Missions & Complexes

Howdy yall, I am curious and wondering if anyone here can help with a couple questions. I am Caldari and I am wondering if projectile turrets or missiles will be best for a dedicated mission runner. LOOKING FOR A FRIEND HERE!

Any help would be appreciated on mission running Caldari and where to focus training

i would say that if you are going to be with pure caldari for a while then missiles are the best choice

each type of npc is weak to different damage types and with missiles you can always hit that hole

hybrids mean you are only able to deal kinetic/ thermal damage which is not great against all npc

Missiles are the simpliest and easiest to use, often with the fewest question marks and ways for RNG to ruin things. Turrets on the other hand can produce crit hits under good circumstances (though they can also make poor hits in bad ones) and apply damage at the same moment the shot is fired, were as missiles must travel to target and cannot make crit hits. Generally for PvE, missiles are often preferred do to the advantages missiles offer over their drawbacks. Turrets still get used a descent amount as well depending largely on whether the ship being used is a gunboat or a missile truck, which actually raises an important point related to your question.

The tough part here is that it's nearly impossible to really recommend one weapon class over the other as there are strong cases for either, including ships, personal experience, even the fact that many of the pros and cons tend to be subjective in value from one person to the other -- some people could care less that "weapon A can do this" while others love the fact that "weapon B can do that". Raw, unanimously accepted forms of efficiency and viability often varies enough from one aspect to another that projectiles win sometimes and missiles do in other times. Unfortunately, it often takes time and patience for each player to figure out what works for them. I and everyone else here in fact, would be lying if any of us could say for sure without question or doubt which weapon works for you...you're the only one that can figure that out, though that will, to reiterate, take time to get sorted out.

Personally, I'd point to missiles do to simplicity, especially if you intend to run shield tanks since the Caldari side of ships often rely on both. If you want armor tank instead, drones could be another beneficial direction to gun for and Gallente ships could be right up your ally. It's really up to you though. All we can do really is offer why we like them and what makes them struggle, and many have already offered some insight before me.

Really depends on how you want to clear your missions.

For slow, full-clears, you'll probably go for the Raven and its variants, which are predominantly missile-boats, with Torpedoes.

For quick clears (blitzing), you'll either want a Machariel with autocannons or a Barghest with rapid heavy missile launchers, depending on your budget.

Going further than that, you can add Anomic Missions to your plate, but those require smaller and much more specific ships/fits. They aren't really a "Well, what ship can I use to run them if I have missile skills?" situation, and more of a "Use this ship, with these guns, and these skills, or you will just die" deal.

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then my advice is simple...buy a character with around 40 mils SP with all round PVE skills, who can fly Caldary (Tengu / Raven / Marauder) and have good missile skills, Guristas (Gila / Rattlesnake) with Drone / Missile skills and Angel (Machariel) with autocannons / arty + drones.

Don't wait 2 years till you get those skills....because it screws up the game. And you miss a lot, when you cant fly anything.

Or at least by a char with exellent core skills (engineering, cybernetics, shields, navigation), this makes life easier...