Wormholes

Hai. I'm looking to get into wormholes with a friend, and was wondering, can a solo Loki run the C3 anoms? If so, any fit recommendations?

Also, what would the risk be of capital ships finding their way into the C3, from outside?

Any reason for not using a Tengu?

I think you are going to have trouble soloing C3 sites with a lone loki. I imagine it is possible but most use an active shield tengu variant. Passive drakes could also do most C3 sites if they ran in big enough packs, two or three would usually work for the public sites.

Ahh, thanks. So, any possible recommendations for ships other than the Drake or Tengu? I "could" use a drake, but would rather not due to my low missile skills.

Something else to consider....

Fly ANY T3 with a pve fit to run anoms solo and you may as well hang a neon sign around your neck that says "juicy target please gank me"

I run alot of anoms solo in c3's and whilst I could do it better and faster in a T3 I use an insured drake so that when I (inevitably) get ganked from time to time, its just, meh.. 'cost of doing business' (one anom pays for cost of insurance and loss easily) instead of ****, I just lost a T3

o/

I don't know about the Loki, but a friend of mine and I used to run C3's with a Tengu Legion pair. He eventually trained a Tengu, but we found the Tengu legion was faser than 2 Tengu's What the legion lost in range it made up for in its damage against smaller targets. He could kill the frigates and cruisers faster than the Tengu. And the range wasnt as bad for this as the frigates and cruisers tend to burn into range fast.

I'd imagine a Loki would have the added benefit of the bonused webs.

A well-trained Legion (C-type repper or twin T2) can clear most C3 anoms quicker than a Tengu. It takes practice, but once you're familiar with spawn locations you can one-shot Scorch frigs before they're in range.
That said, I also found that if you've got a wingman, a Tengu-Legion combo works best.

Same does with a decent fit Loki or Proteus, but I do agree, you need a Wingman to start on the distanced targets whilst you're taking down close range. It only asks more Human activities which, tbh, spices EVE up a bit instead of of sitting in your Tengu at great distances burning your AB.

Still, Juicy C3's, I prefer to run them with a small gang and using my Deimos with a wing'd Talos/Oracle/Tornado and a Scimi

Recently i have been playing around with a Missile Loki, and i've come to the conclusion that it could probably handle C3 sites. The DPS is slightly lower than a Tengu, about 50 DPS after you account for Drones, and the range is shorter, but i think that after you account for the ability to fit a 35km web it could be mostly negated by being able to apply full/near full damage with T2 missiles.
It can also fit a 100mn Afterburner without fitting mods, which is extremely useful, and with the changes to active Armor in the next patch it may be a very viable boat for it, even with relatively minimal pimp (I was using a C-type rep, 70m, and a Navy web, another 50-60m).
Not so much a replacement for a Tengu as it is a possible Alternative, assuming you have the Missile skills. I would imagine it would work rather well if paired with a Legion too.

The real downside is you'll probably need a Cap Injector.

Take this with a grain of salt though, i haven't done any serious testing with it, it's just an idea i had because i saw someone doing Exploration in Amarr Lowsec using Missiles. I was honestly surprised by how seemingly decent it was.

If you really need to run c3 sites solo, better take an armageddon :)
Faster than a loki for a third of the price!

Edit: Confirming that a shinies mortality rate rises to 1 when any pvp group k-holes into your c3.