Ships & Modules

How well does this work? I just opened lvl4's in minmatar space (Lust) and I dont' have anywhere close the money I need for a Maelstrom, about 150mil short hehe. Anyways, I was wondering how well a Passive shield Hurricane can handle lvl4's? Fully t2 equipped except I'm still using t1 ammo. Haven't even looked into it honestly.

Any advice for me before I dive in head first? Also I can fly a fully t2, (only t1 launchers) passive drake.

Even if you can somehow make it work, you will have to overtank the cane so much that you will be left with zero DPS. In the time it will take you to clear a lvl4, you could have done several lvl3s and made more ISK.

the only way to do it is going for artys and speed tanking it. it actually works and goes way faster than doing them on a drake. but the problem is that unless you are carefull you will agro more than what you can handle. i tried going for autocannons, but frigates will web you too fast and most likely force you to warpoff.

the thing is, DONT passive the cane, your signature needs to be the base signature of the hull otherwise missiles will destroy you. depending on your skills you could fit a medium shield booster and cyle it, or use a small one. cap rigs wont hurt either, but personally i rather rig for agility/speed and let the lows boost the weapons. just dont aim for cap stability because its pointless on a speedtank.

2x specific hardeners, ab and booster on mids + full dps and tracking on lows, shoot faction phased plasma since artys are cheap on the ammo, and keeping some nanite paste on the cargo hold will be really handy.

im thinking the only lvl4 that can be a pain is Blockade and the two mordus missions.

a drake is painfully slow and boring.

and yeah, its still better to do lvl3s. a cane can blitz em much faster than you can do lvl4s.

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Nanite_Repair_Paste

Good stuff, there. Great for repairing toasted modules.

OP, just run more level 3s til you have enough money for a Minmatar BS. A Drake is unique among tech I BCs in that it can be fit to tank level 4s without either lots of sp, spending a ton on shiney mods, or making much sacrifice in damage. That being said it's damage potential while retaining enough tank for a level 4 leaves it slow in most level 4s due to less dps than a BS. Instead of going that route train and save for the BS. (however, do train a second race of ships other than Minmatar, every character should do this as nerf insurance and provision for options later).

The tempest is not a great ship, however it can be setup to run level 4s. The phoon is my favorite ship in the game, but without having tech II in all weapons systems it is outperformed by the other two in typical minmatar level 4 missioning (which is usually against angels). The Mael with it's shield tanking bonus and damage bonus is best probably for your needs.

Now if you are missioning for another faction or outside of minmatar space you are getting less angel missions in which case the other two ships may look more favorable.

Regardless, after training Minmatar BS 4 and active shield skills, unless you are crosstraining Caldari, you should start the tech II projectile trees. Oh also have tech II warriors trained. By the time you have the ship and drone skills in place you should have enough from level 3s to afford a BS and then you can run level 4s while you improve your gunnery (working toward tech II ac and arty) and max out your shield tanking skills.

Thanks again for all the great reply's. I'm actually going to Bookmark this so I can use it for reference.

That is pretty much what I used except I had three purger rigs, two BCS, and I didn't have the salvager. With T2 missles it completed missions relatively fast.

drake is unique not in it's tank but in it's ability to keep the same DPS at 70 km as it does at 0 since missiles hit just as hard .
In fact if, you wanted to, you could have more tank in an myrmidon with probably the same dps as drake, although except for the drones the dps will only project to spitting range.

Yeah, as was already asked, what ships can this acct use?