Diary of EVE Addict : Into the Holes and out

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

Started my day later than usual. Had nothing else to do,so I grabbed my Pilgrim and undocked from Vlillirier station. My destination was Indrequlle. All way to my destination was empty. I was bored. Finally, reached it. Empty. Frustrating and disappointing. So I head towards Heydieles. New squid paradise. Checked large plex. There was a  Exectioner flying around the button and de-plexing. No time to waste - i thought. Decloaked, tackled him and killed. Later, in about 2 minutes he came back in crucifier. I decloaked, he tried to escape. But died once again. Felt better. Killing a noob like that felt good.
I packed my stuff and went back to Indrequlle.  In system, a lonely tornado was on 5 degree scan towards small outpost. Hm.... I warped there at 50. He was 100 off and aligned to Murethand stargate. He warped. I immediately warped after him at 100 to the gate. As I land, he was 5km away from me. Piece of cake. Decloked, tackled. As he was dying I was suprised his large guns were able to hit me. I was in high armor, but my repper was holding my tank just fine. After he DIED  my ship was still taking damage. It seemed that I took sentry fire,because he was a neutral.. Oh well, didn't notice that :D

I picked my loot and went back home. Good kill,time to leave.

In around 20 minutes, Yun said he found 3 wormholes in Vlillirier. So he went to check one and on the other side were RAZOR fleet. We quickly formed up, send 2 Prophecies on hole to be bait and waited. RAZOR were too chickened to  leave their precious null sec. After some time of baiting, we jumped after them, initiated a fight. They didn't take it. We were able to kill one of their SLEIPNIR. Rest bailed.

We went back home and Yun went to check 2nd wormhole. It was a class 3 wormhole. And there were a small gang: Loki,Talos,x2 Guardians,Noctis inside. They were doing a combat side. We quickly formed again with only one logi in our fleet. I went inside the wormhole to get a warp in on them. They were finishing their site. I was in position to get them. Fleet jumped in and warped to me. It was a long ~60AU warp, so when they hit 20AU, I decloaked,tackled one guardian and started tanking their damage. It was intense. Double TDs on Loki and x2 Neut on Talos. I needed to survive as long as possible. Fleet landed and I received repps. Logi pilot was overheating, because i was loosing armor and was standing at 10% armor lime. My AAR was OH and running with full power. Our opponents started bailing. Guys had tackle on Loki and I was holding Guardian. As their friends bailed, Loki DIED along with his friend GUARDIAN.

We looted and got the fuck out of than hole.

The 3rd wormhole was empty...


I grabbed my Pilgrim and decided to pay a visit in null sec through a wormhole ( later my Pilgrim was camped and died - it was my first and last time going into 0.0). I was on comms and heard people starting a fight against some hostiles. They seemed stressed. Yelling : "Get a web on that tengu!!!" and etc.
Hmmm,- I though. Maybe I should get back,- and  I started warping back to hole. I was 2 jumps out. Guys tackled tengu, but I heard they cant break his tank. They were struggling and tengu was killing them one by one. I was in a hurry. As I jumped back to Vlillirier, someone X-ed up and I landed 0 on that tengu. My all 3  neutralizers were pre-overheated and ready to go. I applied them and tengu dropped in 15seconds. As a result everyone was super happy about it. I picked up loot. Opened  my cargohold. 2.3billion ISK was in my cargohold. WTF,-I though. JACKPOT!!!
Checked killmail. I held the last hit. Linked it in fleet,corp,GMI,Vlil Check. Everywhere. Why,you ask?

Thats WHY .
It was a pay day. ~220 mil for that kill.

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Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

Me and Yun were online.I checked the wormhole where we killed a Loki and Guardian yesterday. There was a Nighthawk,Scimitar,Gila and Drake on scan. They were doing combat site. Quickly we formed a small gang, got few people in fleet. I fitted a probe launcher on my Pilgrim. Can't explain why. Just did it.
Me and Yun went back. And......to our horror.. The hole closed.....

It was me and him stuck inside.
Yun had to log off. He was in covert ops, so we were sure we will get out. I had probes too, so I started probing for exit.

It took me awhile. As I almost located our exit, my probes.... disappeared.. They have expired....
I was without probes.
I was laughing at my pain. Thank God Yun was here too.

When He logged in nad probed our exit, we found ourselves in Aridia, 47 jumps out from Vlillirier.

We went through null sec, because it was shorter. Too hard to do almost 50 jumps.....


Going back home I realized that next time I'll go to WH. Ill take more than 7 probes. And watch my probe timer...

Later that day we had a fight versus BALEX in Murethand. It was a serious clusterfuck. BALEX undocked in T3s, they had Archon on field. We had factiom BS and bunch of other random ships. I won't comment a lot about it, many peeps died, I died too. But at the end we lost ISK war only slightly, but had quite a fun. During the fight,many other corporations were starting to head towards us. Tuskers,Shahow Cartel and others.

