Ships & Modules

Hi Everyone,

I just started running level 4 agent missions and i am running into trouble ..

I have looked at Battle Clinic and there are so many setups i dont know what to use .. I tried the AC's and couldnt kill anything or even get close to use them or they kept missing .. and when I use the Hort's everything 30K and under i cant hitt ..

Any advice ??

this is my current setup ..

8 - 1400mm Howitzer Artillery II

Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Tracking Computer II
Shield Boost Amplifier II
Kinetic Deflection Field II
X-Large Ancillary Shield Booster
Thermic Dissipation Field II

2 - Gyrostabilizer II
2 - Tracking Enhancer II
Damage Control II

Large Core Defense Capacitor Safeguard I
Large Processor Overclocking Unit I

Thanks again for any help !!!!

- Where are you running missions, usual NPCs?
- Switch to 1200mm arty. Better tracking, less alpha, but you don't need all of it anyway.
- I have zero trouble with 800mm arty in gallente space.
- Swap the shield boost amp for another specific resist or an invuln, and drop the DCU2 for another tracking enhancer.

First of all 1400's are in my experience bad for missions, so much alpha you'll waste most of it. Other than that, remove the TC put in something more useful, like an AB if you swap to 800's which are actually pretty good. Replace that DCU with another Gyro. What you've been thinking with your rigs I have no clue... either get CCC or projectile rigs.

I run without trouble with the fit below, so long as I manage range (which is really easy with an AB), and it lets me speed tank part of the damage as well with AB permarunning.

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8x 800mm Repeating Artillery

X-Large Shield Booster
100MN AB
Invulnerabilty Field
2x Mission specific hardeners
Shield Boost Amp

3x Gyro
2x Tracking Enhancer

3x CCC

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Both my shield booster and afterburner is faction/deadspace, but at least the shield booster isn't that important. The Republic Fleet Afterburner gives a nice extra speedboost while costing a lot less cap, and is rather cheap. (60m or so.) Some will probably disagree about the rigs but I'm lazy and hate cap boosters for PvE.

Aside from these things, are you shooting triggers using wrong ammo etc. it can make it a lot more tedious. Swap drones for missions as well.

Edit: What your skills are like are somewhat interesting as well. If you've just jumped into lvl 4's you might not have the skills that would be recommended. Support skills are a lot more useful than most think. I don't even have T2 guns, but because my support skills are pretty decent I have almost never have any trouble.

Most mission enemy factions do mostly two damage types (e.g. Blood/Sansha EM+Therm, Serpentis/Guristas Kin/Therm). Fitting hardeners appropriate for the faction encountered in the mission usually yields better resistances than fitting invulnerability fields.



Hm. If you like projectile boats, you may want to look into flying a Machariel or a Vargur. Both get a large falloff bonus and can have fallof ranges in excess of 60km with ACs.



That might be one part of the problem: In Caldari space, you'll get lots of anti-Guristas missions. Guristas like to keep range, _and_ there's no projectile ammo to exploit their resist hole (kinetic). Thermal (phased plasma) works, too, but dealing kinetic damage is better.

That is lolmer fit. A sniper that can not control the distance. Go back to level 1, 2 missions. You have no clue what you are doing because you have not learned anything from doing those lower level missions.