Ships & Modules

Soo out of boredom I figured I would pick everyones brains on this. I used a Golem for about a year, then switched over to 2 passive rattlers. Just got tired of constantly keeping TPs on target and counting salvos and the loot value seems to have gone down hill so i dont even drop MTUs or tracor beams anymore.

Have a paladin alt I blitz with a bit when im really bored. Tried a Mach but meh, lazers for life.

So what do you use and why? I mostly mission when I have nothing else going on or when everyone else is busy.

I thought about a kronos for a while, but since I had a few rattler hulls sitting around I went for the drone boat/auto target missles for some laid back lazy mission grindind. Hoping to get into a nullsec corp here soon so I can do some more fun stuff.

Went exploring for a few days but it seems the profits on that has dropped quite a bit.

True story: for a while I played around with dual-boxing level 4s in a Shield Domi with an Orca for support. I used the Orca as a mini-carrier (remote reps), as extra DPS by assisting the Domi with its drones, and as my salvage/loot platform.

It turned out to be inefficient as all getout, but it was kinda fun to try and the comments it got me were priceless.

Heck though, with the new Orca drone bonuses, maybe you could just run level 4s in the Orca and skip the Domi....

For the most part I use what's in the guide, with some personal variations on the fits, or alternate ships: Everything you wanted to know about Blitzing Compiled by Anize Oramara https://docs.google.com/document/d/1knVqZEH8qFY0eT44nMEFwcKd3t4PbgcZeuv58SVUxsI/pub

As for some other points: Dual boxing just annoys me as It involves clicking warp, jump, locking stuff twice, and doesn't increase the income by much. Feels like I spend more time traveling than fighting npcs. I prefer efficiency to most other things. Also I prefer blitzing as shooting too many npcs gets repetitive very quickly. I had a combat storyline where I had to kill a bunch of npcs the other day and was mentally checked out almost instantly, and wishing I had a drone or auto-targeting missile ship.

Using some off the wall setup doesn't really do anything for me, pve is pretty static and it is probably something I already did, or close enough. For example I get how speed/sig tanking works so I see something like using some small ship to run large content as taking 10x as long to do something I could do in a different ship for no reason. I killed some npc battleships in a frigate as a newb, no thanks have no intention of doing that again.

Gila as i am lazy :)

I like the lachesis. It doesn't show up on dscan, so the primary mission runner can't see me coming until I'm on grid. The extra long the points helps a lot. Then bring in a second account with dps and farm away.

For sites where there is no gate and you can get right on top of the guy I will always prefer the curse. Cap is life and all. Scram / neut goes a long way in disabling a mjd marauder bear.

I still contend that the most satisfying way to kill a mission runner is to scram them, cap them out, and watch as the NPCs slowly do the rest of the work for you. Curses are perfect for that.

My mission alt uses an Ishtar. It can run any Sister's of eve level 4 barring burner missions. The toon in question was training to be a carrier alt so had no gun/missiles skills but was a beast with drones. The Ishtar was easy to train into at that point and still works well.

I have done a lot of mission running and I've found the best place to do it is null sec or maybe low depending on your faction you run missions with.
I've tried many different ships and styles for each ship and weapons.. Used a AC mach a lot, then a rail vindi, then a blaster kronos and combos in between but those are some favorites.
By far my most favorite and IMO the best low/null sec mission boat is the 1400mm machariel. With good skills, and navy wardens, you can apply over 1000dps at 50-70km and good dps out to 90km and almost never need to rep. You have the mobility and speed of a cruiser and you can alpha everything except battleships. I even alpha some battleships.
Split your 1400s into 3 groups, 3-2-2. 4 wardens and 5 Hobs just in case. Mwd to 80km, turn on 3 tracking computers with optimal scripts, nothing will get with 50km. Group one will alpha most cruisers and some battle cruisers, groups 2 and 3 will alpha some cruisers and under. All your weapons will alpha everything under bs and usually 2 shot any bs. Wardens dice anything smaller than a cruiser.. It's perfect.
If you see probes, you have a 7 second align time or less. You can heat your mwd to 2200ms and you can rep over 500dps. All with almost zero pimp except the repper. 400-500m and you have the safest, most care free, and in my experience fastest mission running available. Not to mention it's the coolest looking ship in game and one shotting everything off the field with 14k volleys is extremely satisfying. Your ammo efficient is through the roof.
AC machs are ok, but you take a ton more damage, use a tonnnnn more ammo, and to have to chase things around to apply your dmg.
Missile flight times are annoying and slow. Blaster boats have to chase things like AC but worse. Rails are good but no rail boat has the speed and mobility (safety and efficiency) of the machariel. Done boats are nice but again, slow since sentrys can't move and regular drones go slower than missiles.
I'd go 1400mm mach but requires lots of skills for fitting and damage, then rail kronos since you can do level 4s with only 2 tank items, then rail vindi. Blaster kronos is very fun but ultimately slower since you have to chase **** around.

Most fun I've had in missions has been with AF's

Ishkur is fun little ship.

But I'm biased, I like using drones.