Skiff and procurer original version of the blog incorrectly listed retriever here instead of procurer are getting hit points comparable to a battleship, while the others are closer to cruiser level hit points. If ganked, target them on the attacker and try to warp away should they succeed. The procurer is the toughest of the three mining barges, achieving battlecruiserlevel ehp even with inexpensive modules. Eft procurer, ore procurer t1 strip miner i strip miner i survey scanner i limited adaptive invulnerability field i limited adaptive invulnerability field i. It is the perfect ship if you like to semi afk mine a lot in high sec. The procurer has a strong tank, the covetor a high mining yield, and the retriever a large ore bay. Someone then suggested i should try ice mining in a shattered wormhole with an endurance, the new expeditionclass frigate introduced in the december release. We are proud with the immediate release of eve workbench 1. This is a guide to help those brand new miners getting into their first procurer to fit it out properly. Procurer for when you can jetcan but need a really good tank. Beware the procurer short amusing video of what not to do when you see a procurer flying around alone in low sec. Does the procurer and retriever mining barges have the same. Subscribe to download retriever eve online subscribe.
The best mining ship to fly for tanking purposes is the skiff, followed by the procurer, after that comes the mackinaw and then retriever. Its ore hold is 70% larger than a covetors but about half the size of a retriever s and can fit about 15 minutes worth of mined ore. The retriever and the mackinaw are too strong with being good in two out of three areas. The retriever also gives 3% increase in yield per level and requires level 3, so thats 9% increase with just base stats. There are three mining barges, each optimized for a different role. Minings iskhour ratio is poor unless you are allowed to be afk. Basically a retriever when you need to mine cheaply but cannot jetcan. What is the ganker vs ganked costs for retriever, afk mineral. One problem most miners have wrestled with is the issue of balancing tank and yield. The procurer and skiff remain the tankiest of the barges, but gain an extra low slot bringing their fitted yield up to the same level as the retriever and mackinaw as well as a new bonus to drone damage and hitpoints.
Download the free eve online client launcher for windows. If you really want tank a procurer can get over 60k ehp and still match the yield of a retriever with no mlus. Thats not to say it wont happen, as it will but if jetcan mining increases your yield by 20%, say due to not having to stop mining for a couple of minutes every 3,900m3 and one in every 10 of your jetcans gets stolen, then youre still better off. I dont mine very often, but when i do it solo i have always jetcan mined and have never had it stolen. Procurer skiff have the same yield as retriever mackinaw, with the same number of mining laser upgrades. Mirrors and enables advanced search options to browse the eve online forums.
Retriever will get you frigate killed quite often but nobody really messes with a procurer. What is the best mining ship on eve online and why. It includes an indepth comparison of all mining ships, types of resources, and more. Mining barges are equipped with electronic subsystems specifically designed to accommodate strip mining and ice harvesting modules. From my experience, mining in a procurer skiff has only two downsides. The retriever fitted with 2 strip miners with a base yeild of 540 each for 1080 per 3 minutes.
Also, in contrast to the venture, the mining barges can fit strip miners with much higher yield than normal mining modules and ice miners. Have friends wait one jump away and fit the procurer to tackle. The covetorshulks will mine more in a given time but have a smaller ore hold. Yeah you need more trips to base but the semi afk miner doesnt mind that as much imo. Yet i had a retriever in less than a month, and was flying a hulk in less than. Orca outmines procurer and retriever t2 upgrades and t2 crystals, with. If you are overloaded with ore or ice, you can move it to the new ore hold instead. The covetor clearly holds the distinction of having the highest mining yield for group operations, however i am more interested in the comparison between the highly defensible procurer for lowsec mining and the retriever for highsec afk mining. If you want to download eve on windows in full up front, download the following file in addition to the installer above and place it in the same folder as the installer before running it. Mining barges 20120803 by ccp tallest eve devblogs. The hornet ec300 drones are used to help you get away from gankers they have a chance to jam targeted ships. Feature creep has taken its toll on many of the early ships, for better or for worse. For every 3 return trips to a station you make in a procurer you only make 1 in a retriever. A massive ore hold allows the retriever to operate for extended periods without requiring as much support as other barges.
