It has been a while since I have posted anything. Frankly, I just couldn't be bothered with work building up and being busy at home. However, I'm here to make a concerted effort to get back into posting and actually be regular about it.
We start our story off again with a tale of wormholes and violence. I received a Jabber ping advertising a cruiser fleet to parts unknown. I logged in and joined the fleet. After poking around in my hanger for something of the right size and "disposable" I decided to instead purchase a shiny new Vexor. Quickly fitting it up with a basic shield tank, some nanos and blasters I undocked to join my misfit gang with our FC pearcy15504. We travelled to the nearby system with the linking wormhole and jumped on through. We ended up in Paragon Soul's LD-2VL system. We salivated over what we saw. The three dead end systems in Paragon Soul consisted of hyper levels of ratting. At the time each system had around 24k rat kills in a 24 hour period.
We made our way down with Pearcy leading in his "bait" Onyx. at MP5-KR our bait was taken by a couple of Drakes and a Phobos. Our merry band of cutthroats pounced and a bit slowly melted one of the Drakes, followed soon after by the webbed to hell Phobos. The other Drake got away and we proceeded to wander around the pocket trying to prod the residents down there to come out and play. In total we bagged a couple more kills including a Sacrilege that probably shouldn't have engaged to start with, but also forgot to drop his point and web before the rest of the gang pounced on him.
After an hour and a half of repeatedly beating up on their people not paying attention (including a poor new guy in a Noctis), we decided to head out. Heading out we jumped through a gate (we didn't have a scout at this point) and found that our 15 man gang of cruisers had finally earned enough ire to get a 20ish man gang of battlecruisers to form up. As Pearcy hadn't gotten there in his Onyx yet he ordered a gate crash, which pretty much everyone but out drunk guy complied with. After gathering up, the rest of our gang we jumped in and started calling primaries. Of course we went for the expensive stuff first. Most notably we took out a Vagabond and Stabber Fleet Issue. We were doing fairly well until the FC went down. About that point our cohesion fell apart and we were slowly picked off.
All in all I had an extremely enjoyable time. I'll say that with at least the Vexor I am enjoying the new T1 cruisers. I'm looking towards getting a couple of my favorite T1 cruiser (Thorax) brought down so that I can play with them in a nano kiting configuration. I'm also finding that you can do quite a bit against a larger group if you maintain your cool. I think even more important than picking the "right" ship is knowing how to use it and keeping a good battlefield awareness is important. As I spend more time in small and large gangs I learn to relax and notice a lot more than when I first started PVPing. I find that I don't get upset when my ship pops. I can even enjoy being destroyed by another gang. It's all in how you look at things that is important.
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Monday, December 24, 2012
Friday, July 16, 2010
New beginnings
Greetings all, and welcome. In this blog I intend to regale you all with my exploits in becoming competent in PVP. First, a little bit about myself and my experience. I have been playing Eve off and on since 2005. This is more off than on, but in my time in Eve I have explored many aspects of it. I have been a miner. Mining all day long and bring in the ore. I have been a mission runner, shooting rats, looting them and bringing in the ISK. I have even lived in 0.0 space from time to time, which has been my most enjoyable times. One thing that I have never really gotten into alot is PVP.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy PVP, love it even. I have read forum post upon forum post on PVP tactics and fittings. I know how to fit a ship out properly for PVP even. However, for one reason or another, whenever I go out and attempt PVP it rarely ends with me killing someone. More often than not it ends with me back in my station analyzing what I have done wrong.
One of my issues is that I really like to play with the expensive ships. As a for instance, I have recently fallen quite hopelessly in love with the Daredevil. It is a wonderful faction frigate, speedy, lethal. I recently had an opportunity to take one in to battle.
I had decided to change the fitting on my daredevil and there were no fittings in the 0.0 station that I base out of to complete what I wanted. Nothing fancy, I just wanted to change out the speed fit for something a little tankier as my sparring with corp members had convinced me that the fit wasn't really what I wanted. So, I took a stroll down to empire in order to pick out what I wanted and fit it out. Unfortunately for me I had forgotten that there was an empire wardec going on. I know what you are all thinking, and no, I didn't get smashed by a gate camp autopiloting in empire. In fact I made it to my chosen station without seeing anyone.
I happily set about fitting my new modules and rigs to the ship. I wanted a setup that I could take behind enemy lines and have some ability to recover from any damages in battle. So, I fit a nice 200mm buffer plate on the lows, a small repper for fixing the damage I took and a few rigs to complement. All I was lacking was an explosive resist rig to complete my setup. The only explosive resist rigs were in the nearby station so I contentedly undocked and waited for my screen to show up.
