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Blitzing Missions
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Lord Volyova
State War Academy
Caldari State
#1 - 2013-07-04 23:41:43 UTC
I've managed to work my way up to level 4's and have been blitzing them using the Eve-Survival guide is there another website or somewhere that gives you a list of what missions are the easy/best to blitz and what are generally harder/not worth it?
Tsukino Stareine
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2013-07-04 23:54:15 UTC
ok when you say blitzing, do you mean completing the mission fully or just killing the things to complete the mission?

Art of Explosions
Lord Volyova
State War Academy
Caldari State
#3 - 2013-07-04 23:58:34 UTC
Tsukino Stareine wrote:
ok when you say blitzing, do you mean completing the mission fully or just killing the things to complete the mission?


Just killing the bare minimum that needs to be done to complete the mission.
Tsukino Stareine
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2013-07-05 00:25:57 UTC
well there isnt any site particularly to tell you these things but any mission that you can kill the objectives quickly are good (basically none of the ones that have structures as objectives)

You may not be able to blitz some missions unless you're running a very tanky ship though as shooting triggers can sometimes bring overwhelming dps onto grid.

Mostly it just comes from experience.

Art of Explosions
Tauranon
Weeesearch
CAStabouts
#5 - 2013-07-05 00:39:45 UTC
Tsukino Stareine wrote:
well there isnt any site particularly to tell you these things but any mission that you can kill the objectives quickly are good (basically none of the ones that have structures as objectives)

You may not be able to blitz some missions unless you're running a very tanky ship though as shooting triggers can sometimes bring overwhelming dps onto grid.

Mostly it just comes from experience.


The blitz hints on eve survival are usually pretty good. You may be able to do better if you know more, and it may take a few runs through to learn for sure which ship they mean, ie sometimes they have the right idea but wrong ship listed etc.

However, I have to run each mission about 3 - 4 times to actually get the best result, including for several missions, comparing blasters vs sentryboat, blitz vs clear and obviously each pilot has different skills and different selection of hulls they can use.

in the end you have to do 1/tick/system (easiest way to see what the bounties were), and write down the time taken, bounties, lp, and the 2 rewards in a spreadsheet so you can adjust the LP value to see what the missions are worth given whatever market conditions exist when you are running them, and so you can see if a region has a lot of blitzers and the rewards are run down compared to what you are used to.
Lord Volyova
State War Academy
Caldari State
#6 - 2013-07-05 00:53:19 UTC
Thanks for all the quick replies I shall continue to use eve-survival and spreadsheets to list whats good and what isn't.
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#7 - 2013-07-05 01:04:03 UTC
Off the top of my head, the best blitz missions were Stop the Thief, Right Hand of Zazzmatazz, Dread Pirate Scarlet, Cargo Delivery, and of course Recon. Duo of Death might be on the list save for the fact that it always spawns (or at least spawned) two jumps out. Smash the Supplier is also decent, as is Attack of the Drones.

The worst missions for blitzing seem to be the Extravaganzas plus stupid things like Anomaly. Mordus Headhunters can also take forever.

Blockades are nominally blitzable. Have fun trying that. It certainly can be done; whether it's a good idea is up to you.

(Note: this is all based on memories that are at least two years old. Caveat emptor, ymmv, etc.)