EVE New Citizens Q&A

Generally speaking level 1 to 3 missions are mostly easy once you have a certain competency in core skills. There are a few harder ones like Blockade.

As to risk vs reward, the mission rewards are self-adjusting (slowly) to the time taken to complete. So in the case of the one you mentioned it may be that there is a "blitz" option where you don't need to kill everything, maybe just one ship or a group to flag the mission as complete.

If you don't like missions the simple response is not to do them.

There are some missions that escalate in difficulty, namely Recon 1+2, where you're encouraged to move through the mission complex as quickly as possible. A lvl 2 recon mission spawns rats comparable to lvl 3-4 rats and a lvl 4 recon needs a fairly beffy set up. While you can kill all the rats and get the bounties from them in a properly set up ship, generally you want to 'blitz' the mission and go in a fast frigate (even lvl 4 recon) the LP pay out is generous for essentially 3 minutes of work.

Wow. Someone found out that PvE sucks in a PvP game.


OP, most people know that. Hence why not many have missions as their main gameplay but as a means to just make ISK so they can do what they like (which is most often PvP).

some are easy some are hard, the way the mission system is set up it picks a random one. honestly these days with the career agents and SoE Epic arc lv1s are way too easy, and I haven't really tried lv2s in a while but I remember there being a few ups and downs, with some of them. but at some point your skills and fit get to the point they all become a faceroll.

There is one level 2 mission in particular that is far, far, far harder than anything else (IIRC it is called Mission of Mercy).

I lost a Catalyst to it as a brand new player.

Tell me about it. I was nailing all my lvl 3 missions in a vexor with rail guns, and then all the sudden there is a mission that totally saps all my energy at 40 km, guns don't work, end is quick. So now I am trying to skill up missles over the next couple of days so I can try to complete the mission. This was a quantum jump in difficulty....

Missions are so easy even a Cave Man can do them in a tanked/rigged "Battle" Procurer.

Yep, did all at Level 4 (security missions) that way to show it could be done using just drones. A very few required me to bring in my Vexor to finish off a couple of tanked battleships.

FWIW, I lost an auto-cannon Rupture (T1 cruiser) to Mission of Mercy.

I then got another Rupture with artillery, and pwned those little beaches!

Thus began my love affair with the arty-Rupture: L2 rupture fitting [DPS on paper doesn't really matter when you one-volley frigates, which are the vast majority of ships in level 2 missions. Mission of Mercy is the only level 2 mission with multiple cruisers, and it can safely chew threw those at range.]

I later did Mission of Mercy with a Thrasher (T1 destroyer). It took a lot of time. I had to overheat and warp-out a lot. But in the the end, I did it. [This was a plain stupid exercise I did for fun, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone sane. Destroyers are glass-canon frigate killers, not meant to deal well with cruisers.]

Mission of Mercy is probably the hardest level 2 mission.

I now do nearly all missions level 1-3 in a blaster Harpy (T2 Assault Ship frigate). The only mission it can't easily do, is a level 3 with a stasis webifer tower and an energy neut tower. [For those foolhardy but determined souls: fit a cloak, and get in close to nuke the neut tower first, warp-out, and repeat for the web tower. Personally, I'll pull-out my arty-Hurricane for that one.] A single web tower is more common, and never a problem for the Harpy.

Moral of the tale: Use the right tool for the job!

Yes I should have said I was using drones, but thanks for the tip on cap boosters.