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Starting Wormholes: Or: Wtf oh god sleepers what kills them
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Hashur Vallen
Ordo Crucis Noctilucae
Khimi Harar
#1 - 2012-07-29 18:55:19 UTC
I'm looking into starting a semi nomadic life on my main.

She has 58 million skillpoints, can do proteus, loki, gallente mauraders, and everything in between.

What size wormholes should I look at living in? c3? c2? c1? What ships are optimal?

Is there perhaps a fit for a solo sleipnir, I love the ship very much, but haven't really had time to play arround with it. Wondering if it would be better then the t3's
Tenar Molnak
Tactical Feed.
Pandemic Horde
#2 - 2012-07-29 19:10:15 UTC
Well i run a sleipnir in my current c2 wh...


Does pretty good...occ have to warp out as tank busts...but 90% of time ok ...

Another one if then tengu ofc...much better .....does great against c2 sleepers.

What should you go for?

If solo you can run c1 sites in a drake...

c2 in tengu sleipnir for sure....

C3...ill let you know shortly after i try it but supposedly tengu can do them solo with some good skills, good piloting and luck

Id say go for c2 maybe c3....prob c2 to get sued to WH life with a large pos as base if ur gonna stay there a bit or small with bare bones fittings if in there a week or two only

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Derath Ellecon
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2012-07-29 19:17:57 UTC
I had a friend who solo'd C3 sites in a sleip. I have no idea of the fit.
Oona Kasenumi
Doomheim
#4 - 2012-07-29 20:09:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Oona Kasenumi
I have never tried it, but I have a hard time seeing a sleip having any trouble with a c2, and certainly not a c1. You may have trouble in a c3 if you don't pimp it a bit. The neuts and your lack of damage projection with ACs will be a problem.

Something like this maybe:

Gyro II
Gyro II
Tracking Enhancer II
Tracking Enhancer II
Damage Control II

medium capacitor booster
dread guristas large shield booster
adaptive invulnerability field II
adaptive invulnerability field II
10mn afterburner II

425mm AC II
425mm AC II
425mm AC II
425mm AC II
425mm AC II
425mm AC II
425mm AC II
sisters core probe launcher

CCC II
CCC II

if your going nomad though, you may not be able to keep the cap booster fed. You could probably go for a medium deadspace booster and get a good enough tank that is sufficiently cap stable. The rule of thumb is that you want to be at least 60%. The medium DED boosters aren't cheap though... I wouldn't fly anything that expensive in a WH unless I had a POS to warp to.
Xen Solarus
Furious Destruction and Salvage
#5 - 2012-07-29 20:09:25 UTC
With that amount of skillpoints you should be able to do pretty much all of the sites in a C3 in a T3 cruiser, with maybe the rad and mag sites being the only ones that might give you issues.

Post with your main, like a BOSS!

And no, i don't live in highsec.  As if that would make your opinion any less wrong.  
Rall Mekin
End-of-Line
#6 - 2012-07-29 23:59:20 UTC
Anything battlecruiser-ish can run c2 sites. Some c3 sites will require you to warp, and due to the range of the sleeper spawns, you would do far better in a missile boat at the c3 level. Beneath that, however, you should be fine.

If you are looking for good advice from myself and corp, which used to live in a c2, please convo me in game.
Daniel Plain
Doomheim
#7 - 2012-07-30 00:53:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Daniel Plain
sleipnir is very good for C1& C2. C3 has some waves with heavy neuts so you want a passive tank or lots of range. can be done in a drake but tengu is optimal (higher dmg).

edit: also, fire.

I should buy an Ishtar.
bartos100
Living Ghost
#8 - 2012-07-30 05:48:11 UTC
for the heavy neuting the new ASB might be an option
Arnst Atram
Downgraded Avengers
Hard Knocks Citizens
#9 - 2012-07-30 06:50:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Arnst Atram
A Deimos is easily enough for C2's, maybe C3's if you have great skills. Problem is it has short range so you need to fit an Afterburner. It can be Cap stable running Blasters and rep fairly easily, and the cap is more than strong enough to handle to Neuts in C1-3 WH's.
A Drake can solo up to C3, all the Tech 3 Cruisers can solo C3's, though the Loki isn't great at it, and the Proteus is slower due to limited range. A Sleipnir is great at C3's, not Tengu level but better than a Loki.

Also a Machariel of course, but most people tend to avoid Faction Battleships in lower sites because people will go a very long way out of their way to ruin your week.

In my book, any excuse to fly a Deimos is good.

Edit: Try to avoid requiring a Cap Injector if you can at all, Cap Boosters take massive Cargo Space and are a big pain in the ass from a logistical standpoint. If you have no alternative, they'll work, but they're still a pain.
Zicon Shak'ra
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2012-07-30 12:54:09 UTC
Inb4 "Wow, look at this radar site with 10 cans. That's easily 100m. Wait... damn it, I can't run it. I'm out of cap booster charges."

Wormholes are cool, m'kay?
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#11 - 2012-07-30 16:19:18 UTC  |  Edited by: FloppieTheBanjoClown
If you can afford a T3 and are competent enough to not lose it (with 58 mil SP, you *should* be) I'd suggest picking your favorite flavor of T3, fitting it with an active tank, and trying it out. I've run both Tengu and Legion solo in everything from C1 to C3 and done well.

I've also used both Harbinger and Drake in C1/C2. Both are quite adequate.

An early version of my explorer Harb. I think I ended up using a dual rep build later, but I haven't had that build saved in over a year.

My wormhole legion

I don't have Tengu or Drake fits atm, but they're pretty standard fare.

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