Ships & Modules

It's the best Zealot out there.

More seriously, it helps to know what you expect to be doing with it. It's a long range / low sig fleet ship and not much use solo or for PVE unless you like using odd ships for the job.

I mainly do PvE. I can already get the Navy Faction Omen so I might just stick with that when I start doing higher level missions...

If you intend to stick with Amarr for solo PVE and don't want a battleship you are better off aiming for a Legion to be honest.

I can't really help much with PVE fits but there's plenty of info out there. The only thing I can say in terms of PVE fitting philosophy is to start off with as good a tank as you can manage, then with experience you can drop that down and refit to do more damage till you get a balance.

This way you lose less ships, even if it's a bit slower running missions.

Amarr aren't generally regarded as very good for PVE but once you get some skills behind you they are just fine really. The main limitation is they tend only to do Em damage (the laser ships anyway). HAM legion or even a Sacrilege won't have this problem.

If you're careful the Slicer can do all level 2s, 3s, and some 4s, but it's slow. The Omen Navy Issue is annoyingly fragile in comparison because it's so much easier to hit.

Arbitrator is very skill intensive for what it does. I think everyone forgets that Drone Interfacing takes weeks to train to V, and drones kind of suck without it.

About 25 days from level 1 to level 5. Not the longest train in the world but a killer if you're not used to it. You CAN get away with just level 4 though (especially if you plan to stick to sub-caps).


@Sowilla...

The Zealot is a T2 ship... which means it is a "specialty" ship. Look over the info on it and you'll notice that it has a few things going for it...

- enough CPU/Powergrid to comfortably fit the biggest cruiser-sized pulse lasers (allowing you to hit harder)...
- bonuses to laser range and rate of fire (shoot farther and faster)...
- higher resistances in kinetic and explosive damage (means you need less mods to tank well)...
- it's still a cruiser and thus quite mobile (you can sorta speed tank)

However, the Zealot has a few bad qualities going for it...

- has no drone bay ( which means it has limited point defense against small ships)
- has very few mid slots (limited utility abilities)
- not very "flexible" (good at engaging stuff at range, sucks when engaging up close)
- skill and ISK intensive.

tl;dr... you CAN use a Zealot for PvE... but it isn't recommended due the Zealot's relative inflexibility at dealing with different (and sometimes emergent) situations.

The Navy Omen... euh... it's a slightly better version of what the regular Omen SHOULD be. And compared to the Zealot, it's vastly more flexible (at the cost of not being able to hit out as far and fast).

Is that a cruiser? It looks like it only has 2 turret slots and lower powergrid then my Omen. I've never used drones, are they good?

Yeah I'm loving the Slicer! I chewed thru at least 20 pirates, taking only minimal damage to my shields! :)

I used to joke that my Slicer was over-tanked for L4s, because really once I popped all the small ships, I could go out and replace my entire tank with heat sinks and not have to worry about it.

edit: big problem of course is that if you get webbed, you might die. I got pretty good at orbitting webbers at 15km and popping them before they did their thing, but that take some manual flying as well when there more than 2. So it's definitely not safe in all missions. And anything not weak to EM/Therm is just too much of a pain with small guns.

edit 2: I would definitely use a Slicer over an Arbi for level 2s though.

Thank you both for the replies! The Navy Omen is starting to sound like a good ship so I think I'll go with that after my Slicer outlives its usefulness. :)