Missions & Complexes

Without going to a Marauder you will be hard pressed to beat the Mach. However the Domi is cheap and super effective. The CNR also works fine but your gun and drone skills are better than your missile skills and you don't have T2 cruise missiles.

In Gallente space the Tengu is also a good choice and you have that fully trained minus the missile support skills that are still at IV. The Rattlesnake is also an option with your current skills with the lack of T2 cruise being the only thing keeping it from really challenging the Mach.

Mach or Rattlesnake. If your missile skills aren't your best and you can't fly Marauders that leaves you the Mach or Rattlesnake.

ACs can be put into three groups which reduces DPS loss to overkill. And don't underestimate how much time you save with the Mach's warp speed if you fit 2-3 warp rigs and wear a warp speed implant.

not often I hear about the mach having low dps

with the rattlesnake the use of sentries and drones just feels clunky to me. the only skills I'm missing on my alt is drone specs to 5 when it comes to the snake. The dps is indeed amazing, but all the drawbacks of missiles, drones, and split weapon systems apply. I will admit to not having not spent a ton of time flying it though.

that said I do tend to only use the mach in the missions it is best in, aka anywhere enemies are almost all in side 30km and travel time is important. Outside of that the paladin is my go to, but well we aren't really talking about marauders here.

To be honest if you don't play that much train for a marauder 34 days to get into it, worth the training time they are far and away better than any other ship for missions, Raven or Mach is ok but nowhere near marauder

there have been good recommendations here (aside from calling the Mach low dps lol) but I think an Ishtar works better for blitzing l4s than most battleships it gets around a fair bit quicker too. I have also never had an issue with an onni tank on an Ishtar even in blood missions so it saves on refitting time. It is also a useful shop in PVP too.

well i am temtped to give the snake a go but despite that my missle skills are not as good as my gunnery i can use T2 cruise missles (since today) but i get more DPS from my mach

They're good ships when you're fighting at ranges. I use a golem for missions which aren't point blank and a blaster kronos for the up close ones.

Marauders are the bomb, I usually dual box them - cleared house in stop the thief in under 3:30 yesterday



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It's pretty easy actually. At least when I used one, it was buffer tanked - 2 LSE, 2 invuln. MWD, 5 launchers and a pair of painters. Plenty fitting left over. The DPS is enough to not need an active repper.

How many threads are there on this subject?

[Dominix, Sniper]
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Shadow Serpentis Large Armor Repairer
Shadow Serpentis Armor Kinetic Hardener
Shadow Serpentis Armor Thermic Hardener

Large Micro Jump Drive
F-90 Positional Sensor Subroutines, Targeting Range Script
Federation Navy Omnidirectional Tracking Link, Optimal Range Script
Federation Navy Omnidirectional Tracking Link, Optimal Range Script
Omnidirectional Tracking Link II, Optimal Range Script

Tachyon Modulated Energy Beam I,
Tachyon Modulated Energy Beam I,
Tachyon Modulated Energy Beam I,
Drone Link Augmentor II
Drone Link Augmentor II
Drone Link Augmentor II

Large Drone Scope Chip I
Large Ionic Field Projector I
Large Drone Control Range Augmentor I

Garde II x5
Warden II x5

Targeting range of 170 km
Garde has faloff at 100 km,
Wardens has optimal over 150 km and falloff far beyond the targeting range.

Cheap, effective, versatile. No need to carry tons of missiles or other ammo with you. You travel through empire with only one ship and get different missions in different space.