Calm Abyss Assault Frigates - EVE University Wiki (2024)

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Introduction

Purpose of this article

On this page you can find Assault Frigates fits for T1 Abyssal Deadspace. They were designed with following goals in mind:

• Can beat Calm Abyss without issues
• Cost around 60M-70M ISK
• Do not use Damage Control or Assault Damage Control
• They are able to run higher tiers in fleet with small refit

Contents

Each section contains:

• Notes: Short notes from person who was testing the fit. There are similarities between fits, as they are all brawly with webs, but if there's anything specific, it will be included.
• Fit itself - click "EFT" on fitting window to get fitting in text format, which can be imported in game. All fits contain recommended ammo, Nanite Repair Paste and correct Abyssal filaments
• Youtube link - with video(s) showing runs with specific fit. Do not treat them as definitive guide, but use them to see how others fly specific ship.
• Abyss Tracker link - fits are uploaded to Abyss Tracker, and fleet runs will be uploaded to new "Triglav" Abyss Tracker

Are these fits good?

"It Depends". For T1 runs - they are, as they were tested and all meet Tank/DPS requirements. They should be able to run T2s in fleet with slight refit, but not all combinations were tested extensively. They are probably not suitable for high tier Abyss, as there you want to use dedicated fits - common being 3x Hawks where one has better tank to pull aggro, or 2x Retributions + Logi Deacon. High tier Abyss is beyond scope of this guide.

Fit comparison

General strategy

All fits presented here fly very similar - they utilize high DPS weapon variant and Stasis Webifier to hold enemy in preferred engagement range.

Requirements:

• All fits should have at least 140 DPS with your short range - high DPS T2 ammo (Hail, Void, Rage)
• All fits should have around 100 EHP/s for Electricals and about 80 EHP/s for Darks

Your general strategy:

• Use your short range - high DPS ammo all the time
• Close orbit + web will allow you to shoot stuff
• Devoted Knight and Cynabal - they will web and neut you. Your goal is to get into 500m orbit with AB and Web on - they will not be able to hit you.
• Tessera (drone BC) - they have absurd tracking, and will hit you if you come closer than 10km (a bit less in Darks). Load your long range ammo, orbit at distance, watch your EHP

If there will be any specific advice for specific fit, it will be included in that fit's section.

T1 Dark Fits

Below fits are designed to run Dark weather. They use rockets, which means they are not affected by weather penalty (reduced turret range), and additional speed helps mitigate damage. They are very safe to run, but run times are extended due to lack of resistance penalty in Dark weather.

General advice:

• Hawks are locked into Kinetic DPS, but Vengeance and Jaguar can use all types of rockets. Fits have Inferno Rockets, as they are good enough, but you can run with different rockets and switch depending on enemy resists
• Hawks can run Exotic weather. It will be more dangerous due to lower speed and no penalty to turrets, but it will also be faster as enemies get reduced Kinetic resists
• If you orbit very closely (500m) you will mitigate most of damage, except Tesserra - they have very good tracking.
• Order of ships from the best to the worst: Hawk -> Vengenace -> Jaguar

Abyssal Hawk T1

Abyssal Vengeance T1

Abyssal Jaguar T1

T1 Electrical Fits

Below fits are designed to run Electrical weather. All of them use short range turrets and each fit relies on Electrical weather bonus to capacitor recharge time. In other weathers they will be very cap-unstable.

General advice:

• All ships have T2 ammo in fit - taking additional ammo (Faction Antimatter, Faction EMP S, Faction Multifrequency) might be useful, but for simplicity fits were tested without them.
• No other weather is possible without major refitting to solve capacitor issues
• If you orbit very closely (500m) you will mitigate most of damage, except Tesserra - they have very good tracking.
• Ships are in rough preference order. Keep in mind that range above 10km is required, which favours Retribution and Wolf, but other fits are also feasible.

Abyssal Retribution T1

Abyssal Wolf T1

Abyssal Harpy T1

Abyssal Ishkur T1

Abyssal Enyo T1

Duo & Trio - more powah!

Some of the fits^[1] can do T2 Abyss (Agitated) in a fleet of two or three pilots.

Basics - refit and skills

Before starting T2 run, there is one ship modification that should be done:

• Replace one of your DPS modules with Assault Damage Control - you can use EFFA (compact) if you don't have skills for T2 (or if it doesn't fit)

This gives you 8 seconds of awesome resists - which is your only chance to do something when your tank starts breaking. Use it to avoid heavy damage - for example when approaching bigger ship. When ADC is activated, it will (basically) prevent all damage that you take, but since it doesn't affect your reps, it will not make you regain Shield or Armor HP faster. It has 2 minute recharge - preferably you should wait for it to recharge before entering new room.

There are also few skills that should be picked up before starting T2 runs:

• Basic familiarity with T2 spawns - they are different that T1s, and at least one pilot needs to be able to call priorities
• Spiralling in - all pilots need to be able to perform spiral in by themselves
• Cap management - neut pressure in T2 is bigger than T1. Nothing scary, but it's better to run reps when you need to run reps, than to stay at 30% capacitor level all the time

Viable combinations

Missile ships

While all missile ships are capable of running T1, T2 Abyss requires at least one pilot to fly Hawk, due to it's rocket range bonus. Preferred combination is 3x Hawk, but Hawk + Vengeance with very good in-game skills was also very successful. To sum it up:

• 3x Hawk is the best option
• 1x Hawk + 2x other missile ships is a good combination
• 1x Hawk + 1x Vengeance or Jaguar will work, but will be more difficult and will require better piloting

Off color Hawks

Two Hawks will succesfully run T2 Exotic Abyss. It will be more dangerous due to worse incoming damage mitigation, but run times will be better due to resist penalty to enemies.

Tips & Tricks

• Fly-by - when faced with room full of Tessellas, the best way to deal with them is 'fly-by' manouver - do not engage them directly, but approach Bio-cache. They deal decent DPS and have good tracking, but their range (especially in Darks) is very limited - by going straight to the cache you will pass them (you can usually kill one or two during that) and then they will get out of range. It allows the person that got aggroed to have more comfort, and other pilot(s) to shoot Tessellas.
• Call out ADC activation - other pilots need to know when your tank breaks, they might try to save you.
• In frigate Abyss only main cache has it's loot tripled - it's not worth your time to go for side loot, it's better to do one more run
• Some spawns will be hard, and will require proper use of ADC. Since it lasts only 8 seconds, you need to have a plan what to do before you activate it.

References