Ships & Modules

If you're coming here instead of your corp/alliance for help then I would recommend changing that first off. Sounds like you are in a larger null group that has a lot of big things going on and can't be bothered to help out one of their newer members.

Easy system to use for any ship - get it to Mastery III before you buy it, get it to Mastery IV for whatever area of eye popping numbers you want out of it. Your Drake is about 1/3 the amount of total dmg it should be doing.

HM and/or HAM to V
HM and/or HAM Specialization to IV
All missile support skills to IV, minimum
Weapon Upgrades to V (for BC IIs)
All the drone skills to IV or V for effective use of T2 drones
Faction ammo minimum
And a bunch of the Core Fitting (engineering, nav) skills to IV, minimum.

With gimped ammo (too cheap to go crazy for EZ sauce L3 farming), my Drake is at 389 DPS. If I cared about eye popping DPS, tweaked it a bit and used Fury ammo or whatever, It could be a good bit higher.

You...need...more....skills.

PS - some folks get down on the Mastery system because some of the reqs are overkill, but as general guides go they do work pretty well, at least at III and IV.

With missile skills that aren't maxed, you won't apply damage, if you really want to use a big ship (I don't advise, use a cruiser) get a Ferox with rails and snipe everything.

^^ Nice recruitment post!!

One thing that might be worth considering is dropping your Afterburner. Here's the tradeoff:

W/ AB on, you increase speed, which can help you move faster than Serp Rats can track w/ their guns. You also spend cap and have one extra button to manage (or more, depending on how you approach/orbit etc.

W/ no AB, you lose speed, but can still keep moving to mitigate a bit of the turret damage. The upside is you get another Mid-Slot to help your tank as well as freeing up a bit of cap to run that Tank. You might try something like this:

Heavy Launchers on Highs (best Meta level you can afford/find) loaded w/ Scourge Missiles

Mids:
1 medium shield booster,
1 shield boost amplifier (best meta),
1 kinetic hardener,
1 thermic hardener (both best meta, hopefully T2)
2 capacitor Rechargers (best Meta, look at the info and get the one w/ the best cap regen bonus)

Lows:
3 Ballistic Control Units (best meta, I have fit Multiphasic bolt array I's for this example)
1 Power Diagnostic Unit (best meta, look for shield HP bonus, cap recharge bonus and shield recharge bonus)

As far as Tank goes, based on "Limited" hardeners and minimum skills versus the Serpentis Damage type:
w/ the Large C5-L, you can max at 326 dps tank for 2.5 minutes
w/ the Medium C5-L, you can perma run the booster at 185 dps tank

with arbalest launchers, will net you 192 DPS without drones.
Skills:
Level 3 in the following - Caldari BC, missile Launcher operation, HEavy Missiles, and Warhead Upgrades.
Level 4 with those skills gives 232 dps (no drones, same mods)
Level 5 with those skills gives 278 dps (no drones, same mods)

Putting drones into the mix will help a TON: For Hobgoblin I's
3 drones at the bare minimum skills adds 28 dps (the difference between going from 3 to 4 in almost 4 other skills)
4 drones at the bare minimum adds 37 dps , 5 adds 46 dps (T1)

Increasing the drones skill to 5, and light drone operation to 4 and still using 5 T1 Hobgobs will add 55 dps


A fit like this should (as you train your skills and get good at the belts) give you a nice mix of DPS and Tank.
Adding the drones should help a good bit w/ any scram rats as well.

The above posters are right though. W/ an active tank, the goal is not to constantly have your shield level at 100% forever, its to be able to run your shield booster long enough that you don't get into armor while still being able to apply enough dps to kill the bad guys.

And for some perspective, with my skills and a full T2 setup based on the above scheme: 410 DPS and 304 dps Perma Tank w/ medium T2 shield booster, including 5 T2 hobgobs


Hope this helps!

Yeah the thing is, I wanna do PI, exploration, reprocessing also, and I cannot train half a year stuff to 5 or I get bored pretty quickly :D

Btw getting raven in few days :D

:D I think ur right but u know how new players are. Yes I appreciate the response to question. I am getting all the skills to required levels so I boost dps as well as modules.

Btw getting raven in few days :D

Uhm...how is the negative effect of hurrying into a larger hull fixed by hurrying into an even larger hull?

Just past "Never undock what you aren't willing to see blown up" in the list of EVE commandments is "Being able to sit in a ship isn't the same as being able to fly it."

To that point, I would ask this question: why do you think people lose battleships in L3 missions? More than one person in EVE history has gotten slapped around in an L3, vowed revenege, rushed into a new BS hull, gone back and gotten slapped around even worse than before. When you figure out why that would be, you'll figure out why you should be going to smaller hulls right now, not bigger ones.

Wait what!?

Losing BS's to lvl 3's? That's not really a thing is it?

I mean sure I've lost some ships in some really dumb ways (and I mean really dumb); but when actually trying??

I already trained those skills to appropriate level. Every corp/alliance mate says I should get raven NI. I know i dont have super skills for it but I need to make isk with that bs, I won`t make isk with frigate or cruiser.

You need to train t2 missiles, probably hams or heavys if you want to rat effectively, The passive tank is fine when done right, ask members of your alliance to critique your fit they can offer more specific advice since they can see your fit

Either way T2 missiles is a must