Missions & Complexes

Get the vexor.

Fit with Meta 4 using EFT or Pyfa.

Train all affecting skills to L3.

Get drones to L5.

You will ruin any L2 mission if done well.

The Vexor is nice for L2 missions, though you can do a very similar fit using the Amarr drone cruiser, the Arbitrator:

[Arbitrator, L2 Mission Runner]
F85 Peripheral Damage System I
Medium 'Accommodation' Vestment Reconstructer I
Prototype Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane I
Armor Thermic Hardener I
Drone Damage Amplifier I

Large Peroxide Capacitor Power Cell
Eutectic Capacitor Charge Array
Experimental 10MN Afterburner I
Drone Navigation Computer I

Drone Link Augmentor I
Drone Link Augmentor I
Gatling Pulse Laser I, Multifrequency S
Small Tractor Beam I

[empty rig slot]
[empty rig slot]
[empty rig slot]


Hobgoblin I x5
Hammerhead I x5

• Armor tank, here an example giving you about 100 dps against Mercenaries. You will need this in missions like Stop The Thief L2.
• DDA for more damage.
• Large capacitor battery plus capacitor recharger gives you better cap regeneration than 3x cap rechargers, saving a mid slot.
• Afterburner to help your ship get to places, where it needs to go.
• Drone Navigation Computer to help your drones get to places, where they need to go.
• 2x DLA for more drone range, to help with low drone skills.
• Small pulse laser for grabbing aggro at long range, not really there to do damage. Chosen for low fitting requirements and no ammo usage.
• Small tractor beam to help you complete missions faster by pulling in mission completion items. Faster than moving your ship.
• Drones chosen for NPC faction you are fighting, here thermal damage against Mercenaries.
• Rigging slots intentionally left empty to give the user some flexibility. Can be left empty to save ISK, rigged with a CCC or two to help with cap etc. Agility or warp speed rigs may also be useful options.
• Very generous on both CPU and Power Grid, so easy to fit at low skills.
• Murders any L2 mission, given appropriate drones and armor hardeners.

The Vexor song ...

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Gecko Gecko
Bouncer Bouncer Bouncer Bouncer Bouncer Bouncer Bouncer Bouncer Bouncer Bouncer Bouncer Bouncer
Gecko Gecko

Stupidity and ignorance are two different things. If you learned from your loss it was not stupidity just ignorance. Eve-Survival.com should be used to become less ignorant. Unless you enjoy the mystery of what you are going up against.

OP, any cruiser should work well, I prefer Thorax but Vexor is probably the most popular.

Algos is fine for L2s, very cheap and pretty much as fast as a vexor on L2 frigate heavy missions. I ran this on my alt recently.

Algos L2
5x 125mm prototype gauss gun (iron charge s, thorium charge s, antimatter charge s)
1x drone link augmentor I

1x 1mn afterburner II
1x cap recharger II
1x drone navigation computer I

1x small 'accomodation' vestment reconstructor
1x adaptive nanoplating II
1x drone damage amplifier I

1x small auxiliary nanopump I
2x small capacitor control circuit I

5x hobgoblin II
2x hammerhead II

Doesn't really require any level 5 skills at all (other than those required to field the T2 drones), if your fitting skills are terrible then use 4 guns instead of 5 guns. If you come under a lot of fire, keep moving and orbit something, it won't actually pop if you are burning on the AB. For my alt the cap runs for 11 minutes with the AB, guns and rep running which is ample time for an L2.

I didn't see that fielding hammerheads was particularly useful, and drone aggro doesn't seem to happen to it at all.