Beitrag von: Aura am Oktober 04, 2012, 07:00:40 Nachmittag
You're roaming through low- or null-sec, or you're camping a gate, with a small group of frigates or maybe by yourself. The gate flashes, or a ship lands in your bubble. You see that it's a Skiff. "Sweet!" you think. "Exhumer kill!" You tackle it, only to find that this is almost literally a wolf in sheep's clothing...
[Skiff, Obvious bait]
Damage Control II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Experimental 10MN Afterburner I
Warp Scrambler II
Stasis Webifier II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Small Unstable Power Fluctuator I
Medium Core Defense Field Extender I
Medium Core Defense Field Extender I
Hammerhead II x5
Dear Heaven is this ship silly. Almost 85k EHP. Almost 200 DPS. And 640m/s on that afterburner. More speed than that if you spring for a faction one. And why not? Any frigate dumb enough to tackle this boat is going to come to a quick, painful, and humiliating end so you probably won't lose it. Twenty seconds to murder a typical Ranis, for instance. And it will have no trouble at all tanking gate guns if it has to. You'll need a 3% grid implant to make this fit work, but having the neut on your side is worth it. It gives you a good chance of effectively tackling two frigates at a time. Scram and web the frig you're killing, neut out his buddy in the cap-reliant one. If he doesn't flee, kill him when the first one's dead.
This boat can face a five frigate gank fleet for anywhere from 90 seconds to two minutes, depending on the gank fleet's comp. And it can kill an average of one frigate every 10-20 seconds during that time, again depending on comp. Remember to over-heat your hardeners. They'll run, or they'll all die. Or you can use this ship to scout for a frig gang of your own.
A lot of other writers have done great jobs talking about how the Mining Barge/Exhumer rebalance is failing to meet its goals. Quite ironically, I think I liked this argument from themittani.com best. But one thing's definitely for sure: Skiffs and Procurers aren't for mining and any Skiff or Procurer you see out there probably isn't doing it. High-sec miners have switched to Mackinaws and Retrievers in droves. It does everything, including tanking against suicide ganks, "well enough."
That's leaving the Skiff and Procurer for baiting. You can easily fit a cyno on them if you want, for Heaven's sake, and use it as hot-drop bait.
Here's the equivalent Procurer fit, which is only slightly less silly:
[Procurer, Obvious bait]
Damage Control II
Micro Auxiliary Power Core II
10MN Afterburner II
Warp Scrambler II
Stasis Webifier II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Small Unstable Power Fluctuator I
Medium Polycarbon Engine Housing I
Medium Core Defense Field Extender I
Medium Core Defense Field Extender I
Hobgoblin II x5
The main thing the Procurer gives up is speed. It's less than half the speed of the Skiff, so frigs might actually be able to get away from you if they're silly enough to tackle you and realize you're not mining. And it's obviously not quite as resilient. It can only kill three or four frigates single-handedly.
Both of these fits are cap-stable, and both of them are quick and agile enough to get around pretty well and might even be able to crash back to gate if the camp on the other side is too big. But by all means, scout them around with something cloaky to keep that from being necessary. Pick your targets, and your targets are frigates looking for a sweet helpless care-bear. They might even suspect you're bait and they still won't be able to resist. It's an Exhumer kill!
The really ironic thing? If you want, you can take off the neut, fit a Strip Miner and actually mine with the thing while you sit there and hope to get tackled. The Procurer can do it with no other changes. You'll have to take the Drone Damage Amp off the Skiff and replace it with a Power Diagnostic System. You lose about 30 DPS.
But you gain the ability to actually mine in a Skiff or a Procurer. If you, you know, want to.
"Mine" safe!
All Fits of the Week are intended as general guidelines only. You may not have the skills needed for this exact fit. If you do not, feel free to adjust the fit to suit to meet your skills, including using meta 3 guns and "best named" defenses and e-war. Ships can also be adjusted to use faction or dead-space modules depending on the budget of the pilot flying it. Each FOTW is intended as a general guide to introduce you to concepts that will help you fit and to fly that particular type of ship more aggressively and well.
Source: Fit of the Week: Bait Skiff/Procurer (http://jestertrek.blogspot.com/2012/10/fit-of-week-bait-skiffprocurer.html)