Hydra Tristan
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General Info
- Special Ability: 5% bonus to Small Hybrid Turret damage and 7.5% bonus to Small Hybrid Turret tracking speed per skill level.
This is a basic T1 setup for use in PvP-BASIC Hydra gang. The tristan is a solid all-round ship. It has one more low slot than the incursus, and one more high slot. However, it is slower, and it's weapons are split between missiles (unbonused) and turrets, leading to lower overall dps but with greater versatility. The tristan suffers slightly on CPU when you try to fit standard missile launchers on it, so you may be restricted in your electronic warfare choices.
Please have several of the following modules in stock at class start location. You will have to adjust the 2 EWAR midslots as needed to balance the fleet so make sure to bring 2 of each of these electronic warfare modules with you per frigate hull that you buy. Because ewar modules are CPU intensive you may want to bring a co-processor along. You will also need to use scripts with some ewar modules (dampeners and tracking disrupters) so make sure to bring along one of each kind of script per ewar module that you buy and bring.
- J5 Prototype Warp Disruptor I (named 20km warp disruptor)
- J5B Phased Prototype Warp Scrambler (named warp scrambler, 8.6 km range)
- 'Langour' Drive Disruptor I (named 10km stasis webifier)
- F-382 Baker Nunn Tracking Disruptor (named tracking disruptor)
- Indirect Scanning Dampening Unit (named sensor dampener)
- Sensor dampener scripts: Scan Resolution Dampening and Targeting Range Dampening
- Tracking disruptor scripts: Optimal Range Disruption and Tracking Speed Disruption
- Quantum Co-Processor I or Co-Processor II - to help fit ewar modules if needed
Rigs: These are optional, but some of these are extremely cheap to purchase in trade hubs. Next to each rig in parentheses is the number of calibration points it requires. Tristan has 400 calibration points in total:
- Small Hybrid Collision Accelerator I (200) - increases turret damage, increases turret pg use
- Small Hybrid Burst Aerator I (200) - increases turret firing speed, increases turret pg use
- Small Hybrid Locus Coordinator I (100) - increases turret optimal range, increases turret pg use
- Small Targeting System Subcontroller I (100) - cuts targeting speed, decreases shield amount
- Small Low Friction Nozzle Joints I (50) - improves agility, decreases armor amount
- Small Auxiliary Thrusters I (100) - improves speed, decreases armor amount
Note: Using several rigs that decrease your shield or armor amount will make you more susceptible to bombs. As such the damage rigs are recommended for this setup.
Example Hydra Tristan Setup
Low Slots
- Damage Control
- Overdrive Injector
- Co-Processor
Mid Slots
- 1MN Afteburner
- 2x EWAR modules of your choice.
Note that due to the tristan's low CPU, you may be restricted in which EWAR modules you can fit.
High Slots
- 2x 125mm Railgun
- 2x Standard Missile Launcher
Drones
Light Armor Maintenance Bot I x 1
Cargo
- 1000 units of close range hybrid ammo - try to pick something that gives you an optimal range of about 6km. Optionally you may also wish to bring some mid range ammo such as lead, but in my experience you will rarely use it.
- Both scripts for any electronic warfare modules that use them.
- Spare Light Armor Maintenance Bots.
Example EFT Cut & Paste
Here's an example using cheap named modules. This required Engineering Lv IV to fit, but otherwise works with starting skills.
[Tristan, hydra T1] Emergency Damage Control I Mark I Modified SS Overdrive Injector Quantum Co-Processor I Cold-Gas I Arcjet Thrusters Indirect Scanning Dampening Unit I J5 Prototype Warp Disruptor I 125mm Carbide Railgun I, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S 125mm Carbide Railgun I, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S 'Malkuth' Standard Missile Launcher I, Caldari Navy Flameburst Light Missile 'Malkuth' Standard Missile Launcher I, Caldari Navy Flameburst Light Missile [empty rig slot] [empty rig slot] [empty rig slot] Light Armor Maintenance Bot I x1
And here's a t2 variant, which will require more advanced skills:
[Tristan, HYDRA t2] Damage Control II Overdrive Injector System II Co-Processor II 1MN Afterburner II F-392 Baker Nunn Tracking Disruptor I 'Langour' Drive Disruptor I 125mm Railgun II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S 125mm Railgun II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S Standard Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Flameburst Light Missile Standard Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Flameburst Light Missile Small Hybrid Burst Aerator I Small Auxiliary Thrusters I Small Auxiliary Thrusters I Light Armor Maintenance Bot I x1
Note the speed rigs rather than the damage rigs I have used on most setups are due to running out of powergrid!
Stats
With cheap named variant and starting skills:
- Effective HP: 2133
- Speed: 850 meters/second
- DPS: 31 (antimatter)
- Turret Optimal + Falloff: 4.7 + 5 km (antimatter)
- Light Missile Max Flight Range: 18.8 km
With t2 variant and all Lv V skills:
- Effective HP: 2813
- Speed: 1235 meters/second
- DPS: 91 (faction antimatter)
- Turret Optimal + Falloff: 6.8 + 6.3 km (antimatter)
- Light Missile Max Flight Range: 42.2 km
