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Admiral Kroma
Weaponized Space Karens
Sigma Grindset
#1 - 2016-11-24 20:42:48 UTC
So I have been doing some research in how to complete PVE missions, Combat Sites and such, I decided to go Gallente for the lore portion of it but I have been reading that missiles are better for PVE as well the Tengu ship class is king for such missions.

My question is, are Missiles better for PVE than Rails? since that's has been my focus since day 1. or it wouldn't hurt to train for both?

or what should I be focusing more to late game content and LVL 4 missions and DED sites.
Persephone Alleile
Tartarus Covert Operations
#2 - 2016-11-24 20:51:00 UTC
Missiles are usually considered king for PVE due to their ability to change damage types easily and apply damage at range, but honestly fly whatever you like imo.

Cross training weapons is nice cause it gives you more options down the line. I like having a variety of ships and weapon types to choose from.
Admiral Kroma
Weaponized Space Karens
Sigma Grindset
#3 - 2016-11-24 22:06:15 UTC
Persephone Alleile wrote:
Missiles are usually considered king for PVE due to their ability to change damage types easily and apply damage at range, but honestly fly whatever you like imo.

Cross training weapons is nice cause it gives you more options down the line. I like having a variety of ships and weapon types to choose from.



im also training for drones....would that help?
Baggo Hammers
#4 - 2016-11-25 00:22:29 UTC
Unless you play in a min/max fashion, try all weapon systems and drones. Depending on your skill and playstlyle, you will enjoy one over the others, Then develop that until it gets too easy and move to another. The key is fun. EVE can be a job if you let it....

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Anize Oramara
WarpTooZero
#5 - 2016-11-25 00:37:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Anize Oramara
Missiles, Blasters, Auto cannons and Arty (and even lazors and rail guns) have their place in running missions.

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Tam Arai
Mi Pen Rai
#6 - 2016-11-25 11:18:46 UTC
i use every different weapon type and lots of different ships depending on my mood/ mission. i play for fun
Alicia Dnari
Dnari Mining and Manufacturing
#7 - 2016-11-25 13:43:29 UTC
1. Drones are awesome.
2. Any ship appropriate to the level of the mission or complex can do well if well fit and well flown.
3. What I do is to train the character's racial corvette to level 3 mastery. That gives a good base for flying that race's ships. Then I train the T1 frigates — requirements to level 3, and mastery to level 3 where needed (most of it will already be done). Then T1 destroyers and so on up to battleships. Somewhere in there I'll do racial industrials. After that I do the other three races on the same scheme. After *that* gettting the T2 ships is easy.
4. Once I've trained all that (no, I don't know how long it takes, that's not a datum I bother with) I can pick what to fly according to whim. Right now I'm doing missions for Caldari corps in Caldari space, so I'm flying Caldari ships.

Note: I seem to train each of my characters as described above in spite of most of them (including this one) starting out to be specialists who, in theory, don't need all that.
Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#8 - 2016-11-25 19:08:43 UTC
Alicia Dnari wrote:

3. What I do is to train the character's racial corvette to level 3 mastery. That gives a good base for flying that race's ships.



What are you blabbering about? Ain't no corvettes in EVE.

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Jeremiah Saken
The Fall of Leviathan
#9 - 2016-11-25 19:19:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Jeremiah Saken
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Ain't no corvettes in EVE.

There are corvettes. CCP renamed rookie ships.

To OP choose path and stick to it, don't try to kill two birds with one stone. You will get there faster if you don't split your training time between skills.

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Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#10 - 2016-11-25 22:10:23 UTC
Engagement profiles change between ship classes and mission type. For missions at the cruiser size I'd rather have rails than missiles. Rails on a medium hull do pretty good dps and have a ton of engagement range. Most targets are small enough that the resist mismatches don't amount to much as the raw hp pools are so small you just over power them. Also they do instant damage so you don't have to wait for a missile volley to travel long range that may or may not kill the target. Being able to volley an npc frig at 70km with one or two guns feels great, with missiles you might have to fire a half volley, full volley, or even more. And the launchers will probably fire more than one round at the target at that range. With guns the target died as soon as you pressed fire, and you have moved on to the next target.

with the BS size I'd rather take missiles over rails. Although at the BS size projectiles have become my go to weapon platform thanks to the Machariel and its awesome bonuses, I also love lasers thank to the paladin and nightmare and their awesome gun bonuses. The CNR, Golem, and Barghest all have really nice missile platforms though. I started with ravens but eventually moved on to other ships.

training up for t2 light drones is useful for pretty much every ship class. Going past that can be useful, sentry drones are pretty decent especially for semi-afking missions, although they aren't a great primary weapon system imo.

I'm not super familiar with DED complexes but it seems the Tengu is much loved for its flexiblity

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Sobaan Tali
Caldari Quick Reaction Force
#11 - 2016-11-26 01:24:38 UTC
Jeremiah Saken wrote:
Quote:
Ain't no corvettes in EVE.

There are corvettes. CCP renamed rookie ships.


Don't feel bad, Bumble: I still refuse to include "adaptive" when I talk about invulns, or instead of saying "bookmarks" to say "locations" or "places" or what ever the hell CCP renamed them in game.

Besides, CCP can call them corvettes all they want. Those things are just cheap shuttles to me and nothing more anyways.

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Alicia Dnari
Dnari Mining and Manufacturing
#12 - 2016-12-01 15:24:17 UTC
Yeah, well, "rookie ship" always annoyed me. "Corvette" is much better, "cheap shuttle" or not.