Missions & Complexes

Armour, buffer, pulse as a rule of thumb but thats a pvp bias.

Omen is quite quick too, its navy varient is fairly popular with the kieting crowd.

That + the versitility pulse lazors offer should point you broadly in the right direction

Why the omen over the maller? Maller does a smidge less DPS but is much easier to tank.

EDIT: I mixed up the Oracle and the Omen in the below statement...oops...

Or maybe consider a Harbinger battlecruiser? It uses both lasers and drones. You could train up your drone skills (which will be useful to you for different ships / situations ) while still zapping things with (medium) lazors. Level 3 missions usually need a battlecruiser to do so you'd be getting used to that type of ship with the Harbinger also. The Omen's "thing" is that it can fit large guns. More damage, of course, but slower target tracking. Smaller ships can "get under" your guns (get close enough to where your guns can't track them effectively) and stasis webify and/or warp scramble you. Fitting a stasis webifier module yourself could slow a target enough to hit it better with your lasers. I understand Omen is better at pvp than pve, but it's a pretty ship. If you like it and really want to fly it, then go for it. Have fun.

Arbitrator if you want to go down the drone route, much easier to mission with drones as you don't have to worry about your gun's tracking.

Only downside is micro-managing the drones so they don't die all the time.

Otherwise I would suggest a beam omen with an armour repper. Buffer doesn't do so well in missions since you're best interests are to stay on field until the objective is complete.

Beams because you have a much longer engagement range and often spawns are over 50km away from you and you unlikely have access to scorch.

[Omen Navy Issue, level 3 missions]
Medium Armor Repairer II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II
Tracking Enhancer II

10MN Monopropellant Enduring Afterburner
Stasis Webifier II
Large Compact Pb-Acid Cap Battery

Focused Medium Pulse Laser II, Conflagration M
Focused Medium Pulse Laser II, Conflagration M
Focused Medium Pulse Laser II, Conflagration M
Focused Medium Pulse Laser II, Conflagration M
Medium Energy Nosferatu II

Medium Energy Collision Accelerator II
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I
[empty rig slot]


Hammerhead II x5




I've been using the above navy issue fit for level 3 missions. Swap out the nano membrains for faction specific hardeners. I believe something similar would work on the regular omen for 2s

Since you're doing missions in Amarr-space, remember some rats you can encounter will use tracking disruption. Plan ahead and use rigs/tracking enhancers to counter the pain.

One alternative to pulses would be beams and a tracking computer in your mids after propulsion and cap mod.

In this case you need drones to keep smaller ships off your back. Luckily the Omen can control a full flight of lights or a nearly full flight of mediums. Only use medium drones if your drone skills are really good, though: Hitting frigate rats can be tricky otherwise.

Heh. I didn't even notice.