Wormholes

So I joined EVE (again) about a month ago, and decided I didn't want to to go the kill-10-rats route of agent missions. I have a dream job in EVE. A job where I roam the chaotic universe of EVE as a free agent, an adventurer probing the dangerous depths of space for forgotten knowledge and ancient treasure.

Yesterday I made my first serious attempt at lowsec exploration. Fitted my cheapest exploration ship and started scanning pirate-infested systems. After 20 minutes I'd found a radar site. Excited I jumped in to find an unguarded antenna array. As I hacked the first object, an entire ******* fleet spawned on top of me. Cruisers, frigates and whatnot. Somehow my dirt-cheap Imicus managed to kite and speedtank 6 cruiser-sized rats while my drones chipped away at them. I love that misshaped little bastard. When the battle was over, I opened the cans and found over 26m in some weird production manuals that people in Jita apparently pay a lot for. I had just found enough money to fund my next 20 frigates.

So far, so good, but then I went into a WH, found a radar site and went into it expecting huge piles of money. Turns out I cant even look at a sleeper drone without my shields evaporating, and the bastards like to target my drones. So this is my next goal, a ship that can raid archeological and hacking sites while handling rats in WH space. I don't want to split my travels by using two ships, finding an exciting new site and have to go back 5 systems to find a ship to take it on is not my idea of fun. I want a ship that can do it all, even if slowly and with more risk involved.

So far my internet research suggests an Arbitrator or a Vexor, but can they really handle a radar site in a class 1 Wormhole?

Yeah, to solo sites in a class 1 or class 2 you really need a battlecruiser, and I wouldn't recommend a drone boat. I used to solo them quite effectively in a Hurricane, though I've also done it in Cyclones and Brutixes.

In fact, I still have a probing rigged hurricane kicking around with a sisters probe launcher, a salvager, a codebreaker, an analyzer. I used to spend all my time wandering wormholes in that ship and I didn't want to have to pop back out to k-space to refit between sites.

If you're really itching to get into wormholes before you can sit in a battlecruiser, I'll tell you that I have soloed C1 sites in a Rupture, but it's really touch and go. Not for the faint of heart.

Welcome to exploration! It's some of the best fun in EVE.

Cloaky proteus

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2 chars help a lot

Just to clarify, let's say my first goal is to clear the easiest of easiest WH sites. Keep in mind that this is a newbie account, not the EVE rich. A bazillion ISK ship that requires a month to fly is useless.

My advice is to skill up to a Drake or similar nondrone Battle Cruiser. You can run the simpler 100% sites in a C1 or C2 solo. The major issues with it that I see are:

- That an all in one ship will lose 2 high slots to the probe launcher, and salvager. This my nerf your dps too much.
- The real danger in a C1-3 is other players so check dscan a lot, and don't bring something you can't afford to lose.


PS- Have you considered a wormhole corp? If you can fly a battlecruiser, and scan you should be able to join a wormhole corp. It won't be the greatest corp and sooner or later you'll all die horribly or get your stuff stolen, but as long as you don't leave all your stuff in the hole you'll still come out ahead of soloing.

A WELL SKILLED (that means not just able to fly the boat) BC will handle C1/C2. If there are residents, even more so.

Wormholes are generally a bit more advanced content yes. That being said I moved into a C1 wormhole after only having been playing for about 5 months. At the time my only viable combat pilot flew a fairly well skills Myrmidon. It worked but was less than optimal.

It depends on the corp. Some corp are hungry/friendly enough for new members they take in newbies who can barely run their sites. But honestly unless you can use a drake or cane soloing a wormhole site is fairly dicey. (You can do it in other BCs but you need better skills, and T2 frigates are marginal in C1 Perimeter sites) Personally I look at having fun doing what you are doing and work on getting Battlecruiser skill in at least one race. It looks to me based on the dev blog that post summer all races will have a good BC for running sites in a wormhole. (Gallete and Amarr less so as one will be a drone boat...)

I've got to say the same. I'm hooked thanks to you.