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Zayden Bryant
GermanDungeonPorn
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Posted - 2016.12.17 00:56:41 -
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I recently decided to go back to running missions but I was hoping for some advice.
What are some of the current best ships, I am looking for the top 5-10 ships that can complete missions quickly and efficiently.
Are Burner Missions worth running? I see there is a post for a guide so if the answer is yes then I will follow up there.
Am I totally screwed that I went with Amarr Navy before the Drifter Incursions started? I hear that their LP is not worth as much now. |
Chainsaw Plankton
Deep Core Mining Inc. Caldari State
2340
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Posted - 2016.12.17 01:32:43 -
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For all your blitzing and burner needs, including ship fits and recommendations, check out the Blitz and Burner Guide v1.2.3 by Anize Oramara https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=501099&find=unread
For best ships my current favorite is the Machariel, also had some fun with the barghest it is more or less a mach that shoots missiles. Marauders are all pretty decent although pricey and skill intensive. Navy raven is good and steady but a little boring.
for corps amarr navy probably isn't the best as they share an LP store with the FW corp and the FW corp has a bunch of discounts and extra goodies so it is very hard to compete price wise. there are probably other amarr corps you could jump to and make good money with though.
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The Bigpuns
Touring New Eden Haven.
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Posted - 2016.12.18 11:58:09 -
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Give us a clue - what ships can you fly now, where are your skills invested, do you have a budget? Answer might be golem, might be dominix, might be wolf. Do you have a style of play you prefer, or a goal? If isk is your goal, then yes, that burner blitz guide is the only real answer. |
Eggs Ackley
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Posted - 2016.12.18 18:31:00 -
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Zayden Bryant
GermanDungeonPorn
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Posted - 2016.12.19 01:46:31 -
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The Bigpuns wrote:Give us a clue - what ships can you fly now, where are your skills invested, do you have a budget? Answer might be golem, might be dominix, might be wolf. Do you have a style of play you prefer, or a goal? If isk is your goal, then yes, that burner blitz guide is the only real answer.
I started out focusing on drones, and moved into a rattlesnake. which makes a transition to the Bharg easy enough.
I dont have the Marauder skill, but I dont mind training.
Also, my budget should be sufficient for a non-blingy fit.
I havent tried a Marauder since before the bastion mode, my worry about the Golem is damage projection. Can it hit frigates? |
Voxinian
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Posted - 2016.12.22 03:04:56 -
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If it's for PvE then just fly the boat you personally like. Does it really matter if you can finish a mission 2 minutes faster in a certain ship? |
Chainsaw Plankton
Deep Core Mining Inc. Caldari State
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Posted - 2016.12.23 15:40:53 -
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Voxinian wrote:If it's for PvE then just fly the boat you personally like. Does it really matter if you can finish a mission 2 minutes faster in a certain ship?
Yes it matters! When you can run 8-10 missions an hour 2 mins/mission is a very big factor.
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IIshira
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
1329
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Posted - 2016.12.26 00:11:23 -
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Zayden Bryant wrote:The Bigpuns wrote:Give us a clue - what ships can you fly now, where are your skills invested, do you have a budget? Answer might be golem, might be dominix, might be wolf. Do you have a style of play you prefer, or a goal? If isk is your goal, then yes, that burner blitz guide is the only real answer. I started out focusing on drones, and moved into a rattlesnake. which makes a transition to the Bharg easy enough. I dont have the Marauder skill, but I dont mind training. Also, my budget should be sufficient for a non-blingy fit. I havent tried a Marauder since before the bastion mode, my worry about the Golem is damage projection. Can it hit frigates?
The Golem is very nice and if properly fit with multiple target painters it can hit frigates. It's been a while since I've flown mine but if I remember right it doesn't insta pop them like the Paladin but takes them down. It's superior to the Paladin in non Amarr missions because it can do multiple damage types.
The RS is okay but a while ago CCP changed the NPC aggro system where drones get targeted a lot. Yes you just have to pull them in and relaunch but that cuts down on your actual DPS. Not sure how long you've been gone. |
IIshira
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
1329
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Posted - 2016.12.26 00:23:44 -
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I've toyed with the Machariel. if I remember right it's good on some missions but not so much on others. Now I want to test it out again LOL... If I do highsec missions now it's not really about max ISK per hour but rather just my boredom. |
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
2350
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Posted - 2016.12.26 19:32:12 -
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Rattlesnake should for the most part be parked on its sentry drones, and thanks to the huge HP bonus and high base HP of sentries it should be very hard to lose one. Also sentries seem to not take too much aggro. And if you do need to be on the move you can throw out a gecko which has something like 24k hp. and it should be able to pretty much instapop anything that is a threat to it.
also the mach is so flexible the amount of missions it is good at are nearly all of them.
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Morgan Agrivar
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
745
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Posted - 2016.12.27 01:09:27 -
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Chainsaw Plankton wrote:Voxinian wrote:If it's for PvE then just fly the boat you personally like. Does it really matter if you can finish a mission 2 minutes faster in a certain ship? Yes it matters! When you can run 8-10 missions an hour 2 mins/mission is a very big factor. I have always had a lot of respect for Chainsaw but this is how you burn out of Eve. Fun/hour > Isk/hour. |
Anize Oramara
The Arch Dashing Dashers
817
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Posted - 2016.12.27 04:44:14 -
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Quote:I have always had a lot of respect for Chainsaw but this is how you burn out of Eve. Fun/hour > Isk/hour.
