EVE New Citizens Q&A

You a a long way from being able to effectively able to do what you are wanting to do, especially solo.
You really need to join a PVP corp and follow their lead.

Ya, since making this thread I read the evelopedia and learned marauders are very expensive PVE ships for level 4s. So, when I have more skillpoints and have much more money, I could opt for a Black ops BS? Or are they just as expensive? What about stealth bombers?

ok, so are there any ships within the destroyer, frigate hulls that are relatively cheap that are like the gameplay i described?

I hate to make this reference, but are there ships that are similar to a rogue in world of warcraft? That's kinda the play style I'm interested in. Like I said, I'm a noob, dont know much. I just wanna know which skills to invest my time with.

Sounds like you want stealth bombers, frigates that shot torpedoes ( a weapon normally reserved for battleships) and can warp while cloaked when fitted with a covert ops cloak. They find a target, uncloak hit hard with a few volleys, cloak up and hide from the retaliation.
Keep in mind they still are as easy to kill as a frigate when they are caught and even though they are much cheaper then a t2 battleship they are still quite expensive for an inexperienced player.

I would still advise doing as suggested above first and learn the basics of pvp in cheap t1 frigs and cruisers first.

Stealth bombers.



Yup, stealth bombers. And a friend with another stealth bomber, possibly of a different race so you have some damage type variation going on.



No, yes, and no. Marauders are for sustained PvE in very safe areas (their defenses aren't all that much better than their T1 variants), and heavy assault ships are good, but not so good that I would take them in a small fleet. With a small fleet (1 to 4 people) there's not really any combination you can take that's resistant enough to being blown up that you'll get your moneys worth before someone gets you, so in any situation I'd take an HAC out with a couple buddies I'd think twice and take a T1 cruiser instead.

So... basically your optimum here is the Stealth Bomber. Torpedo skills (which I assume you've got if you were considering a Golem), racial frig 5, and the prerequisites for the T2 cloaking device that lets you warped cloaked. That's your ultimate low-cost (well, relatively, it's going to cost you about as much as a T2-fit T1 cruiser) lurking/ganking machine.

Albeit, a viable alternative is the aforementioned T2-fit T1 cruiser. With Cruisers V and all your relevant skills high up, there are quite a few T1 cruisers which can range pretty deep without resupply, hit damned hard, work well in small groups against mixed opponents, and when you lose them eh, it's just a cruiser. My personal fave is the Vexor, but every race has good ones.

(The usual caveats of "if you take a ship into PvP, write it off before you even undock" obviously apply. There is no ship that's going to make you immune to every counter-strategy.)