Rapier part 1 questions

I have some questions re: the rapier.

The standard fleet fit is great and uses a ton of webs and looking around the webs are the reason to use this ship. That’s great. 

But if I’m using this ship for anything else I was wondering when I might fit a target painter. It has a TP bonus and a TP can affect the entire fleets dmg. When would fitting a TP be better than a web? Assuming a gang and never solo(solo I run that’s why I have invisibility).

I want to figure out this for some situations whether it would increase the dmg of these fleet types. Assuming a small gang and looking for more than a 15% bonus to dmg
a. Drakes when shooting a frigate
b. Drakes when shooting a cruiser
C. Zealot shooting a Frigate
D. Zealot shooting a Cruiser
E. Stealth Bomber shooting a Frigate
f. Stealth bomber shooting a Cruiser
G. Stealth bomber Shooting a battle cruiser.

Bonus dmg from 1 painter, bonus dmg from 2 painters expressed as a percent of dmg done.

So that’s my question, hoe to update this with my answers. My hope is under a certain fleet type a target painter may actually help a great deal. I suspect speed is the bigger deal but we will see.  Be fun to catch a dare devil with one. 

New AO in 0.0

So Corp moved into a new area of 0.0 and I am slowly finding my way around. I was previously in 0.0 NPC space and am now in Sov space. Though I am mainly a mission runner.

My main play is limited due to real life so I often only get 1-2h and am fairly firm on those times so fleets can be hard for me.  Progressing in skill points and can fly most ships.

So I moved out to our new AO got most my ship there (one for each fleet type, a couple inties, stealths, and a drake) So I can now join in on fleets. Defense fleets are fun as they tend to be short and close to home. Participated a few days ago and racked up some kills. Felt good to finally do something to help out.

I look forward to these fleets. To further aid the alliance trained logistics 4 and can fly shield or armor logistics so am hopping to be a huge help since they are always needed. I have an armor logistics fitted so far and ready to go. These will be great for defense fleets and participating ina  couple now logi’s seem to be very in demand and the fleet often waits for them to reach a certain number.

Due to my play time joining a fleet in progress is also a must, so I have 2 intie’s as tackle is always needed…and again experience confirms this as the last defense fleet spent a lot of time chasing fleeing ships after each skirmish. Be nice to kill em. Have a nice maelidiction fit with a scram and disruptor(not a solo boat).

I also am working up recon 4…so I can fly a rapier. Same premise as the inti but bigger and maybe more helpful in 0.0 with bubbles and keeping ships in place. Will post a seperat entry on that in a bit.

So PvP wise I’m fairly happy.

PvE my mining alt is still not in the AO because…well she mines and I need more isk before bank rolling her into a hulk to passive mine for me. So she’ll empire mine for a short bit and train up to fly a stealth scout and cyno skills. Will then work on shield compensation as I lost a retriever to rats and don’t want that to happen again. So having more time to warp out may help. Not sure how well a Hulk will tank but will need to learn more.

She will also eventually set up pi in the AO.

My main moved over a few systems out of the main travel routes to rat. I moved a PvE ship and a stealth bomber there. PvE ship to rat, stealth bomber to move around if fleet called. Ratting went well and my ship is way way over tanked, but did get an officer spawn cruiser that dropped a 70mil mod…not bad.

I also spent last night making a ton of safes…this part of the game sucks.  Warp warp warp warp slow boat with mwd for undock… So have quite a few safes and tacticals laid in. will still need more but may wait until I learn where most engagements and camps happen and focus more safes there.

Over all very happy as I now have ships to quickly jump into for fleets no matter the situation. I can join fleets forming or fleets already in progress.

For PvE I have an income source so can start to buy more ships. Looking to buy a shield logistics ship and a hulk fairly soon. Other ships will mainly be replacements to what I have. If I am losing a lot of a given ship it will be replaced. Will be looking into buying reserves of commonly used ships.

The best part is all of this works with my play time, I can log in do stuff and actively help(ratting helps me and sov) and can help defense and even roams. As my isk grows(I hope) I can be more aggressive in PvP. Just so happy to have goals.

In eve you need to have something you log on and work towards.