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scars87
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What is a good build if I wanna solo camp a gate? I herd projectile is best on a BB because it uses less energy and does good dmg. And How would I handle the situation when someone warps in.
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When solo'ing a gate in such a small ship, your gonna have to prey off of smaller ships and industrials. I would fit a good amount of sensor dampeners, webs and a 20km scrambler with some autocannons and assault missile bays. The dampeners force T2 ships that could tank you from far to come up close where you can get them webbed and inflict maximum damage and are also good for evading enemies in bigger ships.
When a ship warps in, you check for others in local to make sure it is not an ambush and then asses whether or not you can actualy kill him, if you never fire a shot , you can always jump through the gate, so if you feel like your gonna lose, starting warping to a safespot or another gate and if he scrambles you, jump through the gate. Of course, you could always fit a warp core stabalizer to make sure you can get away from groups but they are pretty lame and makes your setup weaker. Not sure how baddly plating cruisers has become but they used to be mighty useful with a 1600mm or 800mm plate to give it some more life before being taken out.
Best bet would be to catch people jumping into the system with slower ships, get them scrambled and dampened, start lobbing missiles at them while approaching to set your autocannons loose. If your lucky, you'll catch the odd person in a mining setup or what not that is just not ready for you.
P.S. If your hunting smaller ships (especialy in the case of Assault Frigs), you'll want at least 3 different types of ammo on you at all times. Have Fusion and EMP in your autocannons to dish out EM/XPL damage and thermal/kinetic missiles to compensate in the case of an amarr AF or vice versa. If you know the ship that is coming at you then all the better, load out to the ships weakness and play the dead seal and see if he thinks his $25M isk frigate will stand up to your $4M isk cruiser.
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Goodness. I never thought I would see anyone actually admit to being a lowlife gate camper.
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LoL, unfortunately with so many lame people thinking they can simply start an empire war against a major power in the game to gank our empire-bound haulers, we have had to adjust our tactics to meet the needs of empire ganking.
Myself, I rarely if ever use warp core stabs and when I'm camping a gate, it is with a bubble, trying to get rid of someone who shouldn't be there. Besides, fitting items to take out one class of ship will get you creamed in most confrontations, then again, I don't like to solo, group warfare is the way to fly.
However, I know how to setup these ships because, I run into them quite often, I know which tactics are really REALLY annoying and need to be tweeked by CCP. Hell, if you wanna be a total S.O.B. you fly a Raven with 4x warp core stabs, 2x 1600mm plates, 6x cruise launchers and 2x medium neutralizers or 2x large nos. In the mids you stick in a sensor booster or 2, a 20km scramblers, a web and sensor dampeners.
You can solo ANY ship in the game no problem. Your lock is fast enough to screw over other BS pilots since once your on them, you turn on the sensor dampeners and they have 30+ seconds to lock you, so even those nasty scorpions take a beating before they have the chance of jamming you and once they do, whoop, load the f.o.f.'s. You nos/neutralize them so their tanks don't last and if your ever losing a fight, you simply run away. The 10.000+ armor you have is enough to destroy most targets and gives you ample time to flee if things go wrong.
This also works great against ceptors since 2x large nos = dead cap and then you web them and POOF. In theory, this ship is unbeatable 1 o 1 and hard to kill even with a gang of people since it can wipe out tacklers in an instant. And I'm not done, now with RMR, you have armor repairing drones so, once the fight is over, pop them out and voila ! good as new, look for a new target to wipe out.
Dakilla[666] ~ The Realm ~ Level 1000 enchanter (retired)
Maranthoric ~ La 4ieme Prophetie ~ Level 160 (5x) HE/Feu (de retour)
Leonthoric[DDC] ~ EVE online ~ <Fire The "Laser"> (retired)