EVE General Discussion

Hi~ everyone :D
I recently started to have some interest in flying Phoenix but before i jump in, I have few questions about it.
1. Could we use Phoenix in highsec area? if not, how about just flying one?
2. I heard capital ship class can't dock into stations. Is that same for Phoenix?
3. Could someone share Phoenix fittings for fleet pvp on this post? because Battleclinic.com won't open up on my computer somehow.
Thx

If you have to ask, you don't need to know

I didn't mean to sound rude, but they are pretty specialised and if you don't have a clear vision as to why your training towards them (not an insignificant amount of time and SPs), you must surely ask yourself, 'why?'

I think so too. The Phoenix is gonna rock soon.

You seem to be pretty new as you are in a rookie corp, you don't know that dreads and carriers can dock, and you are using battle clinic fits. I'm going to suggest that to enjoy the game you put away flying a capital ship for a while. I know it looks exciting and fun (and it can be) but to sit in one it takes ~100 days of very focused training. To actually fly the ship well it might be another 100 days. In that time you won't be able to do anything else. Your skills won't be useful for subcaps and you won't actually get to play Eve at its best. Another **** thing about training straight for a capital is capitals are not used in every fight. You won't be able to just take a Phoenix out to every T2 cruiser fleet. It will severely limit your money making opportunities and what fleets you can go on.

What I suggest is first of all find a corporation that does something you'd be interested in. Find a lowsec PVP corp, join one of the nullsec corps like Dreddit, or Karmafleet, or Pandemic Horde, or any group that takes new players. Ask for help train their doctrines. This way you can learn to fight, make money, and generally how to play the game. After you've been playing for a good while and understand the game you have a few options.

1. Start a new characters and begin training him into a focused capital pilot.

2. If you have enough money simply buy a pilot that can fly a dread.

3. If you feel you've trained enough other skills to make subcaps fun then go ahead and train your main character for a capital. This does have the advantage over starting an alt in that there are a lot of core skills you won't need to train. But it means you will be stuck with whatever subcaps you have for quite a while.

Has already been pointed. Bore yourself doing everything else before you go for capitals; they are very specialized tools whose main use ATM is bashing structures (which is as thrilling as it sounds) and dreadnaughts specifically are fleet machines, akin to glass cannons. They are not "cool", they are tools for a purpose, and currently CCP is reassesing that purpose.

Also the Phoenix specifically used to be a running joke...

KK thank you

Maybe for PVP, but it sucks major in C5s.

It's the best siege dread for shooting stationary targets.

But to newbies: all capitals are coffins, don't ever fly one with using your main.

Capital rebalance coming in November or December...