RoyAraym
Gallente Capital Construction Research Pioneer Alliance
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Posted - 2011.09.06 00:06:00 -
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Listen to an "old" Gallentean, brotha':
forgot "bs-sized" ships (even if a Dominix is a perfect choice to start).
You should have good drone skills from "her": move to tech.2 drones (up to Heavies). Skill to "cruiser 5", skill after that "Heavy Assault Ship 5", buy an Ishtar.
<hi> 2x tractor beam 2x salvager II 1x a civilian gun (no ammos needed, only to get aggros from npcs - dock in any station, without any of your ship in there, in pod: get the gun from your new free rookie ship) <med> 1x AB any cap rechargers you can, and still able to use an "utility slot" (still cap, drone mods, any you could like <low> 2x med armor repairers II (improve it with storyline ones, or better, just to have lesser cpu fitting issues, eventually, to fitt an 800's tungsten plate, or fitt just any other available 800's) and TANK (1x 800 plate, hardners, avoid DMG controls - better an EANM: you relay only in armor and ship speed) <rigs> cap and/or trimarks <drones> heavies for NPC's bs/bc/cruisers lights for NPC's frigs
Use: - permarun your both armor reps and AB - shoot with your civilian gun NPCs to get the aggro - deploy you lights and wipe out NPC's scrambling drones/frigs/destroyers (to avoid to be stuck scrammed from frigs too) - deploy your heavies and wipe out BCs and cruiser first (better tracking/sig on you) - then wipe out BSes: their dps is minimal, orbiting them at 7.5km, because NPC are horrible in their gun's tracking/sig - tractor and salvager DURING fight (no ammos needed in a civilian gun = empty cargohold = almost a full room of salvaged parts and loot)
Tips: Ab's velocity factor (speed tanking)+ Ishtar's small sig radius (signature tanking) could let the "smiling boat" take just 20-30 real hp damage from ANY ship, a lot less than your 2x reps repair. Just not let you be webbed by frigs: speed (around 500m/s with an AB) is VITAL to survive to the heavier NPC's gunships. So the tip to destroy them first... A ship like that can tank (orbiting them at 7.5km - better combination to have full speed and smaller orbit) 6-7 BS easily (or outrun them, to not be hit), but could get (eventually) more damage from cruiser sized guns, so the "second targets" should be those, rather than the bigger ships.
I'm lazy, and on mine i fitt a "rainbow ship" (70-80% on all res) and same "raibow drones (1x five small drones set for each race, 2/3x each heavies) cuz I'm moving a lot from space to space, in all four empires, so I could switch damage types on the run (eventually)...
... but if you are running mission in the same spot for long time, you could improve your speed using specific rat type hardeners and drones.
An Ishtar (fully fitted) has better average speed in missioning (if you have not an alt) even than a single Kronos, at lesser than 1\4 of the Kronos' hull cost (no fitting, ship only).
... obviously, if you like also salvaging/looting. For speed-run missions (just for bounties-LP points) is not the best, but if you like to recover your wrecks, with an Ishtar like that, trading occasionally your loot/salvaged items (and reprocessing t.1 items for better minerals amount), you can obtain around 30-40 millions isk x hour/missioning.
Works on almost any lv.4... ... but you could be in trouble in Worlds Collide missions, initially, cuz in a room you will be webbed immediatly at zero speed (not panic in there: destroy immediately frigs and ALSO point a direction away from any aggro, running AB and reppers... you can take distance just at the armor lower limit...) or, eventually, resume your old dominix (she has no problem at all there). ---------
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