# What is the point of the Higgs Rig? **URL:** \ **Category:** New Citizens Q&A\ **Created:** [September 23, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-point-of-the-higgs-rig/108612 "2018-09-23T17:13:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Iowa\_Jones](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/iowa_jones/32/137837_2.png) [@Iowa\_Jones](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Iowa_Jones)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-point-of-the-higgs-rig/108612/1 "2018-09-23T17:13:42Z")
It seems to make everything worse for your ship…so why use it? ---
**Author:** ![Aedaxus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/aedaxus/32/393915_2.png) [@Aedaxus](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Aedaxus)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-point-of-the-higgs-rig/108612/2 "2018-09-23T17:54:35Z")
It reduces the time from 0 to 3/4 (ready to warp). But mostly usefull for slow big boats. ---
**Author:** ![Erethond](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/erethond/32/11049_2.png) [@Erethond](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Erethond)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 7:01pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-point-of-the-higgs-rig/108612/3 "2018-09-23T19:01:11Z")
It’s a rig designed mostly for mining ships. Slowing down your maximum velocity allows you to spend more time in range of asteroids while moving at 3/4 of max speed and ready to enter warp. The mass increase also makes it useful to collapse wormholes. Finally, having +100% mass but -55% inertia modifier overall reduces the time it takes you to go from 0 to 3/4 max velocity, if you are trying to accelerate into warp to escape hostiles. ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Little](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/do_little/32/411571_2.png) [@Do\_Little](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Do_Little)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 7:16pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-point-of-the-higgs-rig/108612/4 "2018-09-23T19:16:38Z")
The basic idea for the Higgs anchor is to let a ship mine while aligned to a safe spot. That way, if threatened, it can instantly warp to safety. With a Mackinaw, for example, the Higgs reduces speed by to 22.5 M/S. ---
**Author:** ![Trevor\_Dalech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/trevor_dalech/32/410287_2.png) [@Trevor\_Dalech](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Trevor_Dalech)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 6:54am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-point-of-the-higgs-rig/108612/5 "2018-09-24T06:54:02Z")
Aside from anchoring mining ships, it also has a use in wormholes. If you live in a wormhole you sometimes get wormhole connections to places you do not want. For example, you want to rat but you’re connected to a pvp group. Or you want to roll your static connection for a good hauling connection. (A static is a WH that will respawn and connect to a different place after you collapse it.) A wormhole collapsed after a certain amount of mass is put through (the mass limit is known up to 10% uncertainty.) So you can close wormholes by moving battleships back and forth through it. Since a higgs rig doubles the mass, it halves the amount of BS passes you need. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Saboteur](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dread_saboteur/32/270709_2.png) [@Dread\_Saboteur](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dread_Saboteur)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 9:54am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-point-of-the-higgs-rig/108612/6 "2018-09-24T09:54:26Z")
2 uses mine while aligned and increases mass on ship which helps with colapsing wormholes ---
**Author:** ![Solstice\_Projekt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/solstice_projekt/32/503293_2.png) [@Solstice\_Projekt](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Solstice_Projekt)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 3:13pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-point-of-the-higgs-rig/108612/7 "2018-09-24T15:13:14Z")
What [Erethond](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-point-of-the-higgs-rig/108612/3?u=solstice_projekt) said, plus … … it’s great for sniping with 1400s. When you get out of warp you’ll be much slower, and much faster at a full stop, meaning better tracking. ---
**Author:** ![Boldly\_Gone](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/boldly_gone/32/274259_2.png) [@Boldly\_Gone](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Boldly_Gone)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-point-of-the-higgs-rig/108612/8 "2018-09-26T14:59:15Z")
I’ve read about being bumped is harder if your ship is heavier, so you have even better chances to reach the necessary alignment to warp away from calamities. But for I never was bumped yet, it needs a try 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 3:08pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-point-of-the-higgs-rig/108612/9 "2018-12-25T15:08:55Z")
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