Another severe PVP lesson

I lost 2 Iskurs three days ago. I have been thinking about it since and have drawn a few conclusions. I have Tester128 to thank for these harsh lessons*. He was flying a Pilgrim, a recon ship (covert tech 2 cruiser) with what must have been an entire rack of energy neutralizers in his highs, and a peculiar tank in which his armour collapsed as fast as his shields. He used drones as his dps.


Lesson 1: My armour tanking Iskur died because my capacitor booster couldn’t keep up with the energy draining. I shouldn’t have been using cap booster 100, the small cap booster can only fit three charges and then needs to recharge.


Lesson 2: I need different ship set-ups for different types of encounters, after losing the second Iskur I flew back to the encounter with my passive shield Myrmidon and was perfectly safe, his neuting didn’t matter and his warriors couldn’t break the tank, I will have to see if Hammerheads could break the tank.


Lesson 3. I need to understand the mechanics of session change better. In the first fight I was circling the wormhole and was half way through armour before I realised I was being attacked. I tried to jump through the wormhole into high sec and got a session change in progress. When the ship blew up I tried in my pod and he managed to lock me and get me half way through structure before I managed to jump through the wormhole.


Lesson 4. I need a smart-bombing ship that can take out drones.


Lesson 5. I need to sort out my overview – I need hostile ships, hostile drones.



* What sort of person calls their character Tester128?