EVE General Discussion

rattlesnake

Safest and Cheapest (if possible) not Fastest.

Considering this is a new character with only 1.5mil sp, would it be better to switch to Caldari if i went for Rattlesnake?

Oh no, don't have to switch races, all you need is to train the proper skills.

A rattlesnake is the best ship to run l4 missions but you need more than 1.5mil sp and allocated in the proper skills.


If your just concerned about safety at this point then yes there are a few different ships to run l4 easily and are very cheap.

But that goes and depends on your skills as well, what are you good at, drones, missiles or turrets? shield or armour?

Back then, a Raven hull was worth around 100m, while a Rattlesnake was 600m.

Now, a Raven hull is 170m and a Rattlesnake 390m.

Expensive haven't the same meaning as back then, and better afordability of faction hulls means they overshadow t1 BS hull any day.

That being said: Raven is perfectly fine, Rattler is better, but also more skill intensive.

Machariel also works well for blitzing missions. Either way, you're going to need a lot more properly allocated SP to efficiently run 4s in a t1 BS for less than 1bil.

Honestly though, F&I isn't the right forum for this thread. Ships and Modules seems like a much better place to get this info.

Gila
medium drone
passive shield
RLML with jav
AB and speed tank.

bonus: can use salvage drones if you are bored.

Once you know what resists to tank, any T2 fit BS. On a similar level, knowing the damage weakness. Serpentis (Gallente missions) will deal Kin/ Therm. Sansha (Amarr - Blood/ Khanid) will deal EM/ Therm.

There were several mission conditions where a gate would drop you on to a cluster at their optimal and you took a beating even with 95% resists on the right two but they were usually ships that melted quite fast.

pirate bs prices are so low you could really go with just about anything but a marauder for under 1bil. If you want some more specific recommendations your budget and skills would help. You say you have 1.5m sp so for now I'd probably look for something you can fit a micro jump drive to and use it as either a panic button, or something to control range and snipe things as they approach you and can't do much damage.

Raven with cruise and shield tank. The thing has been popular for years thanks to requiring almost no brain cells to fly
dominix with sentry drones and armor or shield tank, the thing is pretty flexible. Also with drones it is very easy to fly.
Minny bs: I don't have a clear favorite mostly because the mach is so strong. the maelstrom seems pretty good for a t1 option.
Apoc for amarr, em/therm isn't too bad of a damage type as long as you aren't constantly shooting gurista/angel pirates.

Of course for the most part navy versions work as well or better.

as for pirate bs at this point pushing one over 1b requires a bunch of bling, and will mostly consist of using faction damage mods which aren't needed for the most part.
Machariel: amazing ship 100% recommend. super fast, hard hitting, tank may be a bit light if you aren't used to the missions
rattlesnake: tons of tank and damage, although the thing is a bit too slow for me.
nightmare: awesome laser platform. great projection and damage with tachyons, and can run a large shield tank on top.
barghest: great missile platform, and the ship is pretty fast.

Like mentioned above, drone BS are good for less than 1B isk and low-is SP level. Rattlesnake is really good, if you can fit it out right, else I personally liked the Navy Domi. With drone ships though, you'll spend a lot of time pulling drones back to bay when they catch agro, so you're not replacing drones all the time. It's a little better with the Rattlesnake because the ship traits buff the heavy drone HP by a large amount; you want to pair that ship up with a Gecko. The Rattlesnake might be worth the wait in SP training for it if you're patient enough.

Shield boosting Raven with cruise missiles and target painter is a great, relatively cheap mission runner.