Ships & Modules

logi

always logi. need more logi.

logistics or recons are always needed, since the 95% of people want only to bring dps ships so they can brag about their damage % in the KM.

And if you're operating in small gangs, a good tackler gets kills on roams. If you think you have what it takes to play the "hardest" role, try interceptors.

the purpose of a logi is to "heal" other ships hp, basically with equal numbers is one of the ship tha that decide the outcome of a battle, everyone love to have a logi in fleet because they feel more safe.
logi are all pretty much the same they all do the same job with some difference basilisk and scimitar heal shield hp guardian oneiros heal armor hp, scimitar and oneiros works better when they are the only logistic in the fleet, basi and guardian do the best when they are in a group of logistic, so its up to you to pick the one suits your play style better.
recons are made to annoy the enemy ships. curse can neutralize all the capacitor of enemy logistic making it useless and its tracking disruptor bonus can kill the damage projection of any turret ship, rapier/huginn can web a target from far away providing some range control in to the fight, arazu/lachesis can put a warp disruptor or scramble from very far away meaning you can catch preys more easily, falcon/rook have a chance to ECM (they cant lock anyone for 20 seconds) making more than 1 enemy ships useless at the same time not for nothing ECM ships are one of the most hated things to face in eve

If you're familiar with most mmorpg classifications you can think of it like this...

Logis = healers/space priests/medics
Recons= Mezzers/Crowd controllers/Debuffers
Fleet Command Ships/boosting T3's = Buffers/Bards
Black ops = stealthy teleporters
Anything with a guns or missiles = dps

That's a quick and dirty description that most gamers can generically equate to. The t1 counterparts of logis,recons and command ships can also perform similar roles, though at a MUCH weaker strength than their t2 variants. As with most mmo's, LF HEALER is common in pvp, and more healers generally are welcome. Along with this recons and boosters are sought after in fleets since they can act as force multipliers and increase your fleets capabilities as it scales up. Their support roles, and their higher operation costs, in both SP to train into, and Isk to fly means generally the pool of pilots capable are in higher demand than dps.

As far as good fleets and compositions go, the "standardized" or doctrinal fleet setups are designed around a dps platform(s), which are then augmented with the above support roles to maximize the damage platforms strengths, and minimize their weaknesses.

an example are Nano dps with scimitars and a lachesis and huginn recons with skirmish booster, which maximizes their strengths of the dps which are kiting with skirmish links and a huginn to slow down and keep targets at bay. And minimized their weakness of 20km points by having a lachesis to lock a target down so i can escape while kiting the target as well. While the fast scimitars heal any damage taken.

Of course the one caveat to this all is that nothing beats good solid info on what ace your enemy has up their sleeves and being able to fit a perfect counter.

Enough ships to pvp in, but good logistic pilots are always needed. Most of the people I fly with have at least 1 logi char.

Yet another reason they should do away with Killmails/Killboards

Scimitars -shield logistics
Guardians -armor logistics

Those are the first ones any decent fleet or gang will not undock without

Sabre - Fly catcher - Heretic - Eris -> light interdictors
Phobos, Onyx, Broadward -> heavy interdictors

Sabre is the strongest of them all, the one with more fitting options and the one that will give you lots of kills, deadly solo killer in null sec that can easily outdps any reccon.
It's simple, if you want to catch stuff or hold stuff you just have to get one in your gang/fleet

Heavy interdictors are the only capable ships to pin Supers. To be honest except the exceptional Broadsward everything else is pretty lol

Lachesis/Arazu - Rapier/huggin-Falcon-Pilgrimm/Curse -Reccon ships

They don't have that much firepower, well except minmatar ones that can easily kill almost everything from frigs to BS, but they offer unique abilities such as Lachesis/Arazu with dedicated dkills/booster/faction point disrupt at over 100km or scramble at 40km plus reduce targeting range of any ship for over 75%, the last one being less used because quite pointless in fleets but fun to use solo/duo

Rapier/huggin have web range bonus, you fit 2 best slot items on one of these and you web at over 60km and your friends will greatly apreciate.
Falcon is the one everyone hates because a single ship properly fitted with a decent pilot in can completely neutralise SEVERAL enemies (number depending on a lot o random stuff and a lot of not andom at all stuff like proper fits/skills, brain using is useful too.

Pilgrim/curse are mostly used as neutralising ships since their bonus is range and amount of energy neutralised on target.
Both are very strong baits for hot drops and both can take out the strongest logistics by cap neuting but are fragile vs projectiles and missiles since those weapon systems don't use cap to shoot.

Some of these ships have bonus for advanced cloacking devices and it's intersting and are also awesome cyno baits

Then you have the dps choice and that one is very large in fleet/large gang engagements:

Hac = zealot Vagabond Munin mostly but some day the Diemos will be back again (around 2055 I guess)

BC = Drake and Hurricane just because they're simply the best in game and Tornados/Oracles

Cruiser: except Stabber Fleet Issue and the obvious pirate Cynabals/Vigilants everything else T1 is situational but quite close to useless. The only interesting ones are the T2 versions: reccons, logistics, assault, hictors

T3's: those give lol killmails (i've lost some I now how lol it is) don't offer nothing really important to your fleet/gang that another T2 specialised version can't do better. Exception made for the Tengu that is obviously the closest to perfect in regards to the word "Versatility".
The 3 other races just have specialised T3's that might bring some very lol stuff but useless stuff I'll not even waste time to explain but they're quite good at picking the role of command ships.

Got this far and stopped reading.

There is sooo much fail in this post its not worth mention....