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Primary Uses for Cloaking Devices in PvP?
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Cargo Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#1 - 2014-12-14 00:33:02 UTC
I'm training up to a blockade runner, and I'm wondering what the primary uses for cloaking devices are in PvP? It seems like a natural cross-training opportunity to use the skills that I already have to train.

Do they have an application in PvP? If so, what types of uses does cloaking serve?

Thanks,
Toad The Hitchhiker
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#2 - 2014-12-14 00:47:11 UTC
Cargo Virpio wrote:
I'm training up to a blockade runner, and I'm wondering what the primary uses for cloaking devices are in PvP? It seems like a natural cross-training opportunity to use the skills that I already have to train.

Do they have an application in PvP? If so, what types of uses does cloaking serve?

Thanks,


To not be seen. Especially useful in WH pvp where no one knows you are there.
Echo Degnar
Unholy Knights of Cthulhu
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#3 - 2014-12-14 00:58:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Echo Degnar
In PvP, cloaking devices are primarily used with the covert ops ships for hit-and-run tactics: Stealth Bomber Frigates, Recon Ship Cruisers, T3 Strategic Cruisers, and Black Ops Bbattleships. The Sisters of EVE faction ships also have bonuses to cloaking. Note: none of the covert ops battleships (Black Ops, the SoE Nestor) are able to use the Covert Ops Cloaking Device.

The Black Ops class of Battleships tie the whole Covert Ops line together. They have Covert Jump Portal Generators which allow them to bridge to Covert Cynosural Beacons, and can project Covert Ops ships further than a Titan. A Covert Ops fleet can bridge right on top of a target, destroy it, and disappear in under a minute.

Their ability to travel unseen also makes them great for reconnaissance. Keeping an eye on enemy movements while invisible isn't combat, but it can provide valuable intelligence and warp-in positions for fleet operations.
Justin Zaine
#4 - 2014-12-14 05:13:39 UTC
Do cloaks have an application in PVP?

Yes, they're solely intended for use in PVP - If not on a PVP ship, then to avoid other PVP ships (Such as in the BR you're training for.) Echo said mostly everything but he forgot to mention that there is one ship in all of Eve who's use of the cloak rivals that of any other ship in the game: The Dominix.

The cloaking Domi is quite possibly the most popular cloaky fit in Eve.

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
Plato Forko
123 Fake Street
#5 - 2014-12-14 08:55:30 UTC
The dirtiest use of covert ops cloaks is to sneak a T2 or T3 cruiser right into the midst of an unsuspecting fleet in order to light a cyno for a waiting Black Ops fleet. There's nothing quite as panic-inspiring as structure bashing in battleships when suddenly a fleet appears on top of you with literally one second of warning.

Improved cloak is also really useful moving through lowsec, especially if you're in FW or pirate standing. Cloak + MWD trick has saved my bacon many a time when I've had to get a PvP-ready battlecruiser through camps to link up with a fleet.

Finally, Deep Space Transports are of major use for my PvP ops ever since the fleet hangar was added to them because now it's possible to fit a bunch of hulls in the hauler and fill the low slots with inertia-reducing mods instead of having to waste them on cargohold expanders. With a few nanos it can turn fast enough to successfully pull off the cloak + MWD trick, and so there's no longer a need to pay a courier corp 60m to bring me supplies in low-sec unless for some reason I really need half a dozen battleships at once.