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Since Battleclinic is apparently useless, where to find decent up to date ship builds?
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Bloody Bogan
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2013-02-12 16:00:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Bloody Bogan
I keep getting told by numerous people to avoid BattleClinic like the plague because its:

1. Out of date
2. Lot of terrible builds on there

So where would you suggest is a good place to find up to date, and decent ship builds?
Daniel Plain
Doomheim
#2 - 2013-02-12 16:07:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Daniel Plain
the best fit is the one you made yourself. that said, as long as you do not know what all the modules do etc. it is probably best to just ask in ships&modules. just be sure to use the forum search first.

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you should be as precise as possible stating the purpose of the fit. someting like "hai guise so what's a good ship for pve?" will not get you any good answers whereas something like: "i am a caldari missile pilot and i am looking for a good ship/fit to do lvl2 missions in caldari space" will probably produce a good fit in the very first answer.

I should buy an Ishtar.
Solomar Espersei
Quality Assurance
#3 - 2013-02-12 16:13:09 UTC
Honestly, there's nothing wrong with looking at BC for some fits when you're new to the game. They're not all terrible, it's just that you have to weed through the junk. BC (and EVE Kill) can also provide fits in the way of loss mails. You can learn a lot by looking at loss mails from quality pilots and corporations, as long as you can discern whether the ship was fit for solo, micro gang, small gang or fleet and occasionally LOL-fit or themed. We all have to start somewhere and you should view these fits as a point of departure for your own fittings.

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Zanzbar
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2013-02-12 16:16:22 UTC
Any site with ship fittings or character builds for any game is going to have out of date and or bad guides on them. Its YOUR job to filter through them and find the ones that will perform well for the job you indent to use them for.

I still use battleclinic when fitting a ship I've never used before or has been rebalanced/updated making my old fittings obsolete. even then I only use it as a starting point or to get ideas and the end result is almost never the same as the suggested fit, as I said before its your job to weed out/tweak fittings to your tastes/specifications.
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#5 - 2013-02-12 16:38:22 UTC  |  Edited by: J'Poll
1. Get EFT/Pyfa/EVEHQ.
2. Go to battleclinic and search the ship you want.
3. Take BC's fits as GUIDELINE.
4. Build your own fit.
5. Use your own fit.
6. Think of what is good and what could be better.
7. Change fit.
8. Repeat 5 till 7.

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Kahega Amielden
Rifterlings
#6 - 2013-02-12 16:47:14 UTC
Bloody Bogan wrote:
I keep getting told by numerous people to avoid BattleClinic like the plague because its:

1. Out of date
2. Lot of terrible builds on there

So where would you suggest is a good place to find up to date, and decent ship builds?


The shittiest fits are the ones you grab from someone else and don't understand.
voetius
Grundrisse
#7 - 2013-02-12 17:08:04 UTC

good points above.

Another resource is the E-Uni wiki, alot of the more common ships have multiple fits listed, so you might get a low skillpoint PVE fit, T2 PVE fit, low skillpoint PVP fit, all T2 PvP fit and so on.