Arbitrator

 

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Arbitrator

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Amarr Empire Standard Cruisers Arbitrator Class RELATED UNI-WIKI REFERENCES EVE Online Ships Overview EXTERNAL LINKS Arbitrator on zKillboard Arbitrator on EVE Workbench Arbitrator on Janice Arbitrator on EVE Ref

The Arbitrator is unusual for Amarr ships in that it's primarily a drone carrier. While it is not the best carrier around, it has superior armor that gives it greater durability than most ships in its class. SHIP BONUSES Amarr Cruiser bonuses (per skill level): 7.5% bonus to Weapon Disruptor effectiveness 10% bonus to Drone hitpoints, damage and mining yield Required Skills Amarr Cruiser I41m Spaceship Command II47m Amarr Destroyer III8h 53m Amarr Frigate III8h 53m Spaceship Command I8m Training Time what's this? 19h 15m 30s Estimated training time only for the listed skills based on zero implants and without neural remaps. Grouping ▪ Variations Pilgrim Pilgrim Recon Ships Arbitrator Class Can Use Covert Ops Cloak 4 (0/3) 5 5 1,000 MW 370 tf 198 m/sec 315 m³ ,Curse Curse Recon Ships Arbitrator Class 5 (4/2) 6 4 900 MW 380 tf 205 m/sec 345 m³ Ship Attributes Fittings Powergrid 695 MW CPU 370 tf Capacitor 1,375 GJ High 4 Launchers 3 Turrets 2 Medium 4 Low 5 Rig 3   medium Calibration 400 Navigation Max Velocity 200 m/sec Inertia Modifier 0.56 Warp Speed 4 AU/s Base Time to Warp 8.69 s what's this? Base Time to Warp is essentially the time needed for this ship to align and accelerate until it reaches 75% of its top speed and goes to warp. The time displayed here is the base calculated time with no account for any warp related skills, modules or any other effects. Drones Drone Capacity 150 m³ Drone Bandwidth 50 Mbit/sec Targeting Max Tgt. Range 70.00 km Max Locked Targets 7 RADAR Sensor 15 points Sig. Radius 130 m Scan Res. 285 mm Structure Structure Hitpoints 1,600 HP Mass 11,200,000 kg Volume 120,000 m³ Cargo Capacity 345 m³ Armor Armor Hitpoints 1,500 HP Armor Resistances EM 50 THR 35 KIN 25 EXP 20 Shields Shield Capacity 1,100 HP Shield Resistances EM 0 THR 20 KIN 40 EXP 50

Summary

The Arbitrator is a ship of a dual role: it can deal damage as a drone boat and it is an EWAR platform. It has the largest drone bay of any T1 cruiser, beating even the Gallente Vexor, though it has less drone bandwidth than the Vexor. It can still field a full flight of medium drones at a time however, and has the bay to carry 3 flights of medium drones or 6 flights of light drones (or a mix), giving it unparalleled flexibility in its class. As well as its drones the Arbitrator also has bonuses to the Amarr racial EWAR, weapon disruption.

The Arbitrator has a balanced slot layout of mids and lows, but is normally armor tanked to allow the mids to be used for tracking disruptors and/or guidance disruptors. The Arbitrator has no bonuses to any weapon type, so can use any turret it likes, but given the split turret and launcher slots and lack of bonuses many pilots forego weapons entirely in favor of nosferatu or neutraliser arrays. One Drone Link Augmentor can be added, but it usefulness is limited given the relatively short targeting range and lack of drone speed bonus of the Arbitrator.

As weapon disruption is ineffective against drones or EWAR, and as it is of no use opposing logistics, it is often considered one of the weaker types of EWAR. However one or two bonused weapon disruptors can remove a ship's ability to apply its damage.

Skills

The recommended certificates for this ship are

• Core Competency Basic.
  
• Combat Drone Control Standard.
  
• Armour Tanking Basic.
  
• Tracking Disruptor Operator Basic.
  

The following skills are suggested.

