Ships & Modules

Change one LSE for an AB, you will mitigate more damage moving quickly than the extra LSE provides while moving slowly, not to mention cut down on mission times when you need to get to a far off gate.

/me points at a drake.

First, sorry for my English, it is not my native. Here my current Gila fit:

[Gila, mission - optimize vs Gurista]

Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Internal Force Field Array I

10MN Afterburner II
Large Shield Extender II
Large Shield Extender II
Kinetic Deflection Amplifier II
Kinetic Deflection Amplifier II
Thermic Dissipation Amplifier II

Drone Link Augmentator I
Rapid Light Missile Launcher II
Rapid Light Missile Launcher II
Rapid Light Missile Launcher II
Rapid Light Missile Launcher II

Medium Core Defense Field Purger II
Medium Core Defense Field Purger II
Medium Core Defense Field Extender II

Caldari Navy Vespa x2
Caldari Navy Vespa x2
Federation Navy Hammerhead x2
Federation Navy Hammerhead x2
Salvage Drone x4

Scourge Fury Light Missile x500
Scourge Auto-Targeting Light Missile x500

MTU x1

With Skills “All lvl 4”:
Drone DPS: 500 (~400 applied) on EVERETING (sic!);
Missile Dps: 129 with reloads (~100 applied);
Shield Defense: 279 dps (vs Gurista);
Shield Size: 12 200;
EHP: 73 000;
Signature: 220m;
Speed: ~600 m/s (~520 if orbiting at 5km);
Align/Warp time 9,8/10 sec.

If you have some CPU issues, use experimental Amplifiers, B-type is enough. Change Amplifiers to rat specific or use one Invulnerability Field + 2 Amplifiers.
This is tested, unstoppable, full passive lvl 4 mission fit as soon as you get Shields and Drone Support Skills up to 4. Just keep orbiting and you can handle 10-15 (20 if Gurista or Sansha) Battleships shooting on you, with shields drops not below ~ 70%.

Fly in save!

That's what I would do too. You will have no problems in any mission with that.

What I also you improve on would be to ditch specific hardeners and go for one adaptive invulnerability field II a drone navigation computer if it fits a drone control link instead of the tractor beam.

If you enter a mission area, drop a MTU near the second gate, if any, and orbit the mtu at 20-30km and let the drones do the work for you.
Be careful though, at some point the NPCs might go for them so your target priority list is from small to large - always.

The drone navigation computer will make your drones really fast and you can fill the last slot with a shield recharger or a target painter if you fit heavy missiles - range is your best friend there.

Just don't get carried away and do that against sleepers or incursion sanshas.

To HoruSeth

Mmmmm, maybe because I am not Forums or EFT(Pifa) warrior?

OK, let explain my fit.

1. You right, third Purger gives ~70 DPS more, but lows shield’s HP to 10 000 and this 2 000 HP matters. When I said I can handle 15-20 Battleships I said nothing about Cruiser`s and Tower`s damage. They hurt and hurt Gila hard. This Extender helps me to meet whole pocket`s incoming damage, not only from Battleships.

2. Are you seen MTUx1? Well, no offense. DLA is useful when there are Neutralizer and Stasis Towers. Usually they are in ~50-70km range and DLA helps a lot to reach them. And I am too lazy to refit Highs all the time.

3. Why not BCS? Because Gila`s missiles do so pathetic damage. No matter how many BCSs you put in low, damage still be pathetic. I use them only to take agro. You can use Gila successfully without any. Just put one target painter in middle. Why to amplify something useless? Yes, missiles help time to time, but no on lvl 4 missions. On lvl 3 missions they help a lot, but still it is no worth to use BCS.

4. All in 5? Why everyone on this Forum suggest All_in_5 fits? Why even have to mentions lvl 5 skills? How long I have to train and haw many skills I need to up to 5? 9, 10 months, even year?

Gila is so amazing and so novice friendly ship, because she (he?) shines with all in 4 skills.

Are read ON EVERYTHING? Read again and remember – on everything. What this means? This means you pass frigates and cruisers like knife cross butter. 3-5 hits to kill elite frigate, 5-7 elite cruiser. Battleships are other beer. Let do the mats. Standard Battleship has about 30 000 EHP. 30 000/400 = 75. 75 sec (or 1,2 min) is needed to kill Battleship. If elite or named – 1.7 to 2 min. Haw lvl 5 skills can help to speed this? “799 instead 764”. LOL. No tnx.

My pilot is 3.5 month toon with ~5,000,000,000 SP. 1,5 bil in missiles, 850 mil in drones, rest in shields (all in 4) and navigation, targeting, etc. And I am just fine on every HS activity – lvl4 missions, exploration, belt hunting, everything. This is because I fly on Gila All_in_4 fit. And I am happy with Gila`s suggested fit.

To use or not to use it (or less to get some ideas how to fit Gila) is up to you.

Again, no offense.

Fly in safe!

