It's my favorite ship -- I use it for everything. I did recently lose one in a Crimson Harvest site because it got webbed down. Since it relies so much on speed tank, webbing can really hurt it. I switched to a sleipnir for those sites -- quicker clears and much tankier.
It's a bit tight, but you can upgrade from a blingy med shield booster to a blingy large shield booster. Change the rigs to a medium ancillary current router, and medium capacitor control circuit for strong cap stability and you double your tank
Tips on getting fights in FW...play the objective. If you have numbers, run battlefields. You will get N+1'd, but if you choose which battlefield your doing you can place scouts to see whats coming. BF's are good to run if your able to ship up, so sometimes preparing before hand helps (if you have a staging point) If your small gang and you want LP, find area's that don't have good advantage but near the frontline and run the adv sites (rendevou supply depot propaganda listening posts) ADV is arguably more important so most of the time someone will stop you. Not only that if you alternate who places the beacon its garuntee'd LP (so your not completely wasting time) Or, if your wanting a fight, try to push advantage in a frontline system, thats active. You willf or sure get a fight then.
My Vagabond is... 16 years old ? It was given to me by one of the Mercenay Coalition directors for my birthday, two days after Band of Brothers disbanded. So it's incredibly valuable to me: it sits in hisec and I used it for quite some time to do exploration sites, armed with (wait for it...) small beam lasers and sporting a fully passive shield tank, à la Drake. Yes... I know... a shameful abomination. But. I. Love. It. It's _my_ Vaga. But then... CCP released the Confessor. Oh dear... the Confessor. The love of my life. I sometimes re-sub just to fly it.
lost 2 to tetrimon sites after using the short cut gate keys and getting a full set of oracles on both along with the boss....use the "nearly" same fit for C3 and its become my fav ship as well....and its thanks to you i started to fly it !
For PvP I tend to roll an MWD with disruptor fit with more of a kitey mindset. Drop one ancil for a multispectrum hardener for better fitting space, use tracking enhancers, and throw on at least 1 nano hull in the low for extra speed. Using a scram is great, but once youre at that range it can be difficult to escape (aka pick your fight) With the kitier disruptor fit you dont have that problem. Youre more likely to use Hail defensively however, as most times you'll want to use the longer range of Barrage or the dmg type choices of faction (EMP, Phased, or Fusion) to help with application which makes loooads of difference at higher speeds and ranges. Never hurts to have a pal in a webby loki (or huginn) and a bubbler to provide tackle allowing for maintaining that range. With that playstyle, the ancil hardly sees use-its more of a top up between targets as you whizz around the grid, picking and choosing your victims. Great for hole games as most times lesser pilots will try so hard to chase you down and be 50-60k off the hole before they realize they've made a graaave mistake. Good luck! See ya out there! o7
Loving your videos, benzie. Watching your videos has got me back playing, and I've given myself 30 days of omega (used your referral too 😊) to see if I can get back into it again after all these years. A pot has changed, and it feels like a new game, one I've never played before, but I'm getting there.......slowly😂
I'm a bit behind on my comments, but thanks for this video. I've had some fun in the Stabber, the tech 1 base for the Vagabond. Your video encourages me to give the Vagabond a go. I appreciate the PVP elements in this video, the PVP fit and the PVP excerpt of actual game play. Cool!
Recently I used a Stabber for the SOE epic arc. I run that from time to time to boost faction standings. I tend to like the smaller and faster style of ships, so a lot of frigates. The Stabber is fast and a lot like a tankier, harder hitting frigate.
