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nate albush
Iron Whales
Goonswarm Federation
#1 - 2016-03-18 06:16:21 UTC  |  Edited by: nate albush
ok so i've been doing some research on low sec combat anomalies but i haven't been able to find anything and i was wondering if anyone had a link to a good page or site for low sec combat anomalies. i also wanted to know if a ham fit cerb could do low sec combat anomalies solo or would i have to use a different ship. i was thinking of doing serpentis sites. and im trying to make some isk so i dont end up burning my isk out with pvp and such. and i am thinking of doing incursions as well but i dont have the isk or skills for that. hehe

this is the fit i might use for a site:

[Cerberus, PVE ]

Damage Control II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II

50MN Y-T8 Compact Microwarpdrive
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Medium Shield Booster II
Medium Cap Battery II

Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile

Medium Core Defense Capacitor Safeguard II
Medium Core Defense Capacitor Safeguard II


Hobgoblin II x3



Caldari Navy Nova Heavy Assault Missile x5000
Caldari Navy Inferno Heavy Assault Missile x5000
Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Assault Missile x5000
Caldari Navy Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile x5000
Damjan Fox
Fox Industries and Exploration
#2 - 2016-03-18 11:39:01 UTC
First of all, if you want to run combat sites in low, scan for combat signatures and forget the anomalies.
But to answer some of your questions:

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ok so i've been doing some research on low sec combat anomalies but i haven't been able to find anything and i was wondering if anyone had a link to a good page or site for low sec combat anomalies.

Evelopedia went offline not long ago, so....
There is a backup of it, try your luck there.
If you speak german, THIS site is not bad.

But there is not really much to know about LowSec Anomalies.

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i also wanted to know if a ham fit cerb could do low sec combat anomalies solo or would i have to use a different ship.

A Cerb can run Lowsec Anomalies, no problem.

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i was thinking of doing serpentis sites.

- Then why did you fit 2 Adaptive Invulnerability Fields? Fit 1 Thermal and 1 Kinetic Hardener. Deadspace mods are not that expensive anymore and would greatly improve your tank. (e.g. Pithum C-Type Medium Shield Booster, 1 Pithum B-Type Kinetic and Thermal Hardener) <- but honestly, i doubt you'll need that much tank in lowsec anomalies
- "Caldari Navy Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile"? Cerb has a bonus with Scourges and Serpentis are weakest to Kinetic/Thermal damage. Use Scourges.
- Could change the MWD for an AB for kiting
- Do you have a travel fit (MWD+Cloak) for lowsec??

Hope this helps a bit.

Fly safe o7

Proposal: >>> New Inventory / Item Hangar <<<
pushdogg
relocation LLC.
#3 - 2016-03-18 23:55:17 UTC  |  Edited by: pushdogg
Quite a few low sec anoms will be completely doable in a caracal. Which is really what you want to do them in, as that cerb will be a beacon to low-sec dwellers saying "come kill me".

I personally do low-sec escalation sites and plexes in a stratios or as funny as you may think it sounds, a jackdaw...when in an escalation site(ded plex or expedition) I fit with 2 midslot eccm(now sensor boosters with eccm script) and run the whole site in sharpshooter mode, as it makes you very hard to combat probe.

The moral though is fly something capable but cheap until you get comfortable, because losing 50 or so million on a really nice caracal will always beat losing 300+ on a similar fit cerb.

And before you ask for a fit, for low-sec anoms always fit for max dmg and buffer. The spawns are manageable as they don't trigger until everything is off the field. And generally spawn in the same spot, so pick your comfortable range and blap the closest things first.

When I started anoms, I used a vexor....and once the isk started to flow I started finding more blingy things to spend it on. Remember don't pilot what you can't afford to lose.

After thinking about it, a rook is a really good choice as it can fit a really good pve tank(7 mids iirc) and it doesn't show up on d-scan, you can still be combat probed but it will give enough doubt that most won't waste their time. There are several resources on YouTube for this, just look up johnypew, he has made a nice library of instructional videos and offer info that is very valuable.
nate albush
Iron Whales
Goonswarm Federation
#4 - 2016-03-19 20:58:42 UTC
pushdogg wrote:
Quite a few low sec anoms will be completely doable in a caracal. Which is really what you want to do them in, as that cerb will be a beacon to low-sec dwellers saying "come kill me".

