Missions & Complexes

Go run the SOE epic arc in a thorax or something, then run level 3's for SOE. The LP conversion there is far better and more consistent than anything the rest of Empire has to offer.

Myrm is not the best choice. Can you fly a Brutix? Proteus? Vigilant? Tengu? Ishtar? anything other than a Myrm?


And my general advice to blitzing missions is... do them fast.

Honestly my Gallente only alt uses a Vigilant with rails... I know I know. But the name of the game here is fast warp speeds to get to your missions and get back to your agent, along with long range damage projection.

We don't want to rely on drones for primary damage because they are delayed damage, and we don't really want to use a BC because they warp slow. But a triple warp speed rig Brutix can put out 500+ dps at range and get you to your mission in reasonable time.

Remember "blitz" is about getting through a mission as quickly as possible, killing, destroying and looting only those thing you must to complete the mission and ignoring everything else. Another way to put this is speed is everything in blitzing and anything that slows you down is costing you ISK. The major portion of the ISK in a blitz comes from using LP and some ISK to buy stuff from the LP stores and then selling it on the markets, your mission payouts and bonuses. Fooling around with the loot and salvage from the destroyed ships only slows you down and that cost you more ISK than you can make with this stuff.

So here are my thoughts since the others have covered the ship and fitting aspect pretty well.

There are no missions that I am aware of that require the use of salvage drones to complete so drop the salvage drones and the Garde they are only slowing you down.

Salvage drones because you have to waste time in the pocket while they do their thing instead of moving on to the next pocket / mission. If you have them out instead of combat drones then you are slowing yourself down because drones are the Myrm's major damage dealers.

Garde because they are sentry drones. Even at max skills you will get more damage from a squad of mediums than you will from the few sentry drones you can use, and sentry drones waste time because they are stationary in space once launched. This means you have to stay where they are or go back and get them either of these wastes time.

Replace the Garde with extra light and mediums in case you lose one in a mission. Or armor repair bots so you can repair your drones in space if needed.

You need this or a site similar to it so you know what you must do to "blitz" each mission.
It will help with tank and gank choices as well.
http://eve-survival.org/wikka.php?wakka=missionreports

Overall I do not recommend you undertake a blitz mission style until you can fly a full tech 2 fit and here is why.

Tank - blitzing a mission and tanking the damage that is a part of that can be difficult for a T1 fit BC in many level 3's, in some it is nearly impossible if you have to little tank then you must warp in / out or kill enough to allow you to stay in the pocket and that slows you down.

Gank - T1 drones have the lowest DPS and that slows you down. True faction drones can overcome much of that but they can be expensive to buy so they may not be an option.

Last thought.
While you finish your training for a full T2 fit I would suggest that you adopt a full clear with loot / salvage play style. With a T1 fit and low support skills this can and often does make more ISK than trying to blitz missions.

Even better yet is a combination approach. Even now there will be some missions you can easily blitz so do that. Those that you cannot easily blitz use the full clear loot / salvage option.

Yeah it takes less than 6 months to train a racial path for T2 fit Proteus/Deimos/Vigi

6 months is what I consider Newish.

Blitz is about DPS and speed, warp speed. Proteus has insane warp speed and great dps. T2 Cruisers would give you decent speed and again, DPS.

Gnosis, sure its ok, but for level 3's you need... you guessed it, speed and dps.

Wasn't this answered in detail in another thread?

I do level 3 missions in a Blaster Harpy assault frigate.

I found a battlecruiser to be too slow, and less engaging.

imo find a corp that sells federation navy stasis webifier 5 run blueprints. they have a few other bpcs that are probably worth looking into as well, although the volume on those might not be so favorable. All the Navy stores have the same items as the FW stores, so their conversion rates are all pretty bad. The only reason I can think of for running for a navy corp is caldari navy as that gives standings for trading in jita.

the other consideration is you want an agent in a 0.5 system in a constellation that doesn't have any lowsec systems. I haven't done lv3s in a while so I'm not too sure how far they try to send you, but I'd be wary of the soe lv3 agent as it is in a constellation of mostly lowsec systems. maybe it works out and you can decline the lowsec missions and not worry about it, but I'd look for something else. Plus SoE is heavily farmed.

also sentry drones are fine. for most lv3s you want to warp in, blap a few things, then warp out. sentry drones are perfect for that. the biggest problem with the myrm, is that it doesn't have room for multiple sets of sentries. in some missions it is nice to have long range drones available. I would also suggest getting faction sentry drones. cost a bit more, but have good performance and you probably shouldn't be losing them.

fair enough, and in that case if you are running missions all day your standing gains should vastly outstrip any losses due to additional declines. Plus all the SoE storyline agents are in corp so that should also help protect your standings.

in most of those cases you can drop lights/meds and MWD over to the gate. not one of those things I'd be too worried about when starting out, but when you get your skills up something to be aware of for sure, and by that point probably worth switching to something other than a myrm.

if your main focus is going to be isk/hour
L3's are not where it's at.

you really need L4's

take some time, do a little focused training (for a L4 blitzer)
then go nuts on your wallet padding

have some fun in the meantime
work later

i'm not sure you're right about this. L3's can be run much faster then L4s and L4s don't give enough LP to make them worth it. If you are blitzing missions you are going after LP and/or standings not pure isk. If you want to make isk on L4s you need to kill everything and loot/salvage the better missions. L3s can be blitzed faster for pure LP and standings gain.

For a new player, L3s work out even better cause you can run them faster then you could do L4s.

As for missions, if you are running L3s for Fed Navy then you should have standings for L3s missions with other Gallente corps. Do the work yourself, figure out which corp has the best item, ship, implant that makes you lots of isk and run L3s for them. The more LP an item costs the better your conversion so store up the LP and get high value items.

For Blitzing go with DPS and speed. Gallente drone boats rock when it comes to fast missions cause you can send the drones one way and fly the other way. Myrm is good, so is vexor navy issue. Train up to T2 drones and forget shields when flying Gallente, they can wait.