---
esi_data:
  fitting_stats:
    cpu_output: 220
    high_slots: 5
    low_slots: 5
    med_slots: 3
    powergrid_output: 55
    rig_slots: 2
  group: Command Destroyer
  hull_stats:
    hp_armor: 850
    hp_shield: 625
    hp_structure: 780
  name: Pontifex
  race: Unknown
  skill_requirements:
  - level: 5
    skill_id: 33091
  - level: 1
    skill_id: 37615
  type_id: 37481
  velocity: 330
faction: Amarr Empire
faction_group: Empire
image: /37481.png
last_updated: '2026-04-20T03:38:46.437744'
ship_class: Command Destroyer
source: eve-university
source_stats:
  armorem: 50
  armorexp: 60
  armorhp: 850
  armorkin: 43.75
  armortherm: 35
  bandwidth: 25 Mbit/sec
  bonuses: "<b>Amarr Destroyer bonuses (per skill level):</b>\n<br>10% Bonus to Drone\
    \ hitpoints and damage\n<br>4% bonus to all armor resistances\n<br>'''Command\
    \ Destroyers bonuses (per skill level):'''\n<br>5% reduction in Micro Jump Field\
    \ Generator spool up time\n<br>2% bonus to Armored Command and Information Command\
    \ Burst effect strength and duration\n<br>'''Role Bonus:'''\n<br>95% reduction\
    \ in powergrid requirements for Command Bursts\n<br>50% reduction in Microwarpdrive\
    \ signature radius penalty\n<br>\u2022Can fit Micro Jump Field Generators\n<br>\u2022\
    Can use one Command Burst module"
  capacitor: 750 GJ
  cargohold: "380 m\xB3"
  class: Command Destroyer
  cpu: 220
  dronebay: "75 m\xB3"
  externallinks: '[http://targetcaller.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/pontifex-stork-magus-bifrost.html
    Command Destroyer Target Calling]'
  faction: Amarr Empire
  grouping: Command Destroyers
  highlights1: Can use Command Burst module
  highlights2: Can fit a Micro Jump Field Generator
  highs: 5
  hulltype: Dragoon Class
  inertia: 3.4
  info: Command Destroyers represent a versatile addition to fleets of all sizes.
    Being the smallest and most agile platforms for gang link technology positions
    them as the premier support option for fast-moving wolf packs. Unique access to
    Micro Jump Field Generators also allows them to perform maneuvers that rapidly
    reposition other ships, be they friend or foe.
  launchers: 3
  lows: 5
  mass: 1250000
  maxlockedtargets: 7
  maxvelocity: 330
  mediums: 3
  powergrid: 55
  quote: As Emperor rules Holder; as Holder rules Serf;<br>Yet all under Heaven serve
    Me;
  quote_attribution: The Scriptures, Book of Reclaiming 3:21
  reqskills: '*{{RequiredSkill|Amarr Destroyer|V}}

    ** {{RequiredSkill|Amarr Frigate|III}}

    *** {{RequiredSkill|Spaceship Command|I}}

    * {{RequiredSkill|Command Destroyers|I}}

    ** {{RequiredSkill|Command Burst Specialist|IV}}

    *** {{RequiredSkill|Leadership|V}}

    ** {{RequiredSkill|Spaceship Command|V}}'
  scanres: 525 mm
  sensortype: RADAR
  sensorvalue: 12 points
  shieldem: 0
  shieldexp: 75
  shieldhp: 625
  shieldkin: 55
  shieldtherm: 20
  shipid: 37481
  shipimg: Pontifex.jpg
  shipname: Pontifex
  sigradius: 64 m
  structurehp: 780
  targetrange: 50.00 km
  tech: 2
  totaltraintime: 30d 9h 34m
  turrets: 3
  variations: '{{Ship|Dragoon}}'
  volume: 47000
  warpspeed: 4.50 AU/s
  warptime: 6.49 s
source_url: https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Pontifex
tech_level: Tech 2
title: Pontifex
type_id: 37481
validation_score: 1.0
---

<img src="/37481.png" alt="Pontifex" width="300" style="float: left; margin-right: 25px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 300px;" />

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## Summary

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The Pontifex is the Amarr Command Destroyer. Following the Amarr design principles, it has bonuses to armor and information Command Bursts. In its role to armor bursts it competes with the Magus which has less tank.
This makes the Pontifex preferable.
In regard to information bursts it competes with the Stork (and the Draugur). If you have shield logi support you choose the Stork, if armor logi the Pontifex. In fleets without logi, the Pontifex has neither a clear advantage nor disadvantage over the other Command Destroyers providing the same bursts.
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## Skills

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Further information about additional or recommended skills to pilot the Pontifex for a specific or its common role(s) can be written here.
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## Tactics

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Like all Command Destroyers, the Pontifex provides Command Bursts and can use a Micro Jump Field Generator. See the respective pages for the tactics involved.
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## Notes

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The command destroyers were added in the December 2015 patch, sometimes called the Frostline patch.

The word pontifex was used in ancient Rome for the most senior priests in the city's polytheistic religious practices. After the coming of Christianity, the word became attached to the Pope; it is the ancestor-word of present-day English pontiff.
## Patch history