No sooner had I undocked than I realized my mistake. Now I remembered that there was an empire war going on as I spied the red blinky jaguar heading towards me. Frantically I hit warp as I knew I had a huge explosive hole in my armor. Too late, I was caught. No problem I think to myself, time to give this lovely new ship a test. I hit orbit at 50 m, turned on my scram, web, small armor repper, and nos and hit F1 which is where I usually keep my guns. About 5 seconds later I realized my damage control wasn't on. No big deal, I hadn't had much armor damage running, and my armor repper started kicking over, keeping me up as I started to slowly bleed damage down. I was trying to figure out why I wasn't doing much damage when I looked down and finally noticed that I had changed out my weapons systems, they weren't grouped and I was only running one gun. Embarrassed I turned my gun on and satisfactorily watched his armor start falling more quickly. The only problem is that I didn't catch my mistake quick enough. Still circling I watched my poor Daredevil vanish in a flash as I spammed warp and got away.
It was only after I docked up that I realized my biggest mistake. I'm sure the savy reader is shouting at their screens that I should have used the best trick that a Daredevil has. I should have burned straight away from him when I realized I couldn't take him. A Daredevil's 90% web would have meant the jaguar couldn't have kept a point on me as I ran out of his scram range and warped out.
Defeated, I should have known that now was the time to dock up and log off. In fact I DID know that that is what I should do. SHOULD is the operative word here. I determined that I was going to replace my Daredevil and then head back home. Of course the only place that I could think to find Daredevils a plenty is in Jita. Yes, with an empire war going on I headed in to Jita. As I warped into Jita I noticed a camp on the station. I paid it not much mind and flew into Jita to fit out my shiny new daredevil. Assuming that the same small number of ships that I saw flying in were out there, I undocked. Imagine my shock when I undocked (without looking at local again) and saw quite a few ships. I noticed at least a Bhalgorn and Hyperion sitting there. And, being the absolutely brilliant strategist I am, I panicked. I picked my gate and hit warp. Immediately the damage started raining down on me, shields gone, armor gone, structure going.... and I see myself warp away through the lag. YES I told myself, I made it! My shiny new Daredevil is safe. I kept telling myself that until the screen went back and I found myself back in my home station in a pod.
Definately not having a good day, I should have logged. I just couldn't though. A call went out over alliance for pilots to take out a roving red gang. Somewhat having my senses I picked a safe ship to go out. A nice little drake. Unfortunately, all was not well for me. Our fleet roved out to meet the red gang, but Eve was not cooperating with me. Gate after gate it took forever for me to jump. Still two jumps back I listen as my victorious alliance trampled the enemy fleet and sent it home with its tale between its legs. Finally defeated, I warped to a safe spot and logged off.
This all occurred two days ago, in that time I have been thinking about what I want to do now. I considered going back to empire with my tail between my legs. But I just can't do that. I need to come up with a training regimen to get the basics drilled into me. I KNOW how to fight, intellectually at least. Now lets see if I can put all of my theory and book knowledge into practice. Over the next couple weeks I am going to start heading out into the deep black, trying my hand at PVP, probably with some cheap ships that I haven't decided upon yet. T1 frigates are kind of out. Yes I know they are cheap, but the T1 ships don't really appeal to me that much, and about the only thing a T1 frigate can take out rapidly is another T1 frigate. So not much of an option in null sec space.
Stay tuned here to find out what ship I select and what sort of fights I get into. I sense blood, I sense a slaughter. Hopefully, it isn't my own.
P.S. If anyone has suggestions for a ship I could use I would be interested in hearing your thoughts. I can currently fly Gallente and Caldari ships up to Battleship. I can also fly Assault frigate. And if someone can talk me into it, I DO have some skill to fly T1 Minmatar and Amarr ships as well.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy PVP, love it even. I have read forum post upon forum post on PVP tactics and fittings. I know how to fit a ship out properly for PVP even. However, for one reason or another, whenever I go out and attempt PVP it rarely ends with me killing someone. More often than not it ends with me back in my station analyzing what I have done wrong.
One of my issues is that I really like to play with the expensive ships. As a for instance, I have recently fallen quite hopelessly in love with the Daredevil. It is a wonderful faction frigate, speedy, lethal. I recently had an opportunity to take one in to battle.
