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Switch from Mining to Gang PVP - Some Hints needed
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Shibuya Ku
Sankt Afra
#1 - 2012-02-18 20:24:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Shibuya Ku
So I've decided I spent enough time in wormholes farming ladar/ice/asteroids. Have NEVER fought anything except for lvl2 missions in a Drake. When we fought in our WH I only salvaged. Have some industrial and scanning skills too and hauled POS fuel & stuff.

THIS IS GOING TO STOP NOW ... well at least I hope so.

Some questions come to mind:

1) What should I be skilling with gang PVP as a long term goal?
2) Gunnery or Missiles?
3) Amarr, Caldari oder Minmatar (I dont like Gallente...)?
4) What kind of Gunnery skills? (I assume Gunnery is better for pvp)
5) What kind of ship should I train for?

ISK aint a problem, we made tons of cash in the WH. Experience and knowledge are a big problem. Any hints much appreciated :)

Thanks and fly safe!
Luba Cibre
Global Song Setup
#2 - 2012-02-18 20:54:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Luba Cibre
1) Tech 2/3 Cruiser, maybe a Battleship, depends on the gangsize
2) Gunnery will help you on more ships
3) All, but starting with Amarr or Minmatar is a good idea.
4) Small and Medium Tech 2 and all the support skills e.g. Trajectory Analyses, Rapid Firing etc.
5) What you want to fly, really, nearly every tech 2 ship is good in the right gang.

"Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise." 
Shibuya Ku
Sankt Afra
#3 - 2012-02-18 21:53:14 UTC
I will get all the skills to make good use of a Zealot then. Boring times incoming, evemon is talking about 2 months of skilling Shocked
2 additional months of Level 2 missions in my Drake. Only suicide is more fun Cool
darmwand
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#4 - 2012-02-18 22:02:46 UTC  |  Edited by: darmwand
I would recommend to start in frigates. That way you can get into PvP without wasting tons of ISK on expensive ships. Just get yourself a bunch of Rifters (or whatever t1 frig you prefer), jump into a nearby low-sec system and get some blood on your guns.

There are some excellent guides to get you started with PvP. I would recommend Wensley's Rifter Guide and Skira Ranos' Beginner's Guide to Piracy. Plus the "Punisher Plan" is always a good read (start at the beginning).

Even though those guides are mostly focused on piracy, they should still work for other types of PvP.

"The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp."
Vimsy Vortis
Shoulda Checked Local
Break-A-Wish Foundation
#5 - 2012-02-18 22:35:29 UTC
There are very few situations in which a battlecruiser isn't the best tool for the job.
darmwand
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#6 - 2012-02-18 23:20:31 UTC
Quote:
There are very few situations in which a battlecruiser isn't the best tool for the job.


Indeed, BCs are great for gangs. To get started with PvP though, frigs are much less likely to get caught by gate camps.

"The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp."
Vimsy Vortis
Shoulda Checked Local
Break-A-Wish Foundation
#7 - 2012-02-19 00:00:42 UTC
That's only an issue if he intends to operate in an environment where gatecamps are a problem which is basically either lowsec or nullsec. In wormhole space or highsec random camps are a non-issue.
Shibuya Ku
Sankt Afra
#8 - 2012-02-19 00:43:23 UTC
Thank you all so far.

Im currently thinking about Rifter => Harbinger => Zealot. Training some gunnery secondary skills, active tanking and energy management skills seems to be a good idea for all three ships. Since I already trained Minmatar Frigs 5 the Rifter wont be that much of a detour.

Lets go waste some Frigs, I prefer learning in cheap ships :)
Vimsy Vortis
Shoulda Checked Local
Break-A-Wish Foundation
#9 - 2012-02-19 01:00:05 UTC
A zealot is not a step up from a harbinger, if you want to fly a cruiser sized laser ship that is better than a harbinger go for a legion.

If you are willing to train missile skills too the sacrilege is a much more versatile HAC than the zealot.
Shibuya Ku
Sankt Afra
#10 - 2012-02-19 01:06:16 UTC
OK I'll keep that in mind while hoping to find a PvP corp before I maxed all those skills P