Missions & Complexes

A shield fit is gonna be much better, but another option to consider is buying a gila for use in angel space (rather than destroying the rigs in your current ishtar fit). Trying to armor tank an Ishtar against explosive damage is asking for a headache.

Angel rats are a PITA when flying Amarr as well. Amarr tends to be an armor-tanking, EM-and-thermal damage race...which the Angels are very strong against. I tend not to take armor-tanking ships against Angels at all. Minnie ships are the best against Angels, with Caldari missile boats like the Drake coming in second (mainly because you can use Nova explosive missiles for damage).

But it evens out: my Amarr Harbinger eats Sansha and Blood Raiders for lunch. It evens out. If you plan to mission for different races (and against different pirate factions), then you need to skill up in all four races at least through the battlecruiser hulls. People tend to simply default to the Drake as a "do it all" ship for missions, but I find that it's both more fun and more efficient to choose the ship and loadout for the enemy profile.

And if you think the Angels can be tough PVE oppenents...try the Sleepers! Omni-damage, strong tank, speed, and they'll web, scram, and neut you. Those damned Sleepers are tougher than some human opponents I've faced.

Why would you fly an Ishtar in Angel Space? And an armor tanked one to boot? You're basically not making use of your T2 resistance bonuses that way. I can't see it as anything other than counter productive. With that being said... it can be done, and easily, it's a 4/10. The fact that you found problems doing it means you're not flying it properly imo. Linking your fit and drones would help.

Angel is a hard one to armor tank for. Best thing with that fit that you could probably do is drop the drone amps (yea you will lose DPS) to fit a second explosive hardener and maybe a Damage control. Increases your tank a fair amount.

Fitting two explosive hardeners to your Ishtar will yield a better result versus Angels.

Thats a big ass explosive hole. Angels do mostly explosive, then kin, then the others. Ishtar has massive kin and thermal resist already and as you armour tank em is quite decent for the tiny amount of em angels do. Explosive is a massive hole for gellente t2 though. You have under 60% resist to explosive with over 90% to kinetic. This means you take more than 4 times as much damage through explosive (which angels do more of) than you do through kinetic.

TLDR fit 2 explosive hardeners, the kinetic is unnecessary.

If you're alright with re-shipping, i suggest a sacrilege.



[Sacrilege, Pew]
Damage Control II
Imperial Navy Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane
Corelum B-Type Medium Armor Repairer
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II

10MN Afterburner II
Patterned Stasis Web I
Phased Weapon Navigation Array Generation Extron
Phased Weapon Navigation Array Generation Extron

Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Mjolnir Rage Heavy Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Mjolnir Rage Heavy Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Mjolnir Rage Heavy Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Mjolnir Rage Heavy Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Mjolnir Rage Heavy Assault Missile
[empty high slot]

Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump I


Hobgoblin II x3

Obviously use novas instead of mjolnir's.

[Curse, Highsec Angel]
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Co-Processor II

Federation Navy 10MN Afterburner
Medium Shield Booster II
Shield Boost Amplifier II
Limited Kinetic Deflection Field I
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Large Capacitor Battery II

Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Nova Heavy Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Nova Heavy Assault Missile
Sisters Core Probe Launcher, Sisters Core Scanner Probe I
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Nova Heavy Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Nova Heavy Assault Missile

Medium Gravity Capacitor Upgrade I
Medium Processor Overclocking Unit I


Valkyrie II x8
Light Armor Maintenance Bot I x4
Warrior II x10




Can take on the 4/10, 260 drone dps with my ... not... too well skills, tanks somewhere around the 300dps vs Angels. First time i tried i had to warp out, luckily the Gila that entered after me had to do the same. Once you land in the 2nd pocket, burn away from them . I guess the direction would be 7 or 8 o'clock , release valks, kill overseer, then make a loop above the 2 groups and approach the wreck in a wide angle. Take down the cruisers in the meantime.
Can also take on the whole spawns in Angel Watch first pocket with only triggering wave after wave and killing the militant officer, however some overheating might be needed when last spawn appears. i usually activate warp with ~25% shield. Cap lasts for ~5 minutes, so yeah, no worries on that.

iI'm also considering dropping the Kin hardener for a meta Invul. Other possibilites are dropping the battery and the sba and strap on a Dread Guri Large Booster and run it with a Capbooster. In this case, you should also be able to drop the PCU rig and can fit another invul or a sebo or whatever you like.

Update: It can't handle the Angel Vigil. ... **** this! :D