Warfare & Tactics

Evemail me and I'll send you some pvp fits when I get online tonight (near DT).


You could speak to Sean Parisi or Taoist Dragon and apply to one of their corps and you will have lots of help learning frigate pvp.

If you want to find out the fit of your opponent you just lost to is, checking the killboard for their losses is the easiest way. No guarantee that the flew exactly the same fit, but many pilots fly identical or very similar fits often.

In your case I found a loss of the pilot that killed you with the following fit:



This fit does a tiny bit more damage than yours, but you have significantly more EHP, so assuming perfect behaviour and identical skills you should not have lost this fight.

Your choice of ammo is probably not optimal, Void S has less tracking than CN Antimatter. You would usually use Void S against larger targets or in cases where you can minimize tracking issues.

Other factors that would have let your enemy cause more damage than you are different skills, overheating weapons and possibly him using long-range ammunition and keeping a bit at range. You should always carry some Null ammo for enemies that keep at the edge of scram range.

Good advice above. Also, it's always a good idea to have a look at your logs after a fight if things haven't gone as expected. I'd warrant that for a lot of it you were doing little or no damage which could have been due to tracking or range. Void is generally a poor choice of ammo and you'll feel its deficits even more if your skills are not al lvl5.

Thanks for all the great answers!

I think I'm beginning to understand how this didn't go my way, even with the "turtle" setup I had.
Going to try changing ammo and test overheating (totally forgot about that).

I'm going to throw these ships out there until I finally kill something :)

Looking at the situation further, your opponent could more easily dictate their optimal and slow you down (Increasing damage application). They we're using Neutrons giving them a slight DPS/ Range Advantage. This could of also been another factor in the fight.

[Merlin, New Setup 1]
Damage Control II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Overdrive Injector System II

Medium Ancillary Shield Booster, Cap Booster 50
1MN Afterburner II
Fleeting Propulsion Inhibitor I
J5b Phased Prototype Warp Scrambler I

125mm Railgun II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S
125mm Railgun II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S
125mm Railgun II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S

Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Small Hybrid Collision Accelerator I
Small Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer I

Railrin best rin

Incursus is better though imo.

You made quite a lot of newbie mistakes there.

No tackle mods. In case you are actually winning a fight you want to prevent your target from running away.

Using void. It has shortest range and worst tracking. DPS gain is only seen if target is cruiser or larger or heavily webbed (aka going very very slow).

Meta 0 medium shield extender. Don't just don't. In some cases meta 4 is a bit expensive, but you can always drop to meta 3 stuff. (if you don't have skills,isk and available grid and cpu to just use T2).

That is indeed just a worse version of your Incursus fit.

[Merlin, AB MASB Rail]
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Internal Force Field Array I

Medium Ancillary Shield Booster, Cap Booster 50
J5b Phased Prototype Warp Scrambler I
X5 Prototype Engine Enervator
1MN Afterburner II

125mm Railgun II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S
125mm Railgun II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S
125mm Railgun II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S

Small Core Defense Field Extender I
Small Core Defense Field Extender I
Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I

[Merlin, AB MSE Rail]
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Micro Auxiliary Power Core II
Internal Force Field Array I

Medium Shield Extender II
Faint Epsilon Warp Scrambler I
Fleeting Propulsion Inhibitor I
1MN Afterburner II

150mm Railgun II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S
150mm Railgun II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S
150mm Railgun II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S

Small Core Defense Field Extender I
Small Core Defense Field Extender I
Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I

Both need a 1% fitting implant of some kind.