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You'll only be able to improve the B-Wing's handling so much, I'm afraid, as the chassis YPR acceleration is going to be your biggest stumbling block, which can't be overcome (it's extremely low).

Yeah I know I can only improve things slightly, just got to keep flying it until I get used to it.

I used to think my firespray handled badly at first but now I can run rings round most things, just need to practice

One thing that helped me with the B-Wing was to turn up the control inertia a touch. Just enough to take the edge off the responsiveness. Its sure as hell nothing I'd want to do in PvP, but for PvE, it helped a lot with the porpoising.

Out of interest, has anyone tried it as a mining ship?

I can imagine 1 mining laser, 1 tractor beam and 2 nice lvl 7 crafted advanced blasters would keep you alive and mining nicely even when mining in dangerous areas.

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Isamu-alva wrote:
Out of interest, has anyone tried it as a mining ship?

I can imagine 1 mining laser, 1 tractor beam and 2 nice lvl 7 crafted advanced blasters would keep you alive and mining nicely even when mining in dangerous areas.

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Heck, put a Type V cappie in the bad boy, slap 4 mining lasers in it and rock & roll (literally ) A good pilot with four Type III Mining Lasers should have no trouble, even in Kessel.

Im a Bwing Pilot, It is a great ship but as every seems to have noticed it has issues. To get the best out of it you will need to get some great parts for it. 2 Lev 10 guns and 2 Lev 8s a good REed Starmap engin reward shields and a some im-rec 2s for those all those people who flyJSFs and the like.

I would have to say I prefer the ADV Xwing for PvP tho.

id rather fly a standard xwing than a bwing, much less the 180k advanced x.

you lose some firepower, but you more than make up for that with your ability to apply your guns to a target.i dont care if you dish out more dmg per shot than a deathstar, its a moot point if smaller ship candestroy a target in less time than it takesa bwing to bring its guns to bear.

me with my adv-xand three re'd l10 guns can out kill ANY bwing pilot.

Agree, much easier that way.

In opinion

I fly my b-wing almost exclusively on my ace character. One main key is loading the proper equipment. The other is forcing yourself to stick with it, and learning how it flies.

The other night my friend got a b-22 and was eager to fly it. I thought,"What the heck. I have not flown my b-22 in quite a while. I will get mine and join him on his tier 4 missions." He is freelance, and the last part of his mission spawned 2 gun boats, and not the kessel kind that fly in nice slow patterns. These ones chasedand blew the crap out of all four of us. There was also the customary fighter escort to deal with. After the other 3 got blown up or disabled, I hypered clear and went to DS to repair.

Then I got out the b-wing. I loaded up twin IR2 missile launchers, and we all headed back out to re-run the mission. We lost one of our group because it was so late. I blew all 14 missiles, and lost all my front armor, but we managed to knock out those gunboats without anyone having to eject.

I feel the b-wing is too quickly dismissed by those who will not take the time to learn how to fly it. It is not the universal "I win" for all situations, but it definately has its strengths

It's just a tad difficult to fly as it has some crazy intertia going on.

I've been flying mine on and off when there's nothing else going on and trying to get the hang of it, it's 4 gun ports make mincemeat out of most targets but I'm still trying to get the hang of finding a good turning speed on it.

I'm grinding my alt up to master shipwright so I can stuff a nice lvl 10 RE engine in and see if I can improve the handling a little.

Message Edited by Isamu-alva on 08-16-2005 08:48 AM