Ships & Modules

Read my guide, now you know.

Now go out there and be a solo pvper.

No, I will spend my SOLO time alone and without backup. I appreciate the advise.
At present moment and more likely next year at least I will be using Cruisers and will start to try out BC - like Talos for example.

I understand that SOLO PVP is much more expensive and I will need to be flexible. Gallente ships mostly are about armor so I guess active repair will have the advantage in Solo comparing with passive but in Gila and Orthrus case things are different.

Should I lean towards DPS or Kite and Repair?
In DPS case (I think) I have less chance to survive a small gang of gankers but I will have better chance of winning Solo fights where Kite could keep me relatively safe but will take longer time to win the battle.

Which are the RULE items in PVP SOLO ship?
Like - Active repair for the Armored ships, Active shield regen for shield type or Energy Neuts would be great to have in high slots...

Is there like a few important items in High, MID and LOW slot which are used by SOLO PVP pilots?

Yes. I would like to fly a versatile ship.

* Noemal DPS.
* Pretty tanky.
* With the good fight cotrol.
* Active self sustain.

Range I prefer is from 500 m - 10 km. (Looks like Gila will not fit the bill)
Considering the fact that most of the fights starts as SOLO but ends up with the few more around me I need to rely on my CAP and active repair.

I'm ready to spend for my first proper PVP SOLO ship between 350 m - 450 million.

All the ships you have listed (Thorax, Vexor, Algos) are pretty good for solo pvp, but they re manly brawling ships which is kinda me atm cause you have to always commit

On the mods, you want t2 if you can use it, and meta if you cant (fitting, cap useage, and similar). Ancillary mods are special in that they are no t2 version of those, but they are very strong.

Faction and deadspace stuff is usually better then t2, but only marginally. You get a few % more dps or range or speed which for most ships isnt worth it. Some ships gets special bonuses to mods, which makes it sometimes worth upgrading.

For example, sansha ships get a AB bonus, so using a faster AB can be helpfull. Same with webs for serpentis ships. On expensive kiting ships faction points and webs are usually worth considering, 36 km point range vs 28 is a giant difference.


On your ships, the thorax is just a worse vexor so dont bother. Talos is **** cause ABCs are ****. Ishtar is very meh and basicely a worse deimos at the moment. Consider a vexor navy instead.


The best fit for an algos atm is probably:

[Algos, 10mn 1% implant]
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
IFFA Compact Damage Control

10MN Afterburner II
Warp Disruptor II
Fleeting Compact Stasis Webifier

75mm Gatling Rail II, Spike S
75mm Gatling Rail II, Spike S
75mm Gatling Rail II, Spike S
75mm Gatling Rail II, Spike S
75mm Gatling Rail II, Spike S
[empty high slot]

Small Transverse Bulkhead II
Small Transverse Bulkhead II
Small Transverse Bulkhead II

Hobgoblin II x5
Acolyte II x5
Acolyte II x1
Hobgoblin II x1

If you have a 6slot implant use a meta AB.

For the vexor you have as the best pvp fit something like:

[Vexor, dualrep]
Medium Armor Repairer II
Medium Ancillary Armor Repairer, Nanite Repair Paste
Damage Control II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Drone Damage Amplifier II

Medium Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I, Navy Cap Booster 800
50MN Microwarpdrive II
Stasis Webifier II
Warp Scrambler II

Heavy Electron Blaster II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge M
Heavy Electron Blaster II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge M
Heavy Electron Blaster II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge M
Heavy Electron Blaster II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge M

Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump II
Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump II
Medium Anti-Explosive Pump I

Ogre II x2
Hammerhead II x2
Hobgoblin II x1

Tanks 590 dps with heat, paste and a exile, 15k ehp, deals 602 dps cold (you can fill the rest of the drone however you want).

(you can fiddle with the fit a bit to get better guns if you care, if you have fitting issues use light neutrons)


The VNI is basicely the vexor on steroids, you can either brawl with it in something like:

[Vexor Navy Issue, New Setup 1]
Medium Armor Repairer II
Medium Ancillary Armor Repairer, Nanite Repair Paste
Damage Control II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Explosive Membrane II
Drone Damage Amplifier II

50MN Microwarpdrive II
Warp Scrambler II
Stasis Webifier II
Medium Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I, Navy Cap Booster 800

Heavy Neutron Blaster II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge M
Heavy Neutron Blaster II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge M
Small Energy Neutralizer II
[empty high slot]

Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Medium Nanobot Accelerator I

Ogre II x5

Which is 70 more dps then the vexor, 8k more ehp, 100 more tank, and its a bit faster. But thats a bit of the waste of the ship. If you want to use it properly kite with it, either the 100mn version or the 10mn armor kitey one like:

