Ships & Modules

Folks I'll be honest. I am a newb and probably months away from actually pulling off my plans here, but after some google searching I have come up with incomplete information so please indulge me a moment.

I found the faction standing repair plan by DeMichal Crimson, and if he is still around in the game I hope to send him some isk one day because it is FANTASTIC! Which detailed a lot of ways to boost your standing with factions and corporations. My plan is to hike up the standings of one character on my account so that he can act as a buyer for my pvp character who may or may not be able to enter high standing space in the future. The ability to use PLEX for training two characters on my one account will help me work this out without loosing much training time on my pvp character too, thanks CCP!

So I gathered that the most I could do at a lowish siillpoints would be to do the sisters of eve mission line which I can do in a destroyer or cruiser, but the higher end data center and epic missions will probably be out of my league. So with those out of my grasp I looked for the next best thing for standing and the unanimous result was that level 3 missions were the ticket.

Anyhow, to get on to the point of the post, I am putting together a skill plan for the high-standing character and need to go ahead and pick a ship or ships to aim for. I assume that I will be using Jita for my market base so that means I will be running level 3 missions for the caldari navy.

From the old-ish posts I read the drake was a staple ship for the job, but I am aware there are a lot of ship balance changes recently and incoming which might have shaken things up.

Thanks for your help!

I'd go for something like this :


Around 300m ISK.
Able to choose any damage type.
Built-in racial strong T2 Kinetic defense (87%)
84% Thermal resist (Second dmg type dealt by Guristas)

600 DPS Warden II
800 DPS Garde II

Tank : 240 dps which imo is way more than enough to tank L3's

Drone control range = 109km

Permaruns everything.
The Railgun is only here to pull one group at a time (Dunno if this still works though).


With this you should be able to pop most rats before they even realize you're there (and I mean that literally)

Ham tengu. Use Jav with 3x range rigs, more range, more dps, and better tracking than hml fury with 3x rigors.

You'd probably be better off using 2 separate accounts. Using the buddy referral system means your alt will get an extra 21 days and you main will get an extra 30 days. Not only that, but having a separate account means you can use your alt for scouting, scanning and tackling while your main does the heavy work.

For level 3s, Drake is a good choice.

Any BC can do L3.

With low skills you may wish to look at passive shield (only the hardener requires skill at IV, everything else can be fitted with Meta4) capable ships.

Drone boats are a bit more skill intensive due to the requirement of training up sentry drones with the AI patch. Damage application can be very strong, though.

You may wish to avoid medium rail boats, because the weapon system is underpowered.



The best cruiser hands down is the Gila, once you can use T2 sentries. It's a 250M investment though.

Passive shield Myrmidon (yes, the rep bonus is wasted) is a strong contender, less DPS, but even better HP/s if fitted correctly.

Drake and Hurricane are both decent. Don't completely neglect drones though, they are slow frig killers unless short range fitted, which has its own issues.

Yeah, Cerberus is a very nice ship for running missions but it needs good skills.

Ishtar cleared L3s the fastest for me.

Recommending T2 and T3 ships with full T2 fits to a noob...

Who's failing whom in this thread?

best battlecruisers for level 3s imo:

drake
hurricane
prophecy
myrmidon

If you are low on skills, why not the Gnosis? Free choice of weaponry!!
Little better on skills, obviously Drake.
High skills and lots of ISK.... well, Tengu of course!