Ships & Modules

The reason why I'm wanting a BS anyway is because I regularly go into L4-L5 with some RL friends. I myself haven't gotten that far, can only do L2's (L3's soon). And even though its ugly () I'm liking the Dominix.

I've been messing with eft and here is what I have for a Dominix:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12226204/Uploads/Images/L3%20Dominix.PNG
(Based on current skills I have, not completely ready, but that's why I'm here asking questions.)

The only thing I can't decide on is the adaptive nano. I could put in a Damage Control II, but doesn't that negatively affect the repairing ability of the repair mod? I get basically the same resistance percentages, slightly higher with the DC II, but I get a 20,000 ehp bonus with the DC II. Should I go with that?

Okay, My mistake. I'll put the DC II on then.

Lets start with L3's. For those I'd use Hammerhead I's, and the current setup I have in the pic (just updated). The hardeners I'd definitely swap back and forth based on missions. And what skills would you like to know about?

I'm working on these


So you recommend ditching the guns and going full time drones. That sounds fine, I'll just need to make sure I focus on those skills. I'm about a week away from T1 Wardens.

I'm still a ways off I know. But thanks for the input. Any other ideas?

Thanks, I'll check those out.

Nah, I recommend learning everything. But as far as prioritizing goes, for a Domi, guns... aren't really a priority, IMO. At least, not currently. Maybe after the hybrid rebalance, they'll be more viable. (For the record, I've got ~24m SP, and I primarily run L4s for my income, and I still don't have Large Hybrids trained. In fact, the only Large weapon class I do have trained is Projectiles.)

That said, it is possible to fly that Dominix fit with guns. It's just that Dominix's roomy drone bay and skill bonuses make it a better droneboat than a gunboat. If you don't have sentries yet, it's possible to do L2s and L3s with just the Hammers and Hobs. (Technically it's possible to do L4s with just those, it's just really, really slow because you'll have really low DPS, which means you'll need to supplement with gunfire, and Hybrids are... kind of ******, if your targets are too close and are moving.)

Plus, if you train up your drones and train up Heavy Assault Ships, this gets you into an Ishtar, which is an even better droneboat than the Dominix. It doesn't omnitank very well (though it's more than fine if you fit appropriate hardeners for whatever you're fighting), but it does more damage with drones and it can passively shieldtank. Also faster, so you can speedtank better than the Domi.

Well you have the idea.....but damn bro, you are WAY underskilled.

Right now what you have is a really big, slow crappy tracking myrm. The only advantage that fit has over an even marginally fit double repper Myrmidon is that you can carry a metric **** load of drones (before I got Sentry II trained up I used to carry a drone for every occasion).....and still bust out my Domi(s) its a fun ship...in PvE and PvP as well as being VERY forgiving because it can fit a goofy strong tank.

The advantage of the Myrmi over that Domi
1) sig radius, that hull moves a whopping 123m/s with navigation V, as such, and being a battle ship, EVERYTHING hits the crap out of it.
3) Speed a double repper Myrm has extra slots for utility webs, painters, and AB....a 10mn AB myrm with all armor rigs goes faster than a CCC rigged Domi with a faction afterburner, perfect nav skills and low grade snakes.
3) 250mm rails suck ...but not as much as dual-250s are going to in level 3s. Without a couple TEs or a scripted TC you can'thit cruisers witih guns under 20km if they are in orbit...and you can't out run them to get the transversal down,you have to rely on ogre Is....that are going to take forever to kill frigs, because you are missing a pair of omni-directional tracking links that every Domi should have by default.
4) Wait till you see the price on large rigs, I was pleasantly surprised rig a domi for less than 40 mil the other day.
5) the Myrm has a repair bonus that allows it to tank level 4s easily, its downfall (again) being that it takes forever.....but you can also use projectiles since the myrm has no turret bonus and make it a lot easier to get cap stable.


So far as that fit goes, lose the nano-pump for a another CCC, and try to make room for an omni..perferably two,and a drone link augmentor. I've run near every available level 4 with a three slot tank, so two primary damage one secondary...all hardeners and dual reppers.

Don't recall trying it before I had at least a T2 tank thought.....but if you must, faction hardeners aren't that expensive, and if you don't have better than 70% resists those reppers are going to have a hard time keeping up.

Have you tried reading the stats of armor hardeners (or shield for that matter, it's the same thing)?

The only difference between meta 0 and meta 4 hardeners is cap use and CPU requirements. If you're cap-stable and can fit it, meta 0 works just as good as meta 4. The only change is when you get to T2+ hardeners, then you start getting better resists (and faction ones give the same resists as T1/2 ones, depending on the factions. The only way to get better resists than T2 is with DED or Officer hardeners).