Missions & Complexes

Most likely serpentis enemies and looking for a gallente ship/fit that won't have any problems doing a DED 4, etc.


I was thinking a sniper talos or rail/drone myrm? Looking for ideas

it takes me about 12 minutes to do serpentis phi with a full T2 rail and sentry vexor, including not having a key and clearing the pocket to open the can and flying through the roid. A vexor can also go into the ded 3 which the myrm can't. You may need the myrms extra drone to crack the phi overseer if you have low skills, but he was dying on approach to me with a vexor (450 dps @ 40km).

The only thing I haven't tried with a sentry vexor is serpentis watch. it may be possible to kill the things that spawn the commander and, the commander and the other ship that rolls the escalation chance, bm the wreck and get out, I just never bothered taking on the wall-of-spawn.

You can refit the extra gun and remove your scanning bits on the fly if necessary these days thanks to the deployable which you can drop whilst clearing a first pocket, but you can also just dock up after you get the sig.

Navy vexor is another option. Myrm pricey these days that it doesn't make sense to be locked out of the 3/10s when you find em if you could have just used a navy vexor instead.

I don't think this can be done with other factions sites, but Guristas 1-4/10 can easily be run in an Assault Frig (even a T1 frig actually, I tested it with a Tristan) and I used to use an Ishkur with a probe launcher to do these sites in highsec, you're not locked out of any sites, and because you're so fast you can easily get to the loot first if there's someone else in the site with you. These sites are also easily the best with the 1/10 able to drop 80+mil, 2/10 - 120+mil, 3/10 - 200+mil and 400+mil from the 4/10

Serpentis 1-4/10 can be done in an Ishkur with a lot of patience. Have done that before moving to the Ishtar as my main exploration vessel in Guristas/Serpentis space. Even the phi outpost is doable, but the Ishkur's dps is quite low compared to a cruiser or BC hull.

True to that. I found the 3/10 sites quite annoying due to the large number of rats and rooms. I usually draw aggro from all groups, release my drones and just slow boat to the next gate.
My Ishtar is dual prop too, for the same reasons as yours. Plus a tractor beam is quite handy sometimes.

The problem with BCs and exploration is, that they are slow, and they cannot enter the 3/10 plexes. It is totally valid to use one for 4/10 sites, they are relatively cheap and do good dps. But a well flown cruiser or HAC will beat you most of the time due to its speed advantage.

Note that what every you use you need 400dps to take down the 4/10 serpentis boss. I learned that the hardway.

I usually run guristas sites with 2 accounts:

one with a ishkur for the 1-3/10 sites, this ship works fine, the overseer is just a crappy frigate, that can be easly killed i just fitted one thermal hardener a armor repairer and the rest with drone damage modules. but usually guristas 1-3 sites are not wort, because of incredibile low drop rate of the factionshieldbooster. I got more worm bpcs or dread guristas modules then pithi a type boosters. Look more for the 4/10 complexes

and my main with a nighthawk and heavy missiles, works just fine in the scout outpost. first room -> drones out, just kill the cruisers and let the drones do the frigs. 2nd room, just kill the telescope, loot the can and warp out, nighthawk can easly tank up to 600 dps.

the serpentis 1-3 sites can also be runned with a t1 or navy frigate (i used tristan or worm) the 4/10 can be done in a navy vexor and some federation navy orges.

if you want to use a bc, you should use a drake, as someone else said, assault frigs can win loot races, because other ones are in a cruiser with slower warp speed and lower max speed. but with a drake and heavy missiles, you can easly get up to 50 km range, so you can kill the telescope before the af gets into optimal range.

Gila.