Missions & Complexes

Shield & Missiles with Caldari requires less micromanagement.
Armour & Drones with Gallente needs more, and Hybrid Guns aswell.

With Gallente you can go
Frigate -> Cruiser -> BC -> BS

With Caldari you have a little more choice
Frigate -> Cruiser -> Strategic Cruiser
Frigate -> Cruiser -> BC -> BS

The Gallente Dominix is more forgiving of lower Skills than the Caldari Raven, both Navy Faction versions are good however (but pricey)




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Train both Frigate -> BS lines and you can use the Guristas Pirate faction ships
Missiles + Drones + Shield Tanking

That's a pretty reasonable list. I'd probably add in the Rattlesnake simply because so many people swear by it despite the fact that it's damage-gimped compared to a gank Domi.

Bad decision, mission running is horribly boring and you learn nothing about this game. Missions were added as an afterthought, they are extremely repetitive and you should only do missions if you need standings for other purposes.

As a profession, missions are just a waste of your subscription money.

Hehehe. You made my morning, sir :)

There you see, authorities deal with facts, common people have only misinformed opinions

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Starting from scratch, I would in my opinion go for:


Look to train Gallente and Caldari Frigate 4 and Gallente and Caldari Cruiser 3 minimum as this will also allow you to train up Minmatar and Amarr Frigate and Cruiser to the same levels if you want to take Destroyer and Battlecruiser to 5 for the planned summer changes to these skills: http://community.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=74234

Train fitting and support skills. Being mostly Industry skilled, you might find that you need better skills for fitting mission ships and support skills for weapons, shields and capacitor. I'd recommend looking at some of the plans online and seeing how your current skills line up. (I really like the Tippia one here: http://blog.beyondreality.se/Newbie-skill-plan and you can tailor it by adding in some Hybrid Weapons and Gallente/Caldari ship classes)

Hybrid Turrets and Drones are common to ships for both races. Shield Tanking and Armour Tanking skills plus some Missile skills based on a progression of ships with an end goal would be my plan.

I'd probably start out with a Kestrel (Caldari Frigate) as the missile fits it can do will make level 1 security missions simple. Flying this will get some basic shield and missile skills under your belt for building on later.

Cormorant (Caldari Destroyer) is a fine ship for level 1 and level 2 Security missions and will use shield skills from the Kestrel. Cormorant uses Small Hybrid Turrets, so will crossover with the Catalyst, which has probably the best damage you can fit on any small hull. You could look at a Corax to use the missile skills you have while training hybrids. You can train some basic armour skills for the Catalyst and with the Algos, you can train and use some drone skills.

Now having a feel for both types of tanking and missiles or drones to choose your preference, you can continue building up to bigger ships keeping some synergy between them.

Caracal (Caldari cruisers) are excellent shield/missile platforms that breeze through level 1 and 2 security missions and will support building up these skills.

Vexor (Gallente cruiser) are the best small drone ship and will benefit from your improving armour and drone skills.

Battlecruisers are interesting. Both the Drake and Myrmidon share shield tank setups. Drake focuses on heavy missiles (with kinetic bonus so best if you're missioning in Caldari space against Gurista pirates) while the Myrm gets some pretty good drone bonuses and enough bandwidth to start using heavy drones on larger targets. Not much matches the raw DPS of the Brutix and the Ferox can now provide a viable large hybrid platform for long range shooting.

Continuing on to Battleships, you should now have pretty good fitting, support, shield, armour, drone, hybrid and missile skills so can fly pretty much anything you like with minimal training for large guns/missiles. I believe that battleships and level 4 missions do require some good skills to be effective. Whilst you can jump in a Raven or Dominix with low skills and slog through a level 4, it will take a long time. With skills up to 4s and 5s you can run them much better.

I would use this time to learn more about battleships and large weapon systems whilst working towards Navy versions. The Scorpion Navy Issue and the Dominix Navy Issue are very efficient (and cheap compared to Navy Ravens) level 4 runners.

Now, the best bit. Now that you have awesome shield, armour, missile, hybrid and drone skills, you can fit out a Rattlesnake that will humiliate level 4 missions.


Of course, all this is only my opinion and you should seek the advice of a medical professional before embarking on any strenuous activity.


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