Ships & Modules

Semiconductors are interesting, but do remember that they do nothing to improve the capacitor coming from your capacitor boosters. A fully skilled nightmare has just under 8700 capacitor in its reservoir -- but it carries 16000 capacitor in its cargo hold. Improving the former by 15% pales in comparison to conserving what's coming in from your capacitor booster. Especially when the alternative gives a larger bonus.

T2 Elutriation Discharge rigs give a 25% reduction in capacitor cost for your Tachyons. The effect is so significant that a pair of them will get even T2 tachyons to near stability with your shield booster off -- and this lets you conserve your capacitor charges for the when you need tank -- rather than needing to use them as soon as the capacitor in your ship runs out.

Speaking of tank, notice the medium capacitor booster. With the elutriation rigs making the lasers run off native cap recharge, a medium capacitor booster is sufficient to run the shield booster. Even with everything running, you could run the shield booster about 80% of the time as long as charges hold out. And a medium booster runs through charges a lot slower than a heavy does. More importantly, the medium capacitor booster conserves enough powergrid to allow fitting an afterburner, a nice luxury on many many missions.

Putting it all together, here's what I've got. There's a few modules that change situationally -- I'll switch hardeners or fit an afterburner for some missions -- but this gives you the general idea:

[Nightmare, TachBoost]

4x Tachyon Beam Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency L
Small Tractor Beam I
Auto Targeting System II

Gist C-Type X-Large Shield Booster
Imperial Navy Medium Capacitor Booster, Cap Booster 800
Photon Scattering Field II
Heat Dissipation Field II
Shield Boost Amplifier II
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range
Tracking Computer II, Tracking Speed

Tracking Enhancer II
4x Imperial Navy Heat Sink

2x Large Energy Discharge Elutriation II
Large Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I

Thanks allot for the input guys! I'm not sure which of your two fits I might like more since I've never flown either yet, but I'll guess I'll just test around a bit.

Stupid question from a silly PvPer who doesn't do missions...whats up with the auto-targeter?

I may get into mission running while I'm traveling for work and on a hotel inter-web connenction...so whats the deal with that Autotargeter?

Also what are the thoughts on a Mega Pulse @s with Scorch VS Tachs? Better range and paper DPS on the tachs but even with scorch, better tracking and cap usage with the mega pulse 2s...

Thoughts?

Your mids are a little off. Caldari Navy Invulns are notoriously expensive -- to the point where they're considered budget-conscious options for supercapitals. Two of them correlates to about a 58% reduction in incoming damage, once stacking penalties are considered. Two T2 hardeners will give you a 55% resistance to two damage sources -- but they'l do it at about 0.2% of the price. Nightmares are already gank-worthy targets as it is. There's no reason to make yourself any juicier.

Pith shield boosters are great for throughput, but their capacitor efficiency sucks. Gist shield boosters have dropped in price quite dramatically, and you should find them quite a bit more affordable than they were a year ago. If you must spend money, this is an area to look at -- not invulns. The medium capacitor booster works in part because the gist shield boosters are so much more efficient.

The microwarpdrive is just...counter productive. There's no reason you should ever need to microwarp ANYWHERE in a nightmare. You've got an effective range of about 65 kilometers with Multifrequency. Afterburners are more than adequate if you should ever have to move to a gate, and you'll ALWAYS have enough range to hit whatever's at a distance with a simple crystal swap. A MWD is a wasted midslot and a drain on your capacitor. Not a good thing.

Regarding rigs, you should be able to fit two T2 elutriation discharge rigs without issue -- you'll have 50 calibration left, which is more than enough for a T1 shield rig, such as resists or capacitor safeguard.

If you want to reduce your aforementioned "gankability" and fitting expenses, use 2x Faction heatsinks and 2x T2 heatsinks . You only lose about 20dps at max skills (slightly over 2%).

There are several ways to conserve/improve cap on the Nightmare.

* A DCII will harden your shields without a stacking penalty - better shield booster efficiency as you waste less cap on repping. You also get an emergency GTFO timer.
* Faction tachyons use less cap. T2 tachyons doesn't really give you much advantage until you hit L4 (or above) in beam specialization.
* T2 EDE rigs.
* Complex shield amp. Pithum C-types or better. You also can mix and match Pith hardeners with faction shield amp.
* Gist LSB/XLSB. Faction/T2/Pith don't work well. Pithum is best, but that's too much bling.
* General implants : Lancer G0-G2.5 Beta, Squire CC2-8

The choices for rigs depends on your playstyle :

- Full gank fits won't usually fit EDE or cap rigs to maximize dps. These builds rely heavily on cap boosters.
- Std fits will include at least 1 T2 EDE, the choices for the 2nd and 3rd rig will depend on your implants (2x CCC being the most optimal for most mission scenarios). These builds have the ability to skim/siphon off cap periodically during missions because of their cap stability with only guns firing. They use cap boosters sparingly as backups and in long missions.

With so many concessions made for tachs, why not just use pulse w/ scorch?

Alright, thanks allot for your advise:-)! I guess I could just make a pulse fit for those certain missions as well. Although I guess that a pulse fit would use different rigs, optimaly speaking.

I was thinking that if it's some close range brawl mission like the damsel, I might as well fit 2 heavy nos so I can permarun the tank? Not sure if that'll be needed though.

(As the pulses free up for NoS usage)

So I just did my first mission in amar space somewhere in a 0.5 system for a security devision in amarr space (For the ministry of war). And the first mission I get offered is angel extravaganza, the first few rooms they all spawned at like 20km distance, and gist/angels take more explosive damage instead of EM/therm. Did I do something wrong? Am I supposed to cancel those, or...? (I'm a total noob at missioning:P)

Could use some advise here as well;-).

Edit; I have the feeling that pulses would be better at this mission, or what?

Edit 2: The second is the damsel... lol^_^.