I had decided to change the fitting on my daredevil and there were no fittings in the 0.0 station that I base out of to complete what I wanted. Nothing fancy, I just wanted to change out the speed fit for something a little tankier as my sparring with corp members had convinced me that the fit wasn't really what I wanted. So, I took a stroll down to empire in order to pick out what I wanted and fit it out. Unfortunately for me I had forgotten that there was an empire wardec going on. I know what you are all thinking, and no, I didn't get smashed by a gate camp autopiloting in empire. In fact I made it to my chosen station without seeing anyone.
I happily set about fitting my new modules and rigs to the ship. I wanted a setup that I could take behind enemy lines and have some ability to recover from any damages in battle. So, I fit a nice 200mm buffer plate on the lows, a small repper for fixing the damage I took and a few rigs to complement. All I was lacking was an explosive resist rig to complete my setup. The only explosive resist rigs were in the nearby station so I contentedly undocked and waited for my screen to show up.
No sooner had I undocked than I realized my mistake. Now I remembered that there was an empire war going on as I spied the red blinky jaguar heading towards me. Frantically I hit warp as I knew I had a huge explosive hole in my armor. Too late, I was caught. No problem I think to myself, time to give this lovely new ship a test. I hit orbit at 50 m, turned on my scram, web, small armor repper, and nos and hit F1 which is where I usually keep my guns. About 5 seconds later I realized my damage control wasn't on. No big deal, I hadn't had much armor damage running, and my armor repper started kicking over, keeping me up as I started to slowly bleed damage down. I was trying to figure out why I wasn't doing much damage when I looked down and finally noticed that I had changed out my weapons systems, they weren't grouped and I was only running one gun. Embarrassed I turned my gun on and satisfactorily watched his armor start falling more quickly. The only problem is that I didn't catch my mistake quick enough. Still circling I watched my poor Daredevil vanish in a flash as I spammed warp and got away.
It was only after I docked up that I realized my biggest mistake. I'm sure the savy reader is shouting at their screens that I should have used the best trick that a Daredevil has. I should have burned straight away from him when I realized I couldn't take him. A Daredevil's 90% web would have meant the jaguar couldn't have kept a point on me as I ran out of his scram range and warped out.
Defeated, I should have known that now was the time to dock up and log off. In fact I DID know that that is what I should do. SHOULD is the operative word here. I determined that I was going to replace my Daredevil and then head back home. Of course the only place that I could think to find Daredevils a plenty is in Jita. Yes, with an empire war going on I headed in to Jita. As I warped into Jita I noticed a camp on the station. I paid it not much mind and flew into Jita to fit out my shiny new daredevil. Assuming that the same small number of ships that I saw flying in were out there, I undocked. Imagine my shock when I undocked (without looking at local again) and saw quite a few ships. I noticed at least a Bhalgorn and Hyperion sitting there. And, being the absolutely brilliant strategist I am, I panicked. I picked my gate and hit warp. Immediately the damage started raining down on me, shields gone, armor gone, structure going.... and I see myself warp away through the lag. YES I told myself, I made it! My shiny new Daredevil is safe. I kept telling myself that until the screen went back and I found myself back in my home station in a pod.
Definately not having a good day, I should have logged. I just couldn't though. A call went out over alliance for pilots to take out a roving red gang. Somewhat having my senses I picked a safe ship to go out. A nice little drake. Unfortunately, all was not well for me. Our fleet roved out to meet the red gang, but Eve was not cooperating with me. Gate after gate it took forever for me to jump. Still two jumps back I listen as my victorious alliance trampled the enemy fleet and sent it home with its tale between its legs. Finally defeated, I warped to a safe spot and logged off.
This all occurred two days ago, in that time I have been thinking about what I want to do now. I considered going back to empire with my tail between my legs. But I just can't do that. I need to come up with a training regimen to get the basics drilled into me. I KNOW how to fight, intellectually at least. Now lets see if I can put all of my theory and book knowledge into practice. Over the next couple weeks I am going to start heading out into the deep black, trying my hand at PVP, probably with some cheap ships that I haven't decided upon yet. T1 frigates are kind of out. Yes I know they are cheap, but the T1 ships don't really appeal to me that much, and about the only thing a T1 frigate can take out rapidly is another T1 frigate. So not much of an option in null sec space.
Stay tuned here to find out what ship I select and what sort of fights I get into. I sense blood, I sense a slaughter. Hopefully, it isn't my own.
P.S. If anyone has suggestions for a ship I could use I would be interested in hearing your thoughts. I can currently fly Gallente and Caldari ships up to Battleship. I can also fly Assault frigate. And if someone can talk me into it, I DO have some skill to fly T1 Minmatar and Amarr ships as well.
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