EVE New Citizens Q&A

Yep, and dropping those cap recharger II's and the rigs down to T1 will have a significant decrease in cap recharge, making the whole thing not cap stable. Converting a T2 fit into a working T1 fit is far from a trivial matter, and I wouldn't expect a newbie to be able to do it competently.

The Myrm does have its drone-tanking bonus alongside its drone damage and armor repair bonuses, so its drones will last a little longer - but frigates will still tackle drones, so you'll have to learn to care for them. (Doesn't help that while the NPC hostiles got their intelligence buffed, drones are still dumber than a bag of hammers.)

Ten Ton Hammer's article on a mission-fit Myrmidon looks to still be good, at: http://www.tentonhammer.com/eve/guides/ships/mission-myrmidon - that's a solo-level-3 fit, though.

When I was learning BC's a year ago, my preferred fit had five 250mm rails (meta-3 in my case) and a drone-link augmentor in the highs, with three CCC rigs, three cap rechargers, tracking computer, and 10MN MWD in the mids, and ... well, I hate to admit it, but I sort of tried to omni-tank it in the lows, with two medium armor reps, two energized nanos, a damage control, and a power diagnostic to give me room for the railguns. (This was before drone damage amps.)

I hadn't learned about the advantages of autocannon yet (given how much cap the Myrm's tank chews up, capless guns are a godsend).

The Myrm only gets 25m3 more than the Vexor, and the same drone bay volume as the Arbitrator.

I might be extrapolating from too small a sample. Light drones seem to take much more aggression in a Myrm than I get in an Ishkur. Mediums also take a fair bit of aggro. The result is less sustained DPS and shorter effective range if you need to recall frequently. And at 500K ISK per drone, I can't sacrifice too many Tech 2 drones before it's not worthwhile for what I'm using them for. Sacrificing Tech 2 drones in level 3 missions would certainly cut deep into your profit margin. Using Tech 1 drones cuts your primary DPS by ~20%.

All of which can be mitigated a bit by Drone Navigation, Drone Durability, and ship skills, but that's more time on the training queue. Either way, I think turret- or missile-bonused battlecruisers are an easier entrypoint to BC PvE compared to the complexities of drone PvE combat right now.

For a two day old char T2 sentries are a bit out of reach. Also with 75 m³ bandwith and thus 3 sentries you won't make it even remotely close to 500 dps, let alone with 2 days worth of skills.


For the long run a Talos would be the most fun when assisting with someone else's missions, but you have to have serious gunnery skills and preferably experience with flying battleships to make it shine.

Brutix isn't exactly easy to fit or forgiving for low skill levels either, so personally I would go for a Myrmidon. It's versatile when it comes to fitting and also quite resistant towards incoming damage.