Ships & Modules

Stick with the vanilla caracal for now, until the Navy Faction varients get the same loving that the basic hulls got, it's a little aneamic in comparison considering the price hike needed.


Tengu is still good either HM or HAM .. depends if your FoTM Sheep or not.
Raven works if you want to stick with missiles.

Not sure if you have turret skills.. but grinding missions\blitzing lvl1-3 is quicker in a turret ship due to the abundance of frigs that can be insta popped by turrets

I also used my navy caracal for level 1 and 2 missions. I preferred my drake for level 3's because the rapid light missile launchers take forever to kill cruisers/battlecruisers. If your fit worked before, it will still work now on your navy caracal for the low end missions.

Caldari ships make pve pretty easy, although now that heavy missiles don't go quite as far as they did before, it's not as easy as sit at max range and lob missiles at everything...on the upside, I never found a level 3 that a decently skilled and properly fit drake can't just sit in (ok, maybe that one where the environment starts hitting you harder and harder, but a frig or shuttle makes that much faster).

My progression for standings grindings went

Lv 1/2 Caracal Navy Issue
Lv 3 Drake
Lv 4 CNR

All 3 of those are very strong mission running ships and since you are already skilled in missiles and not turrets, I would say stick with that unless you want to start training turret support skills (just as many of them as there are missile support skills, plus specializations for turrets requires you to have the previous size of turret specialization trained up to 4 for each type of turret (blasters/railguns/pulse lasers/beam lasers/artillery/autocannons) before you can start training the next larger size