Ships & Modules

Wow some ummm "interesting" fits posted here.

I use a cap booster with 2 TC in the mids and lows with 1 TE + 4 faction heatsinks.


A deadspace shield booster is helpful but the rest of the tank is fine with T2. Using faction or deadspace invulns and SBA paint a sign on your ship that says "please gank me"

If you're having issues with tank it means you're not putting out enough DPS to kill the rats fast enough. Your gun DPS should be at least 750 with multifreq. If it's any less than that something is wrong with your skills or fitting. You want the gun DPS to be around 1000.

Also faction or T2 crystals are standard practice for any laser ship since they don't cost much and last a long time. The extra DPS will pay for itself.

don't bash this guy. clearly, he is 'special'...

The thing is that if you're already using a deadspace booster trying to keep the "gank bait" factor down is probably pointless. Worse still is the fact that if you're careful and smart you can significantly reduce the chances of being ganked while using such modules. I've been flying expensive ships and fits in high-sec L4s for the better part of 5 years now and I have yet to get ganked.

Yes, yes, "eventually" it will happen, but so far "eventually' seems to be pretty low order odds and getting lower with each month that passes.

The fact is that the Gist A-Type XL booster, EM hardener, and thermal hardener come in at or cheaper than the X-Type XLSB on the market so if you're going to okay an X-Type XLSB you might as well okay three A-Types.



You can hit 1001 rDPS with a nightmare using T2 tachyons, AmNav MF crystals, and 5 faction heat sinks. You can eke out 1015 with gleam. With T2 pulses and conflagration you'll reach 1182 while ANMF crystals will yield 1059 rDPS. Drop one heat sink and you'll get 1033 with ANMF crystals.

In short while 1100 DPS might be practical for pulse laser builds it's not very practical for tachyon laser builds, and a lot of nightmare build are tachyon builds.



And some people, like myself, tend to avoid them outside of specific circumstances like Spike'ing rats from 150km on WC4 with my rokh or Scorch on my naval apocalypse just to keep things simple, at least for laser ships.



If you're not dealing with EM-weak NPCs like Blood Raiders or Sansha then you can get a better-than-EM/Thermal tank with fewer tanking modules resulting in your ship being a tad over-tanked, especially with the LASB. On top of that unless you do a lot of mercenary or rogue drone missions or want to do missions without needing to change out your hardeners invulnerability fields aren't really needed.

You've got six modules for tanking. If you drop them to the booster, amp, and one each rat damage hardeners you should be fine. If that's not enough you might consider swapping the amplifier out for a second rat-specific hardener for your enemy's primary damage type. A CalNav amplifier might be good for boosting capacitor efficiency, but a second hardener is better for boosting your tank while your capacitor lasts.

Also, if capacitor is that much of an issue you should really fit vampires. Even if they don't function the same as they do in PvP a pair of vampires, even mediums, can help you eke through tight places where you might otherwise have to warp out.