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Public => EVE World News => Thema gestartet von: Aura am März 29, 2013, 01:01:06 Vormittag
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Fit of the Week: Old School Golem
Next month is going to be battle cruiser PvP month on the FOTW: I'm going to talk about my favorites among the re-balanced combat battle cruisers the same way I did last year with the cruisers after they were rebalanced. So I thought I'd end the current string of FOTWs with an old school PvE mission Golem straight outta 2010:
[Golem, Missioner]
Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System
Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System
Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System
Ballistic Control System II
Caldari Navy X-Large Shield Booster
Phased Weapon Navigation Array Generation Extron
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Dread Guristas EM Ward Field
Shield Boost Amplifier II
Shield Boost Amplifier II
Torpedo Launcher II, Mjolnir Rage Torpedo
Torpedo Launcher II, Mjolnir Rage Torpedo
Torpedo Launcher II, Mjolnir Rage Torpedo
Torpedo Launcher II, Mjolnir Rage Torpedo
Small Tractor Beam II
Salvager II
Medium 'Arup' Remote Bulwark Reconstruction
Large Warhead Flare Catalyst I
Large Warhead Rigor Catalyst I
Hobgoblin II x5
Hammerhead II x5
First, set aside some ISK to buy this monster. It's going to put you back some 1.5 billion ISK at current market prices, about 800 million for the ship itself and another 325 for the faction BCSs, 125 million for the XLSB, and the rest in the various other fittings. It's not a cheap ship, but you get what you pay for and what you're paying for is some of the best PvE DPS around: 1400+ with good skills... and that DPS requires Marauders I, not Marauders V.
Remember how I said you want 1000 "tank plus gank" to do a L4 mission? The tank on this monster is almost superfluous. For short range missions, use the fit above. For longer-range rats, pull off one of the SBAs and fit a T2 afterburner and go to town. If you do have a good level of Marauders skill, Rage torpedoes of the needed type for the missions you're doing will pay off big dividends, particularly rigged for attacking smaller targets as this one is (some people like double Rigor rigs instead). Those rigs, your Target Painter, and a high Guided Missile Precision skill will ensure that even cruisers feel the full wrath of the torps. You can fit a fourth faction BCS if you care to, but it doesn't really add very much to your DPS and makes you more gank-worthy, so I wouldn't bother. Your drones are out there strictly for clean up.
As long as CCP gave this thing seven mids, you may as well fit a tank. The faction EM Ward helps with the CPU problem caused by the T2 torpedo launchers. The rest will give you nearly a 1400 DPS omni-tank. You can tank for the specific rats if you must, but it is unlikely to be necessary. You only have about 90 seconds of cap endurance on the shield booster, but that should be more than sufficient if you pulse it carefully and only when needed. If you're concerned about cap, pull off the tractor and salvager and replace both of them with medium NOSes, then use them on the rats of your choice.
As with all missioning ships, the armor repper is there to provide on-field reps for your drones. You can fit a tractor and salvager if you like but honestly the day of that kind of fitting has probably passed. Get a cheap alt in a Noctis and go with the dual NOS route instead, or perhaps a Drone Link Augmentor.
Not much more to say about this boat: it torpedoes missions quite rapidly and as long as you're smart about keeping your hardeners on-line and keep an eye out for gankers, this boat will in due course pay for itself and any number of other ships. In particular, keep an eye out for Tornadoes and other volley ships because a Golem base tank is none too thick! Still, Golems are rarely gank targets, and this fit isn't expensive enough to justify a gank for financial reasons. As long as you fly smart, you'll be fine. Missioning is unfortunately a boring -- but fairly effective -- way to make ISK in EVE.
And given how popular Marauders were in the last few PvP tournaments, the ability to fly this class of ship might make you very popular with your PvP friends come the new tourney season. ;-) Cross-train for Gallente and Minmatar battleships. Ripard himself starts training Marauders skill in a couple of days...
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: Old School Golem (http://jestertrek.blogspot.com/2013/03/fit-of-week-old-school-golem.html)