Ships & Modules

Because everyone in the game runs missions with an AFK sentry-Domi alt? AMIRITE?

Why don't you make a poll?

I didnt say that.

Ishtar is plenty fast enough to burn to appropriate range first, if required. After that, it's a target priority call. Easy Money, they're a premier [guristas especially] anom runner, missions are equally simple if not more so.

Yup.

Ogre II base damage: 1.92 * 48 = 93.12 times 2 = 186.24 (gecko replaces two heavies.)
Gecko base damage: 2.05 * 128 = 262.4

262.4 / 186.24 = 1.41, meaning Gekcos provide a ~41% DPS boost over Ogre IIs.

Five Ogre IIs on today's Rattlesnake puts out 845 DPS, so the Summer Rattlesnake will do 845 * 1.41 = ~1190 DPS. Now add in summer faction drone modules for another 5% maybe, and we're up to ~1,250 DPS.

And we're looking at around 4,300 m/s in terms of speed with three Drone Nav Computer IIs.



On the down side, and CCP will burn in the flaming pits of hell for this, is that the 8% drone specialization skill won't apply.

I just tried one out in an Arbitrator. It kills elite frigs faster than bonused Hobos.

The MJD puts a 5 or 6 gun dominix miles beyond its effective gunnery range, and puts a rattlesnake miles beyond garde II effective range. If you are dealing 1000+ dps in a mission its either showtime and you'll have to warp out because showtime is hard, or you will literally burn down the PVE dps before it burns your buffer. IMO that its pretty much the "fun" in L4 missions for me, trying to bring so much dps to bear as to cheese the mission, and its also obviously the highest earning strategy.

There are some specific observations I'd also make for PVE.

a - the Ishtar locks a new spawn much faster than a battleship - so it will lock and kill a frigate more or less at the same speed the frigate locks it - so it will always kill 2 frigates before they've moved 2km - therefore its only likely to get unprepared webbed by pilot inexperience in PVE (either general inexperience or inexperience with the encounter).

b - the dominix with aggressive drones will kill a frigate when it spawns, if its the first thing in the spawn to agro up - if you manage triggers such that you shot the trigger last. If it is not the first thing in the spawn to agro up, then it won't matter because a frigate that doesn't lock you up straight away, probably won't lock you for 8 seconds or so and you'll nearly be done locking it, and you'll be able to hit it when it moves.

c - the rattlesnake is the same as the domi.

d - I use a drone proteus in the maze. both the Ishtar and the proteus can be configured to tank that much damage (160k torpedo + a full sized spawn) on sig alone whilst webbed to a total standstill by 4 towers and 20 frigates. As can other hacs and T3s with various racial considerations - so whilst learning content you can make the Ishtar essentially racially indestructible and in this era, you can drop a depot to put DDAs and omnis back on when you are sure the difficult phase is over. As my proteus is moving about with covops and nullifier its hard to bring *everything* but an Ishtar doesn't do that, so should always have a few basics and the depot in cargo.

the beforementioned 1190dps from that gecko go well by the 700 fury dps though.

My current rattlesnake already does around 1150 dps...

1 Gecko x 3.75 role bonus on both DPS and HP.

The new rattlesnake will have issues with range its likely to become more of a brawler not a sentry boat.

Gecko + Torps or Gecko + RHML are both looking interesting.