Ships & Modules

why do you have 5 web derp, reading is hard
i would be concernd you may not have enough tank there

For mission running you should have a nice, durable armor tank. Throw out the two tracking helpers in your lows and replace them with a medium armor rep and a armor res module according to the rats you will face. The Thorax has a natural tracking bonus so you don't need them that much. And most small rats will be fast enough to evade your shots anyway, so you'll need either drones or a second web to get them.

Since you went with a rail gun fit I suggest using drones, since drones have better range then webs any you'll more likely to be far away from rats then close to them. If you had blasters, a second web would be more useful then a tracking computer. This way, a tracking computer to get more range out of your rail guns is good enough.

I suggest you use a vexor instead. Tracking is a big issue with railguns. Drones don't have so many issues with less skill points.

I also suggest you add a medium armor repairer to your fit. Sometimes stuff might take some time to kill and it could be useful not to have to dock to finish what you were doing.

I prefer a shield tanked Rail-Rax for missions. This leaves your lows open for damage application (but you should always have a Damage Control on Gallente ships) and the passive regeneration plus buffer is plenty to deal with most missions. Also, yes, use drones to deal with the stuff your guns can't track. I recommend Valkyries because they're faster than Hammerheads and do more dps than the light drones.

5x 200mm Gause Guns

Limited Adaptive Invulnerability Field
2x Large Shield Extenders
Experimental 10mn AFTERBURNER (definitely don't need a mwd for missions)

F85 Damage Control
1-2 Tracking Enhancers
2-3 Mag-stabs.

2x Core defense field extenders
Hybrid Collision Accelerator

5x Valkyries

Train to use T2 versions of everything above and you're golden.

If drones are for dealing with thing he can't track why not lights?

Because Valkyries fly nearly as fast as Hobgoblins and do more dps? Maybe?

Besides, we're talking about lvl2 mission rats. How many of them will be mwd-ing around at high speed? Any drones will do, but unless I'm mistaken, Valkyries will get the job done quickest.

I don't recall ever having a problem with it, given that even the frigates in a lvl2 are moving pretty slow and the turret dps dished out by the Thorax was such that I don't remember my drones ever taking enough damage to worry about them. Then again, they have made changes to drones since I last ran a lvl2, so I'll test it out again soon and see for myself.

If you're flying a Vexor and only really fielding drones for dps, then yeah, I'd imagine that might be a problem.

So my build has been modified to this:


5X 200mm Proto Gauss Gun with Iridium or Antimatter

Experimental 10MN MWD
Cap booster
X5 Proto Engine Enevator
Optical Tracking Computer I - Tracking script


2x Linear Flux Stab I
Internal Force Field Array I
Mission dependent armor resist
Medium Acomidation armor rep

3x Medium Ancillary Current Router I


It's been doing okay on lvl 3 missions if I'm careful. The only thing I had problems with was dealing with some Amarr raiders. I didn't have the dps to really punch through their armor. Thankfully Ralph showed up and helped me out. I picked up some faction ammo with some lp for such cases as I skill up. Definitely challenging so far.

I would say, regardless of fit, to stick w/ lvl 2/3 missions until you get more support skills. I could have told you without flying with you that 2 weeks old is not enough time to have 3s and 4's in all of the support skills you need.

One point to make on the tracking enhancers in the lows, once you get the gunnery skill that helps with tracking trained to lvl 5 you'll have 25% better tracking... then you can drop one of your enhancers for more tank

Also, i think you'd do better with an afterburner instead of a MWD. You lose (ALOT) of capacitor when you fit an MWD, and more so if you don't have the skills to offset it. Consider a 10MN Afterburner I. That should keep your speed up enough to keep range, with the advantage of leaving some capacitor to do other things (like run your tank!)

IMO

Drop the MWD fit an AB instead fit a light shield tank with a medium c-5 clarity ward and and invul field, if you don´t have shield skills the skills to use want take longer than a couple of hour.

Basically fit something like this

5x250mm prototype gauss

1x 10 MN AB
1x medium C-5l clarity ward
1x invulnerability field I
1x optical tracking computer

1x damage control of your choice and wallet size
3x Mag Stab II (THIS IS A MUST HAVE you should train weapon upgrades to IV ASAP since it also helps a lot with fitting)
1x tracking enhancer II drop the enhancer for a fitting mod powergrid /cpu if you must

for rigs you will probably need

2x med ancillary current router
1x processor overclocking unit

Use drones , light ones for frigs, thats their job

Reason for 250mm rails? R A N G E, you have a lot better range projection and should be able to snipe everything from "afar".

But overall you might want to stick to a rail catalyst until your support skills are better it might serve you better, I know at 2 weeks in game it did for me.

There are certain support skills that you simply must have in order to fit any ship at least somewhat properly, like weapon upgrades , cpu management and powergrid management the sooner you train those to V the better for you, I know its a tough choice for a new player so at least train them to IV ASAP (Later on you will need / want so others as well like adv weapon upgrades and the like)

It won´t do you any good to advance to battlecruiser while still having to use named weapon upgrades for example. I know some people did