Ships & Modules

Velocity will give you more range, because missiles have a built in flight time. Twice the velocity would effectively fly twice as far in a fixed time frame.
Rate of fire will increase DPS, same as with guns.
These are more or less, 2 different aspects of missiles.

I have heard that a Cruise Typhoon is a great mission ship these days. I have never used a Phoon for anything but PvP though.

I personally like a CNR (Navy Raven), but your ship skills at V might make the Typhoon a clear choice.


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You're gonna want good light drones for level IV's.
If you're new to IV's, the Navy Scorp would tank better.

Whatever ship you try will hold its value. You could always sell it later (If you don't lose it)
If you're worried about loss, T1 Raven or Phoon is more *Insurance Friendly*

A T2 Cruise Typhoon can easily toss out 800 dps and tank 1200 dps with a stable tank. Or you could go the mjd route with a medium rep and fit more damage. Ultimately though selectiable damage type is very nice. Have you looked into the Vargur though? Projectiles are almost as good as missiles for selecting damage plus the benifit of being instant dps+ bastion?
Last i checked an AC Vargur with Bastion can project like 800 dps out to 90km.

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I use a Typhoon for running missions and it's a lot of fun if you run it with ab and manual pilot it. I use armour tank with 3x TPs, AB and cap booster. It engages nicely around 40km, which gives it shorter missile flight times too. I prefer it to any of the Caldari missile boats, even navy ones.

Raven navy issue (applies damage well with great cruise range).
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I use Fleet Typhoons for level 4s. With BS 5 and the damage bonus it can actually throw out a lot of damage. If I recall I was do far more damage than a CNR. The downside was the shorter targeting range, but the Typhoon is significantly faster and has a much smaller signature radius.

Cheap Gist AB and cheap Gist shield booster (C and B respectively I think, it was left over from an older ship)

If the rats has defender missiles though it can impact your DPS since you have six launchers versus the eight on the CNR.

Try mjd fleet typhoon with 4 cruises and 4 artillery. Don't forget that sweet 200m3 drone bay and load it up with 10 hobs for quickly dispatching enemy frigs that manage to close range.

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I've had good experiences, last month, flying some L4 missions for Caldari Navy in a totally pimped Navy Raven. High-meta Ballistic Control system, cruise launchers, and so forth.

As for your missile boat, you need to decide whether you want to use T2 missile, thus binding yourself to T2 launchers, or if you want to go with higher-meta launchers (such as Caldari Navy missile launchers) which bars you from using T2 missiles, forcing you to chooes between the cheap T1 missiles or the expensive-but-high-damage faction missiles (primarily Caldari Navy missiles).

I've gone for faction. But that's because when I started playing, T2 missiles had a bunch of drawbacks when fitted into launchers. Those drawbacks have been changed now, some of them removed, so the balance is different, and while my decision back then was defensible, it may be iffier now. Depends a lot on whether the L4 mission running is recreational (fun to blow **** up) or for profit. Not saying you won't profit using faction missiles, but their cost does eat into your profit margin.

Either way, you're gonna want to put a lot of Ballistics Control System in your LOW slots. Or, specifically, at least 3, maybe 4, but never more than 4. Stacking penalty just bites a huge chunk out of your ass after the 4th. But you want your DPS severely pimped, so at least 3 of those. Either T1, T2 or faction BCS, faction usually meaning Caldari Navy or equivalent meta level.

In RIG slots, you want Flare and Rigor rigs. One of each, two of the other. I can't remember which one it is you need 2 of, but others can help you with that.

And yes, as the other guy said, you're gonna want a flight of light drones, 5 of them, preferably T2. I favour Warrior II, because they're fast. You're also gonna want to train Drone Interfacing to 4 pretty soon, if you haven't got that already. DI is good for all drone-using ships, not just Caldari ships, so that's one skill you're never going to regret training. The return-on-investment on that skill is freakin' insane. I happily trained mine to 5 many years ago.

Some mission runners bring along different sets of light drones, so they can apply different damage. I just go for 5xT2 Warrior, then if I have room 5xSalvage Drone, then if I still have room, I go for a spare flight of T2 Warrior drone. I used Mobile Tractor Unit last month, but nowadays I think I'd just leave it at home, and just grab the salvage with my drones. Handling loot is a lot of trouble for usually very little gain.

I also omni-tank. Can't be arsed to switch shield hardeners in and out. I do make sure I have different shield hardeners, and other modules (such as modules to improve sensor strength) at my mission base, so that I can swap out stuff if I find myself needing it. But I'm lazy, and I have the skillz to be able to get away with omni-tanking.

You may want an AB. Ravens and other battleships are slow-ass when the acceleration gate is 25 km from warp-in. But maybe you don't want to fit it, leaving it in your mission base instead, so you can fly back and fit it if you find that you need it. I fitted one, and used it a lot. A little extra "speed tank" seems to help.