Since I've fully quit the game at this point, I figured I might as well share my C5 krabbing setups ive been running for the past few years. I'm pretty sure I was the first one to do this first set up, and I never saw anybody else doing anything similar in the thousands of C5 holes ive rolled over the last few years. Essentially this is a good way to either do group PVE, with either lower skilled friends, or a great way to do low risk solo PVE.
The setup revolves around the Rorqual. Rorquals are extremely useful here for several functions. Rorquals provide Avenger wave free capital shield reps, that allow you to fit the shield battleships of your choice for max dps and application. It Also does 1500 dps, assigned to a trigger ship, making your setup extremely quick at killing frigs. It has full links, and can tank for days. Finally, it provides a rolling/logistical base for your ships. You can rage roll for the perfect hole to bear in, and then close all other holes in that hole. One thing that a lot of people dont know is rorquals can use mobile micro jump units. If you ever get rolled into, siege red, MJD off the BS, and MJD off your rorq. It allows you to get out of site even with frigs pointing you. Not sure how i never died. I got caught once, but it was through a frig hole, and it was wingspannt, so I just fragged all of their bombers lol
The battleships can be lowish SP, and still work great. I was feasibly multiboxing up to 4 rattlesnakes at once, as well as the rorq, and you can train the SP as you go. Rattlers apply super well to cruisers and frigs with drones, and focus fire with cruise missiles kills battleships quickly. They have heavy tank, its not that hard at all goe them to catch reps. Nightmares and Barghests also work well for this. Imps > Genoa, 5% PG and a faction mindlink.
The setup with 4 dps BS will kill a site and drifter in a c5 vanilla in less than 20 min. It will do it in a mag in around 10 -12 min. For those unfamiliar with site values in C5s, that's 1.5-1.8 bil an hour in a Vanilla, and 2.5-3b an hour in a mag. Thats repeatable isk. Once you run out of sites, bring your comp back home and roll a new krabbing hole.
I used this setup in addition to normal capital escalations in a C6-C5 I used to have to make hundreds of isk before i quit the game. Enjoy using the method, let me know if anybody has any questions.
abt dreads
The rorq costs roughly 2.2 bil, you dont need to pimp fit it at all. You barely even need to rep with it. I literally never lost a rorq doing this over the past 2 years, where ive lost several dreads through the years. A solid PVE dread will cost 4-5b, and you are way less likely to get off if rolled into. Also solo dreading doesn't work very well, and makes way less money than this setup. Minimum you would need 2 dreads, which defeats the purpose of the setup which is farming your static.
The other part of course is the SP. You need 4 seperate character with minimum 30m SP each to effectively run a cap escalation hole. Not everyone has those kind of SP assets.