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I’ve returned to Faction Warfare.
Yes, I know, I only left it a month or so ago, and I’m already back.
I wasn't really expecting it either, but there you go. Shit happens!
Although this time I've joined the Amarr rather than rejoining the Gallente. Since my last attempt at FW, the Amarr/Minmatar warzone
has equalised somewhat. The Amarr
are still on the back foot, but we’re gaining ground despite being outnumbered
more than 2:1 It’s like many of my fellow
militia have said, “quality over quantity”
;)
Still, I joined the Amarr because
my character, Seraph, is Amarrian, and the roleplayer hiding
within me almost squealed with excitement at the thought of fighting for my
faction in the battlegrounds of LowSec. Plus we get to spam Local Chat with
“AMARR VICTOR” when we kill things, which is pretty fun. Currently I’m based out of Sahtogas, which was our last staging system as of a few weeks ago,
when we were down to only two systems left. However the fight back has gone well,
and we’ve retaken Kamela which many
pilots seem to be relocating to. I haven’t yet decided if I’ll follow them, I’m
quite cosy in Sahtogas.
The good news is that the fights are frequent, both solo and
small gang, and I’m enjoying myself immensely. I’ve had several fun engagements
already, including flying a destroyer through a pack of enemy frigates and murdering
them as I blazed past, flying as an insta-lock Condor during a small cruiser skirmish while pointing expensive shit, and later chasing a neutral Tornado
1500km (yes, one thousand five hundred)
off an acceleration gate with several other fast tackle frigates, where we
steadily pecked him to death. Our FC was almost crying with laughter at that
point.
Solo is also going well, with Minnies often throwing
themselves at me while I’m sitting on my own in a plex, and there was one
memorable fight where I was capping medium plex, a Caracal warped in, and an enemy plex runner in a Thrasher decloaked not 20km from me.
He’d apparently been sitting there unwilling to try and escape while I
innocently tried to capture the plex. The good news was, I murdered them both,
and got revenge on the Caracal pilot
since he’d killed me earlier.
I’ve also made a serious attempt to cut down on expensive
losses, so as far as I can remember, I’ve been flying T1 frigates, destroyers
and cruisers during my time in the Amarr
Militia. This has the added benefit of being cheaper for me too, so much so
that recently I only spent 300-400mil on about 30 new ships. That’s about 10mil
per ship, which is nice when you think they’re all T2 and meta fit.
Plus my hangar is steadily filling up with loot despite the
fact I often pick through it to fit my own ships. EVE estimate puts it at
almost 90mil in only a few days of on/off PvPing, which is pretty nice. It’d be
more, but I swear all my fleetmates have Loot
Grabbing V trained, along with Wreck
Approach Specialisation V when we’re on roams. I honestly was next to one SFI when it exploded due to a pilot error on my part, and was only
saved from been tackled by it thanks to the guns of my fleetmates. In the time
it took me to move about 500m (I was
3000m from it), the loot was taken by about four other people. By the time
I tried to open the damn thing,
somebody in a Condor was already
salvaging it.
I wish I was joking.
Even so, I’m having a great time out here, and long may it
continue! I’m also hoping to make some decent ISK from our LP too when we get
back to Tier 2, since we’re stuck at Tier 1 at the moment which gives half the
usual LP rewards for plexes. The general rule of thumb seems to be that 1k LP
is about 1mil ISK, and the medium plexes are worth 30k LP at Tier 2. Do the
maths ;)
Anyway, good luck out there guys
AMARR VICTOR!
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