Missions & Complexes

Hi,

I'm looking to get into a Paladin on my main for missions soon. With some imperial navy mods, heatsinks, faction equipment, and possibly a deadspace armor repairer, its going to be pretty blingy. At least, that's the plan.

This will be the juiciest gank target I've flown so far, so I'm not sure how to handle it. Is there a sure-fire way to keep away from gankers? I usually fly at a low-pop mission hub (no Dodixie for me) and minimize my time in transit.

I suppose I'm just looking for some good tips on avoiding and preventing ganks on my very expensive ship.

Fit a smartbomb to deal with close range tackle frigs so that you won't be pointed when out of bastion mode.

Create a safe dock and undock from your main hubs. Remember that immediately on undock you have 30 second of invulnerability, provided you don't activate any modules or move (stopping is permitted). Marauders are extremely forgiving in terms of what you can get away with for modules, so if you're only getting the slightest marginal difference between a Meta or T2 and a Faction, stick with the Meta or T2. Due to stacking penalties a 4th damage module only adds ~4.5%, so you're losing maybe 0.5% by dropping the 4th Faction damage module to a T2. Deadspace modules are great, but check the "C" types. Often you can get those for a Fraction of the cost of the "A" versions and they typically perform way ahead of Faction.

Before plunking any ISK down, total up the projected cost of your dream ship and figure out the EHP (include Bastion but nothing else, as you seldom have time to activate all your active modules). You will definitely want a damage control. Divide your EHP by 10,000 and multiply that by $70-million ISK (roughly the cost of a gank Tornado). If the total of your fit is less than that, that's usually a good indication (although not any guarantee) that the risk vs. reward ratio is not high enough. Hope this helps.

neuts and smartbombs in your utilities and a micro jump drive, or better, train a scout...

Lol didnt think about that lol living in null too long ;)

Here is the bling you need on a Paladin: Imerial Navy Heat Sink x3

Here is the optional bling to bring: Faction web

Total pimping: ~300m

No reason to go heavier. I often run mine just T2 fit and it owns missions just fine

Don't make posts that you are going to fly a blingy marauder.

Fit a deadspace medium repper. the c-types are pretty cheap and won't make you gank bait. With the added bonus of if you DC in bastion your ship won't die to 12 npc DPS like it would if you don't have a permarun setup. I've dced and come back 5 mins later to my ship still sitting in the mission pocket tanking happily with the medium rep setup. I used to run a large rep till I dc'ed and came back in structure.

A paladin with nothing but a bastion module and a single T2 large repper is probably already overtanked for any level 4, why would you ever bling the tank?

You shouldn't be perma running your repper anyway unless you're scared of getting disconnected. In which case the issue doesn't pertain regardless.

And 800s are cheap while deadspace reppers are not.