Fit for the lazy: [Vagabond, Benzie-C3] Gyrostabilizer II Gyrostabilizer II Gyrostabilizer II Tracking Enhancer II Assault Damage Control II Thukker Large Cap Battery Multispectrum Shield Hardener II Pithum C-Type Medium Shield Booster 10MN Afterburner II 425mm AutoCannon II 425mm AutoCannon II 425mm AutoCannon II 425mm AutoCannon II 425mm AutoCannon II Core Probe Launcher II Medium Thermal Shield Reinforcer II Medium Kinetic Shield Reinforcer II Hobgoblin II x5 Sisters Core Scanner Probe x8 Hail M x600
Love the vagabond because it looks like a pit viper/king cobra. You didn't hear this from me but smart bomb vagabond is incredibly annoying if you can run a solid speed tank
Ishtar fodder 😉 at least back in the day when 99% were speed tanked. Back in the day that a LOT of the cruiser class, including many confused Ishtar pilots, speed tanked. My armor tanked Ishtar had a field day back then. Max armor skills + max sentry drone skills made evey speed tanked cruiser and frigate scrap. 😂 What REALLY made me grin was seeing nanosac (speed tanked Sacrilege) because my max trained Ishtar stood no chance vs an armor tanked Sac., hammy fit. 🤕 As long as I could bait speed targets long and well enough, it/they would die. And armor/sig tanked Cynabal was death to me too, even when webbed and painted by Ishtar mid slots 🤢 Yet another great vid capt. Benzie 👍 P.S. The nano nerf was actually a huge Katarrin killboard nerf 😢 I lost SO many targets 😭 The nano nerf was actually the first Ishtar nerf 😢 😂
The Ishtar is such an iconic vessel, but one I've never been able to properly enjoy. I know its popular and powerful, but I just can never get it to work in the content I run!
@@captainbenzie If you're referring to NPC content, then the Istar was a favorite there too. Even fit, ready for PVP. I fit MWD, web, scram, injector w/ 800 cap boost, and 800mm plate medium rep & 2 ENAMs? Been so long ago now. Were there 5 mids? If so then a painter was often useful. 5 lows? But I'd take agro release the minions and kite NPCs. Except for Gurista space the Istar was my go to for for anomalies and whatnot. Even in unknown space, usually, if solo. Gurista space was fun in the Deimos. Also PvP fit just in case I got jumped or whatnot. Rule of thumb 👍 for me was to always be PvP fit in low, null and unknown space. Some say less efficient. I said, "safer" 😁 It MUST be there were 5 mids, maybe lol, there was a # of options for the last mid slot, for hacking module or painter or ecm or...I could solo 10 of 10 in the Ishtar in most regions The Ishtar got bashed SO many times by the nerf bat, it's hard to say how I'd fit and use it now. One of the reasons I retired from EvE. I tried EvE Echoes for a MUCH shorter time. EvE OnLine lasted about 8 years for me, Echoes, maybe a year. A shadow of the real EvE...🤣
you can downgrade the thukker to repubic fleet and downgrade the medium rep to a large booster 2 and shave around 100m off ur fit with a stronger tank. and just replace one of ur rigs with a semiconductor (more cap with only a minor hit to regen over a CCC) to keep you stable under the nuet pressure from the rats in c3
Fraternity have no balls 😂. Just got to move fast so they can't get setup for a drop. We go a hunting in their space all the time. Come say high in Brave space if you get a hole that way! No promises not to be blobbed but no caps and rarely marauders. Just a bunch of blood hungry nerds in standing fleet 🫡. We all love vagabonds too so you will see a bunch.
The PVP Fit: [Vagabond, Benzie-PVP] Co-Processor II Co-Processor II Gyrostabilizer II Dark Blood Reactor Control Unit EFFA Compact Assault Damage Control Warp Scrambler II X-Large Ancillary Shield Booster X-Large Ancillary Shield Booster 10MN Afterburner II Dual 180mm AutoCannon II Dual 180mm AutoCannon II Dual 180mm AutoCannon II Dual 180mm AutoCannon II Dual 180mm AutoCannon II Auto Targeting System I Medium Kinetic Shield Reinforcer II Medium Ancillary Current Router II Hobgoblin II x5 Hail M x1000 Navy Cap Booster 400 x18
Vale of the Silent is Frat space, so likely Frat that blobbed you. I'm a Goon living in Delve and ngl, if you got a response down here it'd be as bad or worse than the response Frat dropped on you. I'll see killmails linked in intel for solo roamers and there'll be 15+ dudes on the killmail, none of which are in a comparable ship to the roamer
Nullsec doesn't want fights... They want to overpower you out so that they can get back to krabbing. Look, I get it. But you later see these same Alliances complaining that there's no good PvP 😂
@@captainbenzie Sadly that is true.. they will tend to undock hard counters at 4x the number you have. I took a little group of t1 frigates (about 7-8) all t1 fit and piloted by alpha's and newbies. Just to give them an experience in null. What do they undock in to come catch us? Caracals, Garmurs, Interdictors, vexors, rapid light missile boats of all descriptions. Not salty, it's what I expected really, it's just the way things are now. They sit and wait for content to come to them.
