Wormholes

Hi all,

So last night I decided to try my first ninja wormhole combat site - I managed to scan down a C2 Pulsar with my scanning ship, took a brief peak inside and just saw a few PoS's and some industrial ships. I also found 2 combat anomalies and decided to give them a shot in my Hurricane. I had a few questions that I haven't been able to find the answers to online, and would appreciate any advice / feedback / improvements. I managed to do both sites successfully, without having to warp out, but as always it's hard to tell whether I was smart or just lucky.

On the Hurricane fit: standard level 3 fit:

6 x 425 Tech II guns
1 Drone link augmenter (took a risk here and flew without a probe launcher, the hole had a day left and no mass disruption so I felt comfortable taking the chance)

2 LSE II's
1 Adapative Invul II
1 10MN Microwarp

2x Gyro II
2 x TE II
1 x nanofiber II
1 x Shield Recharger I

I used RF EMP M ammo and a flight of hobgoblin II's.

Questions:

1 - Would I be better served with a salvager in the last high slot? How much does salvage account for in terms of isk from a given site

2 - Is this fit decent or did I just get lucky?

3 - How can you tell if a PoS is online? I had to verify using my pod, I've read that there should be a "forcefield" type unit labelled on D-Scan but I never saw it (is it a separate overview setting?)

4 - I was paranoid with hammering D-Scan, basically every 2 seconds, is this too much?

5 - When you see a combat ship on D-Scan, should you just immediately warp off and assume they're after you? An assault frig did show up on scan once, so I warped off, then decided to go back and finish off the last battleship

6 - Can I handle the cosmic signatures with this hurricane setup? I was down into armor a few times but my drones ultimately pulled aggro off me. I'm assuming the signature sites would be even harder than the anoms?

Many thanks. Would appreciate any other advice/feedback. Keep in mind I'm a low SP pilot (~9 M).

-Endo

Double Post

Too many players in C2 and C1 space are either unaware of you, afraid of you, or think you're bait.

There are ways to tell who lives in the system but I'm not going to share those here. Convo me for details on that.

The gun missile debate is ongoing. My opinion is missiles are better for PVE especially with lower skilled players. Guns do work just fine and are a heck of a lot more fun to use IMO.

Tengus in c2s are overkill. Oh wait, nevermind, yes you must use tengus.

It doesn't take much time to train Frigate 5, Cloaking 4 and Covops. Once you can warp cloaked it changes the game.

Your fit is fine, use a fitting tool to give you numbers on how much your tank is, 200 dps tank is what I would recommend as bare minimum for C2 anoms and with 250+ you should have no trouble with whatever C2s throw at you, including the other cosmic sigs. Remember that you can speed tank the BS if you orbit them really close with your MWD off.

You should always salvage your sites if possible as most of the good money comes from Melted Nanoribbons and if you get really lucky you can make alot of isk for little work.

As for guns vs missiles, just stick to guns for now, both have their pros and cons but I would say that guns are better as a large chunk of time doing C2 anoms is spent killing the heavily tanked battleships, and you should be able to use Hail on the BS which will give you quite a large dps advantage over Drakes (but Drakes don't have to burn around everywhere to get in range so they kind of even out) and since you're already trained for guns it's better to go down that path in my opinion.

Mashing dscan is second nature to most WHers I know I do it all the time out of habit, if you're doing it every 2 seconds, good. You can never be too aware. If a combat ship comes up on dscan while you're running a site, depending on the ship, align and wait, if somethings comes in warp out, usually you'll be far from the beacon and unless they have a cloaky in your site BMing a position right on top of you you'll be able to get out. If it's something like a cloaky t3, get out a.s.a.p.

Overall, you're off on a good start, daytripping can be really fun and also profitable if the loot gods smile on you.

Edit//
Also for your fit, I'm assuming you have 3 purgers for your rigs and in that case I'd drop the nanofiber for another shield power relay and it should be all good.

Also, consider getting an Assault Frig for daytripping in a dangerous system, Harpy and Vengeance can do C2s easily while sporting a PvP fit and a utility salvager, since you're Minmatar I hear the Wolf can do it too although I've never tried and 2 mids means you can't carry a cap booster so you'll have trouble with the one site that has a neuting BS. Harpy is my favourite as it can have a huge active tank, good speed, and 300 dps for doing sites in a decent time.

Those ships were probably empty, sitting inside the POS forcefield. It's fairly common in w-space. A while back I was in a w-space system that had 2 or 3 towers full of empty ships. Not a single Ship Maintenance Array anywhere. They just left all of their ships (except the ones they log out in, obviously) floating in space.

Always bring something with a probe launcher. The hole might have plenty of time left and no mass through it, but you don't know who else is going to use it -- someone further up the chain might use it up doing logistics. The residents might crash it for their own amusement. You can train up an alt to sit in a T1 scan frigate and use a protocloak and T1 probe launcher without much trouble.

If you want a cheap salvager, fit out a destroyer with tractor beams and salvagers and rig it with salvage tackle. It doesn't have the Noctis's bonuses, but it won't set you back 50m if you lose it.

This. You need friends in whs