Missions & Complexes

Hello!

It has been more than 2 years since I last flew a ship in EVE and now I am back.At that time I have been doing some missions but never combat sites.As I was about to sell this avatar ,all my ships and stuff went to market and all ISK to my corp.All I have now is Astero fitted for exploration and some ISK for about two more fits like that.

I decided to go for exploration becouse there is so mch to explore and for now this will be in higs sec.Missions are too boring for me.

So can anyone please tell me can you plex with doing combat sites in Astero and which DED site is limit for that ship assuming that I got good skills for this little djinn:),DED 3/10 or 4/10?
Would it be better to go for Stratios and can Stration run DED 5/10?

I must notice that my cargo holds both data and relic analyzers which I refitt in space ,so thats why Astero and Stratios would be my no1 choice.

I really would apriciate any answer given

Fly safe!
T.

Thanks Centis,that discussion helped a lot!

To give a little love to the Astero, I have successfully run some 4/10's (Blood/Sansha). I haven't yet run across other 4/10's while flying the Astero, though I would imagine it would be progressively harder.

The main issue with the Astero in a 4/10 is the DPS output, or lack thereof. As many of the ships present will be cruisers/elite ships/BC's, it takes more than a minute for the drones to chew through. It's a fun challenge on Blood 4/10's, as there's Neuts/NOS and stasis towers to dodge, all while keeping drones on the NPC boss, and keeping within the rather short lock range of the Astero. Doesn't leave too much room for error, but it is fun to manually fly to keep range and the like.

If you're not in a terrible hurry, and have zen-like patience, give the Astero a go. Otherwise, if you actually have plans for your day, and your choice is between an Astero and Stratios, then you may wish to give the Stratios a go.

"Look up JonnyPew's shield buffer fit and youtube vids for a good example (but you can go active shield tank as well)."

I just recantly saw those videos and theay are trully great,but I need to find some with armor tank becouse thic toon is all in Armor and I need to skill a lot of other things before I do shields.

Tnx for info!

In that post that Centis linked me is one thread that said:

"I found a cap-stable active tank stratios with one medium and one small rep to be very good for running highsec sites. Basically, use most of mids (except the one for prop module) and all rig slots to make it cap stable with prop off. Use lows for tank and drone dps. With that fit, you don't even have to bother moving in highsec sites to mitigate the damage. It could probably do 5/10 in lowsec but I wouldn't risk it for more difficult sites unless I had a lot of isk to replace it."

Maybe Ill give such a fit a try later on.....

OP

Join Johnny P's public chat Club Deadspace where dudes like Dante and I can chatter with you in game (hopefully, productive and helpful chatter).

My advice would be to have a primary smaller ship (astero is excellent for this) with your bigger ship nearby for 4/10s, Vigils, Watches what have you. Personally, I have more success when exploring if I focus on either Combat sites or Havking, not both. When you roll out for Combat, you'll be crushing anoms along the way (you can get excellent escalations this way) so, it's probably not all that productive to switch gears and do HS relic/data (there are exceptions).

At present, I dig the baby tengu (the jackdaw), but have my Tengu parked a few Js away for the bigger stuff.

I am not sure OP does not have core & support skills required to fly Tengu because he also considers Stratios and he is two years old. Thus I think Tengu is the best choice for him but T3 cruisers really require quite long training time so using injectors to learn Caldari Cruiser V at least would be a good remedy here. Of course Tengu cannot enter high-sec DED sites but let's be frank: if someone looks for serious combat exploration he finds it in low and null-sec and Tengu is the best ship out there.

I personally prefer high-sec combat exploration so I sold my Tengu but honesty to run DED 3-4/10 sites cheap T1 cruisers are enough, IMO. I run them in T2 cruisers (Onyx, Rook) but this is their secondary application.

Of course he will because DED 3/10 sites mainly consist of hordes of NPC frigates. The question is what ship/weapon can kill them the fastest way possible.

For me, for most 3/10 (well the sansha one is really sweet and short compared to the others) it's gonna be either a drone ship, or a missile boat with auto-targetting missiles.

Not the most effectoive setup, maybe, but having to manually target lock 100+ frigs in the space of 10min is not something that I care to do anymore ;/

Wow a lot happened here while I was gone.
I contacted some of you guys and galls in game and tried to join that Johnny P's chat but I guess we are different time zone:(...I found DED 4 in hs and needed little help.Tried to run 4/10 in Astero like Dante Burke but obviusly I am not that good pilot:)

Funky Koval is right about Tengu;I dont have missile skills,I cant fly Caldari ships and I dont want to.Tengu is not answer to everything, altho I know what you ment by that Altair.I can fly Loki very well but its too expensive for me atm.

Solomar advice is great becouse as we speak I have DED 4 in HS just waiting for someone to pick it up...

Thank you all for sharing your advices and expirience !