I personally do low-sec escalation sites and plexes in a stratios or as funny as you may think it sounds, a jackdaw...when in an escalation site(ded plex or expedition) I fit with 2 midslot eccm(now sensor boosters with eccm script) and run the whole site in sharpshooter mode, as it makes you very hard to combat probe.

The moral though is fly something capable but cheap until you get comfortable, because losing 50 or so million on a really nice caracal will always beat losing 300+ on a similar fit cerb.

And before you ask for a fit, for low-sec anoms always fit for max dmg and buffer. The spawns are manageable as they don't trigger until everything is off the field. And generally spawn in the same spot, so pick your comfortable range and blap the closest things first.

When I started anoms, I used a vexor....and once the isk started to flow I started finding more blingy things to spend it on. Remember don't pilot what you can't afford to lose.

After thinking about it, a rook is a really good choice as it can fit a really good pve tank(7 mids iirc) and it doesn't show up on d-scan, you can still be combat probed but it will give enough doubt that most won't waste their time. There are several resources on YouTube for this, just look up johnypew, he has made a nice library of instructional videos and offer info that is very valuable.

Oh wow thanks so much hehe that actually helped out a lot! I will look at Jonnypew. I can't fly a rook sadly but I'm guessing it might be worth training for. I am running low on isk so I'm probably going to stick to high sec 4/10 ded sites cuz Ik you can get some good loot from those. And I do want to do low sec combat sites. Just need the isk to afford doing them. Again thanks!
pushdogg
relocation LLC.
#5 - 2016-03-19 23:22:52 UTC  |  Edited by: pushdogg
nate albush wrote:
pushdogg wrote:
Quite a few low sec anoms will be completely doable in a caracal. Which is really what you want to do them in, as that cerb will be a beacon to low-sec dwellers saying "come kill me".

I personally do low-sec escalation sites and plexes in a stratios or as funny as you may think it sounds, a jackdaw...when in an escalation site(ded plex or expedition) I fit with 2 midslot eccm(now sensor boosters with eccm script) and run the whole site in sharpshooter mode, as it makes you very hard to combat probe.

The moral though is fly something capable but cheap until you get comfortable, because losing 50 or so million on a really nice caracal will always beat losing 300+ on a similar fit cerb.

And before you ask for a fit, for low-sec anoms always fit for max dmg and buffer. The spawns are manageable as they don't trigger until everything is off the field. And generally spawn in the same spot, so pick your comfortable range and blap the closest things first.

When I started anoms, I used a vexor....and once the isk started to flow I started finding more blingy things to spend it on. Remember don't pilot what you can't afford to lose.

After thinking about it, a rook is a really good choice as it can fit a really good pve tank(7 mids iirc) and it doesn't show up on d-scan, you can still be combat probed but it will give enough doubt that most won't waste their time. There are several resources on YouTube for this, just look up johnypew, he has made a nice library of instructional videos and offer info that is very valuable.

Oh wow thanks so much hehe that actually helped out a lot! I will look at Jonnypew. I can't fly a rook sadly but I'm guessing it might be worth training for. I am running low on isk so I'm probably going to stick to high sec 4/10 ded sites cuz Ik you can get some good loot from those. And I do want to do low sec combat sites. Just need the isk to afford doing them. Again thanks!


With cruisers 5 it will open all t2 cruisers of that specific race, you just have to train the secondary skill. With the secondary skill at 4 you should be good, 5 is good but only very specialized pilots acquire that lvl.

That being said a navy caracal will be a good in between as it's not super isk intensive and still very capable. I think the more you venture into low-sec you will become more and more comfortable. I don't even notice anymore, and have to sometimes remind myself when I'm in high not to shoot the pilots who show up in my plexes, anoms, and data sites.
Shiloh Templeton
Cheyenne HET Co
#6 - 2016-03-20 14:46:08 UTC
The stratios mentioned above is nice because of the coverrt ops cloak for traveling. It's limitation is DPS. DPS is important with low-sec signatures because the sites take a long time to complete solo.

