Yet another Eve post

Ok, I always knew the Ishkur was a damned good assault frig... but HOLY FUCK am I impressed.

So I'm ratting in Stain in my Pilgrim. A corpmate asks if I wanna go pew pew in some AF's, so why not? After spending a fuckload of isk (was in a good mood so I bought him 4 rigs, and myself a Domination Warp Disruptor for the Ishkur), I re-kit my Ishkur, and we make best speed to Syndicate.

Things don't start too well. Mostly boring, get chased by a blob for a few minutes, usual crap. After we finish blob dodging, we go on our merry way looking for a few kills. I jump in and Haargoth jumps in moments after. People in local, YAY!

We do a very short bit of looking around and prepare to move on out, when on scanner at max range I notice a Dominix, Drake, and some smelly hauler. I tell him what I have on scan, the general idea is we can't take a domi. I say that I may have a drake (ignoring the domi, cuz I'm so cool a Domi doesn't scare me :P ), and whadaya know. I come out of warp at a belt, and there they are. All three.

I tell Haargoth to get his ass here quick.

I assess the situation as quickly as I can. At this point, I'm high as hell on adreneline. And I hesitate. The Domi is sensor boosting, that means it will kill me. The Domi has Hammerhead 2's out, that means he's going to kill me. The drake locks me, he's going to kill me.

The hauler quickly warps out. The hell with it, this Ishkur is gonna die so it may as well die now before I get too attached to it. C'mere Domi!

With my shiney new Domination Warp Disruptor, which I got at 18 mill instead of the 30-something I paid for the one on my Pilgrim, I put two points on the Domi and proceeded to lock his drones.

He recalled his drones... I think "Oh shit, here come the Warrior 2's", not to even mention he's probably loaded to the gills with heavy Nos's, which of course are poison to anthing.

He just sits there for a minute. Haargoth finnaly arrives in his Jaguar, just as the Drake begins to shoot me. His missiles, of course, hit. I'm expecting to have to start repping almost immediately. But hey, whadaya know, took his ages to just get through my shields. The Domi re-launches his Hammerhead 2's. I can just feel the pain now!

They seemed very disorganized for the entire fight. They'd switch between my Ishkur and his Jaguar. They concentrated on Haargoth for a while and eventually forced him to warp out. Thankfully though he had bought me enough time to just about finish off all of the Domi's drones.

Why the Domi didn't have spare drones, I don't know. And, for some reason, he didn't have a single nos on him. But regardless of the lack of drones and nos, I'd be fully expecting a Drake to break my tank. I don't know what missiles he was spitting at me, or how much damage they were doing... but whatever it was, they tickled.

Haargoth once again returns in his Jaguar and puts points on the Drake. The Domi is going down, slowly but surely. I'm still tanking the Drake. My cap is having a little bit of issues, so I start running it manually... which is still more than enough to tank his damage, wtf?

Towards the end, we all know the outcome: the Domi is going to die, and the Drake is next. I ask, like the cocky son of a bitch I am when high on adrenaline, "Like my tank?". Disaster strikes though. The drake warps off. Dammit! Now we gotta be content with just a Domi kill...

And content we were. We were laughing about the fight for well over an hour after we finished off the Domi. AND HAARGOTH GOT FRAPS OF THE FIGHT! WOOHOO! Now I FINALLY have some material proof that I'm not a total n00b.

I'm still high over the fight tbh. It's extremely rare something like that happens. That was just great. The fight lasted for like 6 minutes, but it felt like an eternity. THAT is the kind of combat I lust for in this game. The kind that lasts a long time, and doesn't simply consist of "Primary XYZ, Secondary ABC". Even if I had lost my Ishkur, that still would have been a fun fight, and I'd still be laughing since we DID try to take on two ships that are both poison to Assault Frigs. I mean, come on, it's like taking on two Lion's when your both, I dunno, frogs?

Need more of that. Need a LOT more. THAT'S the shit I lust for in this game, and that'd the stuff that keeps me playing.

Oh, and 4th of July right around the corner, W00T!



That is all. Enjoy the long read!