Ships & Modules

Try to be a little more specific. For doing what in wormholes? PVE, small gang PVP, solo PVP ganking, or scanning?

There is probably no simple answer anyway, it depends a great deal on your personal preference.

Legion will suit you just fine in C1, C2 and even solo C3's. Plenty of tank, easy 500DPS fits with sisters probes and about 340 m3 cargo. If you have POS you can swap in Heatsinks for my gank when the need arises

I lived in wh's quite a while. Did two tours of duty in them.
I was in D6 with Eve UNI and we had our first wh POS up 5 hours after Apochrypha went live. We spent over a year living in wh's.

Best advice I can advice I can give you about a solo T3 for wh sites is this: None of the Above.

If you solo a wh pocket, eventually you will die horribly. And I am not talking about the Sleepers, though in a C4 site and above your life expectancy solo is about 45 seconds.

But you are talking about C1's and such. If you find a wh and go in, it is pretty safe to assume mean people who like to shoot people WILL find it also. Not might, WILL.

And they will scan you down fast, point you, and blow you up.
A T3 fitted for solo work will cost minimum of 400M, more likely 500-600.
You have to run an awful lot of C1 sites to earn that much ISK. And that does not even include the loss of SP when you get podded in the wh pocket,

Seriously, you make far more ISK/hour running L4's than C1 wh's, with zero risk.

Now, you get in a group and run C4's/C5's, that is another story altogether.

If you are intent on running solo C1's and C2's, use a Drake.

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FTFY

You did not take a single PVE loss, I say again, PVE loss. Sounds like you got jumped at least once.

Solo means no one watching the wh in/out.
Solo means constantly spamming DSCAN, because you have no friendly eyes anywhere.
Solo means without local in wh's you are playing russian roulette.

So let's pretend I am Mr Evil wannabe tough guy with 2 or 3 buddies.
I jump into a wh with a covops or a cloaky Recon. Oh goodie, no one on the wh watching us come in.
All my boys cloak up.
I start warping around, first to sun. I hit DSCAN. No ships.
I warp to first outer planet beyond my original scan range.
Hey, DSCAN shows a Tengu!
Now I do a generic onboard scan, without dropping probes or breaking cloak.
I see 5 anom's that would also be in range of DSCAN. (edit, this is not accurate, probes have to be dropped, and out for 8-12 seconds)
I assume that the Tengu is not in a radar or mag sigs but at an anom,
I warp cloaked to each of the 5 anom's.
On 4th anom I find a Tengu hammering Sleeper frigs and cruisers.

I creep towards him, getting within warp disrupter range. BTW, I am flying an Arazu with a range of 48km of the disrupter.
I get as close as is comfortable, and wait until he kills all the Sleepers, so more loot for me and my buds.
I then decloak, put on scrams and damps, and wait for my buds to show up, with a Tengu about to die.

I can find a ship in a wh pocket within 5 minutes of entering a pocket, and I am nowhere near as fast as some of the top scanners/tacklers in my old crew.

So, yeah, tell the OP that he is fine going into a wh pocket solo in a T3. Are you going to reimburse him when he gets popped?

Honestly, if you wanted a PvE ship for wormholes, you'd suck it up and get a Tengu.

Or in your case, a Drake; there is absolutely NO need to get an awesome lolblingbling t3 ship when you can get 10 Drakes that do the same job (if a little bit slower) for the same price.


And if you were lazy and wanted to use the same ship for both PvE and PvP, Loki.

I say PvE because I have lost PvP ships while actively PvPing against other peoples PvP ships in wormholes. And to be honest people have tried to gank us while we ran sites, but no one succeded.



Yes with some ammount of luck you will get in undetected if the wormhole radius is big enough and you RNG a good spawn, I will give you that.



Given that you get the lucky spawn in a large enough wormhole you still have to deal with one of two scenarios:

1) The player you jump use an afterburner fitted Tengu aligning to a celestial, safespot or POS that you will lose ground on while trying to "creep closer" while being cloaked.

2) A Tengu fitted with the intercalated nanofiber sub having insane align speed.

When decloaking your Arazu you will have 5-6 seconds recalibration time, I always assume 6 seconds since very few players skill cloaking past lvl 4, and on top of that the locking time. Unless the player have really bad overview settings or reflexes due to either not being a very experienced gamer, or being very tired after a long day the Tengu will most likely slip away.

However, should you still for some reasons manage to score a tackle, your fleet will have over a 14 AU warp to cover before being able to assisst you (assuming you don't run som sort of all cloaky gang). In this time a Tengu can cause some real nasty havoc on your Arazu that honestly isn't that sturdy of a ship. Plus the fact that your friends are most likely going to land off target. Giving the Tengu even more breathing room before the impending doom.

Now sure you can bring with you a stealth bomber to grab initial tackle until the Arazu manage to get a lock, and sure you can have the other guys in cloaky Legions/Falcons/Pilgrims to neut and jam the Tengu. And if the solo Tengu decides to be one of the "not moving" guys he is most likely toast.

But to me this is alot of IFs, and a big part of the risk factor can be avoided by simply moving smart arround the site you are running. But still it's not impossible, but so far no one ever managed to catch me grinding isk after all this time running in my Tengu, even if it might have been close one or two times.

Grind smart, and the risk of dying will really not be that big.

No.

The tl;dr version of this is:

I've never been bump tackled so have no idea what this is. I also don't know a stealth bomber has no decloak delay. Additionally, I fail to see any of the various reasons how a ship can be off my scan and within 14au. I also fail to realise that the WH the other gang is sitting behind, can be any distance away. I am using my ignorance to assume invulnerability through excellence"

Basically you've never ran into anyone who knows what they're doing.