Ships & Modules

would a kind experienced player please help me stay alive longer on 2 ships iterlon v and neresus , since I lost one of them did look into what I can do better but its doing me nut in .
the criteria is to stay alive and maybe not loose the ship and perhaps have a bit of a dig back even if token gesture , the cargo hold
does not matter its just to move bits and bobs from a to b ,its just the stuff you get from doing missions so no real loss just a pain in the arse , since I am just doing me skills for industry it still take me a few more months before I can put the skills to whats needed.
then I go find that ganker player and give him what for . in the mean time any help with the fitting you can give be most welcome.

any other tips you can give on this be welcome have done wads of reading

thank you in advance for any help with the fitting

Should also mention that going ginger is better than any tank.

You can't get pissed off when you're a ginge

The best way to survive flying an Iteron V and a Nereus is to upgrade to an Occator.

Once you go DST, youll never go back.

I dont agree. The thing about hauling is that there are lots of haulers. All things being equal, if you make yourself harder, folk will naturally look for an easier target. Of course if you are hauling cargo that is substantially more valuable then your ship then folk might tool up to get you. So all in all, if you tank and keep your cargo value reasonable then you will avoid the vast majority of ganks.

I dont use gallente indis but I would go with this for t1 highsec industrials:

High ehp version:
[Nereus, nereus 3]

Damage Control II
Reactor Control Unit II
Reactor Control Unit II
Power Diagnostic System II
Power Diagnostic System II

Experimental 10MN Microwarpdrive I
Large F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction
Large F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II

Improved Cloaking Device II

Medium Core Defense Field Extender II
Medium Core Defense Field Extender II
Medium Core Defense Field Extender II

This is nearly the max ehp you can get with lv 5 skills (50k ehp). The cargo space is pathetic but it tanks a lot (for an inti).

This is what I would use:
[Nereus, nereus 2]

Damage Control II
Reactor Control Unit II
Reactor Control Unit II
Warp Core Stabilizer I
Expanded Cargohold II

Experimental 10MN Microwarpdrive I
Large F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction
Large F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction
Dread Guristas Thermic Dissipation Amplifier
Dread Guristas EM Ward Amplifier

Improved Cloaking Device II

Medium Ancillary Current Router I
Medium Cargohold Optimization II
Medium Cargohold Optimization II

The fitting is tight even with lv5 skills. 24k ehp with dcu. If you fail the cloak/mwd trick on a gate and eat the first volley, you will still have the passive resis. The wstab will force the ganker to use either a scram (which means he has to be near you) or use a 2nd disruptor. Some dont have that.
You have a bit more cargospace too. In both fittings the mwd is only good to get into warp.

Nonetheless its just a t1 industrial and these are prime targets for ganker. Try to get as fast as possible a blockaderunner (for the everyday work) and a deep space transport (for large volumes and if you really need protection).
Be aware that there are player out who specialize in ganking blockaderunner and even the highest ehp mean only that one day you look into the guns of a small army instead of a single guy.

post was updated, paranoid loyd found a major flaw

So much for fiddling with old fittings. Already wondered how I got to 60k ehp.
Anyway I updated the fittings.

Not sure if the cap is good enough to get into warp after cloaking, which would make my whole post invalid.

thank you for all your advice and help it is most welcome and have taken notice and a special thank you to NYCHA for posting a build I can work towards .

In fact the AB is actually better for straight align time - it won't get you as far, it won't get you back to the gate and I don't believe it works properly in combination with the cloak but in terms of simply reducing the time between jump and warp the AB's 7.5 second cycle is the way to go.

Given that the Nereus has a drone bay (IIRC) I'm surprised people haven't highlighted EC-300s though. It may not protect you most of the time but five seconds + lock time of not being shot and disrupted is always good - particularly in that RNG moment where they just keep coming up jammed

This is true, when I am moving very large low value items a short distance and don't have a DST close by it comes in handy.

This was the point.


The problem with this strategy is not only the lock time (it takes around 12 ticks to lock a cruiser) but also the travel time. In a gank situation, unless you know the gank is going to happen (let's be honest 9/10 people don't) you won't have the drones out to utilize the aggressive functionality and you won't lock the ships before you are dead. If you do manage to pop them out before you are aggressed they still need to travel 12-20km (Vexors sit at zero on the gate) to their target, you'll also be dead before they get there in this scenario. This all assumes you are only relying on your drones as protection, if you have a proper tank fit, you don't need to even consider drones (unless you are trying to whore on KMs).

Good man on thinking creatively though.

well thank you for all your help and advise iam learning and starting to understand so cheers to all