It's the one I rated as "best" for doing all the C3 combat sites. The Vagabond had very similar clear times, but cost a bit more. That said, I personally find the Vagabond "more fun" than the Sacrilege (and said as much in the ranking video 😉)
Sadly a Needlejack doesn't have a "No Vale" option and this was the same in Horde and Goon territory too. Just this was the most recent incident, and I had footage.
Nope, firstly I didn't have the recorder open and it's not exactly "content" bumping a hauler for 3 minutes for no reward 😅 well played, but not entertaining to watch 😉
Meanwhile as a new player, I take 50+days to skill into a single ship. The biggest annoyance about the game IMO. And here he is, spamming these videos about a new favorite ship each other day :D
I have to agree - waaaaaay back when I started with Stabber and worked towards Vagabond. The skill tree for this ship helps in lots of other ways and with other races if you like fast shield tank ships
The Eve community these days are so risk adverse. It saddens me. I miss the days where we all just welped solo ships and small games with empty pods. Got five guys online on a Friday night? Grab some tech 1 cruisers, set a course to the opposite side of the galaxy, and start warping! If you see it, shoot it. Take all fights. If you die, oh well! Go back and get another cruiser! This modern Eve player is so emotionally tied to their Internet space ship they can't take fights even when they have an apparent advantage! What happened to us?
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Looks like an Axolotl, or even like Falkor from the Neverending story.
It's my favorite ship -- I use it for everything. I did recently lose one in a Crimson Harvest site because it got webbed down. Since it relies so much on speed tank, webbing can really hurt it. I switched to a sleipnir for those sites -- quicker clears and much tankier.
I've yet to have any difficulty with webs but then again I am running Tetrimon, I sided with the Raiders 😂
It's a bit tight, but you can upgrade from a blingy med shield booster to a blingy large shield booster. Change the rigs to a medium ancillary current router, and medium capacitor control circuit for strong cap stability and you double your tank
I'm new in eve and this was my first T2 ship. Love it!
I'm glad you agree!!
Tips on getting fights in FW...play the objective. If you have numbers, run battlefields. You will get N+1'd, but if you choose which battlefield your doing you can place scouts to see whats coming.
BF's are good to run if your able to ship up, so sometimes preparing before hand helps (if you have a staging point)
If your small gang and you want LP, find area's that don't have good advantage but near the frontline and run the adv sites (rendevou supply depot propaganda listening posts) ADV is arguably more important so most of the time someone will stop you. Not only that if you alternate who places the beacon its garuntee'd LP (so your not completely wasting time)
Or, if your wanting a fight, try to push advantage in a frontline system, thats active. You willf or sure get a fight then.
My Vagabond is... 16 years old ? It was given to me by one of the Mercenay Coalition directors for my birthday, two days after Band of Brothers disbanded. So it's incredibly valuable to me: it sits in hisec and I used it for quite some time to do exploration sites, armed with (wait for it...) small beam lasers and sporting a fully passive shield tank, à la Drake.
Yes... I know... a shameful abomination. But. I. Love. It. It's _my_ Vaga.
But then... CCP released the Confessor.
Oh dear... the Confessor. The love of my life. I sometimes re-sub just to fly it.
