Recommendations for PVP in rat space

Tushon

I'm sitting in TEST space ratting primarily to play skill plans till I can really fleet up. Suggestions on PVP ships to combat the roaming neuts in our systems? I have decent skills across the board for PVP stuff, ship skills up to min/gallente BS 3 and all cruisers to 3, frigates to 4.

BuddyJ

I'm a big Vexor fan, and you can get pretty insane DPS from them in a gank fit. They also armor up really nicely.



A Thorax or Stabber can make for awesome PVP too. All three are relatively cheap for PVP.

For a BS, if you've never had the honor of flying a space potato, err.. Dominix... well you're in for a treat. Look up neut dominix fittings. They're hilarious.

Tushon

Sounds about right and what I was looking for. Thanks! I'd heard Stabber before as well and neut Dominix sounds lulzy.

sharkydart

why the sensor boosting, and ECCM?
you've got no propulsion in there at all - it's gonna be tough to scram, since your target is more than likely going to easily get out of range - i would say use a web and mwd, or at least swap in some tanking modules.

is it that you are only doing group pvp?

ardichoke

Also, there's nothing stopping you from fleeting up. Fleets are always looking for adorable newbros to fly tackle fit Rifters. We're not going to keep the title of "most Rifters lost" without people like you!

Tushon

I ended up bringing three fits out. 2 were more solo oriented and have tackle on them and the vexor above. The only times we've had roaming neuts around, no one else was willing to jump them with me. :/ Jews get scared to lose ships.

I have several of the test free fits available and I fitted out a helios for scanning purposes. I need to finish cloaking 4 in a few days (finally almost done with the BC5/cruiser3 push) and then maybe another 30D for some T2 hybrid guns. We'll see. I did go on several fleets before parking myself in fountain to jew it up, but the first time we did a hot drop, I didn't know how to jump through ... lulz ensued as the titan pilot laughed at me and they blew up other stuff.

Tushon

I would also like to share my first solo pvp kill. I was in fleet with a couple guys who were ratting and we were going to see if this one individual popped back up. However, one guy called out that he was getting attacked in the next system over, so I jumped over, warped to him and he was able to just warp out. The aggressor was still on grid and I was able to MWD in range of warp disruptor and then neut/dps him while taking <50% shields damage, presumably due to kiting. Very fun. I need to pew pew spaceships more than rats

ardichoke

Nice kill. As for finding fleets to go out and get lulzy kills with, I'd suggest looking into a few of the social and/or combat squads. Check the wiki for a list of social squads and see if there's one that you feel like you'd fit in with. I'm in NOS squad and they're pretty chill guys. Usually up for a fun roam too (though right now we're deployed to [redacted] in [redacted] for some fun high sec ganks).

If you like doing cloaky stuff, you might want to look into Predditors or Black Ops military groups. I get lots of pings from Predditors about hot drops and bombing runs all the time.

Tushon

I'm very close to predditors/white van qualifying skills and will be applying to those as soon as I meet requirements. Will be a lulzy good time.