Missions & Complexes

It's the tags, as in the faction tags dropping from the faction ships that is sued to buy faction modules in the LP store.

Ran the following missions over a 02:11:00h timespan:
Gurista Spies (2), Informant, Attack of the Drones (2), Unauthorized Military, Worlds Collide, Assault, Wildcat Strike, Vengeance, Guristas Extravaganza (2). There were also two Storyline missions: Forgotten Outpost and Operation Doorstop.

I pulled in the following:
Mission rewards/bounties: 208.5m ISK
Salvage: 3.2m ISK (basically nothing)
LP rewards: 108.0m ISK (90,000 LP approximate)
Grand Total: 319.7m ISK / 02:11:00h = 146m ISK/hour

The LP estimate is on the low side as I wasn't keeping an accurate count. I also wasn't "in the zone" as I was trying to get SiSi running in the background and following the various Reddit threads on the upcoming December features. Still, not bad for a few hours work...

Addendum: I ran for just over an hour and pulled in close to 200m with one of the 'kernite' Storyline missions. And it turns out I've been low on my LP estimate as it will be closer to 1450 ISK/LP, but I'll leave it at 1200 to err on the side of caution. So basically 3 hours and well in excess of 600m ISK richer.

I'm running a passive RHML Barghest fit for the three characters (mid-grade Ascendancy set with +5 missile implants). All V missile, shield, navigation and engineering skills. After the Barghest change I'll most likely add an Auto Targeting System II to the new high slot.

7x Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II
1x Drone Link Augmentor II
Auto-Targeting/Fury Heavy missiles

5x Vespa II medium drones, 5x Warrior II light drones

1x 500MN Quad LiF Restrained MWD
3x Pithum C-Type EM, Thermal and Kinetic amplifiers
1x Large Shield Extender II
1x Phased Weapon Navigation Array

1x Nanofiber Internal Structure II
2x Dread Guristas Ballistic Control System
1x Ballistic Control System II
2x Missile Guidance Enhancer II

1x Large Hydraulic Bay Thrusters II
2x Large Hyperspacial Velocity Optimizer II

I manufacture my own auto-targeting missiles and just buy the token amount of Fury missiles that I need from market, although occasionally you find insane deals on auto-targeting missiles too.

Heavy missiles have fairly decent damage application (100% against anything cruiser sized or larger), and this is further enhanced with a pair of MGEs (basically the equivalent of a T2 rigor or flare). Even elite frigates disappear in 2-3 volleys (especially with target painters). Missile velocity is in excess of 28k m/sec, so with a rate of fire of around 2.5 seconds anything inside a 70km radius just melts. As distance increases you'll start to see the occasional lost volley, but the MWD is used to maneuver to keep range under 100km (the 140km range is just incidental, as I'm primarily after missile velocity).

Paper missile damage is just shy of 900 DPS, so with drones this is around 3000 applied DPS (nearly 100%), and it clears most mission rooms in a single volley. I rarely (if ever) have to reload more than twice per room in multi-room missions (exceptions are Damsel, the second room in Assault and fourth room in Scarlet). As for the lengthy reload time, yes - 35 seconds seems like an eternity, but it's really an illusion. It's equivalent to 4 cruise volleys, so I'm basically giving up an NPC battleship to reload at which point anything left gets removed in short order. And you can often reload while you're jumping to the next gate, system or mission.

And this is with auto-targeting missiles. For tougher missions like Assault or Guristas Extravaganza where you're facing lots of NPC battleships, simply switch out to Fury ammunition.

I've tried an auto-targeting setup with cruise missiles and it takes twice as long. You lose way to many volleys in-transit and NPCs have a nasty habit of swapping positions to mitigate damage.

The hero we need.

burners are not original lvl 4 in the eyes of the all mighty krab

plus they getting buffed soon, people will wilt at their new might and their shekels will disappear infront of their own eyes.


anize is a hoax

praise based arthur doing the real missions

Klapensan does not live in WH space, Klapensan is Motsu Warrior.

All together. After the update to the Barghest I may (emphasis on may) break it into pairs of 3 launchers. The missile velocity is high enough such that I'm not sure I'll really see a lot of benefit staggering them (unlike say cruise missiles, where losing one quarter or half a volley is a far better prospect than an entire volley).