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Public => EVE World News => Thema gestartet von: Aura am September 26, 2013, 05:00:59 Nachmittag
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Fit of the Week: Odyssey Ishtars
And HAC month wraps up with the best HAC in the game, the Ishtar. There is almost no bad way to fit this ship as long as you keep its bonuses in mind. It does sooo many things ridiculously well. There are lots and lots of fairly standard fits out there so instead I'd like to highlight a couple of goofy one-off uses.
Let's start with something fun for missioning, ratting, and other light PvE work:
[Ishtar, Rats Missions Shield]
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Beta Reactor Control: Shield Power Relay I
Beta Reactor Control: Shield Power Relay I
Beta Reactor Control: Shield Power Relay I
10MN Afterburner II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Large Shield Extender II
Large Shield Extender II
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II, EMP M
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II, EMP M
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II, EMP M
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II, EMP M
Medium Sentry Damage Augmentor I
Medium Sentry Damage Augmentor I
Garde II x5
Ogre II x5
Hammerhead II x5
Hobgoblin II x5
Vespa EC-600 x5
Let's start with the fun bit: 850 DPS. From a cruiser. Before faction ammo. Squeee! This is just crazy good. Land, drop the sentries of your choice and start devastating cruiser and larger rats. Meanwhile, the 220s are remarkably good at smiting down frigates as they close. If you have fitting issues, feel free to trade them out for Dual 180s which are even better for frigate work. Once the big stuff is dead, you can drop smaller drones to mop up if you need to. But try to stick with sentries where you can: the rigs support this damage as does your best ship bonus. However, the heavy drone bonus is also pretty nice.
Meanwhile, mitigate damage by burning around at 625m/s with good resists. If you're fighting laser-armed rats, you'll probably have to trade one of the Invuls for an EM Ward. Otherwise, you can probably just stick with double Invuls. The Shield Power Relays will allow you to tank pretty well but really the important things are your small sig radius and your speed.
The last few utility slots in your drone bay are up to you. If you're going to use this for ratting, carry EC drones. If you're going to mission, salvage drones. And of course, set your drone type to match the rats you're going to be fighting. You're also going to have to keep a fairly close eye on the drones to make sure they don't take too much damage as they're wiping rats off the map.
EDIT 26/Sep/2013: Two other things: first, you can also carry some repair drones to keep your attack drones repaired between missions. Second, don't be afraid to scoop your attack drones real quick if they get into trouble, particularly sentries. Just order them back into the bay then fly into the cloud, pick them up, wait five or ten seconds for their shields to regenerate some, then put them back out. Rinse and repeat.
There really isn't too much more to say about that goofy little fit so as a bonus, here's one that's even goofier:
[Ishtar, Damptar]
Damage Control II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Explosive Membrane II
1600mm Reinforced Steel Plates II
Experimental 10MN Microwarpdrive I
Phased Muon Sensor Disruptor I, Targeting Range Dampening Script
Phased Muon Sensor Disruptor I, Targeting Range Dampening Script
Phased Muon Sensor Disruptor I, Targeting Range Dampening Script
Phased Muon Sensor Disruptor I, Targeting Range Dampening Script
Drone Link Augmentor II
Medium Unstable Power Fluctuator I
Small Unstable Power Fluctuator I
Small Unstable Power Fluctuator I
Medium Trimark Armor Pump I
Medium Trimark Armor Pump I
Bouncer II x5
Curator II x5
Berserker II x5
This is arguably the best damp ship in the game. And it works really nicely with smaller armor HAC fleets. The tank is a very solid 66k EHP before links or other bonuses with strong all-around resists. Fit this way, you've got a very slight cap problem so mitigate it with the passive explosive resist module.
Once the fight starts, hang out next to the friendly logistics ships and ply your main trade: damping out enemy logi and e-war from a rather unexpected platform. The fun thing about this ship in this role is how subversive it is. Get someone to fit a few of the suddenly not-that-terrible Information Warfare links to boost your effectiveness. This works particularly well if you can talk the same person into buying one of the Imperial Navy mind-links, which includes the bonus for InfoWar link effectiveness on top of Armored warfare bonuses. Your full-strength damps even without bonuses are good at 54km with decent effectiveness right out to the extent of your lock range.
The main competition for the title of best damp ship in the game is the Celestis, which easily out-ranges you, but has half your tank. The thing that your Ishtar brings to the party that a Celestis definitely can't is very acceptable damage of right around 400 DPS. Beserkers are particularly amusing to use with this ship. With the Drone Link Augmentor fit, you can just assist the Berserkers to your FC then concentrate on damps damps damps while you rack up kill-mails on both ends of the spectrum. Alternately, launch the Bouncers or Curators and assist those to the FC instead. As I said, your control range with this fit is beyond ridiculous.
As a result, this ship is providing an armor HAC fleet with three great advantages: a solid bait tank ship, great e-war, and quite acceptable damage that's always being applied where the FC wants it. Can't really go wrong there!
Your neuts are strictly defensive to be used against anything that tries to tackle you but as long as you stick fairly close to your rep ships you should be OK as long as the rest of the fleet is doing well. You're tankier than most HACs and this fit responds really well to reps. Keep your MWD off as much as you can to keep your sig low and capacitor high. Carry X-Instinct booster and Mindflood booster to increase your natural advantages.
There are lots and lots of great Ishtar fittings out there right now, so feel free to experiment! As long as you focus on either sentry damage or heavy drones, there aren't too many ways you can go wrong. In addition to being the best HAC in EVE Online, this is far and away the most versatile ship in the game right now.
Have fun!
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: Odyssey Ishtars (http://jestertrek.blogspot.com/2013/09/fit-of-week-odyssey-ishtars.html)
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LOL. @Kraus: soviel zum Thema PvE Isthar. Siehe oben.
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Mensch, da musste ich dem Typen wirklich erst ne Droh-Mail schreiben. Aber dann hat er doch noch dieses Fitting auf seiner page raus gebracht. ;)