Ships & Modules

Hi All,

Looking to build a gallente cloaky Solo PvP surprise buttsecks boat, to hunt nullbears. Can't fly a Proteus yet, so wondering what would be best? Ideally something that can pop frigs and cruisers. Not looking to engage big game.

Re-affirming that putting a cloak on any ship without bonuses to cloaking devices (either allowing CovOps cloak or reducing penalties to T1 cloaks) makes it difficult to PvP in, and all but impossible to solo PvP in.

1. You can't warp cloaked, and your subwarp velocity while cloaked is greatly degraded, so your target has to come to you.
2. Your lock time upon decloaking will be absolutely atrocious (both the lock delay penalty, and your reduced scan resolution), so they have to sit around and wait for you too lock them so you can point and kill them.

The only kind of target that a non-bonused cloaking setup would do well against is autopiloting haulers or other AFK ships, and I'm pretty sure that you don't need a cloak to kill them. A much better use of a cloaking device is to have a second character sitting cloaked on-grid somewhere acting as your scout, and leaving your primary combat ship uncloaked.

I used to have luck with a cloaky blaster falcon. It could handle many cruisers and all frigates. BUt you need to have Cloaking trained up to 5 to deal with the cloak delay.

Solo Bombers were terrific ratter hunters before Odyssey added tackling frigates to every nullsec anomaly. Now all ratters have some method to deal with frigates, and bombers are too squishy to handle targets that can fight back. If you want to kill ratters, you need to be able to handle an Ishtar (and an Ishtar's heavy drones will murder a solo bomber while the Ishtar pilot is in the bathroom), or hold down and kill a Battleship with an MJD, Heavy Neut, and quite possibly bonused drones.

Hunting ratters is a lot harder than it used to be.


One common option was to take out a cloaky Vagabond or Cynabal. You roll around like normal trying to pick people off in anomalies, and the cloak is just there so you can go to ground when a 30 man defense fleet starts hunting you.

More scramming ships in anoms would be helpful. The sisters of eve ships are great for what you are thinking of doing. Good enough armor tank and lots of mid slots for pvp candy.

Just imagine how pvp would improve with more scramming rats (frigs, cruisers and battleships). Then uncloaking and engaging would actually be an option.

SOE cruiser
bomber
pilgrim
rapier
arazu
falcon

pretty much in that order for my preferences.

It's all about risk aversion and free stuffs w/ you null bears.

When I first started playing eve there was this (real or imagined) ship on the shoulder of null sec residents. Come out to null where the hard players make the big rewards due to the big risk. Now all I hear are the overlords crafting continuous justification for 'improvements' that come down to more stuffs for less work (or folks will quit the game - of course).

I get that you are basically sheep farmers living of your crop of lambs, but have a little dignity. Tend the herd, but please don't panhandle too. Stop trying to convert eve to farmville.

WH rats are rich, k-space rats are not.

You don't remember the time before we had 20 anoms in a system and line members had to belt rat in nullsec, back then it was very hard to get people to come to nullsec because belt ratting was less than half the ISK of level fours.

1. You will need a covert ops if you want real cloaky PVP
2. Your best bets are as follows:
~ Pilgrim
~ Rocket Bomber ( kills unarmed frigs try not to brawl )
~ T3's

You could do a smartbombing Black Ops as well but that wont warp cloaked and is Highly unadvisable due to cost.

And yes as others have said dont just stick a cloak on it and call it cloaky, non covops or bonus'd ships are subject to a decloaking penalty as well as a scan res penalty.