Ships & Modules

I need help with with fitting my Vexor for mission running/ratting. Been away for some time. But since they added scalable interface I can finally play this game and see what im doing. :)

Should I use railguns or blasters with drones? Is it better adding some armor instead of damage mods? Would be nice if I survived if I get jumped by someone.

-Thanks

I'd concur with the above poster.

The Vexor fit with rails and an AB to keep range and dictate transversal will be fine for level 2's and level 3's (although, can be tricky).

Handy thing about the Vex is the drones, take a flight of meds and lights, set the lights on the elite frigs (or plink them from range with the rails), mediums for everything else.

That would be for pvp on a BC or BS sized ship and at close range. In missions you don't want to be dropping medium drones on frigate sized rats. And, for that matter you don't want to wait for heavys to travel to any frigs that aren't right on top of you.

Otherwise, good advice in this thread. I would add that sometimes in level 2s, if you are a rather new player and your skills are not so developed, this is one situation where plates actually can make sense for pve. The lows can be fit with a dc, mar, resist mod, and plate of whatever size you can fit after everything else (400 or 800). The reason being that if you mess up a trigger and your repper is getting overwhelmed it will give you some extra time via raw hp buffer to either knock down the incoming dps to stabile tank, or to gtfo if need be.

Also, in some missions you can put the drones on aggressive and not bother targeting anything. This of course means no respawns as they would likely eat your drones. Also, you will probably still need to target a ship and shoot every so often to get aggro on your ship from specific rat groups before releasing the drones. Read up on the mission before you go in to know whether the groups will aggro drones.

Trying to fit a medium cap battery on it leaves me massively short on grid and cpu, which in turn would force me to adapt the entire setup.

According to EFT, above fit is cap stable at 42% with my skills, and somewhat better with all 5's. It's perfectly fine.

Usual rule is use Gallente drones on everything except Angel Cartel, where you use Minmatar ones instead.

Once frigates settle into orbits, with Drone Tracking skill + Omnidirectional, Heavies will **** frigates. Dead serious. Go lookit an Ogre II's tracking, then go look at frigate autocannon tracking.

You can, but I've found I had better luck killing everything with sentries and then releasing lights. Heavies can **** frigates up, but this is primarily because they "fall behind" and get really low transversal. This is why webbing a frigate you're shooting with drones is usually a bad idea. Despite the fact that heavies have pretty fantastic tracking, they've still got pretty bad sig resolution vs frigates.

Also, someone has done some (as yet unpublished) research concerning drone tracking which suggests they don't actually track as well as might be assumed. If they don't publish soon I'm going to have to do it myself - which isn't that big of a deal.

-Liang

drone setup depends on what you are doing (if the rats start close or far away).

for missions I mostly use 3 wardens and 5 hobgoblins. but that gives little variety or spare drones. for general exploration I take 5 hammerheads and 10 hobgoblins (5 main, 5 spare).

you can't do much about the lows. armor rep, 2 rat specific hardeners, damage control or magstab (depends on taste and highslots).

the rest needs an AB and then it's up to the leftover grid/cpu and cap/gunnery skills. I go completely drones with exploration highs (probe launcher, tractor, salvager, small remote armor rep, DLA).

It's actually mediums that have little to no use. Once you get a larger drone boat (drone capacity and bw wise), you should only carry heavies and lights. Mediums don't hit as hard as heavies and don't hit elite frigs like light drones will.