Wormholes

Looking for some guidance on what T3 would be good in a solo hunter role. I am interested in having the flexibility to enter WH space, hunt around, scan for new wormholes, and be able to cloak up. I know using the covert ops subsystem gimps DPS, but is there any viable fits out there.

I am Tengu trained now but am (erm) not impressed. Just personal preference here, not saying its a bad ship to all those about to get hurt by that statement. Im thinking of training up one of the other 3 and having a go.

I really want lasers, but reading these forums it seems the general concensus is that the Legion sucks for WH hunting.

Speaking of Proteus and range, I wonder how the Proteus will do with rails and a long point.

Tengu

With buzzard alt to scan and catch pods.

Tengu does about 500dps with a 65k EHP and cloak. Fit a 3-point scram if you want to tackle ventures and orcas

You're going to lose more ships than you kill with the high expectations you have about T3's. Contrary to popular discourse, they're not the OMFGPWNAGE ship people make them out to be. And in most cases your target is going to out tank your DPS in a cloaky T3. That means you're going to be limited to ganking haulers doing PI or loitering on a hole for which a SB is a much better choice due to costs and efficacy.

You could say that you're going to hunt other T3's. In this case you want a cloaky T3 Proteus as most T3's are buff fits. That is, however, changing with recent local rep buffs. But, I would question probabilities of two cloaky ships finding and then engaging each other. Firstly, cloakies are difficult to pin down. Secondly, you're most likely going to be fighting them on another hole, preferably not to HS. So, lets say your engagement starts. You clearly are out dpsing your opponent. He jumps through to the other side to save himself. You follow him. He then burns off the hole and cloaks before you can target him unless he makes a mistake or materializes <1KM off the hole. If he materializes too close to the hole to allow him to burn off to cloak in time, assuming that was his first jump, then he only need jump back through and make a second attempt to escape. So, your chances are limited. This also assumes he's not calling friends on TS the whole time so that when you make your second jump through the hole you're polarized and then have no where to run.

But, solo can mean multiboxing. If you're willing and capable of doing that, then a support ship would be highly desirable. ECM, Sensor Dampening, neuting, a remote repper, drones are all suitable for a support ship to supplement your main DPS/TANK ship. I've seen it used to great effect and is the preferred method when friends in a fleet aren't available to you.

Getting back to the SB, mixing up the fit, you could add in tracking disruption or sensor dampening to give you an edge. The problem with tracking disruption is any ship with drones are going to eat your SB alive. Sensor dampening using range scripts, unfortunately, won't dampen the targeting range of most ships sufficiently to allow you to get into point range without taking damage. Scan resolution might be more desirable but I doubt it. The downside is, without target painters, it's doubtful you'll be able to apply enough DPS to break any active tanking or punch through buff tanks before you're dead.

Then again, this is all academic and there are peeps that make solo pew work and well. *shrugs*

He means "they all can do it, but proteus gets the widest choices of targets and legion gets relatively few." For what you want though, t3s are the way to go, just make sure you can afford it.

Nobody ever questions it when I go out solo in my pilgrim, why assume I shouldn't have to pick my targets in a cloaky t3? Welcome to the t3 debate.

Good luck getting launcher hardpoints with a cloaky subsystem. Covert AC or blaster Legion would be better than laser Legion, though. Really doesn't matter which turret type since there's no damage bonus to any one in particular.

Would always run with a noncloaky if you aim at solowork. Cloakies work decently if you blob the **** out of your opponents, else you'll just be fishfodder for the nextbest guy who knows what he's doing.

As of the latest rebalance, take a deimos or cerb, if you want a cloak take a CS.
And a covops-alt. (Helios)


Unless you got an agression timer, you can just log your toon on a safe in system / on the hole. They will notice you being there exactly as much as if you brought in a cloaky.

I'm pretty sure you're limited to launcher hard points with the covert sub on the Tengu, but you get a RoF bonus with it so trying for any other weapons system would be quite bad.

The Tigerears blog is the chronicle of a guy stalking wh's in his Loki. Its a lot of stalking, with some killing. Its a great read.

I find a cloaky scanny loki works well for initial tackle then I have a Neut / webbing / Drone Dominix warp in to make the target useless. Disable weapons and its tank (if active tancked) I also log on my tengu and have him warp in for moar DPS.

The hardest part is the finding and tackling the target IMO.