Ships & Modules

In my opinion Vexor navy is not very good at Solo PvP as it lacks the ability to be fast, project damage and prevent a target from fleeing all at the same time - the three keys to a good solo pvp ship.

But none the less I have given a try at making a decent solo PvP fit for you, as with all things in eve, pick your fights it cannot win everything.

[Vexor Navy Issue, PvP - Solo] - Needs 3% more PG [genolutions FTW]
Drone Damage Amplifier II
1600mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
Damage Control II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II - Swap out for another Drone Damage Amp if you prefer Gank
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II

Experimental 10MN Microwarpdrive I
Warp Scrambler II
Stasis Webifier II
Small Capacitor Booster II, Navy Cap Booster 400

Medium Unstable Power Fluctuator I
Medium Unstable Power Fluctuator I
Small Unstable Power Fluctuator I
Small Unstable Power Fluctuator I

Medium Anti-Explosive Pump I
Medium Trimark Armor Pump I
Medium Egress Port Maximizer I

Ogre II x5
Vespa EC-600 x5
Warrior II x5


Without writing you a huge wall o text of reasons and ways to fly I will be simple.

Targets of choice - Cap using weapon system brawling ships aka Blasters + Lasers. Avoid fast targets as your heated MWD speed is around 2kms. Avoid Missiles / projectiles / drone based ships as you cannot shut down their damage output.

Advice - Perhaps consider training for + paying the extra for an Ishtar if you want to stay within the drone cruiser lineup but be more effective. For true solo PvP big brawlers like this are not standard but will work if you pick targets properly.

One of my corp mates flies a VNI alongside my Deimos and he ALWAYS out Dps's me on Kill's. The damage projection of this ship is insane,
2x DDA's and a full rack of Orge II's will put out 700 dps. and a rack of Garde II's with throw out 660 dps.

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=20042232 (out DPSing my 700 dps deimos)

Just fit it like you would a standard vexor and just brawl down your targets with your heavy drones, just dont skimp out on your skills, make sure you have gal cruiser V and t2 Orges, not a ship you should fly with sub par skills.

if you wanted to do this why aren't you using an ishtar???

Navy vexor has no spare drones
no built in bonus drone control range
no built in bonuses to sentry drone range
can't carry a spare set of sentries
has one less mid slot
and has lower cpu (a primary limiting factor for sentry snipers)
has only 2/3s the targeting range of an ishtar
and has lower scan res
lower effective shield hp because of resistances
and warps slower

ishtar surpases the navy vexor at hac 1, not at hac 5. If you meant gal cruiser 4 instead of 5, then the answer is of course to use a gila.

Sometimes people want to fly a ship just to fly a ship. Even if there is a Tech 2 or Tech 3 version that is better. The reasons are endless. RPers, looks, engagement envelope, bait factor or just plain insanity.

Other times, cost is a factor. Ishtar was over 200M last I checked. VNI is about 90M on the market. VNI for a Gallente FW member (like me) is approximately 9M. ;)

On this point we agree! I personally fly a dual rep 800 plate combo solo. Basically a combo of the two fits posted by Mhizir. Some of my corp-mates rave about the shield-nano-sentry fit though. I have a couple fit, but haven't seen the need to undock them yet.

Looking at my KB, even factoring that I was on an XCOM break the last few weeks - I don't fly mine enough it seems. I've been having a blast in T1 frigs and plain-jane Vexors.

Wait 9m without LP?? or is 9m the isk cost and you have to pay LP?

Even if you are not counting the LP cost you need a hard lesson in opportunity cost, exactly like the miner that builds ships "for free" because he mined the minerals himself.

A helpful link http://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/opportunitycost.asp.

In more simpler terms, the price of any item is usually it's price on the market, not the "nominal isk" cost you paid.

VNI's cost = 90m, an Ishtar = 200m no other way to look at it.

if without stasis, can heavy drones catch and hit high-speed precisely?

@ OP

In small gang VNI is a fantastic ship as it not longer has to interdict targets itself, I would advise a fit completely different to the Solo buffer tank neut I posted. the Vexor Navy Issues role becomes one of pure DPS

[Vexor Navy Issue, PvP - Small Gang import 1]
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Damage Control II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II

Omnidirectional Tracking Link II
Omnidirectional Tracking Link II
Large Shield Extender II
Experimental 10MN Microwarpdrive I

Medium Energy Neutralizer II
Medium Energy Neutralizer II
Drone Link Augmentor I
Drone Link Augmentor I

Medium Ionic Field Projector I
Medium Processor Overclocking Unit I
Medium Processor Overclocking Unit I

Bouncer II x5


The above fit is solid for a small gang but must be flown carefully as it has only 20k EHP. It is quite fast and can use sentry drones out to 90km. Lock range of 80k - Assign drones to close range gang member if you end up further away.

I would advise carrying ec-600's and warrior IIs in the rest of the dronebay 5 of each. One of VNI major weakness is lack of spare sets of drones so be very careful with them, you CAN and SHOULD carry spares in your cargohold so you can dockup and refill dronebay, enough for 2 full spare sets of bouncers + mediums + lights of your choice in cargo.

Simple to fly, drop drones at desired location - for example on a stargate maybe 20-30km off the gate then burn away. Use MWD to achieve this, the x2 energy neuts are ONLY for defence against ships that get in close and hard tackle you, neut them out and warp away.

Once again this ship and every way to fit it is eclipsed by the Ishtar so I would advise you train towards that. But for small gang that fit should work well just be aware you are a long range ship who does not in any way want to brawl.

Don't compare heavy drone tracking to small gun tracking like that, it's not right. The listed tracking value of guns and drones can only be compared within each size class. Heavy drones counts as large weapons (BS weapons) and small guns are of course small.


The listed tracking value for the Berserker doesn't take the size of the guns into account. The Turret Resolution for Heavies are 400m (same as large guns) and for small weapons 40m. So there is a ratio of x10 differance from the size here. This means that even with identical listed tracking values, the small weapons will still track 10 times better.

From the to-hit-equation (https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Turret_damage)
*snip* Tracking side of the equation (omitting the falloff, it's irrelevant for this):
0.5^( (Transversal speed/(Range to target * Turret Tracking)) * (Turret Signature Resolution / Target Signature Radius)) )^2
This expression can be simplified as
0.5^( (tracking ratio * size ratio)^2 )
to get lots of hits the "tracking ratio * size ratio" should be as small as possible

To be able to accurately compare the tracking of Heavy drones (big guns) with the tracking of small guns, the tracking value of the heavy drones need to be reduced with a factor of x10 to compensate for the size differance of the two weapons. In other words, the Berserker II's has an effective tracking of ~0.07 when being compared to the tracking value of small guns.


The main reason why heavy drones can still hit small targets like frigates is not because they track well. But rather, because they tend to be so slow that they fall behind and start tailing the target, this reduces the transversal speed and allows them to hit anyway.