Ships & Modules

Why do you want to gank high sec mission runners?

Armageddon with T2 ogres and mega pulse lasers would be your best bet. Might be hard to kill a mission runner before concord gets you tho. Wait until you find a ship that is tanking explosive and kinetic so you have the best chance of killing them.

You won't need an alt, that defeats the purpose. You'll need to be in a small, non threatening yet viable ship to initially gain aggro. No mission runner is gonna shoot you if show up armed to the teeth in a geddon and loot his stuff.

Once you get the aggro, you can use a geddon to finish him off.

imo its boring as hell to do this. Most will know the tactic and will ignore you. Only a very few will be dumb enough to aggro you and stay there. You can get better options can flipping.

Typhoon works really nicely for this: it has a lot of damage between ACs/Torps and drones, and it doesn't really sacrifice a lot to fit three neutralizers. You neut out their barely stable active tank and then apply damage targeting their weaker resist. Piece of cake.

The problem is really about getting aggro and hoping they stay there while you swap ships.

I think your ship would depend on where you want to do this.

Consider that other than Angel space most missions only do 2 damage types. So you should choose your damage type with that in mind.

If you want to use Amarr ships I would think Caldari mission hubs would be best because for a few reasons.

The majority of EM dealing enemies are in Amarr, and Minmatar space. In Amarr space EM is the primary resist, in Minmatar space you'll see omni-tanks. T2 Minmatar ships have very high em resists.

Between Gallente and Caldari, Caldari will have lower em/thermal resists.

And finally, Caldari space is the most player dense, so you will find more targets.

^^I see what you did there, Im sure If I trick a mission runner into fireing in me it will kill EVE Look out yall I will with a single act start the mass exodus of unsubbing furries, I will be famous, tales of my exploits will be errmm NVM see what I did there?...Stop posting please.

Can flipping mission runners seeems sooooooo boring.

It's so easy to ignore them, i can't see why you'd ever want to get into this profession.

One day last year, I was on Battleclinic for some reason or other, and noticed the most recent kill was a Tengu. I clicked on it just out of curiosity more than any other reason, and discovered that it was a suicide gank. A little more digging discovered a pattern of suicide ganks against Tengus in mission hubs, mainly Motsu and Dodixie. The two guys doing this were using Artillerypocs, Apocalypse battleships fitted with 8x 1400mm T2 howitzers. With faction ammo, they'd do 11k-13k volley damage depending upon skills and implants. I suspect there were two of these ships teamed, because most killmails only had one but a few had two on it. If the first one popped the ship great, if not the second would finish it off. They seemed to get a lot of 500 million to 1 billion isk loot drops off of them, too.

Another Eve hero, props to you, you can kill yourself irl

If you mean "get aggressed as you steal their loot, then quickly hop into a different ship to kill the idiot who shot you" then there's a few options. If you have access to gang links (on an orca for instance) then I personally prefer an AC, medium neut, AB, purger tanked Loki. It tanks missile spammers just fine while dealing 700ds and using its neut to kill the active tank.