Missions & Complexes

you should read this topic.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=206859&find=unread

It will answer alot of not all of your questions

Grab logi 5, seriously.

Also take a look at WarpToMe incursions. I've flown with them a few times, they're a good group of guys willing to help a complete newbie out.

They have a site with the fits they want and a public channel you can ask questions in while traveling to site/waiting for fleet

If you inform the FC about your situation, that you are new to incursions in general, he will take that into account and the other logi will help you out. Worst case (without a outright no), they will take a extra logi into the fleet to compensate.

WTM also likes to run incursion logi "schools" from time to time. And I know they like to run a mixture of Basilisks and Scimitars in their logi squadrons, because Basis can also serve as cap boosters for the DPS squadrons.

Having done both vanguards and HQ sites, my impression is that the HQ sites aren't massively more risky than vanguards, although I'll admit that some HQ sites can get rather ... interesting if you draw full aggro.

Thanks for all the input! I will try to get into HQs or Training with WTM next week and I will probably start training Logi 5 soon. I have three remaining questions:

1. How to use the shield drones? They seem to be quite popular to fill up the drone bay but I don't really know why. Maybe as a backup if cap chain fails, but the repair amount is quite low and drones take some seconds to get to the target (not good against high alpha/dps Sanshas I guess).


2. Why do I need an afterburner? I guess as speed tank or to keep up with my anchor. Could it be a refit candidate for more tank or a remote sensor booster?


3. Do I generally need to reconfigure my fit above for HQs?

2. Afterburner give you few seconds to broadcast when focused (before taking full damage) in TCRC site after 4+ webs will lower your speed to 50-60m/s and your signature will be increased to 250-300m by multiple target painters.

Note: upon landing in TCRC start AB and hit full speed - and only after that start establishing cap chain, repair others, orbit anchor. New logis often forget to start moving and insta-pop. It's almost impossible to save immobile Basilisk in TCRC (scimis pop even before other logis can start reppers on them). This is pretty much the most important thing to learn for a HQ logi pilot.

1. They are used like damage drones, but on friendly targets and act like a weaker extra shield transporter on them. They can also be used to keep them on another Logistic all the time, what is often done between Scimitars to prevent problems when they take damage while the other logistic is jammed and because they have a very low buffer, what gives you more time since there is already RR on them. I for myself mostly use them in to have more RR/s in case the other Logistics are slow, be more flexible in case of split agro to shuffle them around and see if it the target holds up or goes down(what can be a bit tricky to tell in bigger sites, since it is hard to tell how much DPS is on a target and how many Logis have how many reps on it). With our Oneiroses it is mostly done to max out HP/s in case of Logistic disconnects and if you do solo Logistic(what different to 11+1 setups means very high damage on our ships since it is most of the time 3+1 or something). They really make a big difference if you go all the way, getting T2 logistic drones and help to reduce the amount of overheating that is needed in high dps situations.

2. The AB is used to travel to the next gate or to a anchor(to keep the fleet together and prevent NPCs burning off to distant ships of the fleet) in a logistic in HQ. It can help with the damage migration depending on how many webs, painters and neuts are on you, but in the worst case scenario(3+ webs on you, multiple painters) it will not make a massive difference. In my experience as LC what will kill you are logi that are semi afk, you can easy tell this when a logi still got the reps on a target 30s after a agro switch, doesn't lock up other logis for minutes after warp in or when targets magically go up in seconds when you "check check" the FC and request for more RR on target X as LC.

3. That depends on the channel you want to fly in nearly every channel has slightly different fittings and you need to look at her websites, mailing lists or ask in the channel how they want the Basilisk fitted.