Bugsy VanHalen
Society of lost Souls
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Posted - 2013.02.27 18:30:00 -
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Tharin Malkyre wrote:I tank everything. Even my hauling Mammoth has its mids full of resist amps. My Mack is skilling towards:
[Mackinaw, Thumper]
Mining Laser Upgrade II
Damage Control II
Inertia Stabilizers II
Survey Scanner II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Medium Shield Booster II
Explosive Deflection Amplifier II
Modulated Strip Miner II, Plagioclase Mining Crystal II
Modulated Strip Miner II, Plagioclase Mining Crystal II
Medium Core Defense Field Purger I
Medium Core Defense Field Extender I
Warrior II x5
Salvage Drone I x2
Mining Drone II x3
Any yield loss is far outweighed by reducing the chance I'll be blown to bits while I'm reading Game of Thrones.
Sorry massive fail there.
Inertia stabilizers are useless, agility is nice but Mack is to slow for it to get you out fast enough.
Field Purger rig? Seriously? you will be dead before any amount of shield regen kicks in. Tanking against gankers requires buffer, passive shield recharge is useless.
Medium shield booster, While much better than a small booster,again is useless, a ganker will burn through your buffer way faster than you can rep anything. Better off with more buffer. the idea is to survive long enough for concord to arrive.
If you get hit by a 14k Alfa and you have less than 14K ehp, you will insta pop. shield boost and passive recharge make no
difference.
a damage controller is you single most effective tanking mod. At least you got that right. if you want a second low slot tank mod, reinforced bulk heads work well.
Rigs I would say at least 1 field extender, if not two. If only one I would recommend a cpu overclock rig,Or an ancillary current router as in my experience fittings are tight and the limiting factor for tank on the Mack. You can ease the fitting by using faction mods, but this also makes you a bigger target, so up to you.
you then want a medium shield extender, and hardeners. I usually go with thermal and invulnerability, but you can omni tank by filling the EM hole if you wish. A ganknado will almost always have faction EM ammo. While a Talos or catalyst will be fitting blasters that do thermal kinetic.
While it is true there is not such thing as ungankable, most gankers are at the very least looking to pad kill boards, if not make a profit off the gank.
Best mack max tank fit I have used is;
Highs
Strip miner II's with t2 crystals
Mids
F-S9 medium shield extender
Invulnerability field II
limited adaptive Invulnerability field I
Thermal hardener II
Lows
Damage controller II
Reinforced bulkheads II
Reactor control II
Rigs
medium Shield extender I
medium processor overclocking I
leaves me 9.5 CPU and 0.3 PG with almost 30K ehp for em at 65/86/79/83 resists. 2 gank nados would likely fail trying to gank this. two Talos might do it if fully T2 fit. Would take several catalysts.
For a little more mining you can drop the reinforced bulkhead II for a MLU II and the limited adaptive Invulnerability field I for a survey scanner and still get over 24K ehp with 55/83/73/78 resists
either fit can swap the thermal hardener for an EM hardener for more Omni resists. But this will make you more vulnerable to the Blaster fit catalyst or Talos which seems to be the most common gank boats at the moment. But would be stronger against a ganknado with EM ammo.
The problem with tanking a Mack like this is it defeats the point of moving up to an exhumer. This mack gets less yield than a retriever. might as well just fly a retriever and isk tank it for more yield.
Isk tanking is effective as the idea is that your ship and fit is worth less than the ship and fit that will gank you. in many cases a catalyst. Thsiis bad for the ganker as it makes their kill board look bad. at least when they gank a ship worth more than the loss, even if there is no profit, at least the kill board ratio of destroyed isk compared to lost isk gets better. This is important to most PVP corps and alliances. This is called padding the kill board. Ganking exhumers can be an effective way of padding a kill board, while ganking barges is not, unless they are pimp fitted.
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