EVE New Citizens Q&A

For level 1s I'd really suggest flying a destroyer. Sure, once you have a good grip on the game and some skills trained up, you can destroy level 1s with a well fit frigate. It won't even be a challenge. But at this point, the destroyer is going to be far stronger. It is, by nature, an anti-frigate gunship. Even with just six rail guns it should be able to pop almost any level 1 ship in one volley.

Another thing that's essential for a ship using blasters is to have a "prop mod". Prop mods are ship modules that you activate to drastically increase your speed. They come in two flavors, afterburners, which will double your speed, and microwarpdrives which will make you feel like superman (until you run out of capacitor). Since you're already familiar with the afterburner, I suggest you give the microwarpdrive a try.

But again, at this point you will get the best bang for your buck flying a catalyst fitted with rail guns. Also remember that if you have an armor rapper you do not need to repair at a station. Just dock and undock, that will refill your cap and you can finish repairing to full hp.

If you are dead set on flying a frigate, try to work towards this fit: http://eve.battleclinic.com/loadout/60859-Incursus-Dual-repper.html

It's designed for PvP, but I fly it in level 2 missions and have a blast.

If you are running missions with gallente, there are two things you want:

1) Active armor tank
2) Railguns

1) To tank mission as a gallente, you will hold the enemy fire on your armor. Thus, your shield will go away like Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson's relationship (i.e.: Down fast with loads of tears and drama, well no drama for the shield and no one will talk about it but you get the point.)

You want to put hardeners to mitigate the incoming damage.
The higher your resistance in kinetic, the less damage you take from kinetic weapon. The trick is that each faction whether it's player ship or pirate ship will make specific damage. If you are fighting against serpentis or grist's, two pirate factions you often encounter as a gallente, you will want kinetic and thermic.

Once you have mitigated damage, you will want to repair the taken damage. Then you want to use a small armor repairer for your frigate. There are two tricks here. The first one is that cap stability is pretty meh. Given you have enough resistance, you won't need constant reparation on your armor. Therefore, you can shut down the armor repairer more or less often.

Since you will have put some cap recharger on your ship, your cap will regenerate pretty fast when the rep is off. Thus off, repeat and profit.

2) Now you know how to survive the mission. I know most of the bittervet consider it trivial but it's a big step up for a lemming (i.e.: you).

As other poster said, blasters are meh for missions. The thing about blasters is that they are kick ass at close range. The bad things about mission rats is that those folks aren't exactly the helpful kind. Therefore, they tend to start as far as possible from you and require something as insane as you traveling to melt them. The thing is that blaster are short range, thus there is a LOT of traveling to do and since rats are some sort of hipster that don't want to hang out in pack, that's even more traveling to do.

There come the alternative ! Railguns. They have terrible dps truth to be told but they also have the longest range from all weapon in game. What does it mean ? You won't have to move much in your ship. Therefore, you will just snipe all those mean rats from afar. No travel time and still damage => success and profit.


On an additional note, there are a couple of things that I would recommend. Don't mix your weapon whether it's armament style or caliber. Weapons in eve (except missils but missils are the root of evil, just like the caldari ship imo) have optimals. Optimals depend upon ammo and caliber. If you have different caliber with the same ammo, you won't be able to get into optimal for all your cannon and .... no success. Well mitigated success so meh and don't mix up your guns.

Also don't mix tank because active tank suck up cap. If you want to armor tank, you want cap rechargers. They take mid slot and so do shield tanking modules. Inversely, armor tank modules take low slots and so do power capacitor relay. Thus don't mix your tank or you will get meeehhhh results from each part of your tank (note the 3 es and 4hs, that's a big meh)

Last thing but not the last, a lot of frigates have been upped lately. For gallente, it's the incursus and the atron. They got better slot layout and capacitor than the old models. I would recommend the incursus to the tristan for missioning.

Now, lemming you know things. ( Okay you don't and my post contain way too many ie and meh to look respectable)

Sincerely

Keith

Capacitor Recharger 1 <-- Medium Slot
Capacitor Flux Coil 1 <-- Low Slot
Capacitor Power Relay 1 <-- Low Slot
Capacitor Control Circuit 1 <-- Rigging Slot

An active tank requires modules that increase the recharge rate of the capacitor.
A small armour repairer combined with some of the above items will enable a more stable capacitor amount.

^ THAT^ saved my butt on several occasions :)