A few months ago, I joined a corp. After a while I got a free Caracal with the doctrine fitting, with shield extension 1 rigs. This brought my ship’s shield up to 11.2k, but a puny recharge of 24 hp/s. Recently, I’ve gotten the money and ‘fitting confidence’ to consider improving the fitting. I’ve gotten approval of my changes on everything except this: Shield extension or shield purger rigs?
A fit with all shield extensions was 10.7k with a 37 hp/s recharge.
A fit with all shield purgers was 7k with a 47 hp/s recharge.
The main goal of the ship is to run combat sites, and when I feel like it, level 2 sec missions.
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As the goal is PVE a general rule of thumb is to go with Purger rigs, if it’s for PVP then the suggestion would be for the extenders.
Regards,
Cypr3ss.
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Passive fit with purger rigs will do well with a Large Shield Extender, and maybe a Shield Power Relay or Shield Recharger if your fit allows.
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In pve you mainly encouter low-DPS rats (compared to players) that still deal long-term damage. So you rather use a purger.
In pvp you usually have logis that provide better reps than your small 37/s , provided you can tank long enough for the logis to land their reps. In order to tank long enough you need to have more buffer to sruvive the initial alpha/fire. If you don’t (too small group) then going buffer is still better (the 37hp/s are only when your shield is 25, so actually it’s just a small gain in hp over a fight) , or going active tank if you know what you’re doing (but the caracal lacks the CCPU and CCaPacitor to be efficient at this).
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Go with active shield fit and a solidifier or 2 and a capacitor rig. Also a cap battery or recharger in mid slot. If you pick Capacitor volume for rig, then go with recharger in mid, if you pick capacitor recharge rig, then go with battery in mid. 1 battery, preferably Large PB-acid and 1 recharge rig is better then the other way around, but is much harder to fit because of the battery powergrid requirements which you as a new player might not be able to meet due to low skills.
Passive shield fits are not very good on Caracal due to its original shield size being so small and low resits which you need to plug thus having less open slots for shield resist mods. Passive fits work well on ships that have built-in resistance value into their hull bonus and have at least a decent shield size to begin with, for example: Gila, some Tengu set-ups, Drakes, Rattlers, SNI and others like that. Then the shield gets kinda maximized, on small shields with low resits its no good, you just end up with a crappy tank.
You might also go 1 solidifier, 1 capacitor rig, 1 Rigor Missile rig for better DPS application. In level 1-2 I don’t think application should be an issue, you will start seeing the effects of lack of it in some 3s, and definetly at 4s.
Much better go with active shield, solidifiers and cap. Note that for PvP you need less cap, but still need some. On active shield set ups, your very small passive regen adds to your booster for a nice HP/s total, while at the same time, you have more space for resistance mods and possibly still space leftover for 1 extender or missile targeting computer or both depending on your fit. Whereas on passive Caracal you have to maximize extenders and everything else has to go for shield regen, leaving you too little space for utility such as missile computers or rigs.
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