Ships & Modules

Hello peoples! There's not much reliable information on this subject other than the obvious, the Naga has no drones and a paper thin tank.... Couple people have said it will be fine, others say no go for solo. In my mind it seems to be fine, 60-80km optimal range, what npc frigate is going to close that distance before I kill them? Specially while I'm burning away from them, at 500 m/s doing tons of deeps.
I wanted a ship with BS fire power but not the cost as I just can't justify a 200m+ lose on my KB, if I where to lose the ship. It's nullsec after all, I safe up at any sign of nuets in system but you never know! I wanted to get out of my Drake(crap dps) and try out this Naga in nullsec anoms and belts. Here's the fit, any thoughts?

High slots
425mm prototype gauss gun x 8

Medium slots
limited EM ward field x2
Limited Therm field x 1
Large shield extender II x2
Experimental 10mn afterburner x1

Low slots

Magnetic field stabilizer II x3

Rigs
Medium Ancillary current router I x2 (low SP)
Medium anti thermal screen x1

70%+ Em and Therm resistance because Sansha rats.

I literally have no Amarr or laser turret training, plus lasers can't change damage type from what I understand.

Each ammo type does more of one type of damage and less of the other, I call that switching damage types. Maybe not like missles, but meh. Talos isn't long range based, won't it get picked off by the BS rats? And I'm low SP 2.5mil , so t2 cruisers are out. Otherwise I would just fly a VNI.

oh and lasers also change the ratio of em to therm as you change ammo (instant ammo swap fyi)

eh ive checked the numbers on eft and because of the range bonus on the naga it will work pretty good. just stick to the lower class anoms and work your way up as your skills increase. warp to 100 and use faction ammo.

if you work on gunnery support skills and fitting skills you will improve both naga and oracle.

pop me a mail in game if you need help.

see thats the beauty of guns. if something is flying straight at you (transversal is close to zero) then you are pretty much guaranteed to alpha them in a single volley. heck id even split the guns into two groups of 4 each and blap em two at a time.

SO I'm assuming you're talking about anomalies, hubs/havens.

Sansha rats only shoot out to 50-100km depending on type. So you're simply rangetanking them by setting up your ship to shoot out to 130-150k and shoot them from there. It also means that you don't need any real tank.

You shouldn't use a Naga for sansha rats, really get an oracle. Given you don't have t2 guns for the naga yet, the oracle won't be much different within 3-4 days training, which is basically the time you need to invest.
Reasoning: The bigger battleships have quite some recharge on their tank. Since you're running on low skills, you'll likely struggle to get significantly above 400dps at 110km+. Since BS tank something around 150ish, this leaves you with some netted 250dps. Blowing those dps via therm/kin though will have their recharge be more efficient and thus reduce the gap between dps and their tanking significantly, slowing down your income.

That's why the Oracle is the better choice right here. If you struggle achieving those numbers, you'll likely need a higher BC level or better gunnery support (motion prediction, sharpshooter, trajectory ana.) to let you use higher damage ammo at the same effective range.

Ed: If you're really low on SP and low on ISK, you might want to consider beltratting in a coercer. It's not the best, but still makes for 3-6mil ticks, potentially not much less than an oracle/naga would yield currently. Also, if you're tackled by a ceptor, you load scorch and two-shot it.

Do lasers use gunnery supports? Also, the reason I'm hesitant about the Oracle is none of my alliance doctrine fits are Amarr or laser. So it's a waste of time for me, I don't want to cross train pve and pvp. Doing what I'm doing I'm training for both at the same time. BEcause I'm not going outside my alliances fleet doctrine.

You don't heavily tank Naga's, your range is your tank, this is my fit for PvE sniping, just replace the invuln fields with the appropriate damage types, In your case EM and Thermal?

[Naga, PvE Snipe]
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Signal Amplifier II

Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Sensor Booster II, Targeting Range Script
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
Large Ancillary Shield Booster, Cap Booster 150
10MN Microwarpdrive I

425mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Caldari Navy Iron Charge L
425mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Caldari Navy Iron Charge L
425mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Caldari Navy Iron Charge L
425mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Caldari Navy Iron Charge L
425mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Caldari Navy Iron Charge L
425mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Caldari Navy Iron Charge L
425mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Caldari Navy Iron Charge L
425mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Caldari Navy Iron Charge L

Medium Ancillary Current Router I
Medium Processor Overclocking Unit I
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I

210 DPS
1234 Alpha
264km Targeting Range
Optimal: 178km
Falloff: 215km

With this I can Alpha frigs at 180Km and I have the resists and shield booster to deal with turret/missile platforms or if I need to break out the antimatter and brawl at 50km against battleships since sniping them WILL NOT break their tanks.

You warp to the site at 100km and then start to burn away if they get too close, it takes them about over 2 minutes to get to you and you can just alpha each of them (Or split you rack of 8 into two 4's to make it more ammo efficient and you can be killing 2 frigs at once. When the site spawns again their going to be in the same spot...100km from you atleast (Ocassionally 70km).