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Good ship for level 3 missions?
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Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#21 - 2014-10-23 23:51:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Hasikan Miallok
Voxinian wrote:
Hasikan Miallok wrote:
Andrew Indy wrote:
but yeah you probably spend more on faction heavy missiles than you make isk-wise.


Faction ammo for PvE? Thats a fine waste of ISK's.



meh ... ISK is never an issue if you are blitzing for LP.

Time is of the essence however. You need to rotate missions as quickly as possible to keep the LP coming in.

A good sisters level IV mission returns 20 mill just in LP alone so a few mill extra for CN missiles is neither here nor there. Probably a bit less viable in IIIs but really if your mission running in a 1600 DPS Rattlesnake you have bulk ISK coming in anyway.

There is a limit to how much bling you can throw at a mission ship without being a loot pinata but CN cruises and heavies are not going to attract that much unwanted attention.

Nizar Ambraelle wrote:
I'm just a 4 million SP noob but I've been doing lvl 3 missions the past few days in a Navy Vexor with 5x Navy Ogres, 5x Navy Hammerheads and 5x Navy Hobgoblins. I switch the drones around depending on what I'm fighting, but it seems the ogres often handle the frigates pretty well (I did put two omnidirectional tracking links on it, one with a tracking script).

I seem to be doing fine, and the Ogres don't take too long to kill everything. I don't have a comparison though. But I love my Navy Vexor and my drones.

Might switch the navy drones out for regular ones, as they are kind of expensive to replace. (I've had to replace two or three Ogres so far).


I ran a generic Vexor with a passive/buffer shield tank for a while and it was kind of unbreakable in PvE could soak up silly amounts of DPS. For drones I ran Bouncers and Gecko's. Just do not send the Gecko out too far or they die.
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#22 - 2014-10-24 04:51:32 UTC
an 800mm ac mach with 4 gyros and a t2 rof rig is firing 7x 1.2k isk RF projectiles every 2.96288 sec according to eft. I'll just use this as it is pretty much worst case.

so if you just sat there shooting ammo at nothing it would cost you 10.2mil per hour. In reality I would assume you are shooting less than half the time, and a 15% dps increase probably results in a pretty decent mission completion time reduction.

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Mr Mac
Dark Goliath
#23 - 2014-10-24 07:19:36 UTC
Any battlecruiser can do and very cheap
Flying in myrmidon with 4 sentries. They melt everything very fast
stoicfaux
#24 - 2014-10-24 12:42:49 UTC
The Ishtar/Vexor/Droneboats are "bad", IME. Sentry drones take too long to target things, they fire as a group so you lose time/DPS to overkill, sentry drones limit your mobility, and other drones don't fly as fast as the Mach's AC rounds.

Ishtar 50M/hour: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=286755 versus ~80M/hour in Mach (as per link in my previous post.)

Seriously, it got to the point that I rarely released the Mach's sentry drones because the sentries were so inefficient and took too much micromanagement.

Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
Estella Osoka
Cranky Bitches Who PMS
#25 - 2014-10-24 15:37:25 UTC
Pimped out Assault Frigate.
Tixx Enaka
I Like Raccoons
#26 - 2014-10-25 01:35:45 UTC
I know bigger is often faster but to get started a harpy or worm work surprisingly fast for me.

Speed rig for drones and they aren't that slow. Seen youtubes with slower heavy missiles (it seems). No ammo cost, seriously I don't even have missile skills for the worm, 243 dps frig align/warp speeds. Hardly ever gets half shields. Gila is looking smexy.

Harpy is fun as well. Bomb around and point blank face melt. Slower by a large margin though.
Hendr1x
State War Academy
Caldari State
#27 - 2014-10-26 20:50:44 UTC
Chuck Marlow wrote:
Looking to return to carebearing combat after some time doing wormhole exploration, but I need a good ship for running level 3 missions (highest my standings will allow right now.)

I've got T2 ready shield and missile skills (used to use the Drake battlecruiser before they rebalanced it) but I can use T1 modules for all weapon types and I have all the T1 battleships unlocked.

Looking to do level 4 missions eventually and maybe put something together for wormhole PvE once I farm more ISK in missions. Any ship/fits that fit that description?


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Luwc
State War Academy
Caldari State
#28 - 2014-10-27 07:46:06 UTC
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
Super crap skills:
Drake

Crap skills:
RHML Raven fit with warp speed rigs

Good skills:
Machariel
Cynabal
Gila
HAC


ISHTAR

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Incindir Mauser
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#29 - 2014-10-28 17:47:17 UTC
Mr Mac wrote:
Any battlecruiser can do and very cheap
Flying in myrmidon with 4 sentries. They melt everything very fast


Also. Arty Myrmidon with sentries and or gecko.
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