Hi there, a month and a half-old newbro here looking for advice on my bling exploceptor fit:
Main goals for this fit is to:
-bubble immunity
-maximise scan strength
-maximise relic virus coherence and strength
-align <2s
-maximise ship ehp to counter smartbombs
Assumptions using pyfa:
-Engineering skills (CPU/Powergrid V)
-No mutaplasmids
Fit:
[Stiletto, *zeugma]
Damage Control II
Inertial Stabilizers II
Inertial Stabilizers II
Cargo Scanner II
Republic Fleet Medium Shield Extender
Zeugma Integrated Analyzer
5MN Y-T8 Compact Microwarpdrive
Sisters Core Probe Launcher, Sisters Core Scanner Probe
Improved Cloaking Device II
[Empty High slot]
Small Low Friction Nozzle Joints II
Small Gravity Capacitor Upgrade II
Inherent Implants âSquireâ Power Grid Management EG-603
Eifyr and Co. âRogueâ Evasive Maneuvering EM-701
Poteque âProspectorâ Astrometric Rangefinding AR-806
Neural Lace âBlackglassâ Net Intrusion 920-40
Poteque âProspectorâ Environmental Analysis EY-1005
I barely squeezed the republic fleet medium shield extender in there, itâll be nearly impossible to fit another shield mod without jacking up the price of implants.
My corpmates say 5.6k ehp will survive 1 smarbombing BS for sure, 2âs a toss up and any more will get me. However I should be able to avoid a SB camp if i watch local and zkill.
seriously, drop that useless cargo scanner and put an em amplifier instead.
5mn is useless. You can place a BM when loading grid to bounce on it to next can.
a Large âvehemenceâ shockwave is 300 EM damage. 8 of them is 2400 EM . A couple of hyper-rigged SB BS can thus alpha you for 4800 EM damage.
then there is the issue of your signature radius. The cloak wonât work if the gate is dirty. If they have a boosted locker, even a 2s align will get caught. That is even more true if you have a huge signature radius.
2s align, 38m sig, 5.5k EHP
[Ares, *Simulated Ares Fitting]
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Damage Control II
Zeugma Integrated Analyzer
Thukker Medium Shield Extender
EM Ward Amplifier II
Sisters Core Probe Launcher
Small Low Friction Nozzle Joints II
Small Gravity Capacitor Upgrade II
Sisters Core Scanner Probe x16
EM resists mod or you will die to smartbombs. Keep the 5mn, itâs a must for fast travel between cans, and will save your life when docking without insta spot (and you can burn your own).
<2s align is as safe as it can get (sig is not important), itâs only about server ticks. Never got caught while traveling through countless camps. The chance is not zero, but tiny.
Ares is the better choice due to slot layout.
Running data sites is pointless, focus on relics with expensive T2 salvage (e.g. Sansha).
Personally I donât care about safety, just optimize for speed (no imps, I have max skills):
Relic Ceptor
[Ares, Ares]
Prototype Cloaking Device I
Salvager I
Core Probe Launcher II
Relic Analyzer II
Scan Rangefinding Array II
5MN Quad LiF Restrained Microwarpdrive
Inertial Stabilizers II
Inertial Stabilizers II
Inertial Stabilizers II
Damage Control II
Small Emission Scope Sharpener II
Small Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer II
Some great points there mate. Iâd have to shake up the fit entirely! How do you manage the different bookmarks? Like do you name them random stuff then delete them once the site is cleared? When selecting the BM to warp to in between cans do you pull up another window (people & places) for the BMs or do you right click in space?
I like that now without the microwarpdrive and cloak i free up enough powergrid and cpu to not require implants. Thanks a ton!
Iâm only running relic sites. The blackglass implant works on the zeugma and relic sites benefit from the added strength too.
Thanks ill drop the cargo scanner. I donât cherry pick anyway because I want to despawn sites however a scanner is sometimes useful if i suspect a camper or another explorer in the vicinity. Not really needed tho.
exactly, when warping to a new signature press ctr B, and press enter once the grid loads.
as @Tipa_Riot said, youâll need a MWD to be able to make your pings around every gate (those should go in a specific folder. I have my âtacticalâ folder that contains pings, named eg âcarou 500 topâ if itâs a ping 500km above the gate to carou. remember that good tacks should be more than 250km way from the gate, if possible off the general direction of the other gates.
The chance is not zero, but it happens (it happened to me, it happened to friends, and I did it successfully on the first try on sisi with my alts). People who keep an eye on local will know what you do and prepare a setup for your next time. When it happens, the chance to be caught depends on your signature.
-Kept the 5mn for ease of making pings/docking etc
-Swapped the cargo scanner for the EM amplifier and ehp increased to 6.33k from 5.68k
-Cloaking module not required, but i left it there purely for quality of life reasons (ability to go afk for a bit wherever), so downgraded the module to save cpu.
Overall, despite the higher sig radius than the ares+nanofiber fit, I think this stiletto fit is more versatile.
remember that the cloak reduces your targeting speed, which may increase the time you take to complete a site.
However I also think that it is a good safety tool, eg when scanning the system.
it also allows you to cloak if you suspect one of the ships at the gate is an instalocker. Iâm not sure a advanced cloak allows you to warp in 1s after decloak if already aligned.
Quick update-
Been flying this fit on my explo alt for 4-6 hours each day in the past 3 days,and earned a total of 3.2B. It averages around 200M/hr. Pretty happy with this fit. The implants really completed this fit and made hacking so much faster. Did die once to a cloaky instalocker. Greed got me- but overall no complaints!
I just made a test and a 150 km warp is <7s (including align : from âclick warpâ to âable to lockâ)
1610 km was <8s
bouncing thus would take <16s, that is the distance you cover =64km with a 4km/s inty (with full speed). If you take 1s to accelerate thatâs exactly the same(60km). Also you wonât bounce on random roids/structures.
