Missions & Complexes

Make the 3rd Coercer a salvage ship. Problem solved.

cap, tank or scan res.

well... to be perfectly honest i'm still figuring that room out... my current best option is to pop one of my ships out to get my heavy armor rep fit myrm (that i keep docked in my usual ratting grounds) and use it with an AB II, to burn out and save a location in the third room that's outside of the towers range, then have to go back and re board the coercer, meanwhile i cross fingers and spam dscan on the 2 waiting ships. I then warp all 3 ships to that saved location and start out of range of the towers, i then let the frigs trickle out to me as i continue to flee and spiral the bigger guns. Even at 60-80k i don't usually take too many direct hits from the big guns and the jammer only hinders one of my ships at a time. The frigs are typically 1-2 shots to kill so it isn't much to get them down. Once frigs are down i just wait for bc's and BS's to get out of tower range and then i spiral and destroy.

The problem with this is that I've lost one myrmidon already (something like 50mill after fit and ship) and every attempt is extremely close to losing another. It's also several minutes of screwing around to get it to work, which has caused me to have to flee from would be gankers on numerous tries.

at the very least i almost always finish room 2, though i burn a ton of nanite paste from overloading.

Also, i don't just keep with the myrmidon as it's still doesn't have the tank to sustain constant bombardment with my sp and the cap booster charges are large enough that i don't have enough cargo space to sustain. It's also more ship than i should have bought as I am still so poor that i cringe at the thought of losing another one. Yet i risk it anyway...

in short, I opened my mouth a bit too much when i said i clear 5-6/10, as i generally can't fully finish them, but the starting and middle spawns/rooms are typically easy money and plowing through them quickly nets a rather generous bounty per tick. At least in contrast to anything else i've tried or have the sp for.

yah, i was planning on moving up to cruisers after i gained access to t2 medium lazorz. I've blown a "ton" of isk farting around with bigger ships that i wasn't ready to properly fit. But i'm finally getting close.

edit: i'm sticking with the guristas at this point purely because they seem to be the prevalent pirate faction to hunt in black rise, my corp's home region.

doing lowsec deadspace plexes in destroyers is highly unusual, I would expect cruisers at minimum. However, if you want to salvage, you should just bookmark each room and refit the 3rd coercer rather than losing a third of your dps. Generally, the longer it takes you to kill stuff, the more worthwhile it is to salvage it. This is because salvage isk/hr is relatively fixed based on what you are salvaging, while clear time scales with DPS and skill.

As fun as all that is.......... You can just have a 2nd destroyer waiting at station with one toon if you are in relatively friendly space and switch once you got a fat stack of bookmarks.

During your salvage loot time I'd expect you to make far more isk per hour as compared to the one ship adding dps as long as you keep the other 2 pilots moving.

As you progress in this fast ship raid of complexes you will most likely want gila's as the end game ship for this style of play.
They are still fast enough to get out of trouble but cost less compared to the T3 options and are far easier to multibox.

Once you got that going a noctis will do just fine as the ship you clean with.

At some point you might have enough SP that salvage is not worth the time but since you are currently in destroyers that time is a good ways off. Get that loot!