The Confessor is a great ship and hey, however the Vagabond worked for you, I'm glad you loved it!!
lost 2 to tetrimon sites after using the short cut gate keys and getting a full set of oracles on both along with the boss....use the "nearly" same fit for C3 and its become my fav ship as well....and its thanks to you i started to fly it !
Glad you're enjoying!
For PvP I tend to roll an MWD with disruptor fit with more of a kitey mindset. Drop one ancil for a multispectrum hardener for better fitting space, use tracking enhancers, and throw on at least 1 nano hull in the low for extra speed.
Using a scram is great, but once youre at that range it can be difficult to escape (aka pick your fight) With the kitier disruptor fit you dont have that problem. Youre more likely to use Hail defensively however, as most times you'll want to use the longer range of Barrage or the dmg type choices of faction (EMP, Phased, or Fusion) to help with application which makes loooads of difference at higher speeds and ranges.
Never hurts to have a pal in a webby loki (or huginn) and a bubbler to provide tackle allowing for maintaining that range.
With that playstyle, the ancil hardly sees use-its more of a top up between targets as you whizz around the grid, picking and choosing your victims. Great for hole games as most times lesser pilots will try so hard to chase you down and be 50-60k off the hole before they realize they've made a graaave mistake.
Good luck! See ya out there! o7
Loving your videos, benzie. Watching your videos has got me back playing, and I've given myself 30 days of omega (used your referral too 😊) to see if I can get back into it again after all these years. A pot has changed, and it feels like a new game, one I've never played before, but I'm getting there.......slowly😂
It takes time and I'm glad that I've been able to help!
Never flown the ship , but the front looks like a dragon. Looks like fun
Yup! It's a dragon/axolotl/Falcor!!
I'm a bit behind on my comments, but thanks for this video. I've had some fun in the Stabber, the tech 1 base for the Vagabond. Your video encourages me to give the Vagabond a go. I appreciate the PVP elements in this video, the PVP fit and the PVP excerpt of actual game play. Cool!
I need to fly a Stabber more! What do you use it for?
Recently I used a Stabber for the SOE epic arc. I run that from time to time to boost faction standings. I tend to like the smaller and faster style of ships, so a lot of frigates. The Stabber is fast and a lot like a tankier, harder hitting frigate.
It's my fav ship, I remember fondly back in 2008-2009 when I bought my first one. Currently I'm doing T5 gamma's with it.
Fit for the lazy:
[Vagabond, Benzie-C3]
Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II
Tracking Enhancer II
Assault Damage Control II
Thukker Large Cap Battery
Multispectrum Shield Hardener II
Pithum C-Type Medium Shield Booster
10MN Afterburner II
425mm AutoCannon II
425mm AutoCannon II
425mm AutoCannon II
425mm AutoCannon II
425mm AutoCannon II
Core Probe Launcher II
Medium Thermal Shield Reinforcer II
Medium Kinetic Shield Reinforcer II
Hobgoblin II x5
Sisters Core Scanner Probe x8
Hail M x600
One Vagabond to rule them all
Best ship ❤️
Love the look of that ship
Would love to see some different fits
I'll have more over time!
Love the vagabond because it looks like a pit viper/king cobra.
You didn't hear this from me but smart bomb vagabond is incredibly annoying if you can run a solid speed tank
Lmao
I’m gonna write that down for, uh, reasons. Also, cute PFP! ❤️
@@acegalaxiusquantum1119 call it the 0km orbit GF
Ishtar fodder 😉 at least back in the day when 99% were speed tanked. Back in the day that a LOT of the cruiser class, including many confused Ishtar pilots, speed tanked. My armor tanked Ishtar had a field day back then. Max armor skills + max sentry drone skills made evey speed tanked cruiser and frigate scrap. 😂
What REALLY made me grin was seeing nanosac (speed tanked Sacrilege) because my max trained Ishtar stood no chance vs an armor tanked Sac., hammy fit. 🤕
As long as I could bait speed targets long and well enough, it/they would die.
