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Hey, I'm sorry to tell you, but that tactic won't work.

If you orbit at 10ish KM with MWD, your enemies will be able to use their Warp Scramblers (different from Warp Disruptors) to turn off your MWD and slow you down to a crawl.

What you want is to use Light Missiles (these have big range), a couple of Nanofiber Internal Structures, a Warp Disruptor and MWD to get to around 20km range. You can use a Breacher or a Condor to try this.

There's a lot more to it but you will learn it over time. Just remember not to get to near 10km range of anything if you're gonna be kiting.

Nah, rocket launchers have drastically shorter range (but higher DPS), while Light Missiles have lower DPS, but greater range. Rocket skills won't be a waste, but for this particular type of play you want the LMs.

Many of the missile support skills benefit both rockets and LMs, so you won't make a mistake if you train those. Also, additional levels in the Caldari frigate skill will give you the biggest DPS increase you can get in a small amount of time, ship bonuses count a lot.

Thanks for the replies both. It's even harden now to choose though.

Merlin doesn't use missiles, so not that one.

There are two ways to kite.

"Normal" kiting which happens around your long point range (generally 20-28km not counting links), this requires you to be FAST and be able to apply dps at those sort of ranges (Condor can do that just fine) and may or may not include stuff like tracking disruptors or damps to lower, or nullify, incoming damage.

Scram kiting is another way, this only works against short range turret frigates where you rely on the fact that your target won't have T2 range ammo loaded so you keep him at 5-7km controlling that range using AB, scram and web while your weapons+ ammo work just fine at that range. It's pretty much an automatic win unless the following all happens:

- he is also AB/web fit and he's faster than you
- he is also scram kiting with a better ship, fit or amount of SP

OR

- target realises he's being scram kited
- target has T2 guns fitted
- target brought T2 range ammo (null, scorch, barrage)
- target understands how all that stuff works
- target switches ammo

In short, there's a big fat chance you'll win because even if he did all that he loses so much time over it the fight is already lost. The problem is that this only works against frigates and even then only short range turret ones and while it's pretty good in that situation it also means that while you have him tackled, he also has you tackled which, if he has friends, is probably going to end badly.

So generally the best and safest way to kite is to do the "normal" kiting using long points and staying at 15+km. Have a look at this, you can replace with named where needed but do be careful with cap life because ships like these can kill cruisers and BC just fine (if it's the right type) given enough time. But if your cap life is only 2 minutes that will never happen so these kinds of fits are one of the few pvp situations where cap stability is very useful.

[Condor, Kite]
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II

Limited 1MN Microwarpdrive I
Warp Disruptor II
Balmer Series Tracking Disruptor I, Optimal Range Disruption Script
Balmer Series Tracking Disruptor I, Optimal Range Disruption Script

Light Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Light Missile
Light Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Light Missile
Light Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Light Missile
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Small Processor Overclocking Unit I
Small Processor Overclocking Unit I
Small Polycarbon Engine Housing I