Missions & Complexes

So I am just coming back into the game and my character can fly Amarr, Gallente and minmitar battleships / commandships.

I am going to do some level 4 missions to get my Isk up.

Any tips on best ship for this in these races and fittings probably against guristas.

Thanks !

Seeing as you have Gal and Mini, I would suggest a Mach. Steer clear of the marauders as their low sensor strength will just leave you jammed against Guristas.

Guristas are best shot at with Kin/Therm, but EM works nicely too - which means you want anything except Explosive damage pretty much.

Mach, Nightmare, Abaddon, Navypoc, Dominix. Personally I'd look at Nightmare and Mach first, others second.

It is my understanding that your sensor strength has nothing to do with whether or not an NPC will jam you. I live in Guristas space and have noticed this to be consistent with my experiences with Guristas jamming, too.

Then again, this is just my understanding, not my 100% quality assured knowledge of the situation.

Edit: CCP needs to make this **** browser friendly to simple browswwers. sorry for the multi-post.

step 1. Which space are you in?
Step 2. pick Bship based on race.
Step 3. you need to give more information when you are asking a broad question.... like... hey, I don't want to use drones... or I hate lasers, but, bla bla bla. We can't answer your question with such a vague bit of information.

Also, I can't actually be clear as to what I'm trying to say because these forums aren't friendly to people with internet access at work ><

Not that I'm calling you a liar, but where did you acquire this information from? I'd like to do the research myself.

For what it's worth, 2 of my own little personal experiences:

I went into a mission in my Drake last month, a guristas mission, and was pretty much permajammed, or at least jammed often enough where I could never get past the shield boosting of any of the rats, it was pretty awful. So I went and bought 2 ECCM in a nearby system came back and hardly got jammed at all (I still got jammed, but only a couple times over a long period, never back to back and constant like before.)

Generally I do exploration sites rather than missions for carebearing, combat and radar. There is a specific radar site in gurrista space where a couple Moa always spawn and they do ECM. I've tried to do the site in a rifter, but ended up permajammed, I could kill them if I could target them, but target them I could not, I tried more than one of these sites in my rifter and warped out a few times and back in on one where they spawned before I looted the first can. Then I tried it in a hawk (8str --> 16str going from rifter to hawk) and found myself jammed significantly less.

Anecdotal, but there it is.

Yeah the sensor strength change ( fix ) was at the same time all the Guristas missions doing perma-jamming popped up. You can see in the old forums just how many complaints there where if you want a "time" when this started. It pretty much made all the Marauders useless against Guristas due to their horrid sensor strength, the same reason no one PvPs in them. You can just get a t1 frig with a single racial ECM and perma jam them.

The Pirate BS however have the same / more fire power and if you really must salvage, the Noctis is far, far more efficient.

Gallente / Minmatar skills get you into Machariel, which is a very nice mission runner for most anything except some of the nastier amarr lvl4 encounter storylines. Machariel is fast and has heaps of DPS output, but not nearly the uber-tank many mission runners seek.

Doing some Caldari (and possibly missile) cross-training will get you into arguably better mission runners like the rattlesnake (gallente / caldari) and tengu (T3 caldari ... relatively easy-to-achieve skillset). These guys don't have the DPS output of the Machariel, but they can throw up a way better shield tank. The Caldari BSs are also decent mission runners, but I'd not really place them higher than the Machariel for someone with Gallente / Minmatar skills.