And armor/sig tanked Cynabal was death to me too, even when webbed and painted by Ishtar mid slots 🤢
Yet another great vid capt. Benzie 👍
P.S. The nano nerf was actually a huge Katarrin killboard nerf 😢 I lost SO many targets 😭 The nano nerf was actually the first Ishtar nerf 😢 😂
The Ishtar is such an iconic vessel, but one I've never been able to properly enjoy. I know its popular and powerful, but I just can never get it to work in the content I run!
@@captainbenzie If you're referring to NPC content, then the Istar was a favorite there too. Even fit, ready for PVP. I fit MWD, web, scram, injector w/ 800 cap boost, and 800mm plate medium rep & 2 ENAMs? Been so long ago now. Were there 5 mids? If so then a painter was often useful. 5 lows? But I'd take agro release the minions and kite NPCs. Except for Gurista space the Istar was my go to for for anomalies and whatnot. Even in unknown space, usually, if solo. Gurista space was fun in the Deimos. Also PvP fit just in case I got jumped or whatnot. Rule of thumb 👍 for me was to always be PvP fit in low, null and unknown space. Some say less efficient. I said, "safer" 😁
It MUST be there were 5 mids, maybe lol, there was a # of options for the last mid slot, for hacking module or painter or ecm or...I could solo 10 of 10 in the Ishtar in most regions
The Ishtar got bashed SO many times by the nerf bat, it's hard to say how I'd fit and use it now. One of the reasons I retired from EvE. I tried EvE Echoes for a MUCH shorter time. EvE OnLine lasted about 8 years for me, Echoes, maybe a year. A shadow of the real EvE...🤣
you can downgrade the thukker to repubic fleet and downgrade the medium rep to a large booster 2 and shave around 100m off ur fit with a stronger tank. and just replace one of ur rigs with a semiconductor (more cap with only a minor hit to regen over a CCC) to keep you stable under the nuet pressure from the rats in c3
I may have to reconsider my love of the Tengu 🤔
Different weapons but a similar flight style, close brawling and sig tanking!
"If you can guess" their logo is on the screen as you say this lmao
That's kinda the joke 😂
@@captainbenzie yeah, I'm just dense 😅
Fraternity have no balls 😂. Just got to move fast so they can't get setup for a drop. We go a hunting in their space all the time. Come say high in Brave space if you get a hole that way! No promises not to be blobbed but no caps and rarely marauders. Just a bunch of blood hungry nerds in standing fleet 🫡. We all love vagabonds too so you will see a bunch.
Haha we'll see if the Needlejacks or connections agree!
The PVP Fit:
[Vagabond, Benzie-PVP]
Co-Processor II
Co-Processor II
Gyrostabilizer II
Dark Blood Reactor Control Unit
EFFA Compact Assault Damage Control
Warp Scrambler II
X-Large Ancillary Shield Booster
X-Large Ancillary Shield Booster
10MN Afterburner II
Dual 180mm AutoCannon II
Dual 180mm AutoCannon II
Dual 180mm AutoCannon II
Dual 180mm AutoCannon II
Dual 180mm AutoCannon II
Auto Targeting System I
Medium Kinetic Shield Reinforcer II
Medium Ancillary Current Router II
Hobgoblin II x5
Hail M x1000
Navy Cap Booster 400 x18
My guess: TEST cause they did it to me and a mate and we were in T1 Frigs
Good guess, but this time it was FRAT 😅
Its a great ship, one of my all time favourites in EvE!
Mine too!
Nice format! :]
Thank you!!
Vale of the Silent is Frat space, so likely Frat that blobbed you. I'm a Goon living in Delve and ngl, if you got a response down here it'd be as bad or worse than the response Frat dropped on you. I'll see killmails linked in intel for solo roamers and there'll be 15+ dudes on the killmail, none of which are in a comparable ship to the roamer
Nullsec doesn't want fights... They want to overpower you out so that they can get back to krabbing.
Look, I get it. But you later see these same Alliances complaining that there's no good PvP 😂
@@captainbenzie Sadly that is true.. they will tend to undock hard counters at 4x the number you have. I took a little group of t1 frigates (about 7-8) all t1 fit and piloted by alpha's and newbies. Just to give them an experience in null. What do they undock in to come catch us? Caracals, Garmurs, Interdictors, vexors, rapid light missile boats of all descriptions. Not salty, it's what I expected really, it's just the way things are now. They sit and wait for content to come to them.
