Ships & Modules

I really liked your ship, but won't I have problems about being close to my targets? The optimal range is 1800m for this setup, and also, Will I have problems to shot those dam fast frigates? I just need like 1d and some hours to be able to use this Fit, and it increased my DPS, and also gave me a stabilized capacitor at 70%, which is nice, but, having to armor tank things will cost me something to repair the ship, or if I repair the armor by myself, I won't have to pay anything for that. Thanks in advice.

That is pretty good sniper fit. Your buffer tank is fine, you should be staying at 30-40km from rats, so you don't need shield booster, and one less thing to manage. Upgrade the modules to higher meta as you get isk/loot.

Cruisers and bc share weapons, so train medium weapons for your cruiser and you train them for bc at the same time. The only thing you need to consider is the hurricane tank. If you do shield tank, then your rupture and hurricane are on the same track. If you do armor tank on hurricane, then your shield tank on rupture is waste of training time.

Range is almost always going to be your primary concern when you do almost anything in eve. Paper DPS is not very important if it takes you 5-10 seconds to get to every target and you'll also find that sometimes rats like to orbit outside of short AC ranges which means you have to constantly burn towards them and web them down and it's a huge waste of time.

You also have the falloff damage wrong. You do 80% of your damage at optimal +50% of first falloff and you do 50% of your DPS at optimal +100% of first falloff.

AC ruppies tend to be their best at around 8km, it's far too short for PVEing effectively.



I think you'll find being able to pop ships from the moment you warp in instead of having to fly to them much quicker, I would advise sticking with artillery for the OP.

As for Lemonkiss:

Hurricanes can be shield or armour tanked but for a general level 3 missioning fit you usually see them passive shield tanked since the incoming DPS isn't that high and you can blow things up rather quickly with artillery.

Capacitor boosters work like this: you buy things called cap booster charges which is like ammunition for your guns. These are loaded into the module and then when it's used will give you a certain amount of cap depending on the size of the charge.

For example a cap booster 800 will give you 800 capacitor when used. Medium capacitor booster modules can contain 1 cap 800 charge and it's what you should be using.

However the disadvantage to this is that these cap charges take a LOT of cargo space. You'll most likely be able to fit maybe 10 in your cargo and you have to figure out for yourself whether or not this is enough.

The Ancillary shield boosters work much in the same way, however they repair your shield instead. There are some minor but very important differences however:

1. The cap charge size has no effect on the amount of shield repaired, therefore you want to use the smallest cap charge size that the shield booster allows. For example a medium ASB (ancillary shield booster) can take size 50, 75 and 100. You will want to use size 50.

2. The ASBs take one minute (60 seconds) to reload. This can mean your death if you do not plan accordingly for this. The ASB can run without cap charges but will drain capacitor like a monster when not loaded.

Thanks for the help!

Anything else that you recommend on my Fitting to increase my dps/defense?

I'm having some problems with defense. On my last two missions, I had to go back like 2 or 3 times or I would had died. L2 missions. I have no idea on what to do to improve my defense now =/

For L2's that setup is NOT good.

You are using Artilleries, which will have trouble tracking the horde of frigs in L2 missions.

I suggest using a thrasher for L2's. It is cheaper and way more effective at killing frigs. Go with a passive shield regen setup and you can easily tank missions too.

If you REALLY want to use a cruiser for l2's go with the aforementioned armor/ac setup, which has a web to make tracking easier and uses ac's which are good at tracking.

...or you could use a bellicose with rapid light missiles and slaughter all L2's without any problems.

The arti fit relies on distance. You MUST control the distance.

Sort the overview to show closest rat on top so you can clearly see which rat will get to your first and must be killed first.

Use eve survival for the mission info/details, triggers.

I generally use long range ammo: nuclear, proton, etc. Less dps, but my range is longer. It is really an experience thing. If you got easy mission, need to kill 4-8 frigs, you can use whatever. For harder missions you will want to be safer, use long range ammo until you gain more experience.

Get the hobgoblins, full flight of them and an extra or two. At this point I only use two sizes of drones, hobs and sentries. You can not use sentries, so you only get to use hobs. The other sizes of drones are pretty useless at this time.

Like others said, upgrade your modules as better loot or isk become available. You got meta 0 resists for example, you should find some better ones in loot. Same for ab.

Again, like others said, train the skills, gunnery, navigation, engineering, minmatar cruiser 3 for sure, once most of them are at 3 or 4, do some drone skills.

The problem on L2 missions is that I have to warp to the location, and once I do, BAM, lots of frigs around me. Then I need to back up to get a good range, and by the time that I do that, they all hit me and I run out of shield, soon armor and almost die.
I've done just a few L2 missons untill now, more like 10-12. In like 3 of them, I had to go back to the station to repair and stuff, more than once, beucase there's just too many ships.

Idk if I'm doing the wrong quests, but those were all hard ones, and I almost died like 2 or 3 times (50% hull hp left once I docked).

I'm thinking about getting Weapon Upgrades to IV, then I will buy Gyros II and Tracker II, then I will drop one Gyro for a Damage Control I to help a little bit.

I'm also worried about my range.
My optimal range is at 13 km, and falloff at 39km. Missiles hits targets in 18 kms. I was thinking to stay at like 30km, shoot them with my 650mm, and use the missiles and drones to hit the ones that gets closer enough. But this will just happens when I don't warp already 10km closer to my enemies, which sucks a lot for me.

Read eve survival to learn about the mission ahead of time.

Some missions you can simply blitz. Recon 1/3 is good example, very tough mission to kill all the rats, blitz it and be done in like 5 minutes.

http://eve-survival.org/wikka.php?wakka=MissionReports

Use tactical overlay to see who is where, then head away from them, once you are in your range, either start shooting, or stop and start shooting. That way rats chase you and your guns have to do much less tracking.

Optimal is nice little stat, but not really too useful. It is also modified by the ammo. You say you got 13km optimal, 39km falloff, ok, so the sweet spot is something like 13+½(39)=32km, this is not written in stone, and it is for specific ammo which we don't know which one it is. But you get the idea.

If your problem with a particular mission is too many ships getting in too close, consider switching to Autocannons for that mission. Your range will be reduced by quite a bit, but you'll track the close small targets much better. Don't be tempted to use longer-range ammo... with ACs, you should be sticking with EMP, PP, or Fusion ammo. (The range bonuses/penalties on projectile ammo only apply to Optimal Range, which ACs have almost none of.)


T2 is good stuff, but the fitting requirements are generally higher, so you have to be careful of that before your fitting skills are up. I think you're better off at this point shoring up your gunnery/tank/support skills a bit.


Good thought. As you step up into bigger ships, using bigger guns with slower tracking, using drones to take out small ships that get too close will become a necessity. Try the ACs first, though. You'll be much more successful at hitting those small ships up close (at the expense of having to close range with the bigger targets to hit them well).

For Recon 1/3, just blitz it. Take a frig, fit mwd and tank, rush to the gate, activate, report back to the agent.