Missions & Complexes

Your fit in EFT with all Level Vs shows around 160-180 ehp/s depending on pirate faction you are fighting.
I'm sure you can run some of the low sec sites with this.
Me personally, i e.g. wouldn't enter a 5/10 or 6/10 with such a light tank.

But you can try it out and see how it performs. Just be careul, if there are webs/scarms in the site or it could get very ugly very fast for your little stratios.

You get more raw dps, and a bit better tracking, out of a single gecko and 4 Hammerheads, it's only 6.3 more dps though, so it's more about the isk loss exposure.

Thanks for the replies. My update keeps the reactive, but replaces the adaptive with a hardener. I also will use 1 Gecko and 4 damage specific medium drones.

Note that my cargo hold includes everything for pvp, combat scanning, exploration, etc. Still leaves me with about 300 m^3, should be enough to have way more loot than I would ever need. Total bill is 550M including cargo and drones.

[Stratios, Combat Exploration [PvE]]

Corelum C-Type Medium Armor Repairer
(Faction Specific) Hardener II
Reactive Armor Hardener
1600mm Reinforced Steel Plates II
Drone Damage Amplifier II

10MN Afterburner II
Large Capacitor Battery II
Phased Weapon Navigation Array Generation Extron
Omnidirectional Tracking Link II, Tracking Speed Script
Omnidirectional Tracking Link II, Tracking Speed Script

Small Focused Pulse Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency S
Small Focused Pulse Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency S
Small Focused Pulse Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency S
Core Probe Launcher II
Covert Ops Cloaking Device II

Medium Capacitor Control Circuit II
Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Medium Anti-Explosive Pump I

Gecko x2
Hobgoblin II x5
Vespa EC-600 x5
Hobgoblin II x5
Hammerhead II x5
Infiltrator II x5
Valkyrie II x5
Vespa II x5

Cargo Scanner II x1
Nanofiber Internal Structure II x1
Fleeting Propulsion Inhibitor I x2
Expanded Probe Launcher II x1
Faint Epsilon Warp Scrambler I x2
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II x1
Warp Core Stabilizer II x4
Armor EM Hardener II x1
Armor Kinetic Hardener II x1
Armor Thermic Hardener II x1
Corpii A-Type Small Nosferatu x1
Sisters Combat Scanner Probe x8
Sisters Core Scanner Probe x8
Relic Analyzer II x1
Data Analyzer II x1
Mobile Depot x1
Mobile Tractor Unit x1

Skip Minor Blood Annex and Serpentis Logistical Outpost. Watch your back on 5/10s in the last room and be ready to warp out if you can't get a handle on damage fast enough. Most of your neuting in Blood low sec comes from Harbingers and Archbishops, both of which hit you from 30.

Oh, and Serpentis Annex is, last I checked, still pretty buggy. Good luck with that one.

Just for some comparison numbers, I tested out a Stratios that pushed out 583 DPS and tanked 337/sec Serpentis specific. I didn't buffer it, so I was sitting on ony 20k EHP. It was able to handle both Serpentis and BR 5/10s, but only by sniping the overseer and getting out. It also slogged through a BR 6/10 for me.

The fit you're suggesting still strikes me as too low on repair, but it could work. Carry a damage control just in case you need that extra bit of wiggle room. And while Geckos look great on paper I seriously wouldn't suggest them in low sec combat sites if you know what you're up against; resists on things like overseers are highly specific and you end up wasting a huge portion of paper damage from the Geckos shooting at them. That's all before mentioning their range/travel time issues on what essentially has to be a kiting boat.

You have got Gallente Cruiser 5 and good drone skills. Why don't you use an ishtar? With an armor fit you can run all lowsec sites AND scan down all combat sites.

Honestly, I just love the Stratios. My favorite ship in the game.