EVE New Citizens Q&A

You're going to need an Analyzer in the midslots as well. Some mag sites use Salv and Analyzers at the same time.

Since you've got a solid set of drones to use at close range, those guns should be fine. Personally, I'd use missiles on the Gnosis for selectable damage type and no cap use, but really just use what you've got the best skills for. If you downgrade the guns to a smaller size though, you may be able to drop the CPU enhancer and fit something more valuable there. Give it a try in EFT and see what your skills support.

Resist rigs are not that great for PVE tanking, because you can swap hardeners to match your enemy ahead of time. Look at Auxiliary Nano rigs or Nanobot Accelerators instead.

Overall, basic fitting is solid. Properly built tank, has the rights modules, etc.

My suggestion don't use it best piece of advice for you probably would be better off selling it and buying a regular BC, now is when people hunt them down to make the rarer.

Hrm:

1: I'm not overly fond of the DCII for PvE tanking except when you're already hitting stacking penalties and omnitanking. You get better armor tank out of another hardener or an EANM II (with armor compensation skills). Another use for the slot is a damage mod.

2: Missiles will put all of your cap into tank and prop-mods. Alternately if you have good turret-support skills you might be better off fitting projectile weapons in the highs to reduce some cap. Although against Sansha, missiles are pretty good right now.

3: You'll want an Analyzer if you want to do Mag sites. Other mid-slot module possibilities include Omnidirectional Tracking Links (modest improvement to drone damage), or Tracking Computers (if using turrets).

4: I don't know. If you're only fielding 4 Tech1 Drones, this might not be the best BC for you.

Hmmm . . .



[Edit] But the best advice I can offer is what has already been said a couple of times: leave it in your hangar, at least for a considerable time.

Put it away. You'll poke your eye out.

Seriously, if you like that ship buy another for when that one gets ganked. The risk is a lot higher than you think. You'd be better off in low sec with an empty local where you can dock and leave it to run plexes there WHEN LOCAL IS CLEAR. Just don't get bagged at the gates.

Yeah we're here to help and really looking out for your best interest, the thing about the that ship is it does decent bonuses for no skills but when you skill up for normal ships the bonuses are actually better. If you have more questions feel free to mail them.

Thanks CCP for a shiny.

I took mine out. Explored with it. Used all my plexing and counter plexing experience to barely stay alive. I got lucky, and was able to drag it back into High Sec, after parking it for the night in a very low population system.

Bottom line. The ship might be worth a billion ISK at some point in the future. Taking it out for a few million ISK exploration trips isn't worth the risk.

I GOT LUCKY.

I suggest you repackage the bloody thing. Take it to Jita in a transport ship and leave it your hanger for a minimum of a year. Monitor the price, wait until it levels out at or near a 52 week high and sell it for profit

Take a screenshot. You know... just to be sure.

I believe if you install 3x Magnetic Field Stabilizers, in low slots, it would give your guns a nice boost in DPS, i use 3x t2 MagStabs while using my hybrid blaster or rail guns on any of my ships (including my Gnosis i'm currently experimenting with). The 250mm Gauss guns have very good range but do less damage, antimatter charges also do great damage but restrict the range bonus of those guns quite a bit, (although i almost always use antimatter myself :-p with railguns ), adding magstabs will increase your damage slightly but increase rate of fire by like 10% each

Currently i'm training up my missile skills and will switch this ships weapons to Heavy Missile Launcher's or Heavy Assault Missile Launchers with 3x Ballistic computers, soon as i can. Instead of having a salvage gun take up a high slot i use two salvage drones, which also keeps me from having to get close to everything i want to salvage, i can go off in one direction and the salvage drones can fly all over the space field collecting wrecks salvage for me. I'm not sure if the drones would or would not work on salvaging a stationary object in space like ruins yet, but i am just experimenting with this ship now, never had a scanner ship before.

I see you have a damage control 2 unit, Always, always, have a Damage Control II, on whatever ship you have, the bonuses when its turned 'on' are awesome, nothing else even comes close to adding that much for so little cost.
So anyway, this is what i have put on my Gnosis ship

Tau's Gnosis

Rigs::
Medium Trimark Armor Pump I (I might change it to a t2)
Medium Hybrid Metastasis Adjuster I (will change this out for missiles rig later)
Medium Porcessor overclocking Unit I

High slots::
Expanded probe Launcher I ( 11x core scanner probe I, only launches 8 though)
5x Heavy Neutron Blaster II ( w/ t2 NULL M ammo)

Medium slots::
2x Medium Shield Extender II
Cap Recharger II
Experimental 10MN Afterburner I
Civilian Relic Analyzer (yes civilian, see comment below)
Civilian Data Analyzer (yes civilian, because I got this from my loot hangar and i do not have the required skills otherwise)

Low slots::
3x Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Adaptive Nano Plating II (here I would use-Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II, but i need 7 more days training)
Damage Control II
Medium Armor Repairer II (if i figure out i don't really need this, i'll swap a MagStab or some adaptive plating in here)

Drones::
2x Ogre I ( 20 days training away from using Ogre II's)
3x Hornet II
2x Salvage drones

Resistances are:: Sheilds 28% / Armor 46% / Hull 0%,
then w/Damage Control2 on it's:: Sheilds 37% / Armor 54% / Hull 60%
Total hp is 24,796 hp
With Damage Control On its 35,465hp

if i can figure out how to set up a battleclinic link for my ships build i will set that here.

~Tau