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The Spod
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.12.02 15:59:00 -
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Your ishtar focus is good. T2 sentries will deal very nice damage much quicker than other weapon systems.
For belt ratting, use a drone focused frigate and use afterburner to speed tank. T2 light drones are necessary, gallente drones are best damage so focus accordingly to thermal weak rats:
Serpentis, gurista, sansha, blood raider.
To get the most worth of your agile frigate, only look for faction commander spawns (shadow serpentis, TRUE sansha, dread guristas, dark blood). These are 1 in 40 belt spawns.
Fit drone damage amplifiers, afterburner, some local tank. |
The Spod
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.12.03 08:50:00 -
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Highsec belt ratting is good if you just look for the faction spawns and their wrecks in a fast warping frigate. |
The Spod
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.12.03 08:55:00 -
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Zero Neutral Revenge wrote:Can someone please define belt-ratting for me?
I assume it's fighting pirates in asteroid belts...
I have not been to low/null sec yet so I don't know what it is really.
Is it worth trying to kill rats in heavier ships?
What is the benefit of belt-ratting over running missions?
How does one go about belt-ratting/what is the most efficient way to do it?
- Heavier ships are generally better off ratting in nullsec anomalies or running L4 missions. Belt ratting is best done in fast warping ships with evasion tank and focus in damage output+agility.
- Benefit over running missions is spike income from finding valuable faction loot. Belt ratting is a treasure hunt.
- Most efficient ways to do it are fast ships in high/lowsec (interceptor, assault frigate) cherry picking only faction spawns, and semi fast ships in nullsec with high damage output (stealth bomber, HAC, tier3 BC) chaining for battleship spawns in a good system.
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The Spod
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.12.03 12:10:00 -
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Tristan:
lowslots armor repairer and drone damage amplifiers
midslots afterburner, sensor booster*
rigs 1 drone control range augmenter, processor overc locks if needed
highslots tractor beam, cloak (optional utility)
* warp to 50km on belts, keep range to rats, kill frigates first, keep moving transversally to bigger ships, only engage faction spawns. Hobgoblin II drones, fight serpentis, sansha, gurisra or blood only
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The Spod
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.12.03 12:18:00 -
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The philosophy on above Tristan of mine is to tank with range and speed, which allows most drone damage amplifiers to be fitted. Drone damage is key to killing the rats before someone lands on your belt to ruin the day.
Range tanks vs. frigate rats, transversal vs. cruiser and BS rats. Drone damage allows killing off frigates before they tickle your drones, to further improve an omnidirectional would help the hobs to track frigs but CPU is probably very tight because of drone damage amps.
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The Spod
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
128
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Posted - 2013.12.03 12:31:00 -
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Bit more spam on required skills:
GÇó electronics needed for CPU, can be eased with CPU rigs
GÇó drones rigging needed for drone range rig, easier on CPU than drone link
GÇó weapon upgrades IV required for t2 drone damage amps
GÇó Drones V and scout drones V required for hobgoblin II, combat drones at least IV for damage, drone interfacing at least IV for damage (though you'll train all of these to V for ishtar)
GÇó long range targeting needed for range and sensor booster
GÇó navigation skills for tanking and putting agility to isk/h |
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