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What mission rats do Minmatar ships tank best
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Drone Bei
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2012-09-20 03:01:22 UTC
I am thinking of switching over to Minmatar ships as I hear they are more of the jack of all trades (skill intensive) and I think I'd like to try it out for missioning and exploration. One thing I'm trying to figure out is what mission rats they work well against. For my domi, its easy to see that EM and thermal are good armor resists so Sansha and Blood are good to go against. WIth Minmatar and their ability to do armor or shield tanking, are there certain rat types that they work better against or is it extremely ship/tanking style dependent?
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#2 - 2012-09-20 03:43:03 UTC
It depends. T2 Minmatar resists handle Bloods/Sanshas best, but T1 ships have normal resists. The premier T1 Minmatar BS shield tanks, so Angels are easiest to tank. Honestly though the Maelstrom's boost bonus means almost anything is tankable if you have cap.
Exploited Engineer
Creatively Applied Violence Inc.
#3 - 2012-09-20 08:47:00 UTC
Drone Bei wrote:
are there certain rat types that they work better against or is it extremely ship/tanking style dependent?


Minmatar T2 resists work great against anything doing EM/Therm (Sanshas, Blood) - especially if you find a way to armor tank a Minmatar T2 ship.

Minmatar T2 shield resists are also great for setting up omni tanks, since they don't have a 0% resist hole.

As far as T1 goes, you can shield tank vs. Angels/Guristas/Serpentis/Drones and armor tank against Blood/Sansha if you want to make the best use of the T1 resist profile.