Ships & Modules

When I started playing eve, the pilgrim was often being used as all in one ship.

It's cloak allows you to escape many gatecamps and since it is a droneboat you got highs free for probelauncher and such.

Just don't know if its that good anymore.

Well, to give really definite advice we'd need to know what rats you were looking at.

Beyond that, the idea of an "all in one" ship isn't that far fetched if you don't mind refitting a T3 to switch between combat and scan/travel/professional site fits. If you really want a single ship with a single fit it gets much, much harder to swing. Although it's easier to do now, as sites are generally ****-all easy to scan with Odyssey.

Legion would probably be your best bet, but again -- the devil is in the details. If you're going to try to match its native resists by going up against Angels, for instance, you're more or less stuck with a missile fit because lasers aren't going to do anything to them worth speaking of.

If you don't mind excluding combat sites, the Pilgrim is ridiculously good at what it does. Although the Legion has kind of eclipsed it given the bonus you get from the Emergent Locus Analyzer for hacking. But honestly, if you just want professional sites you might as well be in a covops anyhow.

Edit: oh, and a thought on your budget. Obviously, don't spend more than you need to to get the performance you want. And obviously don't spend more than you can afford to lose a few times over. But if you can afford it, I see no reason not to spend on a low sec exploration ship. My current fit runs ~1bil (a bit over last I checked) but every bit of it is spent to improve performance and it always pays for itself many times over before I lose it. And yes, I do lose it.

Ishtar is very popular for this and you can fit a decent one for not too much. The sacrilege can most definitely tank the sites, but it has bad projection so it will take awhile to do the sites, less dps too. Here's a Guristas Ishtar solo lowsec combat plex fit:

[Ishtar, Solo Plex]

Medium Armor Repairer II
Imperial Navy Armor Thermic Hardener
Coreli A-Type Kinetic Plating
Armor Kinetic Hardener II
Drone Damage Amplifier II

Experimental 10MN Microwarpdrive I
10MN Afterburner II
Omnidirectional Tracking Link II
Omnidirectional Tracking Link II
Large Peroxide Capacitor Power Cell

Prototype Cloaking Device I
Sisters Core Probe Launcher
Small 'Solace' Remote Bulwark Reconstruction /OFFLINE
[Empty High slot]
[Empty High slot]

Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I


Vespa EC-600 x5
Garde II x5
Hobgoblin II x5
Hammerhead II x5
Warden II x5

You need the MWD + Cloak for solo to get past gatecamps, if you have someone scanning and scouting for you then you don't have to use as many faction modules and can probably get more tank/dps one there.

Excellent. Thanks for the fit.. I will get the drones trained up for that.

How does that cope with aggro swapping? Ever since rats started swapping aggro to drones, I've found you spend most of your time pulling them in and out. DPS is severely limited once you factor that in.

Disagreeing with you there, I used to run combat site pretty well in a pilgrim throughout lowsec, took a 'tad' longer than an ishtar but its definitely is/was possible. (This may have changed however as its been awhile - if so apologies - But you did say 'at no point )

Cloaky save you from alot of stupid, and not so stupid mistakes, thus improving your isk/time ratio. More so if your not completely at home in Lowsec yet.

Have you considered a cheap BC Hull with spare mids/highs (Myrm) could save you some isk on losses. Ishtar is epic, and going to be even better next(?) patch, tho a bit pricy and much better suited to guristas where it can hold its own in alot of Null sites to.