Ships & Modules

There are fringe cases that would overpower a "simple" 1k dps tank. According to eve-survival, full room aggro in WC is somewhere in the vicinity of 1.5k dps. Letting all the waves spawn and then hopping into Enemies Abound 5/5 is upwards of 3k dps. You have to try really hard to need more than 1k dps tank, even more so considering you can fairly easily get 1.2k dps out of your paladin, meaning incoming dps will go down pretty fast.

I had a faction fit which omni tanked roughly 800 dps. I didn't use it that much though, since my pala has some sentimental value to me (one of the first ones ever built, built it myself, it's over 6 years old). I might just get a new one for that reason ;p

I just noticed your post asking "Say you do get put into the middle of things" The trick I've found is keep range. That's what the MJD is for. The beam lasers will do better damage since tracking is less of an issue and most NPC's won't be able to hit you. If you try an in your face approach you're going to get smashed

I think something like the Navy Raven would suffer less if you want heavy tank since you don't have to take out damage mods for tanking ones. Plus shield just tanks better. Yea you won't have target painters but with the ships bonuses and rigor rigs you can get away without them.

So many fits linked, not one with the correct rig choice for a Paladin. This makes me sad.

Alright then, listen up: You excel at smashing things from range. R-A-N-G-E. Let that sink in and try again.

If I remember right range rigs have stacking penalties with tracking computers. I'm not at my PC so not sure how it looks on EFT

One of the wonders of the bastion module is how much tank you get for so little effort and although I use a Golem I can't imagine the tanking principle changes much. You want just enough tank to get through the missions and you want to put your money into damage and application.

Spend any money you spend on faction modules on heat sinks and tracking computers (faction heat sinks are not overly expensive and you will be able to quickly recoup the cost with a paladin) your tank should absolutely be T2, my Golem easily tanks any level 4 on T2 XL booster, two invulns and the bastion mod and I only cycle the booster once any time I fall to 65% shield, meaning that in most missions with no cap mods at all I never even come close to capping out. The damage you take for 0 m/s is pretty high but tankable until you've killed enough of the dps that it doesn't matter any more, Worlds Collide I don't take full aggro in any pocket but will often have to cycle the booster often enough in the last pocket but still get nowhere close to capping out. Tanking anymore damage than that is wasted effort and trying to be cap stable to perma tank that is wasted damage. Swap your cap mods for tracking computers and faction your heat sinks (My only faction mods are target painters and BCUs). Faster missions is faster ISK.

The MJD is also debatable, I've found in many cases any acceleration gates I need to get to are often either very close meaning I don't need a prop mod or are ~30-50 km. In that case the MJD doesn't help you get there so much as you'll have to fly the 30 - 50 km at one end or the other which is why I generally prefer a traditional prop mod. In your case though you may have to worry about tracking and the MJD will help you get range to set up so missions that put you in close you may still want it.

Here's what I get from EFT using Mega Pulse Laser II. You can get 60 more DPS/ over twice the tracking speed with IN MF or 187 more DPS/50 percent better tracking with Conflagration. Either way you're putting a whole lot more DPS on target. If you like "smashing things point blank" you might want to consider this. Even the worse tracking pulse ammo (Conflagration) does way better than the best tracking beam ammo (Gleam).


I personally use a tach Paladin for the 72 km range. I find most Sansha or BR NPC rats don't even scratch my paint that far away.

Oh I do use pulses for close range, if most spawns in a mission will be within 45 km. The tracking is by far superior to tachs+gleam+3 tc, obviously. And anyway, I don't get 1.3k dps with tachs ;)

But I'll use tachs if most spawns in a mission are beyond 45km. Tachs+INMF>Pulse+Scorch.

I really don't think the Paladin is a one trick pony. It's a massive tank, massive dps beast, with a very large engagement range to boot. It's the reason why I picked it over the Kronos. Blasters deal more damage up close but the range is really low, even with Null, and the damage with Rails was very close to Tachs.

LAR, DC and EANM are enough for Pulse Build, you need to watch aggro on those Gurristas missions because it will take a while to destroy enough of them so that you take less damage.
That's the reason why I bought an Imperial Navy repper.

Maybe I should get a T2 fit Raven just for these Gurristas missions, they make me really hate the Paladin.


Unrelated question, for tach build, is there a range after with the NPC stop jamming/tracking disrupting/damping you ?

Tach or pulse, I use 1 EANM2, 1 RAH and 1 faction LAR.