Ships & Modules

Use frigates until you learn basic PvP. Move on to ceptors or AFs when you know all about tackle, tracking, brawling, dealing with bigger ships, general mobility, gangs, missiles vs turrets, etc etc etc.

T2 ships are more specialized than their T1 versions, and are generally very good at one or two things if you do them right, and mediocre or bad otherwise. Flying them without the requisite piloting skills (not skill point skills) is, in my opinion, a waste of good money.

I personally prefer the Vengeance. I dont fly interceptors or the Retribution (except for 10 minutes one time).

I dont suggest using a 400 plate, use the ship advantages, which is its resist bonuses and capacitor. With minimal pimpage, I can get all resists to 80% or higher. I do use the atype reppers, but its worth it to me. Sometimes, Ill toss on a faction web and scram if I know Im going to fight a kiting ship, just to give myself a nasty gift of 18km web and 13-14km scram range to surprise them with.

But as others have said, dont jump into a specialized ship until you know what you want to specialize in, because you'll waste isk as well as get frustrated doing something you might not like doing and give up on the game itself.

[Vengeance, Regular]
Internal Force Field Array I
Centii A-Type Small Armor Repairer
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
True Sansha Energized Thermic Membrane

Gistii B-Type 1MN MicroWarpdrive
Faint Epsilon Warp Scrambler I
Fleeting Propulsion Inhibitor I

Rocket Launcher II, Inferno Rage Rocket
Rocket Launcher II, Inferno Rage Rocket
Corpii C-Type Small Nosferatu
Rocket Launcher II, Inferno Rage Rocket
Rocket Launcher II, Inferno Rage Rocket

Small Warhead Calefaction Catalyst II
Small Anti-EM Pump I

And for a shameless plug, http://korvuskut.blogspot.com/ , is my blog of my fights. I have links to a few other bloggers and stuff I use often, like dotlan. I suggest checking out "Flight of Dragons" near the beginning for his "punisher plan".

Problem going to go ahead and shamelessly use this when I get into a Vengeance sometime.

That fit is bad and you should feel bad. Interceptors get massive sig radius reduction for their MWDs, and you're tossing that out the window. Malediction gets bonuses to armor resistances and rocket damage, and you're tossing those out the window, too. That fit is paper thin, expensive, can't catch anything, and will die horribly to drones or even anything anything that it does catch.



Half the price, far more tanky, twice the speed, target and tackle far faster, more reliable damage against drones, etc. You can feel free to fly your fit, but without the very high MWD speed or an armor tank, the Malediction becomes really vulnerable -- even if it goes 2 km/s with an AB.

1. For fighting outside scram range, the Slicer is superior to the Crusader due to optimal range bonus and the ability to fit med pulses and three rigs.

2. Y U No MWD on a tackle interceptor? Moreover a tackle interceptor doesn't need two (or even one) overdrive. It's speed is high enough to catch anything a fleet would be interested in.

I would suggest going to a test server and practice there.

Thanks everyone for the responses. This gives me good stuff to read though.

My main reason for going for a T2 frig is that I've been trying to figure out how to break into PvP and all I've been hearing is that t1 frigs and cruisers are pointless in pvp, you need to either be in t2 ships or BC and up. i can't quite afford to lose 50 mil on a BC yet because I don't get much time to play lately and make ISK.

My only PvP experience is a few runs of faction war and one week where I just threw myself in 0.0 space and went wandering around, basically just throwing myself in the deep end.

*i'm sure I'll have more questions once I have time to read through this all.

This.

Also, an insured BC loss will typically be less than an AF loss (especially with the DED fittings many people suggest); T2 insurance is effectively non-existant.

Thank you for all the advice, you've been really helpful. I like my arbi a lot and the maller looked good until i tried to fit things on it, so I'll keep working on that. I just have been told so many times that t1 cruisers can't do anything in pvp especially ammarrian, but I will throw that out the window and stick with them until I have more experience.

Again I appreciate steering me in the right direction. T2 looks very expensive isk wise and I've only got about 6.5 mil sp under my belt right now.

I think once I get better I will be looking into the AFs or Interceptors because I like the idea of being the tiny ship flying around a bunch of battleships. But until then, cruiser it is. Once I get there which ship type would be most welcome in low sec corps?

Smartbombs in Hofjaldgund... just sayin

-Liang