EVE General Discussion

What ships do you fly for pvp? Without this knowledge it is difficult to offer assistance.

95% death isn't at all bad for a beginner.
Defenses make a BIG difference in a long fight, less so in a short one, at least as long as you can't be reliably 'one-shotted.' Also: Target selection is important.

Edit: Get strong weaopns skills, and at least standard defensive skills. Get *very* solid basic engineering, electronics, and navigation skills. Refine from there.

Step #1:
Train up Armor and Hybrid/Turret Core certificates to Basic.

Step #2:
Train up to T2 fittings (Armor Tank and Hybrid Guns) for Gallente; most likely Blasters, but Rails have their purpose as well.

Step #3:
(optional) train to use T2 Light and Medium Drones if your particular Gallente ship(s) use them. Hint: most do.

These three steps will get you *started*. When you complete step #3, you will have learned a ton as long as you continue to jump into fights and blow up ships (including your own).

Keep it cheap in the early days. Risk only minimal ISK (fly frigs).

Note: T1 fittings have their place as well; training to T2 is just an easy way to set a goal that takes you through most of the needed skills.

Mmmmmaybe. My personal experience is that 'go for the throat'' works pretty well. Well-developed 'toons are still going to pwn you. That's just how it is, until you've got a well-developed 'toon of your own. So, nothing wrong with putting a thumb in their eye before you die in a fire. Meanwhile, when you go up against less-well-developed 'toons, having a 'sunday punch' can win a fight you should normally otherwise lose.

Just my 0.02ISK on the subject. My PvP is usually reactive and defensive - I'm happy enough to drive the other guy off, most of the time.

Gallente are generally armor-tanked but you can get creative and use shield fits if you want. IMO this is purely personal preference and the ship you're flying. Gallente also tend to have a lot of hitpoints in their structure so, IMO, it is almost always worth it to fit a Damage Control of some type (this goes for most ships in PVP, actually, but Gallente will benefit slightly more from the 50%+ resists on the structure).

Armor-tanking skills:
Hull Upgrades (armor HP)
Mechanics (structure HP)
(the various) Armor Compensation (useful when you can use Tech 2 resistance plating)
Armor Honeycombing (new skill, reduces the mass of armor plates)
Repair Systems (for active tanking)

For Hybrids, train the six Gunnery support skills, Small Hybrids, and Gunnery. Training all six gunnery support skills (Controlled Bursts, Motion Prediction, Rapid Firing, Sharpshooter, Surgical Strike, and Trajectory Analysis) to IV will put you in a very good position to train Tech 2 Small Hybrids, and Medium Hybrids when you're ready to step up. It will also make your blaster DPS very impressive.

Lastly, train your Navigation skills!
Afterburner
Evasive Maneuvering
High-Speed Maneuvering
Navigation

These skills are useful for any ship you climb into.

E: Also, Tippia has a very useful guide here. It applies mainly to Minmatar pilots, but you can substitute all Minmatar ship skills for Gallente, substitute any projectile skills for hybrid skills (there's like two), and ignore any missile skills in favor of Drone skills. Sounds like a headache, but it's pretty easy to weed through.

Mostly cap skills, navigations skill, armor compensation skills and obviously the armor repairer skill. Frigs don't really have the cap for hardeners, but with maxed armor compensation skills energized membranes are almost as good as hardeners. Also, always use a damage control on gallente ships in PvP. They have huge hull HP compared to other races so they get the most EHP from them. Most of the other things are player skill related.

Edit: And hull upgrades for armor HP.

It's pretty cookie-cutter from what I know of fitting, but solid. Definitely use the T2 Nano Plating instead of the faction if you're still getting used to flying the ships. Also, that fitting might work just fine with an Atron; get yourself a copy of Pyfa or EFT and create an Atron using the same modules (+1 gun, minus the neut until your cap skills and fitting skills are better).

Keep at it. Learn from your losses. Sometimes what you learn is more beneficial than getting a kill.

Unfortunately for me last night, those T3 BC's you speak of were in FW space. I died in the Bleak Lands. That's usually where I go to find fights. I'm finding it very difficult to actually find things that I can kill. Any suggestions on targests I should be selecting in a Faction Figate?

Fw plexes the ones with acceleration gates that have ship restricions so no bad t3 will come, comet is a very good ship you can kil a lot of stuf in that fit,evemai l me and i will convo you tomorow or send you a big fat mail with what to engage and what not, t1frigs are easy, slingshoot kiters, AF you need to know them well as they have dif rezists..,,, hookbill,worm,curor,dram,daredevil N NO NO if you wait a bit we can even duo roam and I can also teach you to slingshot and spiral,sounds good?