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It rocks (for its level). Pity it tends to be rather hard to get.
Its a level 6 thermo weapon, and is more or less around the neighborhood of weapons such as the Tev9 or Akan, and at a 3rd tier damage type too.
It uses 25MW (half that of the tritium cannon), has nearly twice the range of the tritium cannon, fires as fast as the tritium cannon, gets more projectiles through to the target (tritium cannon has rather lacking projectile HP), fires faster projectiles than the tritium cannon.
Tritium cannon is level 7 btw - dealing 26thermo per shot, while the behemoth cannon does 21thermo/shot

Like the Xeno lancer, its pretty rare & hard to get though. Not nearly as hard, because in theory you can just farm behemoths until you get one, but still, its not going to be something you can just stroll into the nearest corporate station and buy.

I would also avoid purchasing the standard tritium cannon.
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Wolfy wrote:It rocks (for its level). Pity it tends to be rather hard to get.
Its a level 6 thermo weapon, and is more or less around the neighborhood of weapons such as the Tev9 or Akan, and at a 3rd tier damage type too.
It uses 25MW (half that of the tritium cannon), has nearly twice the range of the tritium cannon, fires as fast as the tritium cannon, gets more projectiles through to the target (tritium cannon has rather lacking projectile HP), fires faster projectiles than the tritium cannon.
Tritium cannon is level 7 btw - dealing 26thermo per shot, while the behemoth cannon does 21thermo/shot

Like the Xeno lancer, its pretty rare & hard to get though. Not nearly as hard, because in theory you can just farm behemoths until you get one, but still, its not going to be something you can just stroll into the nearest corporate station and buy.

I would also avoid purchasing the standard tritium cannon.
Never heard of it. Guess it is rare to find then...? If it's around the Tev9, then I should be in the neighbourhood of finding one. What does a Behometh look like though? I've never heard of one....
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A Behemoth is a zoanthrope ship, like the raiders, but much, much bigger.
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Drako Slyith wrote:A Behemoth is a zoanthrope ship, like the raiders, but much, much bigger.
Ohhhhhhhhhhh. Maybe I have seen one of those. Somehow, in the dusty corners of my brain, it is linked to quick death....
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You used to be able to get their armor, which reflects Ion and particle and is immune to a lot of damage and resistant to more. On top of that, it has 400 hp. Now you can't equip it. It was fun to fly into a sung fleet and just sit there as they futilely pelt me with their useless weapons which bounce into their friends.
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it looks something like this(sorry no screeny, I'm not in our house)

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It should use 2 device slots, like the centauri claw cannon and the gaian demolition cannon.

It's a weapon that was designed specifically for a larger ship (the BEHEMOTH) and obviously the stats warrant the change.
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Mmmm, not necessarily. I think based on an IRC conversation last night, the basic tritium just sucks, which is why is seems good in comparison.
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Wolfy, its pretty good but in the long run it ends up being pretty short lived with usefulness and you ned WOlfy, up having to get some pretty good skill. But I suppose that is a good thing.
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