Warfare & Tactics

I have some suggestions. Not knowing any other details I'll start with the most important one, and then speculate on the rest:

1. Ask your question here, and give details.
- being former RvB myself, I know they'll go out of their way to fix your problem.

2. low skills?
- arbitrators and ruptures are both reasonably SP-intensive for cruisers. If you don't have a mixture of drone, turret, turret support, and fitting skills it'll be hard to get a good performance out of either, if you've got a competent opponent. RvB players who fly cruisers usually fit T2. Never did myself, but I only ever flew them in fleets. Plus I already had level 5 in all that stuff so it didn't matter as much if I went meta.

3. poor maneuvering, resulting in low traversal against more powerful opponents or high traversal against smaller ones?
- if you're going up against a better-armed opponent, you need to maneuver to keep traversal down. The arbitrator needs to evade, since you'll be keeping some range most likely between yourself and the target. The rupture is sort of a brawler so it's less important in that case... unless you're fighting someone who can outmaneuver you and you can't hit.

4. bad choice of targets (SPs play a role in this, but ship fittings and ship types are more important)
- this is the hardest issue to address, and can take a long time in this game to really become knowledgable in, and even then you can't account for every unconventional fitting (which is reason #893454 why Eve is so good even when it's bad.)

5. bad fittings on your ships?
- there's a variety of fits that are only great in a few situations, a few fits that are decent in most situations, and a galaxy of fits that are always terrible.

Good ship fittings and having a plan are important but more importantly (and this applies to any ship you fly) you *must* choose your targets wisely.

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Minmatar just isn't very good for PvP, too bad you wasted those skillpoints.

Weak tank, low dps, so Minmatar is usually forced to do the only thing it can -run away. In frigate fleets this doesn't really work, so you, son, are hosed.

J/K, new guys are just commonly primaried first in RvB.

Hang on there, improve your tank first so you don't instapop, keep moving, and be chill - you'll get the hang of it soon. Focus on improving situational awareness, is the primary inside your range? Analyze your losses, keep logs open. Other guys above gave good advice, try to get arranged 1vs1s, soloing around is perhaps not the best thing to do at first. Many RvB frig soloists are really, really good and will be happy to eat a new guy for breakfast before you can even figure out what happened.

Of course later... soloing is really interesting. Do it as soon as you think you can do it :)


btw primary order:

1. Incursus



2. other frigs, order doesn't matter as unlike the Inc, they all have at least some tank but no real dps to be worried about

This, 100%. My media library has more than a week's worth of PvP video. It's not the same as flying around yourself, but it does give you some measure of experience without putting in the time/effort/risk. It helps you know what to do in different situations, what fights you want to take, which not to take, how to fit, how to call primary, etc etc. All of Garmon's videos are great. Also check out Prometheus Exenthal's Frigank series for some sexy frigate action. Pretty much anything from Genos Occidere is usually great, to be honest, and Matari Exodus are pretty pro as well.

As someone already said above: Minmatar ships aren't as good as people think, in capable hands they have the benefit of speed, if you know how to use it to your advantange. But in general they have weaker tank and less dps than other races.

You need to be aware that most part of PVP happens before the real PVP occurs. Which means, you should first decide what tactics do you intend to apply. So here are some decisions you should take:

1. Are you going Brawling (short range knife fight) or Kiting (long range stay at distance)?
2. Are you going for Ganking (apply as high dps as possible with intention to kill target before he can do much damange to you) or Tanking (out tank the enemy and kill him slowly)?

Once you decided on this then you should choose your ship and apply your fittings which are matching your tactics.

Watching the links now, thanks :)

I also took the liberty to looking up you lossmails on the RvB killboards. If you have the habit of flying speedtanked rifters in engagements with multiple enemies, you're not likely to win a lot, especially not in RvB where there are plenty of other frigates and destroyers that have a lot less problems hitting something fast if it's orbiting somebody else at a distance.

Also, you're not a big fan of rigs, are you?

I think i've found your problem.

Wrong ship. Wrong fit. Try this:

[Hurricane, P i V i P]
Damage Control II
Tracking Enhancer II
Tracking Enhancer II
Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II

Large Shield Extender II
Warp Disruptor II
Invulnerability Field II
10MN MicroWarpdrive II

425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP M
Medium Energy Neutralizer II
Medium Energy Neutralizer II

Medium Projectile Collision Accelerator II
Medium Core Defence Field Extender I
Medium Core Defence Field Extender I

Or if you just really want to do frig, try this:

[Wolf, New Setup 1]
Damage Control II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Overdrive Injector System II
Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II

Medium Shield Extender II
Gistii B-Type 1MN Afterburner

Rocket Launcher II, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Rocket
125mm Gatling AutoCannon II, Arch Angel EMP S
125mm Gatling AutoCannon II, Arch Angel EMP S
125mm Gatling AutoCannon II, Arch Angel EMP S
125mm Gatling AutoCannon II, Arch Angel EMP S

Small Core Defence Field Extender I
Small Core Defence Field Extender I

230DPS & 11k EHP on the wolf
Have fun collecting tears

I can suggest a few things.

1) Buy a Breacher, fit a MWD and light missiles. Set orbit button to default of 35km. Click target, click orbit, put on MWD, and spam missiles. No one will target you because...what is a Breacher? 58DPS kiting mother lover which will cost you 250K, is what.
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[Breacher, Gape]

'Malkuth' Standard Missile Launcher I, Caldari Navy Nova Light Missile
'Malkuth' Standard Missile Launcher I, Caldari Navy Nova Light Missile
'Malkuth' Standard Missile Launcher I, Caldari Navy Nova Light Missile
[Empty High slot]

Limited 1MN MicroWarpdrive I
Target Painter I

Nanofiber Internal Structure I
Nanofiber Internal Structure I

Small Bay Loading Accelerator I
Small Bay Loading Accelerator I
[Empty Rig slot]

2) Arty thrasher or beam Coercer. Again, if you are dying too fast in brawls, be that sniper guy who burns to range and ninjas onto kills. ProTip: lock multiple targets and wait for them to hit hull then stab F1 to finish them off.