Ships & Modules

116291 and 497984 is how much damage your ship can take in total (not taking into account your regen or logi or anything like that). It's a combination of your health and resists. If you have 100,000 raw health and 75% resists, your EHP will be 400,000.

The EHP/s is basically how much DPS someone needs to do to you to break your passive shield tank at it's peak. If you have a 100 HP/s regen and 75% resists, your EHP/s would be 400. Combination of regen and resists.


Usually when the word "effective" is used along with health and fittings and stuff like that, it means you take damage reduction in to account. In this game, only the resists.

This. Navy Scorpion has a ton of medium slots and is a tanking monster when set up correctly. I used to run L4s with low SP in a SNI and came out without a scratch every time. Active tank it. If you fit a passive tank, you're just setting yourself up for a huge loss.

Below is the fit I used. It has x4 active hardeners that should be swapped out for mission-specific resists. This is the heart of this setup. The nice thing is, there's a lot of versatility here:
- Fit x2 Adaptive Invuln Fields, x1 EM, x1 Therm hardeners for a good omni tank
- Fit x2 main damage resist, x1 secondardy, and have room for an Afterburner for those long gate missions
- Other options if you're running w/ a fleet

The rigs are set up to maximize damage against smaller/faster ships. With the SNI bonus to shield resists, this setup has a tremendous tank potential. While DPS is lower than a Raven Navy, you won't ever have to warp out because you're taking too much damage. Guaranteed.

[Scorpion Navy Issue, L4 PvE Missions]

6x Cruise Missile Launcher II
Drone Link Augmentor I

Target Painter II
X-Large Shield Booster II
Heavy Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I (Cap Booster 200)
2x Thermic Dissipation Field II
2x EM Ward Field II
Shield Boost Amplifier II

3x Ballistic Control System II
Damage Control II

2x Large Warhead Rigor Catalyst I
Large Warhead Flare Catalyst I

5x Hammerhead II
5x Hobgoblin II

16x Cap Booster 200

Ok thank you guys what about this?

Scorpion navy issue
LOWS
2 x ballistic control II
Shield power relay II
Damage control II

MEDS
5 X large shield extenders II
3 x pithum c-type adaptive invulnerabilty field(when i have the money lol)

HIGHS
6 X CRUISE MISSILE II

rigs
2 X Large core field extender II
1 x large core field puirger I

This is still a passive tank. An active tank drops the extenders and uses boosters, boost amps and active shield hardeners to build its tank and its rigs are usually fitted with Large Capacitor Control Circuits for achieving cap stability and maybe a Large Rigor Catalyst to improve damage projection against smaller ships.
There are only a couple of decent ships that are good for passive shield tanking. Most are designed with active shield tanking in mind. SNI is meant to be an active tanked ship. If you really want to fit a passive shield tank then you need to check out the Rattlesnake. But before you do make sure you have awesome drone skills and can use sentry drones preferably T2 sentries.

So you all agree that active tanking is better than passive tanking.MMmm might do this then.

Similar to mine, but I swapped out the Cap Booster for a Cap Recharger II

Interestingly, I have flown it with and without target painters and don't notice that much difference. With Rigor and Flare rigs, it hits cruisers just fine and the TP doesn't add much damage in my experience.

Maybe that's because I prefer to fight from long range and the TPs are in deep falloff so aren't adding much sig bloom to targets, I'd put a Shield Extender in there and keep a utility mid slot to swap out depending on mood or mission. Drone Speed Amplifier, extra Shield Extender or Hardener for more tank, or a TP for Angel missions where targets are close and fast. I've even had some good success fitting a web to help drones nail orbiting frigates faster.

Thoughts from fellow SNI pilots? (I much prefer it to the Navy Raven. I don't think I'll change it until I fancy running Pirate Faction ships or Marauders)

True for me.

The extra missile launcher the Raven gets isn't worth the utility I get from the midslots of the Scorpion.

Having an afterburner makes a big enough difference that the extra time you gain from the extra DPS is more than offset by the times you have to slow-boat to a warp gate or draw full pocket aggro in some missions which overwhelms the Raven's tank (cap-booster Raven set ups suffer less but expend more ISK)

IMO the Navy Scorp is so good, there really isn't anything to upgrade it to that offers a significant performance increase until you can fly a Rattlesnake or cross train gunnery skills for a Mach or Vargur)

I also use 4 bcu on my navy scorp. To be exact, right now: 1x dread gurista bcu, 2x caldari navy bcu, 1x t2 bcu.

4 bcu on navy scorp is very common. The reason we use 4 bcu is because we are not EFT warriors. We run our missions and we see that the only useful thing we can fit in that last low slot is another bcu. We don't need the speed mod, we don't need dc, we don't need shield mod, what else can we fit there, so most of us fit fourth bcu.

You have your opinion. I have my opinion, my opinion adds 40 dps, I am happy with it. Feel free to ignore my opinion.

What else would you suggest in that slot? I'd highly recommend a BCU myself. The tank is already fine, there's nothing in the lows that can help apply damage -- so why not boost raw damage? It's a PvE ship; getting more damage on target is everything.