Ships & Modules

Hi,

I'm looking for a ship able to run solo 0.0 Plex (ideally Guristas and Serpentis' ones). According to my skills this should be a Gallente / Amarr ship, tanking armor and using guns.

I thought to bastion Marauder to achieve this, but it's kinda expansive fora ship that can't move most of the time.

Any suggestion ?

Fly safe o/

Mach and navy raven are two good choices. Shield tanks beat armor tanks for PVE. Better tank on shields and damage mods in the lows.

The proteus has some very lowslot biased subsystem options. ie 6-3-7 layouts, and given that its both got T2 resists and armor repair bonus, it will do all gurista encounters except the maze with.

1x corelum c-type medium armor repairer
1x kinetic armor hardener II
1x thermic armor hardener II
+4 or 3 damage mods depending on your layout preferences. If you reach 4 damage mods in your fit, then the advantages for shield in PVE are minimal or none given you'll also have free mids for applied damage.

if you are in motion on the AB it avoids tremendous amounts of damage.

Living in gurista space I usually use it fit subbed 6-4-6 as a droneboat (due to wanting 2 omni IIs), and I only really need to refit extra tank (an extra kinetic hardener) for the maze where you are webbed down and shot with a citadel torp. Given how buffed med rails are now, there is no reason it won't work as a railboat.

The proteus travel fit is much better than a marauder (covops / nullifier) and I just can't go past how I don't really need a scout for it and how much time it saves not waiting for minor things to clear ahead of you, like a 3 man camp.

Ishtar is pretty much the best for this. Stratios could work too I guess, but the Ishtar has very high native kinetic/thermal resists which makes it really easy to tank it and it has the sentry optimal+tracking bonus. Stratios is obviously if you plan to utilize the cloak.

MJD
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Marauders
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Some keywords :)

If you have a supply base or ammo hauler as scout, nothing beats a marauder for the job. Paladin is the best ship for the job but not against guristas or serpentis.

I hate running anoms, so when I do find the need to do it I like to be able to leave my ship alone to do it's thing whilst I do other stuff (like play WoT). I run Sanctums and Havens in Serpentis space with this fit:

[Ishtar, Serpentis Ratter Ogres]

Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Damage Control II

Pith C-Type Thermic Dissipation Field
Shield Boost Amplifier II
Medium Shield Booster II
Drone Navigation Computer I
Drone Navigation Computer I

Drone Link Augmentor II
[Empty High slot]
[Empty High slot]
[Empty High slot]

Medium Anti-Kinetic Screen Reinforcer I
Medium Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer I


Ogre II x5
Wasp II x5
Warrior II x10

The C-type hardener is only 13~mil so get one. With my skills (perfect fitting skills) it's cap stable with everything running. I use Ogre IIs because I don't have Sentry drones skilled, plus I'm too lazy to run the numbers to see if using T1 sentries with Sentry Drone Interfacing to III will let me run sites faster than using T2 Heavies. I generally get around 17-20mil ticks using this fit.

If you do have Sentry drones trained then you can edit my fit by dropping the nav computers for a T2 invuln and a 10mn AB and swap the rigs for two Sentry Damage Augmentors. With perfect fitting skills you'll get nearly 9 minutes of cap with everything bar the AB running but to be honest if Sentries are as amazing as people say you shouldn't need to have everything running.

If using a drone boat for running anoms set drones to aggressive and focus fire. This will allow you to (potentially - I don't advise it) go AFK and let them do their thing. Always keep an eye on local, try to be aligned out and be prepared to warp out when neutrals enter system.

Also, going off on a completely different tangent I've heard of people who blitz through anoms in all-gank, blaster fit Nagas and can get upwards of 30mil ticks. I've not tried it myself as I don't have large hybrids but it's something I've heard is quick. The only downside is that you have to bore yourself to death clicking on red crosses.

Hope this helped, happy ratting o/

Ishtar is bang on perfect for this. I run an armor and sentry setup that allows for a medium repper, nos and neut along with a Dron Link Aug in the highs. If a sentry gets targeted I can typically rep it well enough to not lose it, or just pull them, if I run low on cap i run the nos, if baddies show up and I am not being diligent the Neut gives me som chance to cap out the tackle and bail. I run one Cap Recharger in the mids and a scram, only because I missed killing a Caracal and a Dram the other day that tackled me cause I had no tackle and both were stupid enough to be inside 10k.

But there is so much flying about an expensive missile usage!

T2 HAM's are cheap.. if you don't want to move around then just a pick a marauder that does the damage you want to deal. Domi's and ishtar also work, bit slower than other options tbh. Otherwise just use a sentry carrier I don't like the idea of being stuck in bastion mode unable to move when someone comes in to the system, and if an interceptor pilots picks you current site first, even a BS isn't going to get warping before they land.

I actually disagree if you have alts flying with you. But even then HAMgus are fine at DED sites as only really the Guristas 10/10 has frigs that scram. I fly as MWD Hamgu for null exploration and works great.

Also note, T2 HAM (Javelin) hits for almost 50KM with 600 odd DPS. Which is still a good amount of DPS.