Fitting and Capacitor:

• Power Grid Management V. Increases powergrid by 5%/level
  
• CPU Management V. Increases CPU by 5%/level
  
• Warp Drive Operation III.
  
• Capacitor Systems Operation V. Cap recharge 5% / level If you are using energy neutralizers this is important, as they devour your cap.
  
• Capacitor Emission Systems IV. Reduces Energy neutralizers cap need,

Drones:

• Drones V. Five drones are better than only one, right? Required for T2 drone specialization skills.
• Light Drone Operation V, Medium Drone Operation V and Drone Interfacing IV For more damage. Light and Medium Drone Operation V required for their respective T2 drone sizes.
• Amarr Cruiser IV For even more damage (And it makes your Tracking Disruptors even more awesome)
• Drone Avionics V. Extends your drone control range to 45000m (5000m/level + 20000 base).
• Gallente Drone Operation I/Minmatar Drone Operation I Lets you fly your favorite T2 drones of choice. Which is Minmatar or Gallente ;) (NB : with recent drone changes, Amarr and Caldari drones have become a more viable option)

Tactics

Tracking disruptors damage the enemy's optimal range and fall off by the same percent. They also damage the enemy's tracking. Both can be scripted to increase the effect and to reduce the stacking penalties when using more than one. Tracking disruptors are ineffective against missile and drone damage.

Missile disruptors make enemy missile launchers less effective by reducing missile velocity, flight time, and explosion velocity while increasing explosion radius. You can load scripts into them, giving them twice the effectiveness against either range (missile velocity and flight time) or precision (explosion velocity and explosion radius) while losing the other effect entirely. Disrupting precision will make it difficult for a missile ship to hit small targets such as frigates. Missile disruptors are ineffective against turret and drone damage.

Most of how to use disruptors will be acquired in game with experience. As an example, 2 scripted range TDs used against an artillery thrasher with one tracking disruption, can reduce the range of titanium ammo from 30km to under 7km, with very poor chances of hitting a fast traversing frigate. It's sort of an "I win" button against certain ships. Many solo pilots also use it to reduce the incoming damage of larger, additional enemy ships so they can win against fearsome odds. The bonused version is significantly stronger than the unbonused one, but still very skill strength dependent.

It is worth reading about Drones as they are your primary source of damage. Knowing your drones helps a lot.

As this ship has no bonuses to energy neutralizers, using them against a larger ship, such as a BC or a BS, is most likely only going to drain your own cap.

Notes

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Patch History

A long, long time ago...

October 2019 Release - 2019-10-15.1 Every Cruiser, Battlecruiser and Battleship now warps faster than before. Warp Speed increased from 3 AU/s to 4 AU/s (+1 AU/s) Lifeblood v. 1.0 - Build: 1203953 - 24.10.17 Powergrid increased from 575 MW to 695 MW (+120 MW) CPU increased from 325 tf to 370 tf (+45 tf) Number of launcher slots increased from 2 to 3 (+1) Maximum Target Range increased from 50km to 70km (+20 km) Retribution v. 1.0 - Build: 476047 - 04.12.12 The Arbitrator already had an effective role as a hybrid of a Tracking Disruptor bonused electronic warfare cruiser and drone combat cruiser. We improved it via an extra low slot, stronger TD bonus and the ability to choose between turrets or launchers for added damage. Cruiser skill bonuses (per level): 7.5% bonus to Tracking Disruptor effectiveness 10% bonus to drone hitpoints, damage and mining yield Slot layout: 4 H, 4 M, 5 L (+1), 2 turrets, 2 launchers (+1) Fittings: 575 PWG, 325 CPU (+25) Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 1100(+84) / 1500(+132) / 1600(+232) Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / average cap per second): 1375(+313) / 490s(+108.75s) / 2.8 (+0.02) Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 200(+41) / 0.56(-0.05) / 11200000 / 5.9s (-0.5) Drones (bandwidth / bay): 50 / 150 Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 50km / 285(+3) / 7(+1) Sensor strength: 15 Radar (+3) Signature radius: 130 Cargo capacity: 345

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