Missions & Complexes

Please tell me this is a "I want help finding the best high sec targets, but don't know what to look for" thread.

First hint, It's not Dodixie and it's not fed navy.

Just saying . . . If you are trying to trick people into posting with their mains so that you can hunt them, then using a character from the corp

"Care Bear Exterminaters" &
"Suicides-R-Us"

. . . might not be the best idea.


I would suggest creating an alt in corp 'Carebear rainbow unicorn love snuggels" and trying again

Actually, that sounds like a great name for a suicide corp.

-FM

I don't know about the absolute best. Pirate Battleships and Marauders are always good bets. Missiles and projectiles have good damage variability, hybrids do good damage against common rats in that area. Lasers are great, but if you're focusing in the Gallente area, you'll do better with other damage types.

Machariel / Vargur do well; projectile ammo has changed a bit since I last paid good attention, but iirc the kin ammo is pretty lousy, so you'll be using a lot of thermal.

Vindicator / Kronos will do great kin/therm damage, might be slightly annoying to be limited on damage type against certain rats, but they will perform well against most. As a general rule Vindicator does higher damage and Kronos has stronger tank.

Golem / Navy Raven are great ships with good damage variability. Navy Raven won't get you the best ISK/hr but it is very good on cost/benefit and performs well with limited skills. Golem is a brute, many people report amazing results with it, but I have never flown it. Those who I know who have flown it are all happy with the performance.

Nightmare / Paladin I probably wouldn't go for given the damage profile, but they have great damage and damage projection for other applications.

There are some other options in the t1 and navy faction areas, but I wouldn't choose those over the aforementioned ships due to limited damage output.

Sorry misread your original post and thought you said a few milion not billion, LOL my bad, the Machariel XL Boost and Boost amp, with a really good invul and MWD, 800 autocannons. Your can not go wrong with a Mach in gallente space.

The Vargur does have many of the advantages of the Machariel, but it doesn't have the Mach's raw speed, and the Marauders skill has a long set of prerequisites. On the other hand, the Vargur has active-shield-tanking bonuses, and it can hold more ammunition and cap boosters (and it goes through ammunition at a much slower rate than the Mach).

Does the vargur not have the ability to fit arties reasonably?

You can put arties on a Vargur just cant put anything else on after that. :) not totally true, but esentially true. I have a friend that uses an Arty Varg for incursions but of course a logi handles his tank for him, not sure if you can fit local reps and arties and still be projecting damage.

Vindi does higher damage? I'm pretty sure the Kronos has a 100% bonus compared to the Vindi's 37.5% bonus to Large Hybrid turret damage.

Major difference is the WAIT TIME!

I would suggest not missioning out of Dodixie. Reason being too many Ninja Salvagers. I missioned there for about 2 weeks and gave it up. About every 3rd mission I had another pilot in my mission taking the salvage. As far as a ship to recommend I would say a Navy Mega or Domi(if you are able to keep your drones safe). These are much cheaper and do the job just as good.

Miko Lee, I guess like all threads of this type there are many opinions of what is best to use, if you going to mission in gallente space the rats are going to be the largest contributing factor as we discussed earlier. The next thing to decide is how much do you want to spend on the ship, if we are talking billions then a pirate faction BS would be the obviouse choice, if your spending under a billion then the options should focus on what you have trained more than what others recomend (t1 guns ona machariel might as well be a maelstrom).

I can say with certainty that after training the two factions BS to 5 and the t2 guns to 5 that my Mach is the best ship, conversly my Amarr alt runs in a nightmare that's comparable and exceeds the mach in many ways but i still wouldn't recomend it as a solo mission runner.

I wouldn't recomend drone boats as the new AI has yet to be ironed out, and i find lasers to be limited in there damage types, Missles still have alot of punch in them but I don't use them due to delayed damage. So it all comes down to the weapons you use best and like the most, Hope that helps a little.

And yes dont mission in dodixie to many toons looking ot make you their next meal ticket, find a quieter system to call home, You might try ACLAN, quite, out of the way, no low sec boundaries, and freindly expierienced locals.