This generally points you in the direction of the retriever scordite mining in highsec. With this release we also think that the project is. On the surface it seems so, the procurer only has one turret but it has a 66% cycle reduction in ice mining and a 200% yield on strip while the retriever has two turrets, each. Is the gankers cost mainly the 23 catalysts net of insurance or are the tags significant. Both retriever and procurer have same 2% reduction to strip miner duration per mining barge level. The mining yeild is very similar but defense vs cargo space is really the decision. It does everything, including tanking against suicide ganks, well enough.
The procurer is massively more durable than the retriever. Also while there is a procurer on the workshop, its far too large in comparison to the retriever. Alright so im just starting down the path of mining and am looking at the ships ill be getting. The mining barge was designed by ore to facilitate advancing the mining profession to a new level. Retriever vs procurer so, after realizing that a covetor is too big to bring into a c1 wormhole, and essentially throwing away 300m, that leaves me too options left, retriever and procurer. In my mind it does not seem so long ago that i downloaded hadalas complete mining guide and set myself on the path to mining proficiency in eve online. Understandable if you skip the manifestation of procurer. I am still amazed at the 4k graphics quality of that game, so i like to record videos of it. Learn more about one of the best ways to earn eve isk at. The installer will then extract the full set of resources for eve from that file into the shared cache. Now, ive read the details of the ships time and time again and know that the retriever has better storage, while the procurer has better tank, but i would. Procurer mining can be very profitable if you mine and use the procurer as bait. Highsec miners have switched to mackinaws and retrievers in droves.
Although it only has space to fit two mining or ice harvesting modules, a fast loading system allows those two module to do the work of three modules. In null a procurer can be optimal if youre jetcanning and picking up later with a hauler and it can handle any rats that surprise you while solo mining, otherwise again the retriever for the convenience. Also while there is a procurer on the workshop, its far too large in. Each barge was created to excel at a specific function, the retriever s being storage. The rokh will easily outmine a retriever, comes close to a covetor, but lags well behind a hulk. If you would like to download the original version, the file can be found on. Skiffs and procurers arent for mining and any skiff or procurer you see out there probably isnt doing it. Pvp gila vs retriever then procurer killright activation 2019. As they like to do, they just jumbled up barges again and i am having a hard time coming up with the best fits.
But really depending on what system you mine in, the extra yield from a max yield fit will only take a few hours to pay for the ship. Does the procurer and retriever mining barges have the same yield. Yet what i read consistently says that retriever is better for yield than the procurer. There were also a couple in the athanor, undockingdoing stuffredocking with more nasty things like tempest. Aar hsc daytrippers vs mining fleet eve university forum. Thus, it would seem that youd use the procurers in more risky situations, the retrievers if youre mining solo and the covetors if youve got a hauler youre teamed up with.
What youre actually looking at is just that the rokh has more turrets. I dont mine much, but typically mine in a rokh when i do, just because i veered off the mining path after getting my caldari cruiser skill and astrogeology skill up. The fits i give are a mixture of tanking ability and mining efficiency. The difference is the number of strip miners, which are bonused in a way, that they are equal to 3 unbonused strips for each hull. All 3 have 3 effective lasers ie, the procurer has 1 laser with 3x the yield, the retriever has 2 lasers with 1. Ignoring the mine in null and answering the question, it depends. At this point i pinged into hsc comms to see if there were volunteers for a little daytrip gank in jspace. Bases resistances are up, defenses are up from the procurer, the ore. When max yield fits tank considerably less than even moderately tanked ones, along with the delight some people get out of hunting and ganking miners how much tank you need vs how much yield you are willing to sacrifice is an important question. Each barge was created to excel at a specific function, the procurer s being durability and selfdefense.
I mentioned last week i wanted to return to mining in low sec. I am in high sec at the moment, so not super dangerous but do have to contend with gankers potentially. If you could make one to scale with your retriever, it would be quite amazing. The procurer and skiff are not as useful as they want. Browse other questions tagged eve online or ask your own question. The procurers base mining yield is the the same as the retrievers and.
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