Missions & Complexes

I pointed out a you can fly a different Amarr ship to easily deal with Angel rats. With the huge buff to T1 sentry drones it doesn't even require much training.

If you want to be silly and pretend that's not an option so you can cry about not getting exclusive EM and thermal weak rats in Amarr space by all means go for it.

and im pointing out that to do that u need to train for two new weapons systems whereas if u started caldari u wouldnt have to.

where did i say that flying a geddon was not an option?

also didnt i say that i would be happy if they reduced the frequency of the guristas and angels misisons?

and also yes i am sitting here tears streaming down my face.

Unless of course they want to be able to fly the Caldari hybrid boats or the other half of the Minmitar ship lineup. Since there are actually two weapon systems for each race.

Never mind that a good number of Caldari missile boats are locked to kinetic damage which is terrible against Blood Raiders and Sansha, that all of them are shield tankers which makes them weak to the EM damage of Blood Raiders and Sansha, and they all loose DPS to NPC defender missiles no matter what rats they are shooting at. Oh and projectiles are bad at dealing kinetic damage and loose DPS to falloff.

This thread is really funny to me because I started caldari and almost immediately cross trained amarr because I hated buying ammo so often. I recently cross trained gallente too in order to have more ships to fly with all my drone skills that I developed along the way. Today I run a stratios most of the time and with drones/t1 crystals I never even think about ammo which is a great feeling.

I don't know if the OP simply rushed hard into battleships without the right support skills, which is imo a huge blunder given how lucrative exploration or even lowsec ratting now can be in smaller ships relative to slowly trying to run L4 missions with bad skills, but for me the apocalypse never failed me in a mission. I lost one the first time I did the worlds collide bonus room, but other than that silly mistake I never had a ship go down or fail a mission because I couldn't apply enough dps or tank it long enough.

1. Years training doesn't mean a lot. I trained for about that long before getting into battlecruisers because I mostly did exploration in an arbitrator, but if you train wisely you can have a decent battleship pilot in less than a year. Basically it's not about sp, but about where you sp are.

2. Megapulse with scorch is still the envy of a lot of races, but obviously you don't want to use it vs. em resistant rats. Frankly I didn't have t2 large pulse for a while. I used meta beams for ages, with great success. Again, it's not so much about the sp itself as where you put it and how you use it.



If you have these skills, I think the problem may lie with your piloting. Are you aware of how to minmized transversal velocity? Do you know how to pulse tank, manage mission triggers, and take advantage of range/sig/speed tank with an afterburner or microjump drive? All these skills make a huge diffirence and you can google them if you're not sure.



There's really not a lot of diffirence in isk/hr between the mid-level battleships in missions. Where you're wasting some time firing extra laser volleys, some raven pilot without rigor catalyst rigs is spending more volleys on frigates and cruisers or utilizing drone skills more often on any kind of rat in general even when they have range. To make a long story shot, there are just annoying missions in general. Until you get to the point where you can pilot an expensive marauder or faction battleship, getting hung up on a mission or two that goes slower than the rest is to be expected. It happens to any ship, not just amarr.



That's pretty respectable dps.

You *could* train Caldari, but you'd be sub-par compared to gun boats in clearing missions.

Thats the trade-off. Caldari get missiles that dont miss but get Defender'd, but you gotta deal with Flight Time, Explosion Radius, Explosion Velocity, and Missile Speed.

Everyone else gets Hitscan weapons, but gotta deal with Tracking, Optimal, Falloff, Ammo Swappage for range, Signature Resolution on the guns, and locked damage types.

This is EVE. There is no "One Ship To Rule Them All" that has all the bonuses but no penalties.

You're completely missing the point of every comment I make...

and Nolak Ataru, I don't want to fly Caldari...

I got your point. You don't want to fight Guristas lol, Serpentis, and maybe Angel but you're not asking for only EM weak rats lol.

You posted about it was so difficult shooting them with lasers and I pointed out you could be in a Amarr drone ship without having to cross train another race.

You're just asking to remove this inconvenience to you. Yes missions need to be made easier

Nope, it's just drone interfacing IV and drone sharpshooting IV.

No excuses mah brutor.