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Blitzing lvl4 missions - which ship is the most efficient nowadays?
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erg cz
Federal Jegerouns
#21 - 2014-09-04 08:11:56 UTC
I would say Machariel for close range combat fun and Rattlesnake for relaxed sniper mode mission running.

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Amarro Waden
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#22 - 2014-09-04 09:48:04 UTC
CNR is pretty good.
Cipher Jones
The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars
#23 - 2014-09-04 16:42:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Cipher Jones
Vargur with nano, mwd, mjd.

You can tractor the mission loot on a couple missions. And you don't have to swap out gear for missions.

For example, you wont be Tanking Damsel in one shot (blow up the garden without shooting any ships) on your regular tank. Then you have to retrieve the loot. Smash and grab with the vargur in 1 bastion cycle.

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I.E. standard tank in your mach. And wont be speed tanking it in a Tengu because of the webbers.

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GordonO
BURN EDEN
#24 - 2014-09-04 22:46:12 UTC
mach is my goto ship for blitzing or grinding standings. Its fast has great range and selectable damage and a decent rate of fire so small stuff pops quickly.
It also has a spare high slot for a tractor beam so you can start pulling in any times you need to take back with you while aligning home.. Only BS I have yet to try is the vargur.. which is 16 days away Smile and yes I have used a tengu

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stoicfaux
#25 - 2014-09-05 00:56:12 UTC
Most efficient? A lot of ships are good at level 4s, but we would need more data to say for sure which is the most efficient.

Given the limited testing I've done, I would have to say gunships or extreme DPS ships are the most efficient. Gunships because of the standard gunship advantages plus the ability to mount warp speed rigs (e.g. Mach, Paladin, Vargur), and extreme DPS ships such as the TFI or Rattlesnake because DPS can often make up for a lot of shortcomings.


But, at least one thing you can be sure of, is that there's no single ship that is the "most efficient" ship for all missions, e.g. frigates/shuttles for Recon 1-3.


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afkalt
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#26 - 2014-09-05 09:18:23 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:

But, at least one thing you can be sure of, is that there's no single ship that is the "most efficient" ship for all missions, e.g. frigates/shuttles for Recon 1-3.




Agreed, but it is VERY hard to rival a macharial/assisted dominix combination. Certainly not "one" ship, but they work so well together. Those with two monitors will find more success with dual marauders though.
Marcus Gord
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#27 - 2014-09-05 09:40:18 UTC
i had a mach, but getting jammed/damped annoyed me to no end, so i changed out for a vargur.

had a tengu, but got bored of it.

i don't assume to know the best l4 ship, but i like my vargur.

kronos melts stuff though, corpie flies one.

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JAF Anders
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#28 - 2014-09-05 19:36:11 UTC
MJD Rail Kronos is fast, but I doubt it's the fastest.

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Doggy Dogwoofwoof
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Brotherhood of Spacers
#29 - 2014-09-07 22:09:47 UTC
Mach for more than 1 system Out, Rattlesnake for less. The travel time of the mach beats everything at 2 jumps+ and the snakes DPS out does everything at 1 jump
Dato Koppla
Neuronix
#30 - 2014-09-08 06:26:51 UTC
Marcus Gord wrote:
i had a mach, but getting jammed/damped annoyed me to no end, so i changed out for a vargur.

had a tengu, but got bored of it.

i don't assume to know the best l4 ship, but i like my vargur.

kronos melts stuff though, corpie flies one.


This is why you should always mission in Minmatar space, getting mostly Angel missions is a huge boon because they come up nice and close so you can do max DPS and their ewar is a joke and has negligible effect on any mission battleship. Missioning against Guristas/Serpentis/Sansha can be a huge pain sometimes and using a Bastion Marauder to get around it is doable, but annoying.
GordonO
BURN EDEN
#31 - 2014-09-08 20:33:38 UTC
Doggy Dogwoofwoof wrote:
Mach for more than 1 system Out, Rattlesnake for less. The travel time of the mach beats everything at 2 jumps+ and the snakes DPS out does everything at 1 jump


Paper DPs is not the same as applied dps. While I burn to the gate in my mach and blow stuff up ready to jump when I get there, you will need to deploy drones which have travel time, if you using sentry's you not mobile so getting to a gate takes longer.
by the time I kill the last npc I am already fully aligned and hit warp to hand back the mission, you not going to do this in a drone boat.

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Naitrayera
Arthashastra
#32 - 2014-09-08 21:28:45 UTC
I didnt flew expensive ( skill wise , maruder.. or isk wise, mach ) ships into missions much but i have exeprience with tempest fleet issue.
Fitted with a shield tank and for speed it is quite fast, and up to various tasks.
In comparison with abadon which i fly on the other part of space in missions it is doublee or more faster in the same missions.

So if you dont have isk for mach, you can try tempest fleet... its really fun to fly :D
my 2 cents.
W0lf Crendraven
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#33 - 2014-09-10 12:31:30 UTC
kinda getting the vibe that a looooooot of people here dont really know what blitzing is
Cpt Tirel
Institute For Continuous Glory
#34 - 2014-09-10 19:45:48 UTC
I use rail proteus for lvl4, 900+ turret dps with good range and 5 light drones. Cruiser ftw
GordonO
BURN EDEN
#35 - 2014-09-10 22:15:31 UTC
Cpt Tirel wrote:
I use rail proteus for lvl4, 900+ turret dps with good range and 5 light drones. Cruiser ftw


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Cpt Tirel
Institute For Continuous Glory
#36 - 2014-09-11 06:51:18 UTC
Sure, the fit only costs around 1 bill.

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