Missions & Complexes

Before I start, never flown a Phantasm so this is all theory crafting and ideas based on using EvE HQ fit tool.

For a mission ship cap stability with everything running is usually a waste of slots that could be used for something else. As long as you are cap stable with everything but the shield booster running that should be all you need.

EHP is essentially worthless as a measure of tanking effectiveness for a mission ship, your tank dps amount is far more critical.

No you do not need to be scared of the frigates bit you do need to fit to handle them and to me that means you will need some tracking help as medium turrets struggle to hit frigates. Related to this is your drones, since you can only have 3 of them make sure you are using mission specific based on damage type, and be sure to work training for T2 drones into your plan they will make a difference.

One train of thought here is to replace one of the cap rigs with a T1 variant and replace the Cap safeguard with something to boost tracking, optimal or falloff range. Other options
Purger to increase shield recharge rate so you use the booster less.
Operational solidifier to decrease the cycle time of the booster.

Another idea would be to replace the capacitor power relay with a tracking enhancer II however that would require replacing the cap battery with a second Cap recharger because CPU.

Changing hardeners based on the NPC you are fighting would gain tank compared to running the invul and EM for every mission.

Final thought is your shield booster is one place you may want to consider running a deadspace medium like the the Pithum C Type. Drops tank about 30 dps compared to your large T2 but it would probably triple the amount of time you could run it which in a general sense is better for missions.

EvE Survial is an excellent resource for mission runners.

3 cap modules and 3 cap rigs for a total of 6 slots used for cap.

That should be a big indicator that the fit is off balance, or the ship itself is probably not the best ship for the job.

As mentioned above ^^^ you don't have to be cap stable to be safe.

This is def not a level IV mission ship, so I assume you are doing level III's with it.
I wouldn't discourage a guy doing his own thing, in his ship, in his game, BUT, If you're doing missions for ISK or to grind up standings, there are better ships to mission in.

Haven't flown the phantasm myself yet, though I think I'd like to give it a go for funsies since I finally got T2 medium turrets trained, but you need to look at what the role bonuses of the ship are and work a fit around that.

The biggest thing the phantasm has going for it is the huge AB bonus it gets. This translates into insane tanking ability. It has it's downsides with tracking (but gets a handy tracking bonus as well) so that should be the primary thing you need to focus on. The second biggest advantage it has is it only uses 3 turrets. This means you use a lot less cap on guns. Also any gun rigs you fit will have a smaller impact.

Build the ship in stages basically. There are modules that need to be perma running and thus you need cap to run those modules effectively permanently. Shield booster is not on of them, but the AB is, that's your primary strength. You obviously need to perma run the guns as well, or be able to. In the phantasm you're going to be speed tanking, this means you will not need to use your shield booster much, if at all. Putting a large shield booster, or a super expensive one, is a huge waste in my opinion. A pith C-type Medium should be more than enough. You're going to be bursting it for the most part, and that's where piths have the advantage over giths since they boost more at once than the giths.

Something else to keep in mind is that you will want to mostly fight either Sansha or perhaps Serpentis as you are limited in your damage type. If you are planning on missioning in gurista or worse, angel space you are going to have a tough time applying good damage. As such you do have a bit of a EM/Therm hole.

So lets start by slotting in the essentials: 10mn afterburner (a faction / DED space AB would be a very nice investment), 3 Heavy pulse lasers, 3 heat sinks (faction if you want to splurge) and a PDS II and the tanking essentials; EM hardener, Thermal hardener and an EM rig. The cap is just about cap stable with all Vs using Scorch and IN MF but not using Conflag. Still it probably wont be cap stable with your skills so lets add a large cap battery.

Generally cap batteries are kinda meh *except* on cruiser sized ships using large batteries because of how low the cap pool is and how high the cap recharge is on them. On BCs the cap pool is a lot larger so a battery doesn't increase it by as much so the recharge doesn't go as nuts as it does on a Cruiser. And because we aren't taking a large shield booster we have PG to spare.

