Ships & Modules

Park in POS with a bunch of small ships around it... wait for scout to find something... light Cov Cyno, and jump bridge fleet. No real fun other than that.

-DT

there is no reason for it to jump if you have friends

torp dps. do it with bombers

ecm. do it with falcons

nope, as even with sensor boosters, takes too long to lock things. So no locking delay is pointless after uncloaking, as you get a delay anyway from the amount of time it takes to grab something.

Only thing its good at is..... Jamming i guess if u manage to lock anything to jam before you die, or, just plain simply, jumping your stealth fleet to somewhere

Well,

i do prefer the redeemer. Widow is somewhat mediocre

I tested Widow extensively on SiSi, and found it to be all but unstoppable 1v1 against almost any BS except Mach. It's biggest weakness is getting outrun or drawing heavy drone aggro. In either case, you just warp off and call it good.

With 5 torp launchers and a cloak, it has only 1 high slot left for a large smartbomb. It's enough to kill a flight of Hammerhead IIs just within it's shield buffer, but not Ogres.

The other issue is that having the Improved cloak kinda gimps its locking time. So you need a sebo w/scan res script to compensate.

You also need to be very aware of its capacitor limitations. Like most Caldari ships, it has a crappy cap. With everything running you only get about a minute of cap. w/o the MWD or smartbomb running, its stable at around 50%.

It gets over 1000dps with Rage torps, 3x CN BCS, and a flight of Hammerhead IIs. And for a BS, it's fairly speedy at 133 m/s.

In the right hands, it will crush an incompetent or poorly trained BS pilot. But if you choose poorly, you could be in for a rude awakening.

Personally, I love the velocity boost while cloaked. With Black Ops trained to 4, it's actually faster cloaked than not. This allows for a full speed align while cloaked, followed by an insta-warp upon uncloaking. I wouldn't use it to bust gate-camps, though. Especially when a cheap cyno alt (or not so cheap covert cyno alt) will let you jump past it.

Thank you all for your replies. I helps to hear others intakes on the ship that I have kinda fallen in love with. I agree it has it faults but don't most ships? I mean is there really any one ship thats perfect? If there is I am sure someone will let me know

The Widow has a use for me currently being in a worm hole and entrance defence.

I pushed the skill to level 5 thats how much I love it or in other peoples eyes how stupid I am? I don't know its just what I wanted to do.

Ive called it into play a few times and each time I won quite well.

Moving around quite fast cloaked and then popping up behind someone I can imagine scares the crap out of people. Yes the lock time is long and to those who its long agaisnt they flee. So job done. Ok I don't get the kill but the Wormhole is protected somewhat.

Where those who have stayed and faught they have died without much of a scratch to me. With my jamming skills there really isnt any one ship I cannot jam but I do understand vs a 2nd I have yet to be tested and fear it wouldn't turn out well for me.

With that said it's one of the very few ships I really enjoy flying.

Fly safe

Cryissa

If you don't mind me asking, can you link me to your kb? Or just the Widow kills. I have had one for a looong time and it is gathering dust in my hanger. And i've never seen anyone using a widow solo yet.

IMHO the Panther is even more fun.

Triple RF Gyros + Overdrives, 5 x SEBO, 5 x 1400m and a DG Cloak.

520m/sec cloaked, locks your average covops in 2.5 secs, and alpha's with 10k damage (5% & 3% implants) from 40km then instawarps.

If you want a boat that pwns covops, desties and badly-fitted cruisers that have just jumped into your wh, the Panther does it in spades.

Edit: With a set of Snakes, 4 Overdrives and two Nanofibres, you can get nearly 700m/sec cloaked from the Panther - and still have an 8.6k alpha..

sorry is that for me?

no i'm talking about Bibosikus and his ridiculously skill-intensive panther.

i love the redeemer, and i fly one. wouldn't lose it. but the perfect world he was blathering on about requires like three months just for the two LV skills he'd need to get the numbers he was talking about.