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How do I equip a vindicator?
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Sid Selvidge
Seafood Specialties
#1 - 2016-04-14 03:06:46 UTC
I am a noob and bought a vindicator. Apparently it is a good ship. How do I go about equipping it well?
Eli Apol
Definitely a nullsec alt
#2 - 2016-04-14 03:25:42 UTC
What are you going to do with it?

I hope some form of pve since you're asking this

but what would I know, I'm just a salvager
Tam Arai
Mi Pen Rai
#3 - 2016-04-14 03:53:36 UTC
Er if you don't know how to fit it, you shouldn't be flying it

It has hilarious loss mail written all over if

Hint- look at a ships bonuses for a clue of how to fit. Lots of lows- armour tank. Lots of mids- shield tank. Also look at zkillboard to see how others are fitting theird
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#4 - 2016-04-14 04:58:51 UTC
[Vindicator, lulz]
Capacitor Power Relay II
Capacitor Power Relay II
Capacitor Power Relay II
Capacitor Power Relay II
Capacitor Power Relay II
Capacitor Power Relay II
Capacitor Power Relay II

Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II
Large Shield Extender II
Large Shield Extender II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II

Large Proton Smartbomb II
Large Proton Smartbomb II
Large Graviton Smartbomb II
Large Graviton Smartbomb II
Large EMP Smartbomb II
Large EMP Smartbomb II
Large Plasma Smartbomb II
Large Plasma Smartbomb II

Large Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer II
Large Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer II
Large Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer II


But seriously, what's it for?
elitatwo
Zansha Expansion
#5 - 2016-04-14 11:41:37 UTC
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=416643&find=unread

I wrote an essay about the topic. It even got a sticky. Replace xyz with vindicator and read it.

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Eli Apol
Definitely a nullsec alt
#6 - 2016-04-14 20:06:27 UTC
Since you haven't replied OP...the reason we're all asking is because there's a multitude of ways you might fit a vindi all looking very different for different parts of the game.

Solo PvP you might be nano shield fit...or active armour...or hull buffer tanked...pretty much always with blasters.
Fleet PvP is (I think) usually armour buffer with blasters...

fleet PvE you might be blaster fit with a shield or armour buffer for running incursions (sometimes rail fit for VGs or ASs)
solo PvE you'd probably run fit with rails and an active armour/shield tank...

Probably the only thing in common between them all would be one or more fed navy or sansha webs in the midslots :)

but what would I know, I'm just a salvager
Sid Selvidge
Seafood Specialties
#7 - 2016-04-14 20:57:10 UTC
Thank you sorry I couldn't reply I was at school.
pushdogg
relocation LLC.
#8 - 2016-04-14 22:18:09 UTC
If you have to ask you can't afford it.
Sobaan Tali
Caldari Quick Reaction Force
#9 - 2016-04-15 02:33:47 UTC
Blasters
Web(s)
MWD
Armor (shields could work, but armor tends to do better)
Friends who want to fly with you and pick a fight with someone else

Honestly, I'd boot up PyFa or EFT and spend a couple hours throwing different ideas around, and preferably while on comms with friends if at all possible. Pirate BS' dropped like a rock in prices recently, but are still expensive enough they deserve more care than a last minute half-baked fit unless you're willing to live with the higher risk of loosing one "for science." Anytime someone asks for fitting advise I always tell them the same thing, whether it's a ship I know like the back of my hand or one I've never flown or whether they are new to Eve or vets looking to try out some harebrained scheme.

"Tomahawks?"

"----in' A, right?"

"Trouble is, those things cost like a million and a half each."

"----, you pay me half that and I'll hump in some c4 and blow the ---- out of it my own damn self."
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#10 - 2016-04-15 03:28:47 UTC
blasters, stasis webifiers ,at least 3 mag stabs and a basterding massive Armour tank.

shield vindi is for incursions and he wouldnt know how to fit one

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elitatwo
Zansha Expansion
#11 - 2016-04-15 06:45:42 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
blasters, stasis webifiers ,at least 3 mag stabs and a basterding massive Armour tank.

shield vindi is for incursions and he wouldnt know how to fit one


I know he wouldn't but that wasn't his question and I want to teach him fish.

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Xylem Viliana
homeless bum
#12 - 2016-04-15 10:29:02 UTC
being new and buying a vindi im going to assume incursions

VG fitting

8* neutron blaster cannons t2>faction>meta4

t2 or better invuln
sensor booster
3 statis webs (strongly suggest true sansha)

4 mag stabs 2 tracking enhancers
spare lowslot to suit the comunity you run with

Rigs speak to the community as different ones want different rigs.



HQ
see communities websites and mailing lists, advanced fits may be out of your price range so look at the entry and upgrade as you are able.


If this is for mission running then there are other ships that perform well and if you dont know how to fit the vindi you will get killed. For PvP dont use a vindi unless you have experience in PvP and enough fitting knowledge to know how to fit the ship
Mephiztopheleze
Laphroaig Inc.
#13 - 2016-04-15 11:11:00 UTC
Sid Selvidge wrote:
I am a noob and bought a vindicator.


Queue hilarious lossmail in 3, 2, 1.......

Sid Selvidge wrote:
Apparently it is a good ship.


Yes, it is a very good ship.

Sid Selvidge wrote:
How do I go about equipping it well?


that's not a cheap hull and when fit well, is a very large amount of ISK to throw on-grid. you're going to want a very clear picture of what you plan on doing with this vindi prior to fitting it and undocking.

As a general rule, big whopping great guns in the highslots, at least one web in the mids and the tank of your choice rounded out by as much damage as you can squeeze onto it everywhere else.

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Dark Lord Trump
Infinite Point
Pandemic Horde
#14 - 2016-04-16 02:01:18 UTC
Just sell it or save it for later. If you're a newbro you have no business flying a faction battleship. Learn the basics of fitting and combat with cheap frigates. Just remember, bigger is not better, it's just bigger. If your Vindi gets ganged up on by an army of frigates 1/10th its cost it's probably going down.

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