Rollotamasi
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Posted - 2007.09.20 00:44:00 -
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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.
Preferably I would prefer long range combat but from what I have been told it's not very effective play style. Also, my other main concern in that I don't ever see my self having huge sums of isk to throw around so loosing 40 mil isk ships with 20 mil fittings is out for me. I have been trying to read up on ships but there is a lot of information to digest.
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?
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. The Vexor also looks like a fairly decent ship but really has the same problem. Now, because of the drone bonus it seems like you could get away with fighting light turrets on it because the drones would help make up that DPS but I am then left with another problem. Remeber what I said about cost? Tech 2 mediums are fetching about 1 mil a pop and are fairly easy to get sent to the garbage heap. relying on drones for DPS could put a pretty serious hurt on my wallet.
Interceptors. Cool idea. Hard to hit but generally low damage and I don't wan't to be tackler. Somehow when I picture myself sitting in my comfy command chair on the bridge of my ship giving orders to my A.I, its not "Re-route power through the sublight engines and cast a root!" Pilots that are great tacklers: You get props from me but its just not something that I am personally interested in.
So that really leads me to the heart of the issue. I probably could have skiped the last 3-4 paragraphs and just asked this from the start but then that would have not given me anything to do while I'm sitting here unable to sleep. Anyway, on to the question. What are the best options for a fairly low SP pilot that wants to do some PvP but doesnt have a huge cash flow to spend but still wants to be able to reasonably effective against a large variety of classes of ships?
Thank you for taking the time to read my post and any advice you can give is most appericated!
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