What ship would positively smash them, and would implants be absolutely necessary.
I am still losing ships in T-1 granted it was a sleeper battleship in a T-1 fitted cruiser but I definitely am not progressing as quickly as I should.
Some say passive others active.
Ships available are Amarr T-2, Gallente T-2 and Caldari T-2 which I have better results with but even my gunnery skills are at lvl 4 T-2 but granted I’m using beams, maybe pulse?
I’ll give it a try, I am thinking that my failure is probably due to unfamiliarity with PvP because of lack of knowledge of strategy, my fits seem to be doctrine but my strategy most likely is very lacking.
Cerb for Dark
Shield tank Ishtar works well in Exotic due to very high Kinetic resists
Gila for the rest
General rules I use which might be helpful
Kill energy neuts first, except in Electrical where they are killed last.
Don’t fly straight towards BS with long range weapons, zig zag closer to them
Kill trig cruisers before they can ramp up thier DPS, highest priority target, the trig frigs can wait, even at full DPS ramp up the frigs DPS is manageable.
Stay well clear of Drone BCs, they have short range weps that melt you.
Set up easy to use hot keys for overheating all modules. If i get into bother, i can just press 1-3 on the KB to overheat all 3 racks, or just 3 on its own to overheat the defensive modules.
Here’s the brass tax: A cruiser will cover up all the bad piloting mistakes you make that would otherwise get you killed. Until you make a huge mistake and you die
Do T0’s in a frigate. you get 3x the loot of a cruiser and you’ll learn to play. Then move up to t1’s.