Pirate Faction Ship Overview: Difference between revisions

Pirate Faction Ships are expensive, high-performance ships built by pirate factions. Aside from the four main empire factions ([[Amarr Basic Ship_and Skill Overview|Amarr]], [[Caldari Basic Ship and Skill Overview|Caldari]], [[Gallente Basic Ship and Skill Overview|Gallente]], [[Minmatar Basic Ship and Skill Overview|Minmatar]]) and the mining faction [[Outer Ring Excavations|ORE]], seven pirate factions have made their ships available to capsuleers. Pirate faction ships require two different racial ship command skills and gain bonuses from both. Each faction has three available ships: one [[frigate]], one [[cruiser]], and one [[battleship]], and many pirate factions also have one or more capital ships.  Pirate battleships are some of the strongest sub-capital ships in the game.

Several pirate corvettes were distributed as a promo at Pax East 2013. These were the Angel Cartel {{sh|Echo}}, the Blood Raider {{sh|Hematos}}, the Guristas {{sh|Taipan}}, the Sansha's Nation {{sh|Immolator}}, and the Serpentis {{sh|Violator}}.

== Building Pirate Faction Ships ==

No [[BPO]]s exist for pirate faction ships. All blueprints are 1-run [[BPC]]s except those from [[COSMOS]]. Most blueprints have a small chance of dropping as loot in exploration combat sites belonging to that faction. For example, in [[Serpentis Narcotic Warehouses]] there is a chance to find a 1-run BPC for a [[Daredevil|Serpentis ship]].  

The BPCs can also be obtained with [[Loyalty Points]] in a station belonging to that faction. However, most pirate factions own very few stations, and those few are often in [[nullSec]] space, making the act of earning and spending LP very difficult.  

The rarity of pirate BPCs makes them very expensive, but the material requirements for building a pirate faction ship are similar to those of [[Tech 1]] ships of the same size. This means that their insurance payout is very low compared to their cost.

=== [[Angel Cartel]] ===

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=== [[Blood Raider Covenant]] ===

[[File:Logo faction the blood raider covenant.png|right]]

'''Focus:''' [[Web]]s and [[capacitor warfare]]

Blood Raider ships have bonuses to web range and [[Capacitor warfare#Energy Neutralizers|Energy Neutralizer]] and [[NOS|Nosferatu]] strength. They can use Energy Nosferatu modules to drain power from enemy ships, regardless of their own capacitor level. The ability of the Bhaalgorn to quickly and completely drain its opponent's capacitor makes it useful against capital ships. Blood Raider ships also have small numbers of turret slots, but large damage bonuses to laser turrets, allowing them to power their guns with Nosferatus and still deal significant damage.

=== [[Guristas]] ===

[[File:Logo faction guristas pirates.png|right]]

Guristas ships have highly resistant shields, and a unique way of using [[drones]]: each ship can field only two drones of their appropriate size (light drones on the Worm, medium drones on the Gila, and heavy/sentry drones on the Rattlesnake and Loggerhead), but those drones are many times stronger than normal so that their total strength is at least equal to five drones fielded by an ordinary ship. Guristas ships also feature powerful missile launchers, however, their missile damage bonuses only apply to Kinetic and Thermal damage (except on the Komodo).

 

=== [[Mordu's Legion]] ===

The newest pirate faction ships, Mordu's Legion ships have bonuses to missile damage and [[warp disruption]] range. Their missiles travel three times as fast as normal, but last half as long as normal, so their range is effectively increased by 50% while mitigating the delayed-damage problem which normally plagues missile ships in PvP. Their extended-range warp disruptors then allow their ships to hold enemies on grid while staying beyond their opponents' retaliation range. Accordingly, Legion ships are also fast and lightweight.

=== [[Sansha's Nation]] ===

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=== [[Serpentis]] ===

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'''Focus:''' Blasters and [[web]]s

Serpentis ships have bonuses to hybrid turrets and web strength. A single web from a Serpentis ship is enough to reduce its opponent's speed to 10% or less of its normal value (allowing the Serpentis ship to catch up and melt it with blasters).

=== [[Servant Sisters of EVE]] ===

The one "pirate" faction not hostile to the four empires, Sisters of EVE ships have bonuses to armor and drones and carry very large drone bays. Their ships also all feature bonuses to [[Probe scanning|scanner probes]] and [[Hacking]] modules. The Astero and the Stratios can fit [[Cloaking|Covert Ops Cloaking Device]]s (the only non-T2 ships able to do this), allowing them to warp cloaked. The Nestor has the mass of a battle''cruiser'' and a ship maintenance bay that allows nearby fleet members to refit their ships in space.