# What is the point of the Higgs Rig?

**URL:** <https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-point-of-the-higgs-rig/108612>\
**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:** 1\
**Showing post:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**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")

</div>

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.

---

_[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-is-the-point-of-the-higgs-rig/108612)._