Ships & Modules

I'd argue that he in fact doesn't have enough capacitor / tank. This setup requires fitting implants and a mind-linked off-grid booster to have sufficient reps, but the damage projection with scorch is sexy. Right around 1K dps with conflag, 3k DPS tank, and can handle 80 GJ/s of neut pressure vs. the ~50 GJ/s of neut pressure typically applied by npcs. Your cap booster will last long enough to kill scramming rats, allowing you to MJD away if it looks like you'll be capped out.

[Paladin, Solo Stuff]

Damage Control II
Core A-Type Large Armor Repairer
Imperial Navy Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane
Imperial Navy Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane
Imperial Navy Heat Sink
Imperial Navy Heat Sink
Capacitor Power Relay II

Heavy Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I, Navy Cap Booster 800
Large Micro Jump Drive
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
Cap Recharger II

Mega Pulse Laser II, Conflagration L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Conflagration L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Conflagration L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Conflagration L
Bastion Module I
True Sansha Heavy Nosferatu
Heavy Unstable Power Fluctuator I (Disable hostile scramblers)
True Sansha Large EMP Smartbomb (Killing Frigates)

Large Auxiliary Nano Pump II
Large Auxiliary Nano Pump II


Inherent Implants 'Squire' Engineering EG-604
Inherent Implants 'Squire' Energy Management EM-804
Eifyr and Co. 'Gunslinger' Surgical Strike SS-904
Inherent Implants 'Lancer' Large Energy Turret LE-1004

This fitting is about as cheap as I can come up with while still hitting the target tank levels. If you want to do it without an off grid booster, you'll either have to make things shinier, or switch to a shield ship. It's hard to push a Paladin into the 3k tank range necessary and still have enough capacitor to avoid being neuted to death by npcs, and the 2k tank you get without boosts will see you very dead.

Having a really strong burst tank on your marauder is quite useful. I don't care about sustainability, but being able to mwd directly at the rats, not caring that you're in low shield, then getting into position, hitting bastion, and boosting to full in 3 cycles is pretty nice. Not sure how well that works on an armor marauder though.

Looks nice but 2 Deadspace EANM's but a T2 LAR?

Did you see the bit about the fit being intended to solo any content in the game which could be? Any person who isn't a complete fool will strip the smartbomb when running in hisec. The OP was rather vague on exactly what he wanted to do with the ship, so I provided a fit which, with links, can solo Class 5 wormhole sites, and will therefore be able to handle any lesser pve.

Did you read the post you quoted? I commented that only fools use smartbombs in hisec, then you accuse me of not realizing hisec smartbombs = bad idea?

My design goal was to make a ship able to do any solo content, not just hisec level 4s. If you can come up with a cheaper fit which is capable of handling the same range of PvE tasks, I'd love to see it. Is there some secret code that PvE = Level 4 hisec missions which I wasn't aware of?

I misread that yes , bit late to make overzealous statements

Considering just about everyone that wants a ship tailored for higher end PvE than highsec missions generally specify such in their posts I would easily assume that the intended purpose for OP wouldn't be above that. Not seen anyone just say they want a PvE fit and not specify that they want to use it for sanctums or whatnot which requires a different approach.


@OP: It's really all up to you if you prefer Beams or Pulse, neither is really wrong, they both have their pros and cons, so it depends more on what playstyle you prefer than anything else.

Just bring a mobile depo with you and fit in the fly, you have the cargo space for like 4-5 different fits and a complete rack of crystals while still having useful space left over.
I generally have both types of lasers , heatsinks and enams , tracking computers and sensor boosters, and a lot of other crap to swap out as i see fit.