Missions & Complexes

Hi all,

Ran a 'Angel Cartel Prison Retention' combat site last night. The first 3 rooms were easy, kill frigs with lights, pull range, deploy sentries and watch local.

This is my fit below:

[Ishtar, PVP]
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Shield Power Relay II
Shield Power Relay II

Large Shield Extender II
Large Shield Extender II
100MN Afterburner II
Explosive Deflection Field II
Kinetic Deflection Field II

Prototype Cloaking Device I
Core Probe Launcher I, Core Scanner Probe I
Small Remote Armor Repairer II
Small Energy Neutralizer II

Medium Core Defense Field Purger II
Medium Core Defense Field Purger II

Warrior II x5
Valkyrie II x5
Bouncer II x5
Vespa EC-600 x5
Berserker II x5

STATS
Resist - 0/60/93/77 (Shield)
EHP - 26k
Sig - 217m

DPS
Warrior - 201
Valkyrie - 322
Berserk - 645
Bouncer - 620

However, when I came to the last room, room 4 I got wiped very quickly.
https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Cartel_Prisoner_Retention

4 Stasis Web towers and 5 Tackle frigs.

As soon as I entered the room, I dropped my sentries, popped the 4 Towers. But before I could pull range, web/scram/dead.

Should I be refitting before the last room to these lows?

[LOW SLOTS]
Shield Power Relay II
Shield Power Relay II
Shield Power Relay II
Shield Power Relay II
Shield Power Relay II

Bringing my defence from 161 too 367

The new plan would be as soon as I land, pull range ASAP from web towers (32km range), engage 100mn and kite incoming frigs. THEN pop sentries and work my way though?

Anyone Solo'd these in a Ishtar?

Is refitting for max tank before entering a HARDEST room the norm? I thought you just have your mission fit and stick with it.

Haven't done much PVE previously and don't have the skills to fly a Tengu.

Thoughts?

Hmmm, active tank aye. So I guess Ishtar + Angel NPC's + 8/10's = End of passive tanking.

For Hi End sites I should be looking at active tanking the Ishtar. Shield or Armor? Shield gives me way better DPS.

Came up with this fit today after researching Ishtar fits:

[Ishtar, PVP]
Damage Control II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II

10MN Afterburner II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Gist X-Type Explosive Deflection Field
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Gistum C-Type Medium Shield Booster

Prototype Cloaking Device I
Core Probe Launcher I, Core Scanner Probe I
Small Remote Armor Repairer II
Small Energy Neutralizer II

Medium Core Defense Field Purger II
Medium Core Defense Field Purger II

Warrior II x5
Valkyrie II x5
Bouncer II x5
Vespa EC-600 x5
Berserker II x5

STATS:
Resists - 54/81/93/89
24k EHP

DPS:
Bouncers 660
Berserker 687

I also plugged into EFT the DEFENCE for Angel NPC rats.

Previous fit sustained a defence of 340.
New fit sustains 371 (Bursting to 635 for 6 mins)

So new fit gives more DPS, more TANK, lower sig but cost 70m more.

What are your thoughts? Going about a Ishtar active tank the right way?