Here is battlereport: BATTLEREPOT

Vlillirier Market

After some considerations I've decided to supply Vlillirier market with modules,ammunition needed for casual PVP player in Faction Warfare.
I've made a presenatation about it. So,read, suggest and be happy ;)

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Witch Hunter: Episode 3

Hello all! It has been some time since my last witch hunt post. I've been hunting a lot lately and realized that it is very hard to talk about each engagement I have with my pilgrim. So, I decided to choose some of them, that are most memorable.

I engagement
So first engagement took place in Hykanima system in Medium plex. I sat it that plex for about 2 hours waiting for someone to come and capture it. At first, a Merlin WT came. I was frustrated. 2 hours and only a merlin? So I uncloaked and scared him off. After some time( ~20min), Merlin pilot came back with Dragoon and Eagle friend. Now when I saw Eagle coming in, I immediately asked for back-up. I did it,because it was hostile space and enemies could have brought reinforcements to save Eagle. As my backup team arrived,we were able to tackle that Eagle. After being tackled he had no chance of surviving.My purpose for this Eagle was simple: neut out his guns and wait for him to die.

http://dvesk.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=17649407

II Engagement

Second one is more of a fun engagement. I was warping between systems when I saw a Algos on gate. As I land, he started to burn away from gate. He was 10km off me, but by overheating my faction scram I got him. Had to take gate guns, but he dropped very fast and I was already warping off within 12seconds.
It was an interesting algos pilot...

http://dvesk.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=17677984


III Engagement

This one was the most fun I've ever had with my Pilgrim. Now Pilgrim is well known ship for killing ratters,right? But in Low sec, there are no ratters,right? Wrong. SO happened that my roam to South of Black Rise ended in Indregulle. Me and some neutral guys were the only people in system. For a second, I saw a Cerberus on scan. You don't see that every day. There were no plexes open. But Cerberus kept moving in system. I checked one of the belts with D-Scan. Bingo. He was in a belt. Wait what? Belt?
As I warped in, he was already gone.So i followed. Next belt. I was too late, he warped off. Then I warped to the third one. Landed 15km from him. Approached. Just as I was about to decloak, he started aligning to next belt. So instead of decloaking,i warped to next belt. I landed before him, decloaked, tackled.
It took me some time though,because Cerberus has a very high Thermal resist, and I was using Hammerhead IIs. But eventually he died. I never got lower than 80% armor. My local medium rep was able to rep all his damage. I lost 20% armor only because I did not want to get very low on Capacitor. It was a strong fight. I was constantly spamming D-Scan and I was ready to align out. 10MN afterburner did a great job reduicing missile damage.

Here is the kill: http://dvesk.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=17679977

RULES OF A PILGRIM PILOT

RULES OF A PILGRIM PILOT

Fleet engagement

1. In case friendlies bailed from plex, and only one target came that you could kill - DO NOT ENGAGE, because he have back-up and he is being cautious.
2. When fighing with fleet mates in your favor against multiple target, NEVER come close at first. You are primaried. STAY at range. Unless have logi support.
3.After the fight, DO NOT rewarp at range from the cluster, from which enemies can warp in. You WILL get decloaked and killed. Use a different one, or a tactical bookmark.
4. After engagement, pull range from closest target (>2km) and CLOAK. Be ALIGNED.
5. When baiting, DO NOT DECLOAK, until bait tackles enemy. ALWAYS tell fleetmate when he can burn if needed.

Solo engagement

1. Do not engage people on station. NEVER EVER.
2. Once engaged and killed your prey,in case he called for back-up and decide to come back - DO NOT ENGAGE. They will be fitted to counter you.
3. DO NOT engage multiple projectile/missile users.
4. NEVER warp to plex at 0 if there are ANY possible hostile in space. Always warp to 20km.
5. NEVER fight 0 on the gate or close by. Minimum distance - 80-100km.
6. When engaging a target, pres D-Scan every 2 seconds. Range of D-Scan should be around 214748364 Km. So that you would have time to bail if anyone is coming.
7. DO NOT ENAGAGE missile boats,unless you can tackle them at 0 and bail if needed.
8. In case of fighting multiple SMALL targets: TACKLE kiters first or force them off field and then deal with close range ships.
9. After tackling/neuting target, KILL ECM DRONES ASAP.
10. ONLY engage if you WILL WIN or you are 100% sure you could bail if needed.
11. Statistically, your best range is 7km (T2 fit), or 10KM (faction fit).  - effect of TD optimal range on projectile users.
12. DO NOT ENGAGE  Vagabonds EVER. You can not kill them.
13. ALWAYS carry a set of Hornet-ECM 300. USE THEM IF YOU BEING TACKLED from range.
14. Tell people that your'e going out. Let them know where you are in case of assistance.