Substantia Nigra
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Posted - 2012.05.02 04:02:00 -
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Bam Stroker wrote: GǪ hop in some SBs and go for a roam. They're a lot of fun!
Thanks for the OP, very interesting, and I agree with BamGÇÖs comment.
As a long-established carebear I recently opted to become a noob yet again and try some PvP play. A timely thread in this forum caught my attention and unleashed the carebear-in-a-hound GǪ pottering around the universe trying to find players incompetent enough to die for me. Since then IGÇÖve split my efforts between w-space stalking and occasional killing, and fleet work in nullsec with the Bombers Bar gang. My efforts have been either solo, two-ship with an alt (also in a bomber), or with a 10 GÇô 20 ship bomber-recon fleet. This has all been fun, and very instructive, in different ways.
IGÇÖve managed a few kills, and a death where I was so greedy to kill a drake that I didnGÇÖt warp away when I could easily have. He died first, but his last missile was already on itGÇÖs way to me and proved fatal. IGÇÖve messed up heaps of attempts but found my small, agile, covops ship to be very forgiving of my SNAFUs. IGÇÖm experimenting with fits and approaches and seeing what works and does not work against what.
Given the most of my solo / semi-solo work is in w-space I am focussing on being able to kill drakes and tengu. ThatGÇÖs been quite a learning experience, and so far the vast majority I tackle have survived GǪ either because they drone-jammed me out, loosed a pack of warrior IIs onto me, had nasty friends arrive to help, or I simply could not dent their shield tank. The carebear-in-a-hound is now actually in a manticore, valuing that extra midslots bigtime in my tengu / drake crusade.
So if, like me, youGÇÖre a carebear who wants to test the waters of PvP then I recommend that you give the bomber a second look.
-TheyGÇÖre pretty easy to skill for GÇô if you have, or a close to, frig 5 with a faction or two, have some covops skills, and you have the missile and support skills to run high end missions or sleepers youGÇÖre not far from a useful bomber skill set.
-TheyGÇÖre cheap to setup and lose GÇô even the faction fittings in the ship I lost didnGÇÖt amount to an awful lot of isk.
-Being fragile little beasties they force you to think carefully about what you tackle, and how GÇô Good education.
-The covops element gives you time to plan and think about what youGÇÖre about to try, and gives a bit more latitude for messing up.
-ThereGÇÖs decent amounts of pretty good how-to info out there.
-ThereGÇÖs good in-game support and resources GÇô e.g. the GÇÿBombers BarGÇÖ chat list. Even tho they fly outside my main timezone I do manage to get with them on weekends and learn about the gang side of bombing and recons.
-If youGÇÖre lucky they can kill big things.
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