is only 27.85km if I remember correctly and that makes a huge difference. Hope this helps others to see why they won't have exactly the same 40km range.
I'm looking forward to buying a caracal.It is like a better version of corax trainer that I'm currently using.
The capacitor in my Caracal isn't stable unless I put 2 Nos in the mid slot. Same goes with my Caracal Navy Issue, I have to put 3 nos, if I fit 1 web the charge rate lowers a lot, sometimes to negative values. Why?
Upgrade your skills
@@macta781 i did.
You don't need your ship cap stable. You don't need to run those shield boosters 24/7.
Use the nos it will fill your cap while using shield
Stop trying to be cap stable then
Could someone specialize in just frigates, never touching a destroyer/cruiser or above and still make a killing in the game?
What skill would you recommend training first for a Caracal kite build? Very informative and in depth videos keep up the good work mate
@@captainbenzie I've been juggling between ship and weapon skills because I wasn't sure what was best, it's good to get an educated answer to improve your game appreciate it 💯
Thanks a lot this helped a lot😁
I’m using a Moa, cap stable with 75-80% shield resistance across the board. 400 dps. Easily chewing through t7’s never seeing lower than 50% on shield or cap. Up close and personal......
I absolutely love your videos! You've gotten me skilling up in frigates and cruisers now. Cruisers more by accident, hah. Anyway, question: I've witnessed a Chinese player (language barrier) clear a Medium T7 anomoly all by themself with a Condor II. How?! Do you have any advice on fitting out my condor to make this work? The best I've gotten is clearing a large T5 by the skin of my teeth with my condor II (torpedo, torpedo, nos, nos, afterburner, shield booster. 2 speed rigs and 2 missile rigs.) Thanks for any tips here!
i ve been doing solo small t7 by my condor 2, with 2 small missile. its pretty easy tho, i dont get any dmg from them as long i orbit with afterburner on.
1.5km/s with my condor 2, its called speed tanking right. the only cons is time. its time consuming. i need 15 mins to clear 1 wave at small t7. and there is 5 waves.
When I open item details it shows the range to be 18.75km of Rapids which is equivalent to Small Missiles. Why your range is 23km then for Rapids Cap?
ah I see. I have upg small missile skills.. will check in fittings.
How can you get a caracal trainer? I thought it was after the full tutorial like the other trainer ships they gave, but its not, can someone tell me?
So, you have 40km range while I only have 33km range with the missile launcher. What's the deal here, skill? If so what to level up for longer range?
I am quite frankly amazed, due to fitting my Caracal with a semi conducted memory cell and a capacitor control circuit.
These two engineering rigs changed the entire play style of the ship.
No more kiting!
Those rigs have given me the ability to tank.
YAY!
Kiting is a play style that I find too detached. To put it in your words capz,
I like it 'up close and personal.'
Always been a tank in other RPG's and this is no different.
Just a question?
Would I be better off in a MOA ship due to my preferred playing style?
Not interested in going back to frigates.
It's an interesting conundrum because, on one hand, you have less attack and much higher shields while on the other you have a much higher attack and much less in shields.
With my current ship, I have over 300 DPS and that's just going to go up as I train in missiles.
Your thoughts on this issue would be very much appreciated, Captain Benzie.
which is better rapid missile launchers or normal missile launchers?
I cant find a medium missile with 40km range. Where is it???
I hope you could do a railgun progression guide.
That would be great.
Is there any rapid torpedo modules?? Love your videos.
I think there are changes now, the Drake has now more overall defense than the Cyclone
Thank you very much
What is the role bonus on this thing
I use torpedo instead.. very strong against cruiser and destroyer but weaker against frig..
yo you got any tips on the stabber FI since full release? looking to get mine real nice and tasty for anoms lol
@@captainbenzie it's a lil out of date now is all 👌
which is better the battle cruisers or the battle ships?
How would you play a caracal in a solo PvP scenario?
Can I see you fight with it? Want to be sure I'm not missing some technique
I hope crackel navey issue fitting video is coming
Thank you capn👍🏻
I want to become a caracal hunter. Any suggestions?
Can I bring my drake?
Now i wanna buy a caracal now.. But since i bought a Vexor trainer.. Can u make a fitting guide for it? U did make one for the Vexor on the Beta version... Can u make one for the Vexor trainer? :3
Got stuck with the Vexor trainer too. But with the price of drones, i never got it out of the hangar. Very sad...
@@sinmaan7568 same... My vexor trainer is literally just collecting dust in my hangar.. Im trying to grind isk for the drones but its hard since im still Tier 5
Hey cap, my friend and I had gotten our hounds a few days ago and during testing we only managed to get 14 dmg per hit on any ship we fired at. Can you inform us on what in the world we are doing wrong
Hounds equip medium torpedoes that apply we’ll only to large ships, if you were shooting frigates, you will be applying terribly due to sig radius/explosion velocity math.
Heeeeey! Is the info in this video still relevant?
My caracal navy issue just got destroyed, maybe I will stay on the normal caracal for awhile
same thing happened to me. I lost connection to the game during a mission came back to the pod lol. Only had it for a day as well.
When should you go from a trainer to full?
Can we clear t7 or t6 mission with T4 slahsher fully equipped ?
Why does everyone use MK5 rapids instead of MK7s?
@@captainbenzie I've just noticed... After I'd bought the mk 7s 😂
Ah well, at least I'll have the upgrades
so um.. how do I actually kite?
Please make a video on Caracal II.
Call me FortressMaximus in video
Pls make one of the normal Omen
The indsutry omen
Ahoy there! What do you think of the orthrus cruiser from mordus legion?
Nyx Ni-kunni died because he was asleep not because he didn’t have a web
Don't bother with medium missiles, you lose too much damage for excessive range. My caracal trainer had 34km range with rapids which is plenty enough, i used it to solo T6 story missions (for patriotism and super soft drink primarily). Upgraded to navy caracal now, just does the same thing but faster because more dps.
Yeeeeeees yes yes yes but how to fucking kill them!?! They are everywhere!!!! Jk jk jk GL everyone i just upgraded lasers xD
@@captainbenzie I took one today in a Thrasher II xD I love them with short cannons and spck for speed. Ty for all your uploads man! Love em'
this video was hidden from my subscriptions
@@captainbenzie i never do that because i want to watch videos in bulk when i have free time, so i just go to subscriptions page. But i saw your video on my main page, and then it wasn't on my sub page, so i thought i had to say about this strange situation.
Captain can you redo this video I believe this has been nerfed the stats are different 😕 I believe it’s been nerfed
Captain Benzie - EVE Echoes I’m confused then why the stats are different for me then is it skills?
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