Cpt Branko
The Bloody Red
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Posted - 2007.09.20 01:25:00 -
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Edited by: Cpt Branko on 20/09/2007 01:28:20
 Originally by: Rollotamasi
I was talking to a corp mate a few days ago and he gave me some advice when I said that I wanted to get into PvP. He said "Pick a ship and concentrate on the skills that you will need to fly that ship to its fullest potential" Well, that seems like pretty good adivce to me. I am a fairly new player. I'm sitting around 2.8 mil skill points. For the most part my SP's are fairly spread out amoung gunnery, tanking and drones (I am gallente by the way.
He's preety much right. At lowish SP, you need to be good with at least one ship, know its ins and outs, which is going to be the ship you'll fly 90% of the time, and which is preferably cheap. Now, while T1 cruisers aren't very expensive, you might find that frigs are both the cheapest and the best way to learn the ropes.
Originally by: Rollotamasi
The first thing that caught my eye was AF's. They seem to be fairly sturdy with "decent" firepower and a pretty low price. Seems like I could buy the ship and fit one out for under 5 mil isk. Definetly a attractive price tag for a PvPer just starting out. The problem? I can't swing a dead cat without hitting someone saying that they suck. Fon't get me wrong, I under stand that when all is said and done that its still a frigate. If it is soloing cruiser, BC's and BS's with ease then there is probably a problem. That being said, Since it seems that not a lot of people fly these it stands to reason that most people are flying cruisers, BC's, etc. Is a AF a effective choice or is the only thing I am going to be able to fight is frigs?
The problem with AFs is that they'll mostly kill only things you could (although harder) kill with a frig, solo. Except being able to kill another T2 frig sometimes and being 100% certain that you can obliterate a destroyer (when in a frig, a well-setup destroyer will kill you). Now, all that is nice, but the price tag associated with it is way too high. A well-setup Jaguar (no idea about the prices of gallente AFs) will cost me 22.5M with fittings (no rigs, just a full T2 fit - module prices *may* have gone down a bit). A Rifter with T2 guns and a T2 SAR about 1.6M (or 2M, if I go for 200s). I really don't feel like paying 10x the cash for something that can't really kill more things that it's T1 counterpart can, and are more likely to get caught then a frig, anyway. AFs are not so bad, they're just inefficent.
Edit: do learn the required skills to fly an AF. Engineering / Mechanic V is really necessary, and frig V improves your frig piloting and gives you access to interceptors as well.
Originally by: Rollotamasi
On to cruisers. Gallente have what looks to be 2 fairly nice ones. The Thorax and the Vexor. The thorax looks like a pretty decent ship but from what I hear its plauged by a major problem. If you want to fit it for effective DPS (Med Turrets to take advantage of the ship bonus) then your stuck with basicly no tank.
I'd probably go for the Thorax later on. It can field a relatively nice gank and a bit of plate to go with it, but you really want to get your support skills up. Else it's hard to fit (the ship is harder to fit then a Rupture, for example). You can always use mostly T1 gear, so it really doesn't hurt a lot to get it popped (always insure to max). Only problem is much greater possibility of being caught in camps then in a frig.
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