The Prophecy

Stratics Staff

12 years ago

The Prophecy historically has had a bit of a unappealing role. In high-sec during the first many years, as the first go-to battlecruiser for Amarr pilots while they were skilling up – untill they could fly the Harbinger, or as obvious bait ships in PVP due to the great armor tank you could mount on it.

Now, with a new role and new bonuses – it will hopefully see a bit more use for a variety of Battlecruiser pilots.

Traditionally it has always been a laser boat with a medium drone bay, but due to the old bonuses it would always be outperformed by the Harbinger with its slightly lower defenses but better DPS due to the ship bonuses.

Prophecy by CCP

A new change was released in 2013, meaning that the old ships got new and differing roles which has created new uses for the old battlecruisers.

Prophecy:

Amarr Battlecruiser skill bonuses:
4% bonus to all Armor Resistances
10% bonus to drone damage and hitpoints

Role Bonus: Can fit Warfare Link modules

Slot layout: 5 H, 4 M, 7 L, 4 turrets, 4 Launchers

Fittings: 1100 PWG, 415 CPU

Defense (shields / armor / hull): 3000 / 5500 / 4000

Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / average cap per second): 2850/ 750s / 3.8

Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 150 / 0.704 / 12900000 / 8.5s

Drones (bandwidth / bay): 75 / 225

Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 50km / 210 / 6

Sensor strength: 17 Radar

Signature radius: 270

Cargo capacity: 400

With new bonuses and stats comes new roles.

Lets take a look at what a mission runner could look like…

[Prophecy, PVE Active Tank – lasers]
Armor EM Hardener II
Armor Thermic Hardener II
Armor Thermic Hardener II
Medium Armor Repairer II
1600mm Reinforced Steel Plates II
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II

10MN Afterburner II
Stasis Webifier II
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
Tracking Computer II, Tracking Speed Script

Heavy Pulse Laser II, Multifrequency M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Multifrequency M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Multifrequency M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Multifrequency M
Medium Nosferatu II

Medium Ancillary Current Router I
Medium Ancillary Current Router I
Medium Ancillary Current Router I

Hammerhead II x5
Ogre II x5
Salvage Drone I x5
Warrior II x5

The ‘traditional’ mission fits would alleviate towards 2-3 mission specific hardeners (you’ll need to swap around for other resistance profiles depending on mission), 1-2 repair modules and gank modules in the form of (in this case a laser boat) heat sinks. In this case I’ve added a 1600 plate to beef up the EHP to increase staying power, but if its your first mission you can increase the tank modules to add more resistance and decrease DPS until you feel comfortable enough to add more gank (dps).

This means we’ll go with lasers in the high slots and a NOS for a bit of extra cap injection. You can usually feed cap off an orbiting NPC ship. In case not, it will be stable for 2.5 minutes. Bear in mind that most of the damage will actually be done by your drones. As you can see if you try it in EFT, it is not cap stable. If you want cap stability, drop all but the AB, and take it with 3 cap rechargers and you’ll be damn close. Good thing that the Prophecy can now sport missiles though, so you can actually change to missiles (which is cap independant) and almost become cap stable.

[Prophecy, PVE Active Tank – missiles]
Armor EM Hardener II
Armor Thermic Hardener II
Armor Thermic Hardener II
Medium Armor Repairer II
1600mm Reinforced Steel Plates II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II

10MN Afterburner II
Stasis Webifier II
Target Painter II
Cap Recharger II

Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile
Medium Nosferatu II

Medium Ancillary Current Router I
Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Medium Nanobot Accelerator I

Hammerhead II x5
Ogre II x3
Salvage Drone I x5
Warrior II x5
Ogre II x2

Needless to say, having such a large drone bay leaves room for salvage drones as a luxury 1st world good. With missiles comes more versatility as well.

PVP

In the classic tackle/bait role, you can easily fit a decent tank with DPS like a wet noodle, but excellent tackling capability as well.

[Prophecy, PVP Tackle]
1600mm Reinforced Steel Plates II
1600mm Reinforced Steel Plates II
Energized Explosive Membrane II
Energized Armor Layering Membrane II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Kinetic Membrane II

10MN Microwarpdrive II
Stasis Webifier II
Warp Disruptor II
Warp Scrambler II

Medium Ancillary Current Router II
Medium Ancillary Current Router I
Medium Processor Overclocking Unit I

Drones would be a range of ECM, Webbing, Neuting or other scout/damage drones to complement the fit.

EHP: +100k unbonused, but relying on fleet support for repairs. Missiles can be swapped for Autocannons.

The PVP fit can also be used for WH entry webbing duty for C5 escalations as Dread Support, with salvage drones if you exchange the tackle modules with webs due to the passive resistance modules not being affected by neuts.

Updated 7SEP13