Missions & Complexes

What faction of worlds collide are you trying to do?
Angel Cartel & Sansha Nation
Blood Raiders & Angel Cartel
Blood Raiders & Angel Cartel

Knowing this will help to make your fit right.

Try fitting this;

[Cormorant, test]

7x 125mm Prototype Gauss Gun (Antimatter Charge S)

Medium Ancillary Shield Booster (Navy Cap Booster 50)
Limited Adaptive Invulnerability Field I
1MN Microwarpdrive I

F85 Peripheral Damage System I
Magnetic Vortex Stabilizer I

Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Small Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer I
Small Core Defense Field Extender I

I would rather use Blasters personally but Railguns might work as long as your not moving to fast when you fire.

Two issues here:

1) never mix shield and armor tanking in a mission boat

2) Plates are a PvP buffer fit item for taking alpha damage, not for sustained tanking. Do not use plates in a mission boat, no matter how tempting.

Note, as mentioned above the MWD kills your sig. but it also eats a big chunk of your cap, even when turned off.

Yeah pretty much.

Actually there are three buffer, passive and active.

Buffer Tank does not regenerate at all, just has lots of HP. It is mainly used for short engagements, things like suicide ganking or for slow aligning ships like Orcas trying to survive gate camps.

Passive Tanks rely on a big shield with good resists and special low slot modules that result in a fast natural shield regen rate without using cap. This sort of fit suits long engagements were cap may be an issue. Level V losec missions where the rats neut your cap are a good PVE example of where passive tank is good.

Active Tank uses cap to continually repair your shield or armor. This is the most common tanking in PvE.

To complicate matters there is also Range Tanking (use a MJD to jump 100km and snipe from a safe distance), Spider Tanking (take a fleet and all remote repair each other) and Kiting (try and get in close and fly really fast so they cannot hit you).

In missions active tanking is the most common. Range Tanking is used by some destroyers and is very common with MJD sniper BS like the Dominix that fit very little actual tank t make room for more damage modules.

Except in certain very very rare situations (such as a bait ship) you should never mix Shield Tank with Armor Tank nor should you mix Active and Passive Tanks.

Oh just occured to me, your fit didnt have rigs.
you should buy jury rigging skill book (train to 3) and shield rigging skill book (train to 1), it will take you less then a day to train those. then you can use core defense extenders to increase your shield amount and resist rigs to make them stronger.

Just in case you didnt know to do this and that its that simple to do.

Great information from Hasikan, would just like to clarify a detail:



Maybe it's just me but I've always understood kiting to be something different - basically when kiting you keep a distance from your target so that you are out of the effective range of their weapons but you are still able to take them down with your weapon systems (For a rail cormorant this would be a very valid tactic btw - you might want to carry some other kinds of ammo to give your more range so you can do this, yes it means you do less damage but if it allows you to survive it's worth it).

On the other hand flying fast to not get hit is really made up of two elements -

Speed tanking where you are moving fast enough that the enemy guns cannot track you effectively - note that this only works with guns and close to the enemy for high transversal velocity. Probably will not work very well with a cormorant. Speed tanking also has an effect on the damage done by missiles (iirc based on explosion velocity? I'm a bit hazy here) but anyhow - different for missiles.

Sig tanking - this is where the signature of your ship is so small it actually presents a hard target which is very hard to hit. In practice there are very few ways to change the signature radius of your ship (a few implants iirc) so this kind of tanking is really based on the ship you are flying. Smaller is always better and here is where the MWD comes into play because when you activate it, the MWD causes a signature bloom which greatly increases your signature radius causing you to become a much larger target. Especially in a relatively small ship this can cause quite a bit of additional damage to come your way.

Should you still have issues with that mission, join the HelpMyMission in-game channel and ask for help. Most likely someone will be in your vicinity and willing to help.