It's the best Zealot out there.

More seriously, it helps to know what you expect to be doing with it. It's a long range / low sig fleet ship and not much use solo or for PVE unless you like using odd ships for the job.

There's a huge gap between between Zealot and Omen, if that's what you meant.

Cool, I'll check it out. Honestly, I'm still doing level 1 missions! hehehe I do have an Omen put up right now and am using a faction Amarr frigate ATM.

Arbitrator is very skill intensive for what it does. I think everyone forgets that Drone Interfacing takes weeks to train to V, and drones kind of suck without it.

Hey dood, the Zealot is THE best heavy assault ship in the game, only slightly ahead of the Vaga 9which is also very good). The Navy Omen is also awesome to use, has extra PG and CPU like every other navy version.

They are best used in small/large gangs of similar ships, and not much use in PVE due to no defensive bonus.

Best ships for Amarr for L2's would be the Arbitrator due to it's great drone damage bonus. So easy to fit lots of tank and lots of cap and let the drones kill everything.

Another big plus with the Arbitrator is its very low cost

I can't really help much with PVE fits but there's plenty of info out there. The only thing I can say in terms of PVE fitting philosophy is to start off with as good a tank as you can manage, then with experience you can drop that down and refit to do more damage till you get a balance.

This way you lose less ships, even if it's a bit slower running missions.

Amarr aren't generally regarded as very good for PVE but once you get some skills behind you they are just fine really. The main limitation is they tend only to do Em damage (the laser ships anyway). HAM legion or even a Sacrilege won't have this problem.

If you're careful the Slicer can do all level 2s, 3s, and some 4s, but it's slow. The Omen Navy Issue is annoyingly fragile in comparison because it's so much easier to hit.

Arbitrator is very skill intensive for what it does. I think everyone forgets that Drone Interfacing takes weeks to train to V, and drones kind of suck without it.

@Sowilla...

The Zealot is a T2 ship... which means it is a "specialty" ship. Look over the info on it and you'll notice that it has a few things going for it...

- enough CPU/Powergrid to comfortably fit the biggest cruiser-sized pulse lasers (allowing you to hit harder)...
- bonuses to laser range and rate of fire (shoot farther and faster)...
- higher resistances in kinetic and explosive damage (means you need less mods to tank well)...
- it's still a cruiser and thus quite mobile (you can sorta speed tank)

However, the Zealot has a few bad qualities going for it...

- has no drone bay ( which means it has limited point defense against small ships)
- has very few mid slots (limited utility abilities)
- not very "flexible" (good at engaging stuff at range, sucks when engaging up close)
- skill and ISK intensive.

tl;dr... you CAN use a Zealot for PvE... but it isn't recommended due the Zealot's relative inflexibility at dealing with different (and sometimes emergent) situations.

The Navy Omen... euh... it's a slightly better version of what the regular Omen SHOULD be. And compared to the Zealot, it's vastly more flexible (at the cost of not being able to hit out as far and fast).

Zealot is a pvp ship.

Best advice, Arbitrator for level 2, Harbinger for level 3, Whatever Amarr BS floats your boat for level 4. Caveat being that is against blood raider and sansha rats. Guristas and Angels in particular will laugh when you tickle them with your mighty lazors.

Drones are KEY. I have in my early days lost ships due to either no drones or the early drone training and using only Tech one drones.

I never do level 4 missions without good drone support so with that said I wouldnt use a ship without drones apart from the Tengu.

Just my 2 cents :)

you should train up for the t1 zealot - so much faster.

I myself am looking up to a Zealot. It would definitely be able to run level 4s a lot faster than a BS but with a lot more tank and DPS than the Omen.

It's a HAC, almost every HAC is strictly a PvP-ship (Ishtar being the only exception) with better options at other sizes in lower tech.

I flew a Zealot for PvE for a long time. I've found the Legion is a MUCH better choice, but the Zealot easily tops the Harbinger for tank and DPS.

Do yourself a favor: Try out the Arbitrator. Its drones will make missions a lot easier and it's easily one of the top T1 cruisers in the game. You can't go wrong with drone skills in Eve.

Zealot isn't too hot for mission running. However the Zealot is great for incursion fleets (its the standard dps ship for armor vanguard fleets which are the best isk/hr from incursions).

I'd like to get the Amarr cruiser Tech II Zealot but it has a lot of skill requirements. Is it worth it, or should I go with the Navy Faction version? (I currently have the regular "Omen" version in dry dock).

Comments? Thanks!