Fitting Modules and Rigs Guide: Difference between revisions

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This guide describes the various types of modules and rigs that can be inserted into your ship slots, in summary form.  For general advice on how best to select the right modules or rigs for your ship, see this article on [[Fitting Guidelines]].

These modules will deal direct damage to a target or multiple targets. The two basic weapon systems in the gameare [[Turrets]] and [[Missile Launchers]].

Doomsday devices are extremely powerful weapons mounted on Titans. They deal 2 million points of racial type damage to a single target while using up 50 thousand units of the racial isotope to do so. They also have several drawbacks such preventing the titan from using a warp or jump drive for ten minutes after using the doomsday.

====Laser Turrets====

Laser turrets are the weapons used primarily by the Amarr. They use frequency crystals as ammunition and deal EM and thermal damage.

=====Pulse Laser Turrets=====

Short range Laser Turrets. They offer high damage potential while having decent range. They have fairly steep powergrid fitting requirements and are thus usually mounted only on Amarr ships.

=====Beam Laser Turrets=====

Long range Laser Turrets. They have the highest damage potential and best tracking but the least effective range than other long-range weapon systems. They have the steepest fitting requirements of any weapon system, and will thus normally be fitted only on Amarr ships, although the smaller beam lasers are much easier to mount.

Missile launchers are the primary weapon of the Caldari. Unlike turret-based weapon systems missile launchers have low powergrid needs but high CPU requirements. Many ships don't have enough turret hardpoints to fill a full rack of their preferred turret weapon, but will instead have launcher hardpoints.

"Short-range" bays refers to missile launchers using the short-range, high damage missiles, namely rocket launchers, heavy assault launchers, torpedo launchers and citadel torpedo launchers, as well as Assault Launchers. Except for rocket launchers, these short-ranged launchers have higher PG and CPU needs than their long-ranged counterparts (in contrast, long-ranged turrets have steeper fitting needs than their short-ranged counterparts). Assault launchers are a special case - they are cruiser-sized missiles bays that use light missiles. These launchers have significantly lower fitting needs than any other cruiser-sized weapon system, allowing more resources for other needs.

"Long-range" launchers refers to missile launchers using the long-range, low damage missiles, namely standard launchers, heavy launchers, crusie launchers, and citadel cruise launchers. Except for Standard Launchers, these launchers have lower fitting needs than their close-ranged counterparts.

 

These weapons are area of effect weapons that hit anything within their activation range. Particularly effective against drones and poorly equipped frigates.

These modules will increase the range of drones pr the number of drones you can control.

Drone control units are obviously only useful to carrier/supercarrier pilots. Drone Link Augmentors can be useful for drone boats and ships with nothing else to fit in their spare highslots.

These modules will restore cap, shields, armor, and hull to other ships.

====Energy Transfer Arrays====

====Remote Armor Repair====

====Remote Hull Repair====

====Shield Transporters====

These 4 module classes form the backbone of remote repair (RR) and are invaluable in PVP fleet battles, level 5 mission runs, high level complexes, and wormhole operations as single ships cannot be expected to withstand the assault of an enemy fleet.

Siege modules are specialized modules mounted to certain capital ships that give them unique, very powerful properties, but at the cost of several drawbacks, the most important of which is that the capital ship is immobile for the duration of the siege module's cycle.

The triage module greatly increases a carrier's ability to provide assistance to a fleet while making it immobile, among other factors.

These modules will target for you.

====Cloaking====

These modules will make you invisible unless you use a module or warp, or come within 2km of something. The cloak for recon ships and covert ops ships will not decloak for warp.

====Gang Assist Modules====

These modules will give bonuses to fleet members. They can only reasonably be equipped to battlecruisers.

The regular jump portal generator can only be fitted on a titan and is used to create jump bridges allowing your fleetmates to quickly traverse vast distances without the need for stargates. The covert jump portal generator can only be fitted to Black Ops ships and works in a similar manner to the normal jump except it can only be used by ships with jump harmonics 2, meaning only covert ships will be able to use it.

These modules will launch scan probes to allow you to explore.

Cyno field generators would be best used on an alt in a frigate (that you don't mind losing, because as soon as the cyno field is created, everyone in the system knows where you are).

Boosters are generally preferred for large ships in PVP in the event of capacitor neutralizing.

For your exact needs, experimenting in EFT will show which will serve you best.

These modules will increase DPS.

====Tracking Links====

These modules will increase an allied ship's optimal range, falloff range, and tracking speed.

===EW===

These modules will decrease enemy DPS, increase the enemy's incurred DPS, and prevent the opposite from happening.

These modules will make it difficult for an enemy ship to lock targets. They come in five varieties to coincide with the four sensor types and a multispectral.

====ECCM====

These modules protect against ECM.

These modules protect ships that you use this module on, against ECM.

These modules increase your sensor range and locking speed.

These modules decrease the tracking speed of enemy turrets.

EW has its own full discussion and class, so I won't be going into detail here.

