Missions & Complexes

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For best ships my current favorite is the Machariel, also had some fun with the barghest it is more or less a mach that shoots missiles. Marauders are all pretty decent although pricey and skill intensive. Navy raven is good and steady but a little boring.

for corps amarr navy probably isn't the best as they share an LP store with the FW corp and the FW corp has a bunch of discounts and extra goodies so it is very hard to compete price wise. there are probably other amarr corps you could jump to and make good money with though.

Mach

If it's for PvE then just fly the boat you personally like. Does it really matter if you can finish a mission 2 minutes faster in a certain ship?

The Golem is very nice and if properly fit with multiple target painters it can hit frigates. It's been a while since I've flown mine but if I remember right it doesn't insta pop them like the Paladin but takes them down. It's superior to the Paladin in non Amarr missions because it can do multiple damage types.

The RS is okay but a while ago CCP changed the NPC aggro system where drones get targeted a lot. Yes you just have to pull them in and relaunch but that cuts down on your actual DPS. Not sure how long you've been gone.

Rattlesnake should for the most part be parked on its sentry drones, and thanks to the huge HP bonus and high base HP of sentries it should be very hard to lose one. Also sentries seem to not take too much aggro. And if you do need to be on the move you can throw out a gecko which has something like 24k hp. and it should be able to pretty much instapop anything that is a threat to it.

also the mach is so flexible the amount of missions it is good at are nearly all of them.

For a lot of people getting as high as possible isk/h is fun. Also EvE's PvE isn't exactly deep and engaging. Best to get the isk you need as fast as possible so you can do something more fun.

If you have the real world ISK to spare
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imo bigger numbers are fun and often bigger numbers -> faster mission complete times. Also the burner missions are more or less designed to be 6-8 mins long, and the burner bases are a bit longer. Also fun is somewhat subjective, for years people said stuff like the tengu is fun because it is fast. imo 600m/s with low dps is the complete opposite of fun. That said for a while the tengu was a fantastic blitz ship and ran many missions with the tengu in the past. Likewise nearly all missile boats (and ships with low dps) suffer from similar problems, I can't just sit there plinking away with f1 when I know high dps turret boats exist.

I agree that constantly stressing out over being completely optimal isn't fun. But my chars are all highly skilled and I can complete most missions very quickly using general strategies I've developed while running each of the missions way too many times. I also realize small changes can make big differences. For example it is why I suggest fitting rigors to a raven, sure one or two volleying a cruiser isn't a big difference but in most missions you do that 10 times and it adds up.

There is no 'best' and your skills drive what is 'better' for you than other ships.

Best to me is what is fun and interesting, not what is fastest or most AFK. If you care about efficiency and isk/hr then the answer is different than if you prefer playing hands on.

That said:

The Rattlesnake is L4 easy mode. It tanks more than enough (especially since you won't even be getting hit very often), and does fine damage to finish missions quickly. Having two sentries is easier to recover when you want to reposition your ship. Rattlesnake with sentries + cruise missiles and an MJD is about as easy as PvE can get. You can forgo much of the tank because you will just MJD away from anything that gets close enough to apply damage. It's easy to dual-prop with an MWD as well to move to gates/wrecks.

Tengu...classic brick tank ship. They solo 10/10's in null sec so short of an Incursion, there isn't much in high sec that will even dent your shields. A little slower to take down mission battleships, but you certainly won't be at risk of losing your boat to rats either. The only downside of the Hamgu I used was that my cargohold was always full of ammo and left little room for loot. I also like T3's because they are viable doing other things than mission running....scan down sigs, Wormholes, do some hacking, etc....they also simply get around faster than battleships.

Pretty much any T1 battleship, HAC, or T3 cruiser will faceroll high sec PvE, removing any semblance of challenge or threat from the content. Choosing between them is mostly a matter of personal preference and where your skills lie.