clearly a Fiend, no poors allowed.
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The safest PvE activity for AT ships.
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The thing Iâm wondering about is; are we going to be able to know what kind of storm weâre going into or is it like a surprise? Is the weather tied to the key? or is it random per abyss? Or is it random within each âpocketâ or whatever weâre calling them?
I hope we can know ahead of time so I can build half a dozen blinged out abyss ships for each storm type
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I really wanted to use my MarauderâŚ
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A definite maybe! Iâm going to test with a Phantasm on Sisi - simply because I can and, if it works, the ship is half the price of a Gila (also half the dps but that describes most cruisers). I suspect the bonused AB may come in handy!
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I just watched the youtube stream on the trig balance thing and I am guessing itâs the latter, so I am trying an omni-tank setup and hope my lazors will eat the drones quickly.
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Youâll know the âweatherâ or major effect - that information is included in the filament - you will not know the local effects which are procedurally generated in each room.
Since this is an instanced pocket, Iâm fitting a medium smartbomb on the Phantasm. Medium lasers suck if frigates/drones get too close even with the tracking bonus. No idea how well it will work (if at all) but it doesnât cost much to test on Singularity.
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You know what no one has suggested yet⌠maybe the ship of choice for these things will be the new Trig cruiser?
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Could be, eventually, but it will take a while to get the skills, blueprints and materials needed to build them.
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Yeah thatâs gonna take a while⌠considering the blueprint is going to be a drop in the abyss. But once itâs common it should be allowed in to the abyss because thatâs where it came from, and itâs like a pirate faction cruiser. Also the trigs will probably be weak against exp/em (exp/therm was it?) because most rats are weak against their own â â â â . Seems like a possible candidate for an abyss runner.
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with the damage ramp up factor Iâm assuming the trig ships will be great for the trig sites also lots of utility highs for smartbombs 
but yea itâs going to take a while for them and their guns to be available if I loot one Iâll probably be selling it asap for billions.
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And then you get your brand new, billion ISK Trig cruiser immediately ganked upon exitâŚ
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Thats what I was thinking. Gonna master these on Sisi and try to be one of the first on the market on tq $$$$
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Do you think theyâll seed some of the Trig ships on SISI for us to play with?
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I dunno, but I sure do hope so
i dont really think the data about the site should be on the filament. it practically takes out the point of shooting the player against a procedural environment.
youâre not supposed to know what to expect there, as much as how you dont know what would be the weather on a Wormhole system until you enter.
you could know the class site (since its defined by the filament) but not the weather or the local effects. if players could know what would be the weather from the filament they would just fit around it on each session. which im pretty sure isnt what CCP intends with this new content as far as i saw in the presentation.
Abyssal space seems to be designed as âonce you enter, you have to keep goingâ, no turn backs, no refits, you consume the filament, you have to finish the dive.
so no matter what you fly, youâll have to adapt your strat to what the instance throws at you, no going back to safety and change the fitting (which also explain why no T3).
Minmatar and Gallente will probably be the best races to run these since they are flexible in terms of tanking. Amarr and Caldari can compensate on less penalty against the weather.
omnitank will be best for this, specially because thereâs chance of Drifter and Sleeper Drone presence.
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I donât think all the data (or dangers) is going to be on the filament. Youâre right, though - omnitank will probably be the safest.
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I like the idea of preparing for the weather and adapting to the local effects⌠but Iâd be cool with having no information at all. Itâs really a matter of how they balance the Abyssâs and how challenging the tiers will be.
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Ahhh, I see you started a speculation thread for ships and fits to run Abysmal pockets.
I think HACâs with cap stable shield tanks and active omni resists using Hybrid, Projectile or Energy weapons is the way to go.
I havenât decided between a buffer or active shield tank. Buffer is great to hold up against neuts but it also blows up your ship signature. Same with using a MWD for propulsion. Personally I think itâs better to keep the ship signature down as small as possible, if anything itâll make it much tougher for the NPCâs to apply DPS.
An amplified shield boost tank can quickly repair damage and using an Afterburner for propulsion will definitely maintain a small ship signature. Now if thereâs an issue with NPCâs using Neutâs, hopefully a Nos can be employed to keep the cap stable.
Maybe Iâm not remembering correctly but wasnât something mentioned about the trig weapon becoming ineffective when targets get out of optimal range, For some reason Iâm thinking itâs a close range brawler type weapon which could mean ships with a long range snipe fit may work well against them.
Sooo, cap stable HAC running amplified shield boost with omni resists on afterburner prop doing long range sniper action?
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Yes, thereâs no falloff on the Trig weapon (just optimal). One of the reasons they indicated for this is so that you canât start cycling the damage up against a target that is out of range (which you could if it had falloff).
So Trigs should be easy to counter by pulling range. But then youâre left with Rogue Drones, Sleepers and any Abyss-based defenses.
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