These modules will increase your total shield amount while increasing your signature radius (consequently increasing the damage incurred).

You generally don't want to fit more than a single booster, as the cap drain will be quite high. Instead use a size-appropriate (or oversized) shield booster matched with a shield boost amplifier.

These modules will prevent an enemy ship from warping (provided they do not have warp stabilizers to negate your jamming). Warp Scramblers have a base range of 7.5km, have a jamming strength of two and will also disable the microwarp drives of your target as long as the target is scrambled.  Warp Disruptors have a base range of 20km,jamming strength of one, and use more capacitor than warp scramblers.

These modules will repair your structure.

These modules will allow you to scan the composition of asteroids, ice belts, and gas clouds, as well as ship fittings and cargo. Analyzers and Codebreakers are used to extract stuff from special containers in Archaeology and Radar sites, respectively.

====Energized Plating====

These modules will increase your armor's resistance slightly for just a single MW of powergrid. Regenerative plating increases your armor by a percentage and does not affect your resistance.

Hardeners are the ideal if you can support them, followed by energized plating and finally resistance plating.

===EW===

These modules will increase your powergrid as an absolute (ie. not as a percentage) so is useful for frigates and destroyers.

These modules will increase your powergrid, as well as minor boosts to your capacitor and shield capacity and recharge.

These modules will increase your powergrid without penalty.

If you need an increase in your powergrid and don't need as much as a reactor control provides, the bonuses of the power diagnostic system is a great perk.

For further discussion on speed modules refer to [[Module_Stacking_and_Speed_Modules|the Guide on Stacking and Speed modules]]

 

Power relays are great for passive shield tanking on minmatar, as projectile weapons require no capacitor.

These modules will increase your hull at the expense of velocity. You don't want to use these, as structure tanking is ill-advised and you can surely find a better use for the slot.

Fitting these rigs will reduce your ship's maximum velocity.

 

'''Nano Pump''': This rig increases the amount an armor repair repairs.

 

 

 

'''Resistance Pumps''': These rigs increase resistances (each damage type has its own rig).

 

'''Salvage Tackle''': This rig increases the chance to salvage successfully.

 

'''Trimark Armor Pump''': This rig increases total armor of a ship by a percentage, without a stacking penalty.  

===Astronautic===

'''Auxiliary Thruster''': This rig increases maximum velocity.

'''Cargohold Optimization''': This rig increases cargo capacity.

'''Dynamic Fuel Valve''': This rig decreases the amount of capacitor used by afterburners and microwarpdrives.

'''Engine Thermal Shielding''':

This rig increases the duration of afterburner or microwarpdrive cycles.

'''Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer''': This rig increases your maximum warp velocity.

'''Low Friction Nozzle Joints''': This rig increases agility.

'''Polycarbon Engine Housing''': This rig increases maximum velocity and speed.

'''Warp Core Optimizer''': This rig reduces the capacitor needs for warping.

===Drone===

 

 

 

 

 

'''Speed Augmentor''': This rig increases the speed of drones.

'''Sentry Damage Augmenor''': This rig increases the damage of sentry drones.

'''Stasis Drone Augmentor''': This rig increases stasis drones' factor of velocity decrease.

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'''Emission Scope''': This rig increases the success chance of analyzer modules.

'''Gravity Capacitor''': This rig increases the strength of scan probes.

'''Liquid Cooled Electronics''': This rig reduces the CPU needs of modules that require the electronics upgrade skill.

'''Memetic Algorithm Bank''': This rig increases the success chance of hacking modules.

===Electronics Superiority===

'''Inverted Signal Field Generator''': This rig increases the effectiveness of remote sensor dampeners.

'''Ionic Field Projector''': This rig increases your maximum targeting range.

'''Particle Dispersion Augmentor''': This rig increases the strength of ECM modules.

'''Particle Dispersion Projector''': This rig increases the range of ECM modules.

'''Signal Focusing Kit''': This rig increases the speed of scanners (cargo, ship, and survey scanners).

'''Targeting System Subcontroller''': This rig increases your targeting speed.

'''Targeting Systems Stabilizer''': This rig decreases the targeting delay after uncloaking.

'''Tracking Diagnostic Subroutines''': This rig increases the effectiveness of tracking disruptors.

'''Magnetic Infusion Basin''': 5% bonus to medium hybrid turret damage per level, 20% bonus to medium hybrid turret optimal range per level 1 low, 5 hi, 5 turret

'''Rifling Launcher Pattern''': 10% ECM target jammer strength per level, 5% bonus to Heavy, Heavy Assault, and Assault Missile Launcher Rate of Fire per level 1 low, 5 hi, 5 launcher

====Propulsion====

'''Fuel Catalyst''': 10% bonus to afterburner speed per level 1 low

'''Gravitational Capacitor''': 15% bonus to warp speed per level, 15% reduction in capacitor need when initiating warp per level 1 low

'''Intercalated Nanofibers''': 5% increased agility per level 1 low

'''Interdiction Nullifier''': 5% increased agility per level, Immunity to non-targeted interdiction

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