[Vexor Navy Issue, kitey]
Medium Ancillary Armor Repairer, Nanite Repair Paste
Medium Armor Repairer II
Damage Control II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II

50MN Microwarpdrive II
Warp Disruptor II
Stasis Webifier II
Medium Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I, Navy Cap Booster 800

Medium Energy Neutralizer II
Medium Infectious Scoped Energy Neutralizer
Small Energy Neutralizer II
Small Gremlin Compact Energy Neutralizer

Medium Polycarbon Engine Housing II
Medium Polycarbon Engine Housing II
Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump I

Gecko x2
Infiltrator II x2
'Augmented' Hobgoblin x1

You can run 5 berserkers instead of the (absurld expensive) gecko set but then you need to either drop a rig or two or the web for drone speed mods.


The orthrus. http://failheap-challenge.com/showthread.php?16910-PVP-orthrus&p=1599977&viewfull=1#post1599977

The gila. Its a kiting ship, brawling with a gila is idiotic because you gain almost nothing from it (your drones do damage from range anyways, and you can really go and use hams because of the fitting).

The best gila fit is something along these lines:

[Gila, gila]
IFFA Compact Damage Control
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II

Gistum C-Type 50MN Microwarpdrive
Large F-S9 Regolith Compact Shield Extender
X-Large Ancillary Shield Booster, Navy Cap Booster 400
Republic Fleet Warp Disruptor
Federation Navy Stasis Webifier
Drone Navigation Computer II

Light Missile Launcher II, Mjolnir Light Missile
Small Gremlin Compact Energy Neutralizer
Small Gremlin Compact Energy Neutralizer
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]

Medium Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Medium Processor Overclocking Unit I
Medium Polycarbon Engine Housing II

'Augmented' Hammerhead x2
'Augmented' Hammerhead x2
Valkyrie II x4
Infiltrator II x2

Or if you are a poor:

[Gila, poor]
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
IFFA Compact Damage Control

50MN Microwarpdrive II
Warp Disruptor II
Fleeting Compact Stasis Webifier
X-Large Ancillary Shield Booster, Cap Booster 400
Small Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I, Navy Cap Booster 400
Drone Navigation Computer II

Light Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Light Missile
Light Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Light Missile
Arbalest Compact Light Missile Launcher, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Light Missile
Arbalest Compact Light Missile Launcher, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Light...

There is no best or worst. You pick a ship you like to fly and go from there.

When I started from being an all-time carebear to solo-pvp, I picked the Moa as my go-to ship of choice. Back in 2011 the Moa was a little different from today.

I was being sincere when I told you to read my guide.

My guide will lead to all the standard fits that always work. Sometimes I get to hear about "the meta" but I don't give a damn about that.

You need to learn a lot of things when you start to solo pvp. The first thing you need to learn is to fit your ship before you go out there.
Figure out, what you are hunting before you fit your ship, as this choice will influence your fit before you go buy one and assemble it.
With the t1 cruisers I would suggest you go for destroyers and below but be very mindful to stay clear of t3 destroyers.

Not every fight will get you a killmail. Sometimes you start shooting someone and they bail on you, it happens.

Don't let that discourage you and don't blindly follow everyone to a location, you have no prior look on.

When some ship that you can probably kill very easy engages you, you will get humped upon, happens a lot.


The people in EvE are strange lifeforms.

I would really advice you against bringing the more expensive ships so fast, you will attract a lot more attention. You might to better in a 1v1 or 1v2 but you will jump into camps, you will get blobbed, people with follow you. If you bring a vexor people might engage you in t1-2 frigs and dessies, maybe some t3d and other cruisers. If you fly a pirate cruiser no t1 cruiser/frig/dessie will ever try to killl you solo, just because it isnt possible.

You need to be a good pilot to bring those and you need to know the area you fly in.

You need a t2 point or stuff will get away from you all the time. 24km OH point range isnt enough.

No, If you only care about max ehp and brawling at 0 you might as well fit a mwd version and use proper guns, but since you are 10mn AB you can actually kite and chase people. Using a t2 warp disruptor is huge, almost any ship can get away from an algos if that has its 10mn on due to the awefull agility, having that exta point range allows you to keep up with AB ships before they get out or hold mwd ships for the last few seconds to get a kill. You do a ton of DPS.

And a 10mn algos might be slow, but its not that much slower then 5mn dessies (and its faster then ab stuff). You need to kite stuff a lot.

Not to mention that downgrading the AB isnt very smart, speed is life in a 10mn ship. Especially for something like a neut, which you never want to use because you never want to be within 7km.


If you fly this ship with the approach button you are flying it wrong.

There isn't really one fit that works well against everything Armor buffer versus armor repair all depends on the amount of incoming dps which one will survive longest. A disrupter will point a ship forever so long as you are sufficiently faster than the target, an algos is not always.