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Race/ship advice for PvP/PvE
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Noticus Aprest
No Vacancy Inc
#1 - 2012-02-08 00:10:16 UTC
Hello I have some questions,

What race would i want to be to solo and 2-3 gang PvP

ill also be duelboxing missions in Amarr space and i dont need a salvager
What combo would work best?

Two of my friends are going Drake for pvp/pve.
One of them told me to do a Drake and Raven combo for missions, but i read this is slow.
He also said to do Drake for PvP because of the tank and DPS.
Can you solo or 2-3 with Drakes or are setting up for fail?

Before i started i wanted some advice from exp pilots.

Thanks!
mxzf
Shovel Bros
#2 - 2012-02-08 01:15:18 UTC
The best race of ships to fly is the ones that you enjoy the most. That's what it comes down to.

And are you looking for long-term goals of ships to work towards or short/medium term goals of stuff to work towards next?

If you're dualboxing missions in Amarr space, your end goal will likely be something like a pair of Paladins or Nightmares. However, since those ships both cost about 1B ISK and require lots of skills, they aren't short term goals. Harbringers or something like that would be short-term goals, but much less efficient than BSes in the long term. It depends a lot on what your timeframe and current skills are.

Drakes work quite well for PvP and PvE if fit properly. They are neither the best nor the worst at those things, but they work well.

Drake+Raven can do missions well, better than some setups and cheap, but worse than other setups. And BC gangs (such as the Drake gangs you mentioned) can do just fine in small numbers, not as good as some groups, but better than others.

There really is a lot of stuff that depends greatly on the ISK and training time you are willing to put into it. There's no "right" answer, just some things that work somewhat better than others. The more information you can give about your tendencies and what you want to do, the more people will be able to give helpful advice.
Noticus Aprest
No Vacancy Inc
#3 - 2012-02-08 02:08:09 UTC
Thanks for the reply!

I'm looking for long-term, I could go with what youve told me.
Getting two nightmares...on the way grabbing a Raven(Would two work or would i need a drake tank) to do missions in.
But i would have to train two weapon types right?
If i wanted to train one i would have to go with paladins and pvp in amarr BS.

I guess what i really want is a long term plan of flying a ship for L4s for ISK ill be duel boxing so i was told to get two DPS ships to blitz the missions while also at the same time im able to pick up a good small gang pvp ship.

The Paladin plan sounds idea but the only problem is they are Armor tank, is there somthing like that plan for shield tank?
Mike Whiite
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#4 - 2012-02-08 10:01:39 UTC
go either laser or missiles to start with as your current trajectory will be very slow.

Caldari Missiles ships / Shield tankers
Anmar Laser Ships /Armor tankers

that is four different skill trees aside from the core skills and some drones skills you need to learn.

I'd advice you to do "one" of those first instead of both at the same time.


If your budies flying drakes and ravens, I'd take the missile ships first, when that line is done make the switsh to Anmar missile ships (Armor training) and lasers.