EVE:Dominix
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The "old warhorse" of the Gallente fleet has a few redeeming qualities: It's the best non-carrier drone ship in the game. It can fit a stupid-strong armor tank. It looks like a shoe. You're never going to look sexy in a Dominix, but sexy doesn't matter when you're the last one standing.
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PvE Brick O' Armor
Fitting
High Slots
- Heavy Nosferatu I
- Heavy Nosferatu I
- Heavy Nosferatu I
- Heavy Neutron Blaster II
- Heavy Neutron Blaster II
- Drone Link Augmentor I
Mid Slots
- Cap Recharger II
- Cap Recharger II
- Cap Recharger II
- Cap Recharger II
- Cap Recharger II
Low Slots
- Large Armor Repairer II
- Large Armor Repairer II
- Damage Control II
- 4 Mission-Specific Hardeners
Rigs
- Capacitor Control Circuit
- Auxiliary Nano Pump
- One of the above two. Your choice.
Drones
- 5x Warden I
- 5x Heavy (Ogres hit hard.)
- 5x Light (Pick your damage type.)
- Whatever else you want. I carry Mediums for no real purpose. I should probably just carry spares of the above, or utility (repper, painter) drones.
Commentary
There's a distinct risk in flying this PvE Dominix setup: If you're up against anything other than Angels, you'll probably fall asleep during the mission. Against Angels, you'll just swear a lot because the Explosive hole in Armor tanks is a pain to patch. But that also speaks to what you do with this boat: Drop in, make like a brick, and let your drones tear things up. The Medium Blasters are there to take care of close range stuff and gather up aggro instead of doing actual battleship DPS.
Your drone training and selection will make the biggest impact on how you fly. Even with lousy skills, a full Warden salvo can start insta-popping frigates at 65 km. With decent skills, they'll track fairly well up until about 20km. At that point, you can reel them in and let the Heavies out to play. They'll finish off anything that got through your halo of doom. The stable of Lights are there to shred frigates, especially webbers and scrammers, which sometime give Heavies trouble. The one thing you should NEVER do with drones, however, is web your targets. Bug or not, it screws with their tracking.
Armor hardeners should be chosen according to the mission, which should be a no-brainer. Beware of the Level 4 "omni" damage missions that aren't really omni damage. Case in point: Covering Your Tracks is, nominally, omni damage, but there is so much thermal damage that if you tank omni, you're going to die a horrible, horrible death. Other than that, you're also still stuck with the fact that some missions bug out and go total aggro when drones are used, so instead of actually completing them, you get to lose a ship to massive incoming DPS, and be annoyed that you're not flying a Raven.
You can also make some modifications to the setup. Dropping a Nosferatu and replacing it with a gun or second Drone Aug allows you to fit an Afterburner... and NOS2's if that's your bag, baby. An Omnidirectional Tracking Link I perfectly replaces one of the Cap Recharger IIs. Heck, you might even put a salvager and tractor beam in a few of the high slots to get an early start on garbage collection. Just be cognizent of your capacitor recharge rate and how long you can sustain a dual-LAR tank. Without that, you're in a pod.
If you're underskilled or cheap like me, the setup also works just fine (though I'd advise against high-grade L4 missions) with T1 gear.
The best part about the setup? It's not totally DOA for PvP, though I certainly wouldn't recommend it for everyday use. But if some jerk jumps you at a gate, you have the ability to tank up for a while (the DC2 alone gives you an impressive quantity of effective stucture hitpoints), launch a few drones, and wait for the calvary to come in. If there's no calvary, you're probably dead because you don't have an injector fitted. At this point, I'll note that a Medium Capacitor Booster II also fits as a replacement for a Cap Recharger in the mids, and leave conclusions up to the reader.
PvE Boulder
Fitting
- Dual 250mm Railgun
- Dual 250mm Railgun
- Dual 250mm Railgun
- Dual 250mm Railgun
- Dual 250mm Railgun or Large Smartbomb
- Drone Link Augmentor I
Mid Slots
- 100mn Afturburner (named, T2, whatever you got)
- Cap Recharger II
- Cap Recharger II
- Cap Recharger II
- Cap Recharger II
Low Slots
- Large Armor Repairer II
- Large Armor Repairer II
- Capacitor Power Relay (Best named works best)
- 4 Mission-Specific Hardeners
Rigs
- Capacitor Control Circuit
- Capacitor Control Circuit
- Auxiliary Nano Pump
Drones
- 5x Heavy drones
- 5x Medium drones
- 5x sentries, if you roll that way
Commentary
There are a few missions that make you travel to acceleration gates, and slowboating there at 130m/s will make you cry. 300m/s will mean you won't be crying as long. With Energy System Operations V and Energy Management IV the dual reps will run forever, or one rep+SB+guns or rep+AB+guns. If you fly away from enemy groups, they tend to form a nice straight line for your heavy drones and reduces their travel time from target to target. The railguns in the highs will let you add a little DPS. Many missions include a group of frigates that orbit closely. A smartbomb will make quick work of them. If they orbit outside smartbomb range they fly in enough of a straight line that my T2 heavies don't have tracking problems.
PvP Passive Armor Tank
Fitting
High Slots
- 3x Heavy Nosferatu
- 3x Medium Nosferatu
Mid Slots
- 100MN MWD
- 2x Sensor Booster
- 1x Remote Sensor Dampener
- Omnidirectional Tracking Link (drone upgrade)
Low Slots
- 2x 1600mm plate
- Large Armor Repairer II
- 2x EANM
- 1x Explosive
- ??? (Overdrive gets you over 1000m/s)
Rigs
- 3x ???
Drones
- 10x T2 Heavy
- 10x T2 Medium
- 5x T2 Light
Commentary
The whole idea here is to have a 'dummy' tank, based loosely on the Burn Eden passive tank + EWar + Cruise Raven. There's nothing to turn on. According to my fitting, I have over 53,000 effective HP. Your mileage may vary. Fit T2 where you can, look at getting Hull Upgrades V, and prepare for a long time waiting on Heavy Drone Operation V to complete.
It should be noted that the most expensive risk with this loss is your drone bay. It's your primary damage source.
