Missions & Complexes

Hello felaz,
question is quite simple, which ship to use for gurista 6-8s
Ishtar is not an option, dont have single skill in gallente and i kinda dont want to wait 2 months for it, tengu is more realistic option, which i would like to avoid as long as possible
i am able to fly amarr/matar/caldari ships, pretty much allof them, got ton of skills in drones,missiles,medium amount of sp in hybrid/projectiles
So far i tried ham legi and its drone version (ye i know) and both was pretty much useless, was also thinking about sacrilege, damnation,broadsword and loki
thanks for any rsponse and hf to trolls

One of these days I'll buy a loki and try it. It will work for 7 and 8, but its easier to make a proteus or tengu work well since they come with natural resists (which is why both of those and the Ishtar can do the 10/10 as well, loki would want a fair bit of pimp for that). Wouldn't be surprised to find the Cerberus works too.

I used following:

Rail proteus:
+ decent dps at medium range (T2 long range ammo --> Mediocre dmg at long range)
+ Volley can kill elite frigs
- Need low transversal
- no dmg selection

Blaster proteus:
+ Great DPS at close
- Need to fly around alot
- Cannot 'easely' kill the webbing towers in the last room of a DED5
- Terrible damage application
- No damage selection

Sentry proteus:
+ Good DPS at short range
+ Decent DPS at long range
+ Utility high (cloak + probe launcher without losing out on DPS!)
+ No ammo use!!! untill sentries get destroyed
+ Damage selection albeit alot depens on the range you fight in
- Can only carry 2 sets of sentries (2x4) and 1 set of 5smalls in drone bay
- No range bonus
- Pretty much tied to 1 position as long as sentries are out

HML Tengu:
+ Good DPS at long range
+ No need for transversal
+ Damage selection albeit you are mostly stuck to kinetic due to dmg bonus to kinetic only
- Damage loss due to explosion radius / velocity
- Need some effort not to lose volleys due to damage delay of missiles

AC Loki:
+ Decent DPS at short range
+ Damage selection as long as you don't need T2 ammo for range
+ Very good vs elite frigs
- Poor projection (better than blasters, still bad)


If you look at the DED sites with webbing / need of range because of armor repping of buildings if you get within 60-62km:

Blaster proteus is a no go
AC loki is "decent" at the ded5, for a armor repping building it severely lacks damage projection.

Ships I liked best: HML Tengu and Sentry Proteus.
When there is a lack of decent ammo supply the Sentry Proteus really shines.


Oh right - If you do not need the Interdiction Nullifier Sub because of bubbles, I would probbaly go with Ishtar.

And choice ofcourse mildly depends on what faction you will be fighting because of tank.

Here is full KIN tank and booster rate based on kinetic damage dealt (but really there is no sence in such fit).

http://joxi.ru/q05BUxjKTJCpZGyONjU

Thank you for all your responses, as i see, tengu will be probably unavoidable so ill start with skills for it

I think tengus lose a bit of dps in that encounter to defenders, so where 700 will work for a droneboat, tengu probably needs to deal 800.