nice guide but your ooow so wrong about mag sites......

i do them a lot and they drop anywhere from 1 to 15 enhanced ward consoles (once i got like 32 from one site that was jackpot)

15 x 18 mill = 270 mill for such little time to do them...(and dont forget the other blue salvage that drops also has a nice value) i rather find radar site total crap


i get around 150+ of these EWC a week (and not counting the other salvage ) = 2.7 bill + easy

I trained for the Ishtar some time ago with this activity in mind, but been holding of due to lack of info, and being a scary little fairy... now I also have a nice scanner alt so no excuses left anymore.

Thanks, will try o7

Derp, I was so amazed by an actually good thread that I forgot my question:

How much tank you need for the better plexes?

Alright, for starters, sorry about the long response time. Just a brief hiatus while skilling for the Ishtar.

Now onto address the 100MN AB Ishtar itself:


But in the end, this is all just speculation. (I haven't actually gotten into the ship yet)
Feel free to test it out at some point, and let us know how it goes.

1)
I do : align then cloak then mwd and after reaching proper speed ( >75% ) I start spamming warp and hit decloak. I'm getting a message that I'm in warp or that I cannot do that while warping ( spamming warp button ) but it still takes about 3-4 seconds before actually warping out. Is it just decloaking animation, during which I cannot be targetted, or am I doing something wrong?

2)
Between dropping gate cloak and activating onboard cloak I can be seen for a split second on the overview. Can some ship actually target me during that time?

I would like to ask experienced opinions on Pilgrim vs Ishtar. I've been experimenting with a Pilgrim, but it just feels like I'm missing a lot of DPS... I don't have a fit to post (at work), but it's fitted for pretty much any exploration site (Sisters Core, Analyzer, Codebreaker, salvager, rigged for exploration)... Thoughts?

ps: Saw OP's post on Tengu, hadn't considered that for low exploration cuz I'm not sure about losing an 750mil ship... ;-)

o/

basically, there's no reason not to dual prop the Ishtar now, after the speed and agility buffs! you can achieve significantly higher speeds running the mwd compared to 100mn ab.

1)
I do : align then cloak then mwd and after reaching proper speed ( >75% ) I start spamming warp and hit decloak. I'm getting a message that I'm in warp or that I cannot do that while warping ( spamming warp button ) but it still takes about 3-4 seconds before actually warping out. Is it just decloaking animation, during which I cannot be targetted, or am I doing something wrong?

dont take out a t3 unless you have at least 5-10 solid pvp'ers in your fleet nearby, in addition to intel. trust me

the Pilgrim can do just fine with Mag and Radar sites in nullsec, in addition to 4/10's and 5/10's. also, you can do the non-DED combat sites that escalate. some escalations are easy and give you free faction spawns, which you can snipe. i dont think the Pilgrim could handle a 6/10, not sure. basically you can do everything except the really juicy sites, which sometimes dont drop anything good (just to make you feel better )

Select object (out gate or ceslestial or so), align, cloak followed quickly by mwd (place them in slots one and two and just press F1+F2 together), wait for mwd to almost finish cycling, uncloak, warpto. If you do it right you wil instantly enter the warp animation.

MUST NOT LET THIS THREAD DIE....

A question, to those lucky enough to be out with their Ishtar, exploring already.

How are you actually scanning down the sites? An unbonused ship like the Ishtar is going to be getting <=70 points
from their probes, even with Sisters probes/launcher...so how successful have you been at scanning down radar and mag sites in 0.0?

MUST NOT LET THIS THREAD DIE....

A question, to those lucky enough to be out with their Ishtar, exploring already.

How are you actually scanning down the sites? An unbonused ship like the Ishtar is going to be getting <=70 points
from their probes, even with Sisters probes/launcher...so how successful have you been at scanning down radar and mag sites in 0.0?

oops, forgot to bump. glad there's still interest. out of the hundreds of sites ive scanned, ive only not been able to pinpoint about 4-5. thats all i can really say, i dont know the exact numbers. but Goob covered that.

re: other posts. ive covered all i know about Minnie ships in an earlier post, and i did concede that the Tengu is actually better at this than the Ishtar (slightly), but the price difference makes it not worth it if you lose one.

I love the istar and I basicly love anything drones. It seems like a gila could pull this off very well too if not better and still be way less then a T3 ship. Any info on this?

Looks like it's time to replace the LSE's with breaker and analyser and see if a good tank can still fit.

Use all low slots for shields and use defender missles as needed?

So far I've eft warriored you fit v.s. gila and it's still a real toss up.
Using all the same exploration mods.
The one thing I like on the ishtar is the extra cargo room.

I think gila is the best shield version no matter how you cut it.

Further testing ingame will be needed to say anything more then that.

So far I've eft warriored you fit v.s. gila and it's still a real toss up.