EVE Racial DPS: Tier 1 Battleships

There are endless discussions all over the web about which race in EVE is the best for PVP. These discussions are invariably colored with people's individual tastes and dislikes. I'll not delve into dark discussions of tactics and corner-case weaknesses or strengths of the given races, but I would like to provide some much needed factual information on the topic.

I've run various ships through EFT to try to put solid numbers on the actual DPS of a variety of ships. I'll be the first to admit that there's more to combat in EVE than raw damage output and the ability to absorb raw damage output but let's be honest. If you can't put out damage at least similar to your opponent you will almost never win a 1 vs 1.

There's a lot of ground to cover here so I'll make this post focus specifically on the DPS of tier 1 battleships. I'll profile the DPS of each of these ships using the following criteria:

- EFT 2.9.1 will be used

-All fitting and final numbers will be based on the default "All Level V" character in EFT thereby removing pilot skill from the equation.

-All dps will be based on the biggest/best tech 2 guns/launchers, tech 2 ammo (high dmg, not range), tech 2 drones (all gallente), tech 2 everything

-No rigs will be used

-No fleet bonuses will be considered

-If weapon upgrades are used, they will be used equally. Notes will be made in any situations where the use of these rigs is not feasibly sustainable.

-Fittings will only be as specific as they need to be. e.g. I'll usually put an armor repper on armor tanking boats to verify that the ship has the powergrid to sustain both the repper and the guns I'm fitting but I will leave all slots empty that don't affect DPS directly (rate of fire bonus, dmg bonus) or indirectly (powergrid/CPU shortage) . I will not bother telling you that the ship has a repper fitted as this does not affect the DPS.

So, off we go...

Tier 1 Battleships

Amarr: Armageddon:
7x Mega Pulse II (conflag ammo)
5x Ogre II's
DPS: 842

Caldari: Scorpion
4x Siege Missile Launcher II (mjolnir rage)
2x Neutron Blaster II (void)
5x Hammerhead II (cannot fit 5 large drones)
DPS: 609

Gallente: Dominix
3x Ion Blaster II (void ammo)
3x Electron Blaster II (void ammo)
5x Ogre II's
DPS: 921

Minmatar: Typhoon
4x Siege Missile Launcher II (mjolnir rage torp)
4x 800mm repeating artillery II (hail)
5x Ogre II
DPS: 1012