Ships & Modules

There is a cloak. I had added it in brackets. I did not think anyone would complain about it when one can just take the launcher out, which I did mention, but the crying of the trolls wants to be heard and so I added it into the comment. Keep thinking I would not use cloaks. I do not care.

You either do not decloak when you see multiple ships before your gang arrives, or you decloak to tackle a solo ship, which you then can either try to kill on your own or you wait for your gang. You do however try to hold tackle for as long as it is necessary and use damps to avoid getting locked up. This is by far the safest way. You only need to watch the speeds, watch out for drones, some you can outrun, others you can kill with your own drones, and sometimes do you need to run for it, because other ships show up.

The cap battery and recharger only makes it carefree by being cap stable.

I agree with you that it needs a rebalance, but until then is it a slow ship and gimping its speed (and inertia) for a tank when one can just use damps is a bad trade. You only invite your target to try. You do not need expensive points when you can dampen down a target's lock range to a few kilometres.

And the Arazu will eventually die. Why sweeten someone else's killmail when you can avoid it?

Im sorry whitehound, i have been browsing the forums recently, came across some of your posts, and seriously, most of the fits you posted are almost all horrible EFT nightmares, like you never undock or something.

It is very tempting to post numbers and careful chosen modules, yet the results are practically terrible. Also whats with that MAAR fetish ? It's puzzling.

Do you have any killmails with that Arazu fit? Perhaps on another character? Whitehound

lolwut?

In case you've never seen one before, it's called a killboard. I know it might be difficult to decipher, but all you have to do is type a character name in and you can see a person's kills and losses. When I type "Whitehound" into zkillboard, I see 2 kills and a bunch of losses, none of them involving an Arazu. I'm not sure what would be creepy about that, since it's the single most commonly used tool by every PvP pilot in EVE.

This tells me that you don't know WTF you're talking about, which I kind of already knew, since your Arazu fit didn't even include a cloak. The point of a covert recon is to cyno in the DPS, not to dish it out. I'm not a solo pvp'er and my experience is mostly medium to large gang hotdrops (brought in by an Arazu), but... it sure looks like someone with a MWD, scram, and TD could own you pretty easily. Toss in a neut and you're done. But my knowledge is far too limited to be certain of that.

Never bring killboard stats into an argument, they dont tell you that much and if someone with 0 kills and 5k losses is right that doesnt change a thing, they mean as much in an argument as you can judge a corp/player by its battleclnic rank ("lol my corp is higher ranked then you thus i am right").

You of course are right but still its bad manners.

Nonsense. You might as well fly some other ship. I get the idea, but this is what you use a Combat Recon for, a Stealth Bomber or a Proteus. You could just bump it with the Proteus. You do want to hold point, because your mates can be several jumps away. Bertrand's Arazu does like 1200 m/s with that fitting. Anything that can shoot from range will attack it and most everything else will try to burn away. If that it is his thing then fine, but telling others their fittings are terrible when his could easily win the price of being the most terrible here deserve to be commented. Maybe do not start with the nonsense. Just as an idea...

On topic, Arazu took another serious hit with the cyno change on T3s. Armor fitted, an Arazu is basically what you can fly if you don't have the money for a Proteus.
I suppose if you shield fit it, it's still an 'ok' scout boat that can reach decent speed, but will not use both ewar bonuses decently. Get a short and long point, shield tank, nano, cloak and probe launcher and it will do its job fine. Well, not that great, until the fabled recon ships rebalance (please).

Now whitehound, please resume trolling.

Do not worry. I get you. I only would not fly it like you do but still respect individuality. I do not really judge you for it, but when you challenge me then it is "what goes around, comes around".

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