Warfare & Tactics

T2 guns are the way to go for dps in PvP. Some ships, the guns will be more expensive than the hull. Just the way it works.

Even if you train for a T2 weapon, the dps without well trained support skills will be very low, even only 40% of the max possible dps.

Check the "Turret Control" and "Missile Control" certificates for them. If you want to increase your dps fast load your ship fitting into EFT, right click on the weapon and try manually setting weapon skills levels (like rapid firing / surgical strike / gunnery for turrets) and see how they are affecting your dps. Then make an optimal skill plan in EVEMon, just play with EFT and determine which of the support skills benefits your dps the most, etc, etc, etc.

With lvl 4 support skills you can get up to 80% of your weapon dps (roughly). With the skills which directly affect the dps trained to V it's about 93% (surgical strike, gunnery, rapid firing) - depending on the weapon size the percentage can decrease.

I know you that you wrote that you are more interested in missiles but the it's really the same story (warhead upgrades, rapid launch, missile launcher operation).

Looking at your Corax fit, we see it's light missile fit. If you had a rocket fit, then condor could, in theory, kite you with light missiles but if you switched to javelin rockets he would have a hard time maintaining safe range and would probably eventually take enough hits to force him out.

However, you had light missile fit so condor should not have much hope except your fit had some issues. For starters, you use meta 1 missile launchers which have an anemic rate of fire and the condor should be able to handle several volleys without much issues, especially if it has medium shield extender or medium ancillary shield booster.

Second, you have no tank at all in your Corax which means pretty much anything chews you to bits faster than you can do the same. You might want to look for a fit along these lines (I dont know your skills so it's just theory crafting for t1)

[Corax, light]
Cross-linked Bolt Array I
F85 Peripheral Damage System I

Limited 1MN Microwarpdrive I
Fleeting Warp Disruptor I
Adaptive Invulnerability Field I
Small F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction

Upgraded 'Malkuth' Light Missile Launcher, Caldari Navy Scourge Light Missile
Upgraded 'Malkuth' Light Missile Launcher, Caldari Navy Scourge Light Missile
Upgraded 'Malkuth' Light Missile Launcher, Caldari Navy Scourge Light Missile
Upgraded 'Malkuth' Light Missile Launcher, Caldari Navy Scourge Light Missile
Upgraded 'Malkuth' Light Missile Launcher, Caldari Navy Scourge Light Missile
Upgraded 'Malkuth' Light Missile Launcher, Caldari Navy Scourge Light Missile
Upgraded 'Malkuth' Light Missile Launcher, Caldari Navy Scourge Light Missile

Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Small Core Defense Field Extender I
Small Core Defense Field Extender I

Do note that light missile Corax is extremely tight to fit if you want full rack of light missiles (indeed, some people drop to 6 launchers for this very reason) and unless you have max skills, you might need to either put a power diagnostic or micro auxiliary core to low-slot or use rigs for anc router and/or co-processor

Your best bet is to join an existing FW corp for some more fitting tips. Seeing your usual area of operations (based on killmails), I would recommend contacting Cory Braum from Dark Circle enforcement.

This fit is ok for the most part, but small shield extenders are utterly useless. You would be better off fitting another Invuln. Try out rockets, of course light missile boats will kite you, but that is just a fact of life.

Corax: Rocket grapist

Highs:
Upgraded "Malkuth" Rocket Launcher I x7

Mids:
Limited 1mn Microwarpdrive I
J5b Phased Prototype Warp Scrambler I
X5 Prototype Engine Enervator I
Limited Adaptive Invulnerability Field I

Lows:
Cross Linked Bolt Array I
Emergency Damage Control I

Not sure if srs.

This.

Do some plexing, monetize the LPs, pay for 10 destroyer T2 fit (150-300m depending on fit / destroyer).

That's like 4 BC or 6 cruisers or 20-40 frigates.

The thing is, the T2 fittings, faction ammo and experience is what will improve your odds of coming up ahead. Eve is a game of stacking up small percentage gains into large differences. So stack up all the little bonus you can. All those skills and all those slightly better mods matter.

Join a good corp, have 'em look over you character skills and help you make smart decisions about what to train, how to fit, how to fly. Learn the ships, how they're flown and what you can and can't do.

Also, discard anything you ever read / heard about a ship before it got tiericided. The new T1 ships are lean and mean. A slasher is fully capable of killing thrasher. A condor, killing a corax and an Incursus can actually wait for a Corax to run out of ammo before killing it.

If you don't mind losing. In a fleet I agree with you though.

Finally the amarr spy in triad is exposed.

you're assuming that t1 frig doesn't have links.

In todays meta of ultrafaggotry that isn't very likely

Indeed. Like paying for only one account. How dare you!