Ships & Modules

For low sec exploration you will want two things, probe launcher and cloak. That means you loose two high slots to those two modules. Now go look and see which cruiser has most high slots so that you can fit those two modules mentioned above and the guns for killing rats.

Scimitar is destroyer hull, if I remember right. I though you were talking about cruisers.

It happens.

Good pve cruisers
Cerberus
Zealot
Muninn (underestimated)
Deimos
Eagle
Ishtar
Sacrielege


these are all good for low sec

muninn has 2 slots if i remember correctly that you can use for the cloaky and scanner so i think the muninn with autocannons could be quite tasty.

I have to say, Muninn looks pretty sweet. With those bonuses, it does not need much of dps mods in low slots so you can concentrate on the armor tank.

The Matar cruiser lineup is as always interesting the problem is that it is very skill intensive to use properly - if you have strong support skills all of the following can do well in exploration:


Muninn - Plenty of high slots to play with, but short on midslots if you are planning to run those hacking sites, still a great little ship and as has been pointed out, underestimated in many ways.

Vagabond - Will also work, but has less high slots. It works best when you know exactly how to run the sites so you go for the objectives you really need, rather than trying to fight your way through everything. Will need both good support skills and piloting ability.

Huggin - Requires excellent drone skills to work, and the split weapons system doesn't do it any favours. May struggle in the combat plexes too because of low resists but it's doable - problem with this ship is that you need to have good drone skills, good gunnery skills AND good missile skills to get the most out of it.

Rapier - Excellent little ship - dps wise it's less able than the Huggin and also relies greatly on drones, however its ability to use a covops cloak is very useful, and actually probably makes for a good "test out the sites ship".


I'd say Minnie ships are some which greatly benefit from having the scanning done by another ship and then do the actual hard work in one of the above, I'd go for the Muninn personally or the Rapier (but I'm biased towards drones and cloaky stuff). All of them should have enough DPS to deal with the sites up to DED 4/10 and the better ones will hit DED 5/10 with good skills.


My recommendation? Hop in a Cheetah, scan a few systems till you find a few sigs you like then blast through in your cruiser. It's not the "optimal" way of doing things - but it definitely works.

Good luck.

My two cents worth,

Vaga, Huggin/Rapier and Schimmy are very good pew ships. Munnin a little more specialised and works well in bigger fleets.

As mentioned before they are skill intensive and I would recommend Recon V, especially if crosstraining Amarr. I digress.

As far as PVE goes......why would you want to spend 150 mil and up on a ship for ratting and plexing that is equalled or bettered by a Drake ?

Having never considered it myself maybe you have some reasons I havent thought !!

If anything I would train Logi up and get into a Schimmy and Logi in Incursions, you will make more ISK there (Although a Basi will make it easier to get into fleets ofc)

Opinions are like arseholes though

Regards Darik

If you want a good PVE T2 cruiser for low sec work im afraid to say this but you should now train up for a pilgrim its got everything you need for low sec explo

Its damn hard to catch as its got a covert cloak

Its got enough room to fit a good tank with salvager/codebreaker and analyser

Its drones and the nutes you should fit to it regardless of what your doing are good for when people jump you just align to a SS apply nutes and wait for them to cap out and the tackle to turn off.

Although now you got minny 5 you might want to look into a cloaky loki its pretty good too

Matar Cruiser V is good for the Cynabal. It is a good ship both for pvp/pve.

My alt used a Huginn cruiser for vanguard Incursions. Webbing out to 40k is a great asset, and I never had much issue with getting a fleet. You don't even need fancy webs, since T2/meta 4 have the best available speed reduction (60%). Just don't web things TOO far away if you have lots of Vindicators or whatever.