Ships & Modules

Hardest?

Any ship I fly.

Easiest?

The ship ganking me.

Thank you! That's exactly what I was going for.

Whatever is anchor in a 0.0 slugfest against Goons.

The lag is awful just trying to be an F1 monkey, forget about trying to keep range on 4 individual drakeblob fleets.

try using a shield gank brutix as bait for your fleet and then FC from it without dying.

hardest to fly for PvP is likely any bomber or logistics.

Most Frustrating is any Capital or industrial that bumps off the undock as you align for warp.

easiest would have to be a Drake or any Sniper boat such as a tornado.

easy to fly? drone boats, make your choise.

i tried flying merlin in lvl 1-2 few days ago and it was -fun-, flying in, quickly burst 1 down fly out while keeping distance to regen shield off with the crap fit i had (more pvp oriented fit than pve).

but when i fly my usual dominix, gila, or other droneboat, word "easy" becomes almost as easy as ice harvesting.

sit still, out tank it with shield or armor reps. drones nukes everything on their own and wontneed much herding after initial agro unless you get spawn triggers in the mission / deadspace.

though same can be devastating on harder missions. such as worlds collides L4 :P

but all in all, i dont think there is easier ships pve wise, than drone boats in "how mch you need to do per mission" with it.

and did i mention how much less skill wise drones needs from your character than turret/missile boat?


yet i still love flying them my self, simply cause of the massive tank i can afford to fit for one since i dont waste as many slots for "support" modules when i fly drones than if i were to fly turrets. eagerly waiting to get my hands in rattlesnake for some "real" resistance %'s

also i can vouch taht skill DOES play big role in whats hard to fly and what aint. i can from experience tell that it aint smart move, to shoot trigger ship after trigger ship, and then just stand still like i would usually do -trying- to kill them all as they suddenly just swarms me :P

or fly on effective range of 6 elite bs's trying to nuke down a structure with too weak drones and guns to do it fast enough :P

or fitting wrong hardeners for mission, heck, try any ship with wrong hardeners and there you got your hardest to fly ship, it just increases diffuculty ALOT

they do? guess im doomed then since im planning my pvp ship to be ewar....just still unsure what sort ship to get for it as there is so many choises for it.

Any kiting ship are generally the hardest to fly.


Slicer can kill a dramiel/daredevil with no problems when it kites, but it has to stay inside 24k but outside of 9ishk which can be hard. One mistake and the slicer is dead.



Nightmare vs Vindicator.


A well flown Nightmare can destroy a Vindicator but it must stay inside 24k but if its webbed then the vindy will tear it apart.

The Retribution is better than the Slicer, it can do everything the Slicer can, but it can also rep up armor damage.

I recently left the Slicer for the Retribution. I don't regret it at all!

My PvP alt is 2 weeks old and is getting 370 DPS in a tackle Thrasher so in terms of training and cost for new players, I'd say Thrasher is the easiest.