Missions & Complexes

Hallo,
I returned to the game after a long time - my last active period I was only training skills didn't have time to play at all and now I find that every bit of knowledge, fitting, etc that I took to be absolute are gone due to all the rebalancing done during the last 6-8 months. So I am here asking for help in choosing ships for 1) L4 mission blitzing - no salvaging in Caldair/Amarr hi-sec 2) running anoms against Sansha in null sec. For now I have a raven and can manage to somehow buy and fit a ship for about 800-900 mill.

My skilset can be seen here : http://eveboard.com/pilot/Aya_Silverye

My skillset is a bit spread out since this is my first character but I primarily trained missile and laser skills since I usually operate out of Amarr null sec. I intend to run L4's without salvaging (read in forums that it's not profitable anymore after changes) in Caldari/Amarr hi-sec and cosmic anoms in null sec. My Core/Support skills are reasonably high leveled especially power/cpu so I can manage tight fits.

Also, is it still faster to gain reputation by L2/L3's or has that also changed?



Thank you in advance for all your help!

Looking at your skills, I would recommend a Raven for now, and a Raven Navy Issue after you get some isk. If you work on your laser skills, a Nightmare would be a nice higher end ship if you continue to train Cladari and Amarr BS skills. If you want to work toward a long term goal, I would recommend a Paladin.

Rattlesnake is not a -great- blitzer. Mostly I blitz in my Executioner and a cruiser. ABC (oracle) hull. Blitzing usually refers to missions you can do in a matter of minutes, rattlesnake esp. is more of a bounty-collection ship (IE: Warp in, kill all the rats.) When I blitz I mission I try to shoot as few times as possible ;)

Edit: This is what Mission Blitzing looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OErbAASTZw8

@ Daerrol Mmmm...okay I thought bltizing and quickly killing all bounties was the same. Thanks for the heads up now I know what I want. I want to clear out all the bounties as quickly as possible for isk. Though my drone skills are not yet at that high T2 level.

@ Estella Osoka - thanks for the heads up - I have been meaning to get that sentry to T2 but for a long time but one thing after another keeps popping up lol...I have decided I wills start full scale drone training...get all my relevant skills to V asap. Going to train in using drones with a drone cruiser/BC...do you have any suggestion for that? need a training drone boat.

they dont really prevent ganking, a fleet of blops will tear anything apart in nullsec but if you have been doing it already pretty safe then you may be ok for a while, have you tried a tengu? being able to fit covops and interdiction nullifier will help for moveing through null systems and they are a little safer than faction bs's

@Aplysia Vejun : Gallente ships are the best droneboats but is it okay to use them without Hybrid weapon skills? Thats the only thing I am worried about. Also, is it possible to get a fit for the Vexor and Ishtar? (especially Ishtar). I have heard everyone praising this little cruiser very much in-game and in the forums so I am pretty curious about it.

@Lan Wang : True - a fleet of gankers can kill anything big but they also trip the Intel channels like a midday streaker at Times Square :) so we all dock up before they come within 3 jumps. Usually the ones that are dangerous and I am really worried about are those skilled lone wolf players who calmly infiltrate any space and blow stuff up quickly. I have lost quite a bit of ships to these people. So a rattlesnake puts me at ease in that regard.

I do want a Tengu but I am still skilling up and earning ISK for it. It's quite expensive with all the fits and most of all - it requires quite a bit of skill to fly. I borrowed and flew one before - it was really hard to prevent damage while inflicting maximum dmg on the enemy.

@ Lan Wang - Tengu with HAM's is atleast 50 days away from me. I am curious to see how the new HAM Tengu performs.

As for the Ishtar - I don't think I will use it since it requires me to train Gallente which I haven't done except for the Gallente BC's. Going to try either the Vexor or the Prophecy from Amarr.

Regarding less populated missioning systems I have been searching and scouting the locations for a while but no luck...almost all L4's agent and missions systems are fully populated - so trying for minor NPC corps now. Since they have out of the way bases, hopefully it will have fewer players.

@Estella Same here I primarily use basic T1 ships for null sec. The ships and fittings I am asking about here are for hi-sec L4 mission running.

Maybe try a Prophecy. Amarr drone BC

@GordonO - Initially I also want to progress in that order - T1 ships (200 million hulls) to Navy variants (500 million hulls) to Pirate Ships (1bil+). But with all the new changes and massive drop in Pirate BS price (all of them are around 500 mill now and Rattlesnake is only 350 mil) I thought I should just skip the Navy variations and get Pirate Ships since they have better bonuses and abilities.

For now I am looking at a fully fit Rattlesnake at 550 mil as a start. It's has good dps, damage switching ability and great tank so that I don't lose my ship due to a mistake. Going to earn for a Nightmare from there on. Playing purely with missiles is boring.

@Duke Karas - Prophecy is good. I am using one now to get a hang of using Drone boats in battle. But my Drone skills are still not at that peak level - have to get Sentry and many support skills to V which will take atleast another 2-3 months. So only using it for L3's now. But like you suggested I will move it to L4 commissioning when I am fully trained.

@Chainsaw Plankton - Like you said, I am starting with a fully fitted Rattlesnake and will get a Nightmare later on. My T3 skills are also in queque and so the Tengu is not in my immediate purchase list.