EVE New Citizens Q&A

I'm kinda not new, but I am pretty new to combat.

When I'm doing L4 Missions, I feel that my DPS is terrible. I'm doing about 1-1.7k Volleys on Battlecruisers and Battleships 500-1.6k on Cruisers. Frigates of course, will be much less since I'm using Cruise missiles. I'm pretty sure I am using the right damage type. I'm thinking my skills might be kinda low...

Cruise Missiles - Level 4
Missile Bombardment - Level 4
Missile Launcher Operation - Level 4
Missile Projection - Level 4
Rapid Launch -Level 3
Target Navigation Prediction -Level 3
Warhead Upgrades -Level 2
Caldari Battleship -Level 2



Anyways, this is my Fit:

HIGH:

x6 Arbalest Cruise Launcher I
x2 Drone link Augmenter I


MED:

x1 Large C5-L Emergency Shield Overload I (Shield Booster: Meta 4)
x1 Phased Weapon Navigation Array Generation Extron (Target Painter: Meta 4)
x1 Ballistic Deflection Field II
x1 Heat Dissipation Field II
x1 Invulnerability Field II
x1 Heavy Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I (Cap Booster: Meta 4)


LOW:

x3 Ballistic Control System II
x1 Damage Control I
x1 Co-Processeor II


RIGS:

x3 Large Warhead Rigor Catalyst I

Well the only things that deal with damage out of those skills, are two, would a 4-6% damage increase really help that much? I keep hearing faction ammo is a must, is this true?

Ok so should I use faction ammo to help that aswell?

In before Liang....

cm spec wont do ANYTHING for his volley damage. It only effects T2 laucher ROF (dps) but not volley damage. Secondly, T2 fury is just about inferor to flying with caldari navy launchers instead, du to their greatly superior ROF.

That said, 1.5k volley on BS, while terrible, is not nearly as bad as it sounds if you take things into account.
A CNR (7 launchers) with near IV skills and plain T1 ammo and 4 BCU-II will roughly hit for 3500 on structure.
With 6 launchers, like your raven, you would be looking at a 3000 volley give or take a bit.

Then take into account resists. 40+ in the weakest resist is not unordinary. So rule of thumb: 60% of 3k: 1800.

Add to that:
Not even 4 in the damage skills (CM and warhead upgrades)
No 4th BCU
No damage RIG.

Then your volley damage is not that far off from where it could be.

Edit: and thats not even compensating for average loss to defender missiles.

no

it means he jumped in a bs early so cant expect much

This is what I used. When you get some ISK, replace the shield booster with a faction one, so you can drop the Co-Processor and replace it with another BCU.

Change the hardeners as appropriate for the NPC in the missions. Faction hardeners, other than invuls, are cheap and easier to fit (and use less capacitor).

This has a volley of 2948 before resists with my skills (level 4). Use appropriate damage type for the NPC in the missions. You should be able to 2-volley battlecruisers and one-volley destroyers and non-elite frigate (though light drones chew them up fast too).

Keep moving, as it reduces incoming damage. I like to orbit something at 105 km, like the next gate or the beacon, at which range I can turn-off the hardeners. The only time I really take damage is as I am moving to range dragging the initial group with me, shooting it as I go (webbers are a priority). Mission NPC have a max range around 90 km, so I prioritize by range. When the room is half-clear I start to move towards the next gate, so I arrive just as the last NPC pops.

I carry 15 cap charges (= 3 reloads + 5 in the module) with the rest of my cargo filled with missiles. This is enough for about 4-6 missions, depending on the missions. I tend to run out of missiles or need to change damage type before running out of cap charges. I build cap charges on-site (requires Industry 1) from reprocessed mission junk, as the charges are annoying large to haul, and the BPO is cheap and much smaller.


[Raven, Basic]
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Co-Processor II
Type-D Attenuation Signal Augmentation

100MN Afterburner II
Photon Scattering Field II
Invulnerability Field II
Invulnerability Field II
Heavy Capacitor Booster II, Cap Booster 800
X-Large Shield Booster II

[empty high slot]
Small Tractor Beam I
'Arbalest' Cruise Launcher I, Wrath Cruise Missile
'Arbalest' Cruise Launcher I, Wrath Cruise Missile
'Arbalest' Cruise Launcher I, Wrath Cruise Missile
'Arbalest' Cruise Launcher I, Wrath Cruise Missile
'Arbalest' Cruise Launcher I, Wrath Cruise Missile
'Arbalest' Cruise Launcher I, Wrath Cruise Missile

Large Warhead Rigor Catalyst I
Large Warhead Rigor Catalyst I
Large Warhead Flare Catalyst I


Hammerhead II x5
Hobgoblin II x5

Maximum volley damage you can get with your setup is around 3100 damage.

But there are several factors you need to consider:
- resists on the target ship (make sure you're using the right ammo type, and even then the rats will have about 30% resists)
- target speed and sig radius (the smaller and faster the less damage you'll do)

Another factors are not just volley damage but damage per second which is impacted by some different skills than the volley damage.

You are talking about Explosion Velocity. Missile Velocity increases range and is useless for Cruise Missiles on a Raven. Raven base targetting range is 75Km, with Long Range Targetting V and a Signal Amplifier that can be pushed out to 121Km. Cruise Missiles base range is 75Km and the OP's skills push that out to 176.4Km already. So training Caldari BS effectively only gives him a 5% RoF increase per level, perhaps worth getting L3, debatable going for L4, but not IMO worth the time at this stage for the OP.

Change the rigs. They have a similar affect as BCU and you already have 4 of those, so the rigs are getting stacking penalized into nothing.

a faster moving cruise missile will still hit smaller ships better than a slower moving cruise missile because the missile to target transversals will be less.

it only takes a week to get caldari bs skill to 4