EVE General Discussion

Automated targeting units are cool. The add to your max number of targets locked and auto lock hostiles. I use one on my marauder since nothing else useful can be fitted, Well nothing I want to fit anyways.

That fit is a passive shield tank, might be ok for sniping if you can kite. But don't get caught out.

What lvl of missions are you running?

Lvl 2 for now, But I will try lvl 3 as soon as I have the rep.

Hi

This is a very bad fit. I do lvl 2 security missions and most lvl 3 missions (but not all) on one of my toons in a T1 catalyst with meta modules not surpassing meta 4 and all skills at lvl 2-4, no 5s, flying railgun sniper fit.

That said, there are some unbalanced missions which should be reclassified as next level, and likewise some unbalanced missions which should be reclassified/rebalanced as previous level, and the ones where it just drops you in middle of missle towers + webs + scrams + any sort of ECM / dampeners etc., are among the difficult ones.

Since you said you do mining, how are your general support skills ? Especially capacitor, powergrid and CPU ?

I highly recommend ditching the MWD as it gives you around -20% to -25% cap and going AB instead with active tank. Your fit needs to be cap stable for at least 8 minutes or so, the more the better of course, you don't need to be 100% stable as everything will be dead by then or you'll be out of harms way and won't need to run your tank. Personally I like to run at least 1 cap battery as some rats will use cap drains

If you fly Galente or Ammar, go armor tank, if you fly Caldari or Min, go shield tank (though Min ships can be often effective as either or).

I highly recommend you aim for either Ishtar or Gila, both of which are very good mission running ships.

You don't need 3 drone damage amps for lvl 2-3 missions. 2 is more then plenty, your T2 drones should kill everything in 1 or 2 salvos, you don't need 2x drone link augmentator, 1 is plenty, and you migth want to consider one of drone tracking modules (there are 2 available one mid and one low slot), or a web so your drones can hit stuff easier.

if you use some drone tracking then you don't need to use light drones at all. you can run multiple flights of mediums and just use those, + you can have them in different flavors, for example flight of kinetic drones and flight of thermal or EMP drones. If you have any drone space left over, I recommend loading up some salvage drones, you may want to salvage here and there, you don't need a full flight of them either.

Automated targeting unit is OK, if you still have empty slots and powergrid / cpu available, then fit some blasters or rails (ones that use least cap, ammo choice also matters), this is just so you can pop any frigs or drones that get in your face while leaving your drones on your primary targets.

Move around, never stay still. I like to pop closest frig then orbit the wreck with AB on at all times, this makes you harder to hit.

If you get webbed, scrammed, dampened, neuted or whatever, kill the things that are doing it first, all else 2nd.

On the particular mission you mentioned, on warp in, immediately go straight up in straight line with AB and full tank on, while destroying your targets.

Hope this helps you a bit.

Ok I made some changes based on the suggestions .

[Vexor, PVE Drone Snipe 2]
Damage Control II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Omnidirectional Tracking Enhancer II
Omnidirectional Tracking Enhancer II

10MN Afterburner I
Large Shield Extender II
Large Shield Extender II
Limited Adaptive Invulnerability Field I

Drone Link Augmentor I
250mm Prototype Gauss Gun
[Empty High slot]
Automated Targeting Unit I

Medium Core Defense Field Purger I
Medium Core Defense Field Purger I
Medium Core Defense Field Purger I



Hobgoblin II x5
Hammerhead II x5
Hornet EC-300 x5
Salvage Drone I x5

Antimatter Charge M x40


https://preview.ibb.co/g6eNNv/skills1.png


Armor tanks scares me


Ishtar need a 60 day training for me ...

https://preview.ibb.co/hAYtUa/vexor1.png

Perhaps the problem does not come from the ship, but from the strategy you use.

Before each mission, go check EVE-Surival (not sure if I can post links here): it details enemies, important stuff to check, pull order...

^ This is actually more like a nulsec anomaly ratting build, with the MWD replaced by a 100MN AB. Remember to resist specifically to the rats you're fighting.

Thorax for gun oriented fits with magstabs, vexor for fits with drone damage amps.


Vexor sniper (serpentis)

422 dps @ 25km (iridium for tracking), and able to range both weapon systems out to max orbit of a serpentis battleship (52km), and break said battleships tank.

3x 250mm Railgun II (federation navy iridium charge m, spike m, federation navy antimatter charge m)
1x Drone Link Augmentor II

1x 10MN Afterburner II
1x Large Compact PB-Acid Cap Battery
2x Omnidirectional Tracking Link II (range or tracking scripts as required)

1x Medium Armor Repairer II
1x Shadow Serpentis Armor Kinetic Hardener
1x Shadow Serpentis Armor Thermal Hardener
2x Drone Damage Amplifier II

1x Capacitor Control Circuit II
1x Medium Processor Overclocking Unit I
1x Medium Auxilliary Nano Pump I

3x Garde II
5x Hobgoblin II

Substituting t1 parts where required works, just change spike for a long range t1 ammo if t1 guns.

I don't know why almost nobody other than me knows that the 'refuge' adaptive nano plating I is both better and cheaper than this, and uses no CPU at all.

Since My skill has improved, I changed some of the modules on that fit :

[Thorax, Sniper PVE 2]
Tracking Enhancer II
Tracking Enhancer II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II

Large Shield Extender II
Limited Adaptive Invulnerability Field I
Optical Compact Tracking Computer
10MN Y-S8 Compact Afterburner

250mm Prototype Gauss Gun
250mm Prototype Gauss Gun
250mm Prototype Gauss Gun
250mm Prototype Gauss Gun
250mm Prototype Gauss Gun

Medium Ancillary Current Router I
Medium Core Defense Field Extender I
Medium Core Defense Field Extender I



Hobgoblin I x5
Hornet EC-300 x5

Lead Charge M x1200
Optimal Range Script x2

did some missions today, did not ran into any trouble.