@@captainbenzie The only fights we want is fleet on fleet lol
As an alpha, no Vagabond for me, but even when i wasn't my Navy Stabber was my daily driver.
Ahoy there mate! I hope you are doing well.
All good thanks, and you?
I need to try out the Vaga, thanks!
Let me guess who dropped on you...Frat space? LOL
Yup 😂
I miss overprop vaga's!
Sounds fun!
I was thinking your sarcrilege was the best to run C3 sites, did I get it wrong?
It's the one I rated as "best" for doing all the C3 combat sites. The Vagabond had very similar clear times, but cost a bit more. That said, I personally find the Vagabond "more fun" than the Sacrilege (and said as much in the ranking video 😉)
@@captainbenzie thx captain o7 I hope the vagabond is doing the data and relic combat site well, I'll try it today.
How long do the Crimson and Tetrimon sites take you...I saw one but he didn't stick around when i showed up..can you do a video on one?
About 10-15 mins.
yes yes yes, there easy to lose with bad piloting but there fast and fun and look fantastic .ok on one of the anomics too , the triple talos sites .
They don't seem that easy if I've kept most of mine 😉
@@captainbenziechallenge accepted. I'm sure I can lose a few
Having Hac5 puts this hull very within reach
😂 am I rejigging your skill queue AGAIN?? 😂
@@captainbenzie not as yet. But it is tempting. Both of the Matari HACs make a solid argument for adjusting the skill queue
Bump
🚀
can you link the fit please
It's in the dedicated Vagabond video since I used different fits for the different roles mentioned
Minmatar forever!!!
Minmatar is Winmatar!
no abyssals for T2 HACs, sorry.
This does T5 Abyssals really well
oh sorry, I was thinking of T3s. My bad.
@@captainbenzie
Wayne knight strongly dislikes this ship 😅
Oof
Ill guess at Pandemic for the alliance?
Nope 😉
Lol at FRT - I guess the lesson there is stay out of Vale if you want GFs
Sadly a Needlejack doesn't have a "No Vale" option and this was the same in Horde and Goon territory too. Just this was the most recent incident, and I had footage.
You don't get GF's.. you have to hunt their ratters/miners and run from anything that could threaten you.
Are you going to film me whacking you in arton ? hahaha
Nope, firstly I didn't have the recorder open and it's not exactly "content" bumping a hauler for 3 minutes for no reward 😅 well played, but not entertaining to watch 😉
@@captainbenzie why not ?
Dont you want people to see the risky stuff that happens to you ? :(
@@RonaldMcDonaId I've shown plenty of ship losses on my channel. Arton just wasn't entertaining and was low effort.
Meanwhile as a new player, I take 50+days to skill into a single ship. The biggest annoyance about the game IMO. And here he is, spamming these videos about a new favorite ship each other day :D
Pick a direction, aim for it and go IV in relevant skills. Train the Stabber/Fleet Issue and the Vagabond isn't far off 😉
I have to agree - waaaaaay back when I started with Stabber and worked towards Vagabond. The skill tree for this ship helps in lots of other ways and with other races if you like fast shield tank ships
get yourself into a Stabber! they’re ridiculously fun
The Eve community these days are so risk adverse. It saddens me. I miss the days where we all just welped solo ships and small games with empty pods. Got five guys online on a Friday night? Grab some tech 1 cruisers, set a course to the opposite side of the galaxy, and start warping! If you see it, shoot it. Take all fights. If you die, oh well! Go back and get another cruiser!
This modern Eve player is so emotionally tied to their Internet space ship they can't take fights even when they have an apparent advantage! What happened to us?
I don't even have the skill training to use such a ship let alone have brain power to do pvp's so i just mine and doing that has it danger in it own.
I barely PvP in it. I use it mostly for PvE