Minmatar Basic Ship and Skill Overview: Difference between revisions

The Burst is the Minmatar mining frigate and can be used as a starting point for budding miners.

The Slasher is a cheap combat oriented frigate. It has the fastest base speed of any standard T1 frigate (although the Vigil is actually faster because of its hull bonus to speed). However, the Slasher is not nearly as useful a fighter as the Rifter, mainly due to its lack of a third midslot and only having a single lowslot.

The Vigil is the Tech 1 [[EWar 101 Guide|Electronic Warfare]] ship of the Minmatar Republic. This ship is the fastest standard T1 frigate, and makes a decent first-strike tackler. The bonus to target painters isn't that useful, as target painters are stacking penalized in effectiveness, and work reasonably well on hulls without bonuses to them.

This is a long-range missile boat. It is rarely used, because its effectiveness is overshadowed by the far superior Rifter.

The Rifter is the top-of-the-line T1 combat frigate of the Minmatar Republic, some say that it is indeed the best PvP T1 frigate in the game. A balanced 4/3/3 layout gives the Rifter the ability to either shield or armor tank, making it an unpredictable opponent. It is the perfect starting point to learn solo frigate PvP.

==Probe==

The Probe is the Minmatar exploration frigate.  This ship is best used as a probing boat, but if you have the skills to deal with its small capacitor it can be a speedy and cheap delivery ship due to its comparatively large cargo bay.

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==Thrasher==

The Thrasher can be an effective anti-frigate platform in PvE (L1 missions) or PvP.  It is rarely seen in fleet combat, but its cheap cost makes it popular with suicide gankers.

The Minmatar Scythe is a ship most often seen used as a mining cruiser, given that it receives a strong mining laser bonus per level of the Minmatar Cruiser skillbook.  In addition to mining, it also gains a bonus to tracking links which assist friendly ships using turret-based weapons with boosts to their tracking speed.

The Bellicose is the Minmatar EWAR cruiser, with bonuses to target painting and projectile turret rate of fire. It is a rare and unloved ship. Target painting is only vital in a few very specific situations (like a missile-ship-only fleet), and it can be done from unbonused midslots on normal combat ships. The Bellicose doesn't tank very well, has tight CPU and powergrid and a comparatively small capacitor. And, to top it all off, it only has three turret hardpoints, which limits the benefit of the rate of fire bonus.

The Stabber's key feature is its hull bonus to speed: It's the fastest T1 cruiser. Unfortunately it also has limited grid and CPU, limited slots and a tiny dronebay. It's best to think of it as a 'heavy frigate' or a 'light cruiser' rather than a cruiser proper.

If you plan on moving into ships that utilize speed tanking or avoidance tactics this is a good ship to practice with. It can be fit as a tackle ship or an anti-frigate platform. Unfortunately it lacks the grid and CPU to fit the artillery or the combination of autocannon and tracking enhancers that would make it a viable kiting ship.

The heavy duty combat cruiser of the Minmatar Republic, this ship looks like a chunk of brick. The Rupture is the favored mission cruiser for the Minmatar. It can mount a good active armour tank or regenerating passive shield tank (as below) and use artillery and drones to destroy mission rats from range.

The Rupture is also a strong PvP ship. A number of fittings work well; in E-UNI fleets the most common approach is to fit an armour buffer tank (as below) and provide extra DPS and some sticky secondary tackle.

Strong [[Support_Skills#Fitting|fitting skills]] and access to T2 autocannon (for kiting with Barrage ammo) open up some fast-moving shield-tanked PvP fits.

The Cyclone is inferior to the Hurricane in most situations, but it has a few niche uses. With a shield booster and capacitor booster support, and possibly bonuses from expensive implants and combat drugs, the Cyclone can mount a decent active tank. Such a fit can work well as a solo or small gang PvP ship.

The Hurricane has a long history of positive PvP and PvE performance and is one of the most versatile ships in EVE. It can deal impressive DPS, and can be shield or armor tanked. Most Minmatar pilots choose a Hurricane as their Level 3 mission ship, fitting either a passive shield tank or an active armour tank.

The Typhoon's position as the cheapest of the Minmatar battleships is a little misleading, as it's not a very good ship for new pilots. With seven low slots, a useful rate of fire bonus and the bandwidth to field a full flight of heavy or sentry drones, it has a lot of potential. But it takes considerable skillpoint investment to bring that potential out, and the rate of fire bonus is split between two different weapon systems.

The Tempest is quite similar in role to the Hurricane battlecruiser. Both have similar slot layouts (the Tempest has one extra mid slot). The Tempest, in theory, could use an extra missile launcher, but it would not be applying its bonuses to projectiles.

Tempests tend to be armor tanked, utilizing the high number of low slots, though they are sometimes shield tanked as well. For PVP, the Tempest can fit a armor buffer tank, or go for a nano autocannon and heavy neut kiting fit.

On the same skill path as the Cyclone, the Maelstrom has a powerful active shield tank. Unlike the Cyclone it can also deal lots of damage.

The introductory Minmatar industrial ship, the Wreathe is similar in nature to all the entry industrials. It is a little faster than some of the other races' industrials but has a little less cargo space.

The Hoarder is the mid-level ship for the Minmatar industials, although it does have a greater amount of cargo space than what you'd expect from the mid-level ship. Some starter industrialists find the Hoarder more valuable than the Wreathe as their first Minmatar industrial.

After the Iteron Mark V, the Mammoth is often considered the next best industrial in existence. It has more cargo capacity than the other two races' industrials, and the highest number of low slots for cargohold expanders.