Ships & Modules

I enjoy doing PvE, so for my time on Eve I've focused on Caldari. I've always fancied the Amarr though, and now am looking to try something different, but I know nothing about Amarr and lasers, other than they use a lot of capacitor.

My main is a Logi V with a Basilisk, and I'd like to start an Amarr alt for PvE purposes (this guy is a forum alt). My thought is that I would have my Amarr running missions with a laser DPS set up and not much of a tank. I would send both guys into a mission and have the DPS shoot out an energy transfer to my logi, and have my logi return 2 back to the DPS. My logi is now cap stable. My logi would have 4 large T2 repper's on the DPS and be returning 2 beams of capacitor back to him.

I know the Amarr are typically armor tankers, but would this work with 4 large T2 shield reps from the logi V basilisk, or would the DPS just get owned? Would the DPS be cap stable?

Yea nightmare got both shield tank and high slots for energy transfers.
Their big issue for pve is that they are locked to em/therm damage but it works if you do mostly missions against em weak opponents like sansha.

Yes, it would. Buy a Navy Geddon and shield tank it, should work flawless. Have a look at the Incursion fittings to get ideas on a shield tank Amarr boat. Fittings

Only problem I see that you'll be a bit thin on buffer if one of the guys disconnects.

(On a personal note: Shield tanked Amarr ships are disgusting *Yuck*)

Try a pulse abaddon with 3x tracking computers, 4x faction heat sinks, burst aerator II, dcii and a couple hardeners. Add in some capmods or discharge elutriation rig. If you feed it cap from a logistics and rep it you'll have a surprisingly nasty gank boat with either scorch or faction ammo. The damage control will make it even less of a target, and the logistics won't be needing more than one rep stable.

So you want to go Amarr, oh well i would recommend you go for Minnie but anyway...

Amarr can be fun to fly, the lasers are also great weapons for pve in Amarr space, very fast mission times. In pvp they are also very popular so they will serve you will when you do so wish to go pvp, that is assuming you haven't already tried par-taking in some .

The Abbadon is an awesome ship but extremely cap intensive, the Apoc is also good for range, it does not have a damage bonus but it does have a cap bonus which indirectly applies as a damage bonus as your lasers can fire in extremely long bursts.

The Nightmare is the best laser platform, but is extremely skill intensive to say the least. I strongly recommend you go minnie and Auto Cannons.

Have fun

King Regards

And your wrong, Amarr perfrom admirably in PVP, PVE I have less experience, but certainly ratting where I am they work again, admirably, the only issue is operation against rats tanked vs EM/THERM, but that doesnt seem to be much of an issue in PVP even with the Minmatar native T2 resists.

Amarr are an excellent race to train for PVP, and situationally, for PVE.

Additional reasons the snowflake I have quoted is wrong;

Caldari have some serious FOTM PVP ships, as well as some classics.
Gallente are now excellent in PVP.
Minmatar can also PVE very well so I gather.
Amarr I have discussed above.

When I had low skills, I ran a beam fit Abaddon which worked moderately well for L4 missions. Once I was able to fit T2 large guns, I moved to a Megapulse Apocalypse which was a huge leap forward over the Abaddon. Then I moved to a Tachyon Nightmare which, again, was a huge leap forward over the Apocalypse.

While Amarr ships are locked in to EM/TH damage, they put out SO MUCH of it at such a great range that it's not much of an issue. You can mow down Gurista and Serpentis without an issue. Angels are more of a pain, but once you're pushing 600+ DPS with an optimal in excess of 40km you don't need to worry.

Note the massive optimal range. Minnie ships fight in falloff, and artillery has a really long cycle time.

Don't worry too much about being cap stable in the Amarr ships. Fit a cap booster, fit a minimal tank, then fill the rest of your ship with heat sinks and tracking mods. Dead rats don't shoot back.

If flying with a Basilisk, you -can- do a shield tank and it will work alright, but you're really better off having your second account run a DPS ship alongside your Amarr ship. Carry a flight of remote rep drones if you feel the need.

One DPS ship and a Logi will complete missions, but two DPS ships will complete them MUCH faster if you can handle the dual-boxing.