Ships & Modules

Please trust me when i say go for the Hurricane, at least for now. They're both fantastic ships but don't fly the Vagabond with limited XP and experience, it would be a terrible waste.

My advice would be to train hard for the Hurricane. It's one of the best BC's around and in my opinion one of the best ships to PVP in. They're cheap, they do fantastic damage and while training for it's fitting you're also training for your future Vagabond. BC's make brilliant PVP ships, never doubt that.

BC V is what you should aim for.

Standard Armor Cane with 425s:



You can swap the T2 webber for a T1, of course. And bring several types of Ammo with you (Phased Plasma, EMP, Fusion, Barrage, maybe Hail)

Drones as you wish, Damage or ECM

I tried putting the 425mm Autocannons into EFT and it says I am low on power grid even with lvl V skills.

@ Bella UK - Thanks for the shield fit but if I use a Cane it will be armour fit. Appreciate the build though, will give it a try when my shield skills are up to scratch

EDIT: My bad, I forgot to swap the rigs out, thanks for the build but why the disruptor and the scrambler?

The armor cane has all those mids sitting there doing nothing. Scram+ Disrupt gives you the option to turn off someones MWD, and more importantly to point 2 people. Get in close, scram your primary, and put the disrupt-or on the secondary. In low sec where bubbles do not live, pointing someone is the only way to kill them :)

The Nano-Cane fit should not be an issue with lvl 5 or even 4 skills. Do you have advanced weapon upgrades trained?

[Hurricane, Welpfleet]
Damage Control II
Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II
Tracking Enhancer II
Tracking Enhancer II

Y-T8 Overcharged Hydrocarbon I Microwarpdrive
Large Shield Extender II
Large Shield Extender II
Invulnerability Field 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 Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Medium Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Medium Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer I

Warrior II x6


This hurricane is designed for work in gangs of any size. It can be the heavy firepower in a small gang of fast ships, or it can be just another brick in a wall of shield-tanked battlecruisers and heavy assault ships. For solo work, you would drop one of the Medium Shield Extender II in lieu of a Warp Disruptor II or a Warp Scrambler II. You will notice that this setup is very similar to the nano-Hurricane setup offered by Bella UK. That's because this fit is very solid, and very highly recommended. The shield resist rigs in lieu of core defence field extender rigs are chosen so as to increase survivability in a gang with logistics support. For its firepower and versatility, the Hurricane is very cheap and expendable: our alliance routinely sends 200+ of these things at a super-capital fleet and considers it a strategic victory if we get two Nyx kills while losing the entire fleet.

You should train up shield and armor skills if your future plans are flying a vagabond. shouldnt take you long to get shield upgrades, operation, managment and tactical manipulation up to 4 to use any t2 shield gear. And ocf Bc skill to 5 to get all that cute ship bonus :)

you could train shield compensation if your going for a active tank other then that there is no other shield skills to train up for exept jury rigging 3 and shield rigging to sue shield rigs :)
Shield managment and operation should be at 5 to get max out of you recharge/capacity. Im still saying that you should top your spaceship command skill of the ship your flying to get to most of your ship, wich on a cane is more important then to get max defence.
Tactical managment can stay at 4, only use for invuls if you dont go for caps :)

With regards to shield skills—

If you can fit everything with your fitting skills and implants, then there is no reason to train Shield Upgrades beyond IV; also, while there is a demonstrable benefit to training Tactical Shield Manipulation to V it is such a small bonus to a sub-capital ship as to be negligible. I would not train it beyond IV. For buffer or passive shield tanking, as one uses with a Drake or Hurricane, one benefits from Shield Management V and Shield Operation V. Jury Rigging III and Shield Rigging I are required for the fitting of the shield rigs, unless you intend to have someone else fit them for you.

Since you are not getting love from Logistics ships, then you might consider swapping out the shield resistance rigs with medium core defence field extender rigs; but, if you do so, then you will want to train up the Shield Rigging skill to IV or so. This is because the extender rigs provide a penalty to your signature radius, which in turn reduces your effective hit points, and training the Shield Rigging skill reduces that penalty. So far as armor fits, that is stuff for another post.

Wow I feel like such a noob, thanks I do get confused with the shield skills. Havent had any experience with them at all. I will skip those listed above and head straight for Shield Compensation instead

No problem man, don't sweat. By contrast, the ARMOR compensation skills are all very useful. It's confusing and broken.