To every one.

Well, when I posted my fit, my intention was another rocky, like me, to read them and buy some ideas. Not to offer “best Gila fit”.

Some history. I am from Bulgaria and in New Eden there are only few other Bulgarian pilots if not only me, so and I have nobody to talk about EVE. I started with reading guides and watching videos before to start the game. As result I done every single mistake I can. Why – because most, if not every, guide is out of date. I choose caldari way. Why – because missiles (easy and hit always) and because Drake and Tengu – best ships ever, and so on and so on. For 2 month I still standing on caldari way thinking that I do something wrong - it is impossible flaying Drake to be such pain. I had not even heard about Gila. Yes, I know if there are pirate ships. I checked first few on Eve University and decided they are for PvP so not for me yet.

I hear about Gila indirectly while watching Jonny Pew`s video “Haw to fit Worm…..” .I said to myself – “hey, if Worm is so amazing, let check other Gurista`s ships” and I found Gila.
Then I check forums for some fits and I did not found any but some all_in_5. When I figured haw long I have to wait until reach this “all_in_5 perfect fit” I nearly quit from idea to use Gila. Why – because this all around perfect all_in_5 are never real flown. From no one. And they are Evil (with capital E). For me.

Let return to our rams.

Fortunately I have ISK to spend with no idea for and I got familiar with EFT so I bought Gila, fit it consider my current skill and start lvl 3 missioning. After first mission first thing I done was to sell Drake and forgot about him like a scary dream.
Since then I use only Gila for everything. I switched three different fits according my skill progression. Main differences are in low slots so I will afford to post them:

In the beginning drone are week, they need all support I can give them:

[Gila, my gank is my tank]
Drone Damage Amplifier I
Drone Damage Amplifier I
Drone Damage Amplifier I
Drone Damage Amplifier I
2xPurger I
1xExtender I
Fleet drone mission specific x2

For early lvl 4 – at this time my drone support skills got better than my shield supports so I change fit:
[Gila, fly in save]
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Shield Power Relay II
Internal Force Field Array I
2xPurger II
1xExtender II

My current fit you know.

My goal fit:

[Gila, hi sec exploration Gurista Space]
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II

10MN Afterburner II
Large Shield Extender II
Large Shield Extender II
Kinetic Deflection Amplifier II
Kinetic Deflection Amplifier II
Thermic Dissipation Amplifier II

Core Probe Launcher I
Light Missile Launcher II
Light Missile Launcher II
Light Missile Launcher II
Light Missile Launcher II

Medium Drone Durability Enhancer II
Medium Drone Durability Enhancer II
Medium Anty-Thermal Screen Reinforcer I

I post again (and last time I hope) with desire to help some novice to try Gila, this amazing ship, before CCP notice how actually it is good (may be the best novice ship) and “rebalance” them.

Fly in save!

Yes, but you don't have to fit it like it is a drake.

Can you please post your fit, because if I adapt your above proposals to the Fitting, I have:

~total 30k EHP less
-150ehp/s less tank

- little increased killspeed.

Have still some doubts this is worth it, but as you talk about buffer instead of recharge above and even my proposed fitting has has 61k EHP without Damage Control, where yours has 52k against Guristas, which means I have a lot mor EHP in the shield, which finally counts. And I still have more passive recharge. So please show your fitting you are flying with, so that I can compare them directly for me and for anybody else who like.
If I switch one Kin. Hardener to a Drone Navigation Amp. I still have only ~1.1k Shield EHP against Guristas less than "your" DC2 + Invul fitting, but 50 more recharge, a 4th DDA and a Drone Nav. Comp. The only difference is a missing TP compared to your fitting, which should be compensated more or less by the 4th dda.

I have been running lvl 4 missions in my Gila for quite awhile.
I can confirm what he said. your fit is way too overtanked for lvl 4s. Definitely used an AB - speed tanking really helps, it also reduces your sig radius if you replace an LSE. At first I was running AB, 3 hardeners and 2 LSE setup and noticed that I was never in trouble, so I replaced 1 LSE with drone navigation link and it works just fine. The only mission I have to add tank is Angel Extravaganza bonus room - I replace 1 DDA with shield power relay, and drone link with LSE. The turrets in that pocket really hurt.

I have no idea what you're trying to say, but my point still stands. From my level 4 experience mission rats spawn in 'groups' that are spread out from each other and are usually 50+km from the beacon. You burn to a Battleship which puts you in close range of that group, and yes you can aggro the other groups to pull them closer but non-Angel mission battleships have wide orbit ranges so once they aggro they will orbit your ship at 30-50km and by the time you've cleared the frigs and cruisers, they will have starbursted all over the place and your Vespas (your primary dps) will be burning from Battleship to battleship which cuts into your actual dps.

This compared to a gun sentry boat where once you lock a target and shoot, the damage is applied instantly as long as it's in range and sentry/long range turrets usually have enough range to cover an entire room.