Serpentis space is good. Be careful in Blood Raider space because the Neuts are very powerful. You can find mission writeups on the internet to know what to expect.

Missiles will work, but plan to carry a LOT of them.

nate albush
Iron Whales
Goonswarm Federation
#7 - 2016-03-21 03:18:18 UTC
pushdogg wrote:
nate albush wrote:
pushdogg wrote:
Quite a few low sec anoms will be completely doable in a caracal. Which is really what you want to do them in, as that cerb will be a beacon to low-sec dwellers saying "come kill me".

I personally do low-sec escalation sites and plexes in a stratios or as funny as you may think it sounds, a jackdaw...when in an escalation site(ded plex or expedition) I fit with 2 midslot eccm(now sensor boosters with eccm script) and run the whole site in sharpshooter mode, as it makes you very hard to combat probe.

The moral though is fly something capable but cheap until you get comfortable, because losing 50 or so million on a really nice caracal will always beat losing 300+ on a similar fit cerb.

And before you ask for a fit, for low-sec anoms always fit for max dmg and buffer. The spawns are manageable as they don't trigger until everything is off the field. And generally spawn in the same spot, so pick your comfortable range and blap the closest things first.

When I started anoms, I used a vexor....and once the isk started to flow I started finding more blingy things to spend it on. Remember don't pilot what you can't afford to lose.

After thinking about it, a rook is a really good choice as it can fit a really good pve tank(7 mids iirc) and it doesn't show up on d-scan, you can still be combat probed but it will give enough doubt that most won't waste their time. There are several resources on YouTube for this, just look up johnypew, he has made a nice library of instructional videos and offer info that is very valuable.

Oh wow thanks so much hehe that actually helped out a lot! I will look at Jonnypew. I can't fly a rook sadly but I'm guessing it might be worth training for. I am running low on isk so I'm probably going to stick to high sec 4/10 ded sites cuz Ik you can get some good loot from those. And I do want to do low sec combat sites. Just need the isk to afford doing them. Again thanks!


With cruisers 5 it will open all t2 cruisers of that specific race, you just have to train the secondary skill. With the secondary skill at 4 you should be good, 5 is good but only very specialized pilots acquire that lvl.

That being said a navy caracal will be a good in between as it's not super isk intensive and still very capable. I think the more you venture into low-sec you will become more and more comfortable. I don't even notice anymore, and have to sometimes remind myself when I'm in high not to shoot the pilots who show up in my plexes, anoms, and data sites.

ah yea that makes sense. the only thing i dont get is the difference between the caracal and the navy caracal.
nate albush
Iron Whales
Goonswarm Federation
#8 - 2016-03-21 03:21:27 UTC
Shiloh Templeton wrote:
The stratios mentioned above is nice because of the coverrt ops cloak for traveling. It's limitation is DPS. DPS is important with low-sec signatures because the sites take a long time to complete solo.

Serpentis space is good. Be careful in Blood Raider space because the Neuts are very powerful. You can find mission writeups on the internet to know what to expect.

Missiles will work, but plan to carry a LOT of them.


yea i would love to fly the stratios but my skills with energy turrets are literally little to none. i will begin training those eventually though i am probably going to use missiles for now because ive got plenty of skills in that. thanks so much for the feedback :D
Shiloh Templeton
Cheyenne HET Co
#9 - 2016-03-21 05:15:11 UTC
nate albush wrote:
Shiloh Templeton wrote:
The stratios mentioned above is nice because of the coverrt ops cloak for traveling. It's limitation is DPS. DPS is important with low-sec signatures because the sites take a long time to complete solo.

Serpentis space is good. Be careful in Blood Raider space because the Neuts are very powerful. You can find mission writeups on the internet to know what to expect.

Missiles will work, but plan to carry a LOT of them.


yea i would love to fly the stratios but my skills with energy turrets are literally little to none. i will begin training those eventually though i am probably going to use missiles for now because ive got plenty of skills in that. thanks so much for the feedback :D

You don't need to use the turrets with the Stratios -- you use the drones. You can put a fit together in EFT to see how little impact they have. It's usually better to put neuts or Nos into the high slots, or leave them empty.