Ships & Modules

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I thought cap boosters are for people who don't know how to manage cap.

In my opinion, the extra cost/hassle of needing cap booster charges is not worth the questinable benefit a booster might bring. Your mileage might vary, of course.

I'd say this fit is probably your best one to start out on. It IS overtanked though. As you skill up and become more confident you should start dropping down the tank and adding drone damage amplifiers. I would also highly recommend that you get the skills to fully T2 tank this before moving up in ships.

Your next ships after this one as far as drone ships can vary quite a bit. Your best bet would be a Dominix with sentry drones. You could also run an Ishtar (T2 cruiser) in low or null sec space.

For lvl3's and above actually drones are not really really awesome these days because of mission rats AI changes that require strong Drone skills and a good knowledge of mission specifics.
However, T2 light drones are not an option no matter if you use guns or missiles, get all drone support at 4 and lights 5+ specs at 4 at least for hobgos and caldari ones (can't remember the name) for the moment.

Then the gunnery route is a huge patience route to take carefully, as it is Mechanics and Engineering or Electronics one.

First you'll need decent tank skills and then guns skills, support skills at 5 for hybrids are not an option, T2 gun specs at lvl4 are not an option neither then add ships type training at 4 at least, 5 being of course a must have.

An active tanking Brutix with 250's can do every lvl3 without a problem and this will get easier as your training skills will get stronger but you might as well ask yourself is it the best option, the best training path on the long run?

Thing you need to realize is that bigger doesn't mean better. You could be doing lvl3's with an active tanking Enyo (T2 ship) and fully T2 fitted before you become effective with your Brutix or Myrmidon, plus this would open new perspectives to your gaming experience as PVP with rather cheapo throwaway T1 frigates but T2 fitted that are totally awesome.

By their specific agility maneuverability and often generous firepower and tackle abilities this kind of ship opens to you new playgrounds like low sec and null sec whereas your rather slowish Brutix or Myrmidon will probably get gank a few gates later.

Just an opinion to make you think about it, will not pollute this thread with more fits that do not cover your immediate needs but goals on the medium/long run.

Edit: Tipia has a nice blog where you can find some short term training plans, those are wise and carefully thought to cover most aspects and needs for the new character, you should take a look at.

Er no. My Mission (Navy) Domi wants to have a word with you. Drone boats are awesome. Selectable damage, awesome range and tracking. Excellent damage. No Cap use. No ammo use. Any drawbacks. Yes. if you are stupid and you send your heavies on assault frigs , they will die. (formerly when you had aggro heavies would chomp on frigs like Tyson on Holyfield without referee interference).

The AI change just means you can no longer set your drone boat on "orbit XYZ structure" (after you have taken the aggro) and then tell your drones to go play a little while you go and wax your candle 'browsing' your favourite website(s).

Yes, AFK missioning with drone boats is over. As intended. They are still my ship of choice for all missions. Granted, some of them now better with sentries rather than heavies, but still.

The Only downside (compared to turrets) is that support skills are obviously not shared amongst other weapon systems. But the same goes for rockets/missiles. While gunnery support skills are obviously shared amongst 3 turret systems.

But in my view anybody should have t2 meds with very good to excellent drone skills anyway.

Ok ok ok, then let me rephrase it. AFK missioning with droneboats has been "nerfed" to the point where it is still (semi) possible, but impractical. Where before all you needed to do was grab aggro, orbit structure, drop drones and off you go you little pacman critters you actually, NOW you gotta work a little before you can step away from the screen and let the drones kill off the remaining Battlecruisers and battleships.

Also, new spawn with frigs as part of it will kill your drones off in no time. So I would say the AI works as intended. Droneboats are still great mission ships, but you gotta pay attention to the point where it is not afk missioning anymore.

I think as it woks now, CCP did a good job.

Sorry but if you're not cap injecting your nightmare you're doing it wrong.

The whole point of the cap booster is that you can avoid all that X and A type stuff with a single module and instead invest the ISK in damage not making your ship a gank magnet while keeping excellent completion times. Cap boosters are awesome they free up so much slots.

As for the myrmidon fits everyone is suggesting most of them are overtanked and whoever suggested heavy drones for lvl 3's is very very wrong, most of the rats there are cruiser sized or less.

Oh and op don't fly a myrm without T2 lights/meds or at least train them up asap.

Thanks again for all the help everyone (even though the thread took a slight turn towards the end).

I trained up T2s and got some in the bay. I didn't have time to run a L3 last night, so I will let everyone know how it goes this weekend.

I agree, everyone tells me that. I wonder if they will ever nerfbat the Tengu...