Ships & Modules

Not really. with good fit skills (core competency certificates) you can fit a standard Raven to fly most L4 in 2 days skill worth, with just two buttons:
- FIRE ZE MIZZILES!!!!
- BOOOSTT ZAT SHILDS!!!

The income boost is quite good and the raven will pay itself in few days.

Also, follow the EVE survival guides to the letter. You should never lose a ship if you do.

If you want isk, don't do lvl 4's untill you can run them efficiently. It will take training time to do so.

Atm I'd say you are better off running lvl 3's quickly rather than chewing through an ardious lvl4. There are probably a few things you can do to up your current income without switching to a BS running lvl 4's. (loot, salvage, blitz missions, LP etc)

Also, you can pvp in a Drake, probably better than in a Raven.

Last also, most skills used to fly a Drake can be used to fly a .....TENGU.

If you want to PvP, Gallente armor tanked ships won't be your first choice anyway. It will be shield tanked Minmatar. but that's far into your future so don't worry about it. Just enjoy the game.

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If you want to PVE go with the raven skill tree.

All i can say is though: Every caldari i know who decided to PVP has hated missiles (the tengu and drake are fun, but cant do everything) and wished they had trained blasters so they could fly gallente.

So it's really up to what your future holds.

Okay really I would put the Rohk on the back burner. because it is more skill intensive then some missle boats. If you do not have the skills or the guns your going to be hurting in the rohk.

Scorpion Navy Issue is the best BS to use with low skills. you are going to out DPS a raven any day with it because you can fit BCU accross the bottom and shield tank the mid slots. Where on a raven you have to sacrafice the BCU's for cap rechargers.

So after you get comfortable at doing lvl 4s in your scorpion navy issue. then you can either choose to keep training your shielding skills and missle skills to get well enough where you will not loose your spendy CNI. Trust me CNI are very easily lost if you do not have the ability to tank it well enough so that means all shielding skills to lvl 4 if not 5. and get tech 2 cruise launcher and all related missle skills at least up to lvl 4 if not 5. before you get in your CNI. you can easily put out 400-500 DPS with a scorpion navy issue at low lvl skills.

Or if you find you do not like running a cruise missle boat and feel you want insta damage you can then start making your long haul to the Rohk. you will probably need to spend 2 months training skills with it if not a little longer before you can start doing lvl 4s. 5 months before it becomes really really good at lvl 4s.

But really the Scorpion Navy Issue is probably the best Low skill lvl 4 mission boat out there.

Be careful on mission like world's collide, Dread Pirate, blockade. They hit you hard. Worlds collide can be the worst because they scram you and once that happens you can be pretty sell screwed if you are not skilled enough to where you can tank alot.

the Scorpion does sound quite alluring and I do have some electronics and hacking skills trained
may you tell me more about how it compares with a Rokh in the long run?
as in , which one is the all rounder, what it excels at , or not as good ...etc?

Not the scorpion. The scorpion is an ECM boat, and can't do L4 missions better than a drake.

The Scorpion Navy Issue is a faction ship, which has bonus to shield ressistances and missile launcher RoF. You can get a Xlarge shield booster II, two amps, and a cap booster, and no matter what they throw at you, you will survive if you have enough cap charges.

As I said I have 3 mill SP (that is one month and a half life toon) and I can do any L4 mission easy except Worlds collide, in where i need another friend until i get better drone skills.

My current DPS is 362 with arbalest cruises, so it is enough for most missions.

Raven family is faster, reliable and easy to use but I'd suggest against it because it involves training T2 cruise to get the most out of which is for the most part a lousy skill.

Guns and gun support are way better (and have 3 related trees that share the same support skills), and in the end-game, gun boats outperform missile boats in almost every way.

I thought cap rechargers were a mid slot item? I'm not on Eve at the moment so forgive me if I'm incorrect on this.

"low skills" and "battleship" shouldn't be in the same sentence. A good rule of thumb is if you can't fit T2 modules and drones you shouldn't be in a battleship. The exception would be the high slots since T2 launchers and guns take a while.

Fly the Drake till you get decent skills. If any ship in Eve is forgiving of low skills it's the Drake. You don't need to work about capacitor, heavy missiles have less signature radius issues with smaller targets than cruise missles, and it tanks like a beast!

Before I get flames this is just my opinion and advice. I'm not forcing anyone to take it. You will get different advice in Eve because everyone has different experiences and opinions.

Fly what you want some times the best ships are the ones You have thought outside the box on. Its a game have fun Im my case I like slapping projectiles on everything so ill probably fit a rokh with those. lol