EVE General Discussion

Honestly, being lazy about it never ends well.

The only factions you may need to worry about omnitanking are Angels, Zazzmataz, The Seven some Mercenaries, and maybe drones.

It's been a while since I last missioned, but focusing on two damage types generally ends better. Don't be lazy.

You'l need specifics for most missions i'm afraid.

Good thing bots aren't sophisticated enough to examine mission details and switch hardeners yet...

You want specific hardeners for missions. While a lot of missions could be done without them, I find that you won't have enough tank if you omnitank and you'll either pop or have to warp out a few times to complete the missions. That's with great skills though, with only moderate skills you probably wouldn't even be able to complete some missions that way just for lack of being able to kill things before they eat through your tank.

Alright,now that you've got your resists in order,let's talk about how many damage mods you've got on.

When I ran some l4's, I was too lazy to switch hardeners most of the time - wasn't much of a problem using a simple T2 omnitank (I'm cheap, so I never 'pimp' ships).

However, I wouldn't recommend doing it with a low-skilled character and some simple T1 BS - I personally used a Machariel most of the time (damage is your tank anyway), sometimes a Rattlesnake (insane tank out of the box), Nightmare (damage projection with T2 tachs), Paladin (T2 resists and rep bonus), Vindicator (what's dead can't shoot you - similar to mach) or Sleipnir (T2 resists, tanking bonus and relatively low sig radius).

Considering T1, an Abaddon, Maelstrom or Hyperion should work without much of problem if decently skilled - personally only remember doing L4's in a T2 omnitanked Abaddon and that was in Amarr space and with quite poor skills on an alt I needed to grind standings for, but the others should work as well - can't really comment much on Caldari T1 BS since I've never owned any, but it should work.


Of course you could also use a Tengu, I've never flown one (I dislike the ship), but from what I've heard and seen, you'd have to work to manage getting killed by mission rats in one of those things.

If you're new, don't try - when you know what you're doing and feel confident, just fly what's most effective.

deadspace x lows never need to be changed.

Right now I can hit 70%+ across the board in my Mymidon. I run some T2 stuff, as i have focused on getting my armor tank skills up. MAR II is loaded, and I run active hardeners. Everything cap stable, with Tier 2 Light and Medium drones. My goal is lev 4 in the specific hardener skills before jumping up to Battleship, but right now, I seem to survive even the worst assaults without swapping my hardeners.

If I double on a target resist, i jump to 88% or so.

I wont AFK them however, i fly smart and control range and transversal as much as possible. Just wondering if this will carry easily to level 4's is all.

Thanks for the great feedback.

I've run L4s omni-fit.

Though I did it in a speed tanked machariel. The actual tank is only around 350tps, but I rarely took hits.

It really depends.