Wormholes

Yes, that is entirely possible. A friend and I have breezed through C1 and C2 relic sites with a drake and a hurricane. If you loot and salvage the site you can make pretty good isk (Don't have exact numbers, as most our experiences were day trips where everyone just kept the loot they grabbed). If someone has a data/relic analyzer you can make a good deal more. Remember, sleepers don't have bounties, so if you don't loot the site, you'll come away empty handed.

That being said, there are plenty of dangers that must be dealt with. Without local, you have no idea who is there. As soon as you enter a wormhole, the first thing you should do is check long range D-scan and see who is nearby. If you see ships and you aren't ready for PvP, find another hole. The whole time you're in a WH, you should be constantly checking D-scan. If you see ships or combat probes, chances are you're being watched and hunted.

Also be advised that WH rats will neut you. It's not too bad in a C1/C2, but an active tank that isn't carefully managed can quickly be broken if you don't focus the neuting ships.

Make sure to bookmark the hole you came in. I can't count how many times I've made this mistake and had to scan it back down again. While this is usually just a minor nuisance, it can be a serious problem if you're trying to escape hostile players.

Finally, as always, don't fly anything you can't afford to loose. If you fly in wormholes regularly, you will lose ships. It happens. Just grab another and try again!

Good luck!

Good advices, thank you!



Any suggested drake fits?

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This. You really want to run the sites as a pair for security and speed, but if you're solo, the mobile depot and mobile tractor units are godsends for speedy salvage & GTFO.

EDIT: For C2 anoms (previously I said C3; I meant C2. Typo! OMG!) you really only need about 200DPS of tank in a battlecruiser. For data/relic sites, bump that up to 400. For C3 anoms, crank that up to about 600 (you'll read 740 DPS online; that's only if you're at a dead stop in a battleship or burning straight toward the sleeper battleships with a MWD which is stupid). For C3 data/relic sites, crank that up to about 1000. You'll mitigate a lot of damage by learning to manually fly and fitting an afterburner.

In fact, you can radically reduce the tank necessary by taking C2 anoms in an assault frigate. You'll zoom around at amazing speed, but take the site down fairly slowly due to your paltry DPS. A Scythe with an afterburner can tank a blown trigger in C3 anomalies with less than 200DPS of tank and good transversal. It's not hard-and-fast.

Starting safe with a Drake first, then working into new fits once you figure out what it takes to beat the sites is good advice :) It also gives you the high slots to refit to salvagers, and mid-slots to fit analyzers. Mobile Depot and MTU in the cargo hold, good security on the holes (most C2s have two static exits), and have fun to the tune of about 20M ISK per site.

L4 missions bring in better ISK than C2 salvaging, yes. Doesn't mean C2s aren't worth doing; they are FANTASTIC practice for higher-level wormholes, and for those who don't have access to level 4 missions they provide a steady income stream with minimal investment.

C3 anomalies run quickly bring in income very comparable to Incursions (100M ISK/hr). For the solo artist, C3 wormhole income in a T3 is a fine end-game. For the small group of sub-capital pilots, C4 is a little better, but not hugely so. C5 and C6 capital escalations provide unreliable but extreme income possibilities, typically something like 4Bn/hour... and huge competition for that resource in the form of mandatory, frequent PvP.

I'm going to slightly disagree there. I'd say jump into a wormhole alliance with a C1 or C2 wormhole training corporation. You'll learn the basics of POS mechanics, scanning, running sites, mining, differences between kinds of sites, gas harvesting, etc. and get both time to skill up to the specifics you'll need for wormhole life. Worth it.

There are a number of wormhole alliances that have such training corps. C2 life with daily training can provide a reasonably good income while building your character and real-life skill at the game. Look in the recruitment center.

Not sure if this is possible for you, but if you have an alt that can cloak, put it on the high sec hole. Then, turn down the volume on your site running account and turn it up on your cloaky alt. Make sure to have your alt's camera focused on the wormhole This will allow you to hear a wh activation without having to constantly check the other account. It makes for a nice warning system if someone decides to jump in the system from high sec. It has saved me a ton of times.

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