Missions & Complexes

With that fit, max skills and 2 +5% cap hardwiring, the gist fit can tank 3 Sentry III (capital) energy neuts (these neuts 40 GJs oer second, so to stay stable you need to generate 120 GJ above your ships cap needs)). The pith fit can only tank 2 (80 GJ). Most missions only have the 2 capital neuts but a few can spawn 1 or 2 Sentry II.

The pith fit would be in serious trouble in the missions that spawn extra neuts , the Gist verion is much more survivable. On the tank side, mid (or better yet, high) grade crystals (all but the omegas) are a must to get your tank up above 2100 to 2200 dps tanked.

In other words, you can't cheap out when it comes to this if you want to succeed. The whole point is a super tough ship that won't die and that will pay for itself easily.

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You can use Mid grade, high grade is better. The main principle here is that you don't want to take any chances because of isk. In high sec lvl 4 missioning it's ok to say "well, I will use this because it's cheaper than that" and therefor more cost effective. in lvl 5 missioning (which is always in low sec), EVERY little bit counts. And blitzed lvl 5s are so lucrative, you make the isk investment back very soon.

The mid grades will do, the high grades help you better if you (for example) get caught in a mission by other players. You want as much cap and tank as you can not just for the mission, but for dealing with other players (with enough cap and tank you can survive long enough for npc aggro to switch, letting the npcs help kill your enemy or at least help you get away).

Also as soon as possible make sure your thermo dynamics skill and your racial tech3 cruiser skill get to 5, being able to overheat is not necessary for the mission, but it will save your ship if you get caught in a mission.

i dont even use implants

It's really up to you what race to fly. Rattlesnakes are good but you need to warp out every now and then or you might die... Minmattar ships are good too because weapon type doesn't use cap at all so you might be able to find a good fit that will tank out the neuts if you'reand active tank.

So really Caldari or Minmattar are your choices unless you dual box and can dual RR domi. Otherwise it's carriers and any carrier can do them, I've seen Archon, Thanatos, Chimeras and heard of Nids do it as well.

It's up to you if you and what ship you want. I also heard the nighthawk is good too.

I've heard of people doing Gallente and Caldari mostly. Not many from what I hear do Minmattar or Amarr

So avoid Honor and Fortess, but every other level 5 mission is doable with that Tengu fit?

Could it be possible that if you have one character that is in the Tengu and have another character as an off-grid links, would that be possible to do to amplify the shields even more to withstand more and possibly add more DPS? Or is having links in level 5's not worth it? Just trying to think of different things since currently I am running two rattlesnakes, and make use of another character while I have a Tengu going or should I just use Tengu/Rattlesnake variation to add DPS from the rattle and heavy tank from the Tengu?

-Maykid

I've also found this week that the RegenGu can handle ALL c1-c3 wormhole combat anomalies. That's not a big deal as you can do those in other ships (I have a C3 solo Vagabond for example.

What is a big deal (to me as a wormhole solo noob) is that I was able to solo this wormhole site last night. And this one. Those are c4 wormhole sites. The neuts didn't even tickle and I never dipped below 85% shields.

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Like I said, wish I could take credit for it, but I haven't had an original idea since 1979 (lol). Really glad you like it, Like Atomic said, 2 of them are absolute murder on lvl 5 missions.