Suddenly we have cap coming out of our ears. Adding a medium pith c-type drops our cap stability again although you will not be running it all the time at all. You're going at 1273-ish m/s you should be speed/sig tanking like a boss. so now we have two rig slots, a high, medium and low slot open. I'd recommend tracking for the most part so you can make the most of using conflag/MF at +- 8km where you will be orbiting. You can run a DCII at first if you want to get a feel for the ship but replacing it with a TE will help damage application. So we add a TC with tracking script and TE. You might run into fitting issues depending on skills so for rigs take whatever will fit. a Metastasis Adjuster will give you some tracking but increase PG cost of your guns. A collision accelerator will boost your dps a tiny bit. If you don't have the PG for it fit a shield rig, one that increase the amount of shields boosted per cycle.

But again haven't flown one myself but that's how I'd put it together. The DPS is kinda meh (I'd use faction heat sinks) but the speed combined with it's sig is pretty hilarious. Don't try to make the ship into something it's not, embrace it's unique quirks and fit it to it's strengths.

ps. I might be using an old version of EFT, not sure if there's been any changes but here's the fit:

[Phantasm, New Setup 1]
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II
Power Diagnostic System II
Tracking Enhancer II

10MN Afterburner II
EM Ward Field II
Thermal Dissipation Field II
Large Cap Battery II
Pithum C-Type Medium Shield Booster
Tracking Computer II, Tracking Speed Script

Heavy Pulse Laser II, Conflagration M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Conflagration M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Conflagration M
[empty high slot]

Medium Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Medium Energy Collision Accelerator I
Medium Energy Metastasis Adjuster I

Hobgoblin II x3

I am using this as we speak for L3s just cuz I love the way it looks:

[Phantasm, Urchin]

Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II
Damage Control II
Tracking Enhancer II

10MN Afterburner I
Large F-S9 Regolith Compact Shield Extender
Large F-S9 Regolith Compact Shield Extender
Adaptive Invulnerability Field I
EM Ward Amplifier I
Omnidirectional Tracking Link I

Heavy Pulse Laser II
Heavy Pulse Laser II
Heavy Pulse Laser II
Drone Link Augmentor I

Medium Energy Burst Aerator I
Medium Core Defense Field Extender I
Medium Core Defense Field Extender I


Hobgoblin II x3

Imperial Navy Multifrequency M x6
Scorch M x6
Conflagration M x6

Easy peezy

Remember, your drones will eat frigs.

Have taken advice on board, fiddled a bit, and will go with this, at least to start with. Under 200 mill isk, 1100m/s, 460 dps at 9.3km optimal + 15km falloff, 367 dps at 26km opt + 32 km falloff, or 29 + 37 with range script. Plus 28 dps from the drones. Don't have the powergrid for 2 x laser rigs. 180hp/s omni-tank, 220 ehp for EM. 65% cap stable without booster, 4:43 cap with everything, and takes about 50 seconds to get shield from empty to full.

Will see how this goes, then think about adjusting for more tracking instead of damage control, or adding faction/deadspace gear.



[Phantasm, *Phantasm take 4]
Damage Control II
Power Diagnostic System II
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II

10MN Afterburner II
EM Ward Field II
Tracking Computer II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Large Cap Battery II
Pithum C-Type Medium Shield Booster

Heavy Pulse Laser II
Heavy Pulse Laser II
Heavy Pulse Laser II
Core Probe Launcher I

Medium Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer II
Medium Energy Locus Coordinator II
Medium Core Defense Operational Solidifier I



Sisters Core Scanner Probe x8
Tracking Speed Script x1
Scorch M x3
Imperial Navy Multifrequency M x3

Pulses suck for blitzing L3s, even with the AB bonus you spend too much time getting into range. Beams have more dps, anyhow. The phantasm is pretty easy to fit; 3x heatsinks, 2x TE, or a TE and a nano. Deadspace AB, some variety of LSB, a large cap battery, two rat-specific shield hardeners, and either a web or TC in the spare mid. I feel the TC is generally a bit more useful since you want to pop rats before they get into web range. Don't sweat fitting the utility high slot for pve.
Don't worry about cap stability; if you are flying correctly you won't take much damage from the rats and will rarely have to pulse your LSB.