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If you fill all of your low and middle slots with a passive tank, you don't have any propulsion, utility, or damage mods. This is typically less than an ideal setup. There is often a sweet spot between tank and gank/usability. The trick is to decide an amount of dps to tank and reach it with the fewest possible mods, dedicating the remaining slots to damage, speed, and/or utility.
If you fill all of your low and middle slots with a passive tank, you don't have any propulsion, utility, or damage mods. This is typically less than an ideal setup. There is often a sweet spot between tank and gank/usability. The trick is to decide an amount of dps to tank and reach it with the fewest possible mods, dedicating the remaining slots to damage, speed, and/or utility.


It's also very important to remember that PvE tanking is against specific damage types, so there's no need to try to omnitank unless you're facing sleepers.
It's also very important to remember that PvE tanking is often against specific damage types, so there's usually no need to omni-tank except in certain situations such as when you're facing [[Sleepers]] in Wormhole Space.


=== Fitting tips  ===
=== Fitting tips  ===