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sec level 2 missions with elder sages and priests, wtf.
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Kery Nysell
#21 - 2013-01-10 22:14:39 UTC
Zhilia Mann wrote:
Ginger Barbarella wrote:
Zhilia Mann wrote:
Elder is Blood Raiders' elite tag. They have much higher resists than normal -- enough to screw with your kinetic bonus. Try firing Mjolnir missiles at them instead.

Also, BCUs. At least two, preferably four for L2s.


FOUR BCUs? Are you serious?? This is how people learn how to NOT fly a boat...


For L2s? Yes, I'm serious. If you're going to take a Drake into an L2 you might as well get as much damage out of it as possible. I'd probably go with three rigors too. It's not like L2s test your tank.



He has a point, you know ...

I can do level 2 missions in a Corax without needing hardeners or a shield booster ... once you kill the rats fast enough, passive regen of a very small shield is enough ... never mind with the huge shield and terrific regen of a Drake ...

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Cage Man
Fusion Enterprises Ltd
Pandemic Horde
#22 - 2013-01-10 23:07:37 UTC
Kery Nysell wrote:
Zhilia Mann wrote:
Ginger Barbarella wrote:
Zhilia Mann wrote:
Elder is Blood Raiders' elite tag. They have much higher resists than normal -- enough to screw with your kinetic bonus. Try firing Mjolnir missiles at them instead.

Also, BCUs. At least two, preferably four for L2s.


FOUR BCUs? Are you serious?? This is how people learn how to NOT fly a boat...


For L2s? Yes, I'm serious. If you're going to take a Drake into an L2 you might as well get as much damage out of it as possible. I'd probably go with three rigors too. It's not like L2s test your tank.



He has a point, you know ...

I can do level 2 missions in a Corax without needing hardeners or a shield booster ... once you kill the rats fast enough, passive regen of a very small shield is enough ... never mind with the huge shield and terrific regen of a Drake ...


And lucky for us eve is so easy to play you don't need to know anything about how to minimize damage by spiraling\manual piloting and on day 2 you can T2 fit and fly any ship out as you skills are all bumped up to level 5 so its easy to fit, fly and use destroyers like battlecruisers...Roll
Kathina Tryndal
The Mitre Corporation
#23 - 2013-01-10 23:07:41 UTC
If you're having trouble running level 2 missions in a drake, then you've got fitting problems - even if it's against EM damage (which is the Caldari weakness, of course).

Having said that, the first thing you should do is get the battlecruiser skill to level 4. (And think about raising it level 5 at some point in the near future, if planning on learning any other race's BC skills, and if so, learn all the cuiser skills to level 3 too).

This will increase your basic tank to the point that you can afford to fit 3 BCS and one SPR in the low slots. It will also increase your damage with kinetic missiles. (I don't recommend 4 BCS - a Shield power relay does too much for its defence to go without one - you just don't need 2). In the mids, I recommend you fit 2 LSE, 3 faction hardners (2 primary and 1 secondary - the secondary can also be used as a utility slot if necessary) and an AB.

If you can't fit that, then you need to work on your fitting skills. This fitting will deal with anything you run up against in both level 2 and 3 missions, and should have no problems killing pretty much anything, or tanking them until they die if necessary.

I then upgraded to CN BCS's and (due to all the tags I had) RF HML's.

(P.s. level 2 missions are really meant for cruisers, not destroyers as someone said - I can't imagine doing Mission of mercy that easily in my cormorant, even with 18M SP - though some of the easier missions can certainly be done in one, just like the basic level 3 and 4 missions can be done in a smaller ship).
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#24 - 2013-01-11 02:54:55 UTC
Barrogh Habalu wrote:
Musashi Date wrote:
Most likely this is Recon 1, I remember doing one for hours with a low SP Arbitrator totally ignoring my orders to just 'recon'.

This is what I think, but I'm not sure since I've never seen BR version of it.
If that's the case, you should ignore anything that spawns there, you aren't really supposed to kill them in that mission. Chances are that you can't do that at this point, and later in the game (say, with lvl4 version of Recon) it's sometimes not worth it.
Don't forget your prop mod to finish Recon in timely matter.

By the way, elite cruisers adequately go down to something like 150 DPS of best damage type or so, I believe, but even if I'm not mistaken there, it's still tedious.


I was doing level 2 missions for some standings and got Recon vs blood raiders... them buggers are annoying. 100% recommend just blitzing and not trying to fight in that version of recon (well unless you are over shipped and over skilled, and then you probably can find a better use of your time)

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