Ships & Modules

Hi, just thought i'd hijack this thread, as it's very similar to what i want to know.

I've just recently started again and want to focus on small hulls, too, and will most likely do PVP in the warzone.
I'm also going towards T3D, but want some novice action, too.

For this i'd likely want to fly faction or pirate frigs.

Do you guys have some good, current-meta fits for Dramiel, Firetail and other good frigs, as well as common opponents?

Really appreciate your input!

you need different tools for different situations.

train all the weapons systems.

maybe you mean which should i train first? That sadly i dont know either, they all have thier strengths and weaknesses mix in a little be of what u want to do and what ur good at.

lazors -large cap requirement, requires decent range/transversal control due to poorer tracking than other gunnery weapons systems, good damage, instantaneous reload time, only 2 damage types em/therm

missiles/rockets - selectable damage type, , no need to worry about transversal and missiles will always hit. instead worry for the speed of the opponent - the slower they go, the harder you will hit (more or less), however missles have a travel time and 10? second reload time. Yes rockets are missiles as well. just a subcategory.

hybrids - when talking blasters - simply absurd damage, and excellent tracking however tiny range. You literally have to be sitting on thier face to hit them. 5 second reload time. use a bit of cap (not as much as lasors) dont get me wrong blasters are awesome. remember what i said about right tool for the situation? wel yaddayada. only two damage types here as well thermal and kinetic, however unless u facing a t2 caldari/gallente ship the dps is so high it doesnt usually matter.


autos - kinda selectable damage type, its a mix of types, with emp you get a bit of explosive abit of kinetic and a lot of em. with phased plasma you get mostly thermal and a bit of kinetic, with fusion u get mostly explosive and kinetic. decent overall range however more falloff than optimal. this means that a lot of th e time u will be fighting in falloff range doing less dps than if u were up close. good tracking (worse than blasters but better than lasors) 10 second reload time.

all these systems have thier uses think up a tactic and try it out. for example you now know that lasors have heavy cap use so use a neuting ship against those.

rockets missiles will always hit so when using those against a turret ship keep your transversal up making it harder for the turret ship to hit u, slow them down with a web or two so u hit harder. and if thier using lasers neut them as well. The vengeance is excellent for doing this.

in another situation a slasher is good vs an executioner for example.

i would continue onto long range weapon specifics but im at work so...

best oif luck on your journey and wp for sticking to smaller ships first. youll have more fun.

Faction frigs are fun.
Federation Navy comet
Republic fleet firetail
Caldari navy hookbill

All good choices.
I still love the dramiel

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