Warfare & Tactics

A low-skill 1600mm Arbitrator with Valkyrie IIs can solo the medium Outposts at the button, but with structure damage at the end. A low-skill active Crusader can solo them given much more time. An active AB Executioner or Tormentor can speed tank them by orbiting at 19k and running the repper on occasion. Only the Crusader can fight a wt under the rats.

Yeah i really didn't want to speed tank them because I'm there for a fight as much as I'm there for LP. Think I'll go back to flying frigates and doing minors until CCP makes some major changes.

But although speed-tanking isn't ideal, you can still get fights by waiting for them to get on grid and then warp to an obvious celestial.

... it's not fun to flub this and get pointed in the plex, though. And some militia enemies will ignore you and go sit on the button.

Having a hard time finding fights. Pretty much just sit in minor plexes and hope someone comes in but all anyone wants to do in this game is grind ISK.

You could always get into a pvp FW corp and get out of the npc militia corp.

Step One: Put Gila in plex and deploy drones

Step Two: Do laundry/take dog for walk

Step Three: Come back to find plex capped AND three killmails!

This is non-sense. Amarr ships are indeed the best ship to run Amarr plexes. However, they suffer on running other plexes, especially Minmatar ones. On the other side, shield tanked minmatar ships also suffer from EM-damage in Amarr plexes. So everything is well balanced :-)

My advice would be to use the Omen's drone bay, with T2 drones of the proper type - Warriors if you're up against Minmatar NPC's I think, because of the explosive resist hole, or maybe Hobgoblins for the damage multiplier. Three T2 drones should be nice for hammering at frigates, and for chipping at NPC cruisers while your guns are cycling.

I'd recommend that when you're building your fit, decide whether you're going to have a pure buffer fit or an active tank - if the latter, fit a medium armor repairer before anything else, and build the rest of your fit around that, because a small armor rep isn't going to cut the mustard on a cruiser; it's basically a wasted slot that could be used for a buffer plate or extra resistance plating or maybe a heat sink for your guns.

(For reference: I know it's possible to solo a medium plex in a ship carrying a full flight of drones. A Worm or Ishkur can tear up a medium with Hobgoblins, and do fairly decently against hostile war targets. Then again, that's a pirate frigate and a T2 assault frigate, respectively.)

What I want to do:

1. Keep it cheap. I'm still learning PvP and will lose many ships in the process.
2. Fly a fit that can plex AND PvP. If I can't do that I will just PvP.
3. Fly solo. I've tried fleeting a few times but I quickly tire of the "blue balling" when one side refuses to fight because victory isn't guaranteed.

When I first entered FW I had grand dreams of huge fleets slugging it out for control of a system. I wanted to fly a Battleship or an Oracle and just be another soldier adding my weight to the war. I never seem to be around when the I hubs are actually attacked but I doubt if even one ship is destroyed in the process. The enemy seems to dock up and say "We didn't want that system anyway".

So instead I plex and take my 1 v 1s where I can find them.

I think I'll try an active tanked Arbitrator. I'm all set to stock up on Navy Omens when we cash out next time but the cost is just too high atm.