Wormholes

Due to recent changes in game i now believe a phoenix is one of the best dreads to do this with (due to the new missile mods, they can now hit for gd damage) however i have done this with a dread and a carrier and i prefer the carrier and just using the drones. What i also found was once u land drop a Mobile Depot, this will allow you to swap out mods as you need them. E.G. to start with you will need lots of cap due to the neuts however once u got rid of the first 6 battleships cap is not a problem and u can then use the depo to take of some cap mods and put on more DPS enhancements, (more webs, target painters, tracking so on).

also dropping a mobile tractor unit and a scan inhibiter will keep you off d-scan and most of your wrecks (while the tractor beam pulls them in)

That is just naive.

The Phoenix?? I heard this before but thought it was a troll so I ignored it. And it's far to late for me to begin training capital missiles now so I'm pretty much stuck with the Naglfar as my only Dread atm.

I'm planning on putting up a Large Pos in a C5/C5 and closing all the holes/statics when I run the sites, so the only way I could get ganked is if someone already have ships inside the hole I'm farming logged out.

Or a new sig appears whilst you're running the site.

Plus, you have to either build the capital in the wormhole or find a way to get it in there and, if you opt for the second option, you will probably need an escort. Solo capitals warping around wormhole space are like pinjatas. They hang there in space and everyone hits it until something falls out.

If you are planning to do the 6 sleeper escalation waves (first dread, first carrier) a nag will work fine with T2 siege, all gunnery support skills at 5 and cap guns 4 dread 4.

Your mileage will vary. I prefer building them in the wormhole as opposed to probing out low sec connections and jumping them in, but plenty of people jump them when they need to.

Dotlan jump planner will tell you how far you can jump one with your skills.

Doing this completely solo is a **** ton of work. You'll basically have no life because if you are not farming you are spending your time rolling holes, making bookmarks of the sites (now a bit harder than it used to be since you don't get the tactical overlay line from your ship to the anom), rolling your chain to get a connection to bring your loot out and fuel/ammo/stront back in. It's best to have some friends along for the ride. A c5 wormhole can make a group of 5-10 people multi-billionaires every week.

Oh and don't waste your time with a nag. Get a moros. And it's very sad for me to say that cause I love the nag, but it's true. It's got about 50% more dps than a nag.

practice on sisi... your best bet

if you are wanting to run those sites easily and quickly, like the videos people put up on youtube... then dont be a cheapskate and make sure you have MORE than the required skills to effectively pilot the capital ship. dps and cap are ideally concerning but so is tracking and your support skills... (think this may be an overextension of ideal but the length of time you train for the ship itself, should be met by training the support skills) at least that is something i was told by a player long ago. he said something to the effect that 6 months for sitting in a carrier, six month for the skills to pilot it...

i have been on a quest as well, and i feel like sharing a few things that i have picked up along the way from others...

you should have around 10,000 dps offensive
you should fit for tracking (tracking computers, tracking enhancers, scripts, faction ammo with tracking bonus, rigs, implants)
refit in cargo hold with mobile depot (refits for full capacitor, tank, and evade in cargohold)


personally i have a love for capital ships, though im a noob and have not had any formal training, i have some experience with my archon, nidhoggur, and naglfar.

training t2 seige/triage is a must
dont bother with lv5 jdc for now, lv4 is fine for wh travel
dont over tank... make sure you fit for gank

fit an em resist rig with two projectile rigs
guns
cap tank mod, one unvul, tracking galore, cap rechargers
te, dmg mods, dmg cntrl, cap relays...

make sure you have swiss army knife refits in the cargo

Sooner or later you going to need webs on grid. You can't get em all all the time. Why just yesterday i got bumped by a sleeper and then tracking goes to ****. 3 got to range and started orbiting. You just wont hit them in that case even with perfect skills and even drop (that is the tracking one right). Webs and paint is needed.

Oh i can solo many sites without escalations with my Vagur. Hell even my maelstrom manages for ***** and giggles. Thou that gets a bit dicey and uses quite a lot of cap charges, and its a shiny fit, but cheaper than a vagur. If in doubt fit a get out free mod (MJD).

The golems look pretty good. May try that one day.

Really doing C5 right means doing escalations. You going to get dropped. Your dreads and carriers will die. Typically the corp dropping you will out number your corp 10:1 or worse and bring lots of subcap support. Your only hope is that you got that SRP account flush enough with isk to cover losses. And isk per hour or per site, means escalations. Don't forget a dread and a vagur are pretty similar in isk really.

Oh and log off traps are pretty common. LZHKs for example will leave a trap logged off for weeks to catch a few dread kills.

As for skills. I am not a all lvl 5 person. Sometimes being able to fly both a dread and a carrier is better than that lvl 5 skill. But some are worth it. Dread pilots siege 2 is really worth it. But dread lvl 5 not so much. Blap dread pilots can get away with siege 1. Triage 2 is also pretty good. But in a pinch triage 1 is still pretty good. Give options for when **** goes sideways.

The first i do is scan for this.

T2 Siege. You want T2 Siege.

We had a debate about this with a couple corpmates and I, basically all your gunnery skills need to be 4+, your capital skills need to be 4+, and you need t2 siege in order to be able to do this.

You will also need a pimped out nag, with refits as needed.

T2 siege is simply required. Period. You may not die on the first site, or the 10th, but eventually RNG will **** you, and you absolutely will die to the site.


That being said, if you have not run escalations in a group, I would not attempt doing it solo. You will probably die. Quickly.