EVE General Discussion

If you are soloing the easiest and safest way to pvp is to kite. Stay at range with fast ships so you can escape easily if it turns to be more than you can chew.

Light missile Condor and kestrel are good starting points then you can dabble into Omens, Vagabonds, Huggins as you get the skills.

Thanks for the input. Any thoughts on the utility of missiles beyond starting out with them? I'm afraid I've wasted a bunch of skill-researching time getting them going. If they're good for starters, but don't hold their own against a variety of targets...

Missiles are fine for PvP. Some of the most popular PvP ships right now, especially for solo / small gang stuff revolve around missiles. Additionally, game balance is in a spot where all weapon types/sizes have at least one ship on which they work well. There are very few ways you can go wrong as far as usable PvP ships go.

A word about "lone wolf" PvP: remember that that is just a restriction on yourself, not a restriction on everyone else. PvP in Eve is never fair, and getting a numeric advantage is always a good way to tip the scales in your favor. By choosing to be solo, you are automatically tipping the scales toward your opponents.

That said, solo PvP is exhilarating and challenging. Relying on your own skills, limited intel, and instinct breeds a fun experience. It is just difficult to regularly win doing so.

As others have said, I also recommend a corporation, though. There are corporations dedicated to being groups of mostly solo PvPers, which offer you other support -- supplies, a staging area, and people to talk to about your victories and defeats in order to learn more out of them. A lot of PvP is "trial and error" and lends itself very well to getting feedback from both enemies and allies.

Good luck and fly dangerous!

missiles are great for pvp, they always hit, selectable damage can have great dps ,excellent range and dont require cap to fire (that last one is a big deal).

on the other hand their damage can be mitigated a bit easier than other weapons , the actual damage is a tad lower than their turreted counterparts and take time to aply their damage.

make friends though, eve is much better with friends

Sabre in nullsec is an awesome solo ship but it will take a while and some experience before you can kill things bigger than frigates. Cynabal is a very good "kiting" ship provided you don't run into someone with neuts or a long range web or two.

To be honest "lone wolf" PvP is asking for frustration as more often than not you will be engaged by gangs. PvP is a numbers game. Oh and remember - it's ALWAYS a trap.

My advice to you as an 8... almost 9 year bitter vet... (take heed I'm taking a break from polishing my bittervet diamonds to share this wisdom):


Decide on how you like to fly and select the best ship for that role, and then use the mastery tabs (in the ship info panel) to determine which skills you should train in.

You have to decide if you want to be the light and fast tackler or fast/hard to hit DPS, or perhaps you want to pummel targets with massive DPS with demoralizing "peel your hapless victims' ships like a banana" effect? Or maybe you want to snipe them from afar? You have to figure on that yourself. What's your style?

When you decide that, look around in Warfare and Tactics and the Ships and Modules forums (or ask) to find the best hulls for the roles. Remember you are NOT deciding forever on one hull since the ship that fits your bill might have a tech 2 or pirate/navy faction variant that brings even more pain.


Using the mastery tabs can get you up into efficiency with your chosen ship fairly quickly, roughly 1 month to 6 weeks.


Now if you want to get even more "granular" in your approach, you can opt to discard the mastery tabs and find not just one particular ship for the role and style you want to PVP in, but a particular ship AND fitting. For example, Gallente battleships include both blasters and rails on their mastery tabs, but you might not care for the in your face nature of blasters and never train to specialize those, or maybe the other way around. So if you want to do a little more "homework", find not just the ship you want, but the fitting that fits your "schtick" too, and derive the skills you need to train entirely on that. You will get proficient VERY fast and by fast I mean that I have an alt specialized in the Hyperion who can DPS and tank that thing after 6 months better than I can even with 8 times more time in game and 4 times more SP.

This sounds like what I'd like to do. So are you flying stealth bombers? And bombing gate camps... is that only in null sec? (Bombs can't be used anywhere else, right?)

Ya Null and wormholes I live in Thera ya I wanna get a couple of Lonewolves togther just Bomb anything thats not in our fleet. Just PM me

Now this Is A Terrorist with Class!

I'm curious to see how the wolf pans out with the projectile falloff buff. does that make it even more dangerous?


Oh wait. not that kind of wolf....