Ships & Modules

Hi. I'm a relatively new player who have been playing EvE on and off the last couple of years, and I would like to have some inputs on a Level-3 / 4 Mission set-up for my Proteus (Yeah, I know that many people dislike the ship ).

I have some questions which I hope the community can help me with. Buf first of, skills:

Skillpoints ~12M

Drones: ~800k

Electronics: ~500k

Engineering: ~900k

Gunnery: ~7M

Mechanic: ~900k

Navigation: ~400k

Spaceship Command: 2M

My current set-up is:

[High-Slots]
Heavy Neutron Blaster II x5

[Med-Slots]
Cap Recharger II x3
10MN Afterburner II

[Low-Slots]
Damage Controll II
Medium Armor Repairer II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II x2
Energized Adpative Nano Membrane II x2

[Rig]
Medium Trimark Armor Pump I x3

[Drones]
5x Hammerhead II

[Sub]
Nanobot Injector
Capacitor Regeneration Matrix
Hybrid Propulsion Armature
Wake Limiter

My question is about the stats.

Effective HP: 48,317
Armor EM: 73,8% / Thermal: 83% / Kinetic 91,3% / Explosive: 76,1%
Cap stable @ 48%
DPS: 487 w/Void M + drones
DPS: 373 w/Null M + drones

Defense: 202 ehp/s

So, what I'm wondering about is DPS and Defense. I think it's way to low.

I have Medium Hybrid Turret 5, Medium Blaster Specialization 4, Gunnery 5, Controlled Bursts 4, Motion Prediction 5, Rapid Firing 5, Sharpshooter 5

For defense: EM Armor Compensation 3, EM Armor 3, Explosive Armor 3, Kinetic Armor 2, Thermic Armor 3 Hull upgrades 5, Mechanics 5, Repairs 4

In EFT when I use this fitting and set all skills to 5 the DPS increase to 606 w/Null and 785 w/Void. Defense jumps to a lousy 339.

Am I missing some core skills to get this boosted up to something which can handle a L4 mission?

I hope you can help a semi-noob out

also in the specific case of the proteus, I would use 3x CCC and get rid of the cap rechargers. The mids are too critical for applied damage mods on this boat.

I would generally prefer 200mm (or 250mm) railguns, AB, a web and a tracking computer if I was going gunnery. I would probably want a tank with 3 slots in the lows (corelum c-type medium armor rep + 2 hardeners is what I use), and I'd would want 4 mag stabs.

That way you can AB around avoiding damage, you can shoot stuff at reasonable ranges, and you can use the 25m3 dronebay to take care of anything small that got too close. The buffer of the proteus is big enough for you to kill a beacon reaching web, and rails let you reach such things straight away.

How would you do the blockade with an AB and blasters ?

I have tried missioning in rail deimos and rail vigilant, and I found the rail vigilant to honestly be pretty good, and it had more dps than you do with blasters ???

(I think I used a cap booster with the vigilant, since its highsec and I am redocking after each mission where I can replenish, which made it a lot simpler to get the fit working).

Without checking the fit (make it easy copy/paste for import).

- AB and blasters don't mix, especially not medium blasters
- 2 mag stabs is just bad
- 5 turrets is also bad
- you need TC/TE
- trimarks make zero sense on a mission fit
- whatever you try to make the proteus do, it'll be terrible for mission efficiency


If you really want to use a Proteus for it (again, I wouldn't know why because they're not good at it meaning more time wasted and less income), have a look at this. I doubt it's max optimised as I cobbled it together in 2 minutes but use it as a starting template.

[Proteus, lvl 4]
Corpum C-Type Medium Armor Repairer
Energized Thermic Membrane II
Energized Kinetic Membrane II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Capacitor Power Relay II

Gistum C-Type 10MN Microwarpdrive
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script

250mm Railgun II, Antimatter Charge M
250mm Railgun II, Antimatter Charge M
250mm Railgun II, Antimatter Charge M
250mm Railgun II, Antimatter Charge M
250mm Railgun II, Antimatter Charge M
250mm Railgun II, Antimatter Charge M

Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I

Proteus Defensive - Nanobot Injector
Proteus Electronics - Emergent Locus Analyzer
Proteus Engineering - Power Core Multiplier
Proteus Offensive - Hybrid Propulsion Armature
Proteus Propulsion - Localized Injectors

Hobgoblin II x5
Hammerhead II x5

Uuuuuhhhhmmm. No, not really.

It can be used in a pvp scenario but that generally relies on having gang links, possible backup in the form of RR/ECM and dealing with idiot and stationary targets. Realistically though, not so much. There's also a cloaky/nullified fit that can work fine. Still, PVP+blaster range+ 500 mil cruiser has a tendency to end badly.

I have mine fit as a drone boat and its taken about 10 billion isk in loot, boxes and bounties from ded complex sigs and escalations. These days I can covert/nullifer to a hostile system, refit in system off a mobile depot to droneboat and then do the escalation. I love it as a droneboat because its a flying space luxury yacht with every conceivable fitting and option for an explorer fit that way (3 utility highs - awesome). A railboat might actually be a bit easier to get everything to fit for travel.

The point to the T3s is that they have flexible subs, so you should find a role that suits it. If I was back in highsec I'd be using it as my fetcher for lowsec escalations. Which I'd mostly get by farming den anomalies, which it might be able to do blaster fit. That's kinda actually exercising the ship, since you'll fit blaster for highsec, covops for travel and then rails for the escalation.