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L4 missions as an alpha
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Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#21 - 2016-12-11 02:33:49 UTC
Grymmstorm wrote:
I'd be interested in knowing what the ISK/hour from L3 missions is...

I was looking at 20-30mil/hour, but also in pretty early stages of trying it out, also with a caldari character which I think will under perform compared to gallente/amarr characters. I've been trying to keep my setups relatively low cost and haven't used any implants so far.

Kosomot wrote:
So i think the mission running PVE Race for alphas will be Gallante, for 1 reason.

VNI (Vexor Navy Issue) which alphas can use, and with a drone bay full of Mission specific Drones, is most likely the PVE ship of choicce.

Navy Exqueruor is also bad ass as well with alpha skills.

I'm currently training up an Alpha to test both boats out.

Gallente looks good for sure, perhaps amarr has a great alpha too. However the VNI has nothing special going for it without heavy drones. Gnosis has a straight up 50% damage bonus which is larger than what you get with cruiser 4 on a VNI. Also gnosis can fit a rack of 5 railguns on top. Also gnosis is cheaper than either navy boat right now.

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Eve Payne
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#22 - 2016-12-11 09:37:26 UTC
I really don't see what's so good about the navy exequror -5% rof and damage for hybrids per level of cruiser? , also when doing lvl 3 don't forget to factor in the LP you get - I was "working" for a mining corp and with their LP I can buy an implant that gives me 100 mil profit (for 79k lp), if you can stay in a gnosis and blap lvl3s in seconds you can have some good isk coming in. That being said - no sentries sucks ass also no microjump drive - bleh, but think about this - the gnosis has equal resists for all damage type - you don't have annoying shield EM hole or armor explosive hole. Looking at the gallente loadout it looks even halfway decent - 300 dps from guns 200 dps from 5 hammerheads... (you'll have to use ancillary shield booster - probably small so you have enough CPU ) 3 MFS, 2 Drone damage thingies, damage control and 250mm prototype gauss rails..yes that should blast through lvl 3s
Carniflex
StarHunt
Mordus Angels
#23 - 2016-12-17 12:52:34 UTC
Alphas should be able to do mining and hauling L4 missions without major issues. But isk/h there is ofc not good at all.

For combat missions it seems that as you have noted the dps a bit low side to do them in a reasonable time. Perhaps some of the FW ones but these tend to be better in stealth bombers as cruiser can be a bit bulky to move around in FW zones.

Probably L3 combat missions should still offer better isk/h than doing mining or hauling missions with alpha.

I would suggest fining a station with both L3 and L4 agents. Ask for L4 as well when able and do the ones you can blitz as an Alpha declining the others (every 4h to avoid tanking standings too bad). Ofc as low true sec as you can handle. Preferably a LP store branch where you do not have to compete with FW LP.

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