For a lot of people getting as high as possible isk/h is fun. Also EvE's PvE isn't exactly deep and engaging. Best to get the isk you need as fast as possible so you can do something more fun.
A guide (Google Doc) to Hi-Sec blitzing and breaking the 200mill ISK/H barrier v1.2.3
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Morgan Agrivar
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2016.12.27 05:21:24 -
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Anize Oramara wrote:Quote:I have always had a lot of respect for Chainsaw but this is how you burn out of Eve. Fun/hour > Isk/hour. For a lot of people getting as high as possible isk/h is fun. Also EvE's PvE isn't exactly deep and engaging. Best to get the isk you need as fast as possible so you can do something more fun. To each their own I guess. Trying to get max isk/h is more stress than it is worth in my humble opinion. If I wanted to work, I would get in my car and go to my job at the hospital.
I play Eve to de-stress my life, not add to it. |
Kitty Bear
Harbingers of Chaos Inc Triumvirate.
1579
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Posted - 2016.12.27 15:22:49 -
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If you have the real world ISK to spare Funding fun in eve isn't an issue
Buy plex off website Sell plex on market
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MadMuppet
A Better Corp Name
1123
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Posted - 2016.12.27 19:01:29 -
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I used to flt Machariel a lot because it is just a giant frigate. Now I just relax with a Fleet Issue Typhoon and rain cruise missiles while watching Youtube. The Mach was faster, but more work.
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Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
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Posted - 2016.12.27 20:01:45 -
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imo bigger numbers are fun and often bigger numbers -> faster mission complete times. Also the burner missions are more or less designed to be 6-8 mins long, and the burner bases are a bit longer. Also fun is somewhat subjective, for years people said stuff like the tengu is fun because it is fast. imo 600m/s with low dps is the complete opposite of fun. That said for a while the tengu was a fantastic blitz ship and ran many missions with the tengu in the past. Likewise nearly all missile boats (and ships with low dps) suffer from similar problems, I can't just sit there plinking away with f1 when I know high dps turret boats exist.
I agree that constantly stressing out over being completely optimal isn't fun. But my chars are all highly skilled and I can complete most missions very quickly using general strategies I've developed while running each of the missions way too many times. I also realize small changes can make big differences. For example it is why I suggest fitting rigors to a raven, sure one or two volleying a cruiser isn't a big difference but in most missions you do that 10 times and it adds up.
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Ion Kirst
KIRSTONE ALLIANCE
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Posted - 2016.12.27 20:33:34 -
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Can a Golem hit frigates?
Yes. Yes it can, and very good, if I do say so myself!
I one volley everything, except for the elite frigates, cruisers, and BSs. I rarely even use my drones anymore. Even with the elite frigates, I eliminate them quicker than the time spent to deploy the drones and bring them back.
-Kirst
Always remember Tovil-Toba, and what was done there.
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Kosomot
Poseidon Energy and Industrial DRONE WALKERS
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Posted - 2016.12.27 21:25:34 -
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Zayden Bryant wrote:The Bigpuns wrote:Give us a clue - what ships can you fly now, where are your skills invested, do you have a budget? Answer might be golem, might be dominix, might be wolf. Do you have a style of play you prefer, or a goal? If isk is your goal, then yes, that burner blitz guide is the only real answer. I started out focusing on drones, and moved into a rattlesnake. which makes a transition to the Bharg easy enough. I dont have the Marauder skill, but I dont mind training. Also, my budget should be sufficient for a non-blingy fit. I havent tried a Marauder since before the bastion mode, my worry about the Golem is damage projection. Can it hit frigates?
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Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
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Posted - 2016.12.28 16:54:02 -
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MadMuppet wrote:I used to flt Machariel a lot because it is just a giant frigate. Now I just relax with a Fleet Issue Typhoon and rain cruise missiles while watching Youtube. The Mach was faster, but more work. Pretty much exactly why I like the mach, the fact it can blitz is just a huge bonus. I however prefer the barghest for semi-afk play, with the huge missile velocity bonus it can hit at 100km+ before firing another volley. Throw on some auto-targeting missiles and let the isk roll in.
This brings up another point, most of my recommended fits and tactics are with efficiency in mind as I interpret most posts here to be from people that want to increase their income potential. There are many hacks that can be used to modify ships for better safety, AFK potential, or whatever other personal modifications are desired. Seems to me most of the posters here are willing to accommodate those requests as long as the OP mentions them.
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Alaric Faelen
Sabotage Incorporated Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2016.12.29 17:45:03 -
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There is no 'best' and your skills drive what is 'better' for you than other ships.
Best to me is what is fun and interesting, not what is fastest or most AFK. If you care about efficiency and isk/hr then the answer is different than if you prefer playing hands on.
That said:
The Rattlesnake is L4 easy mode. It tanks more than enough (especially since you won't even be getting hit very often), and does fine damage to finish missions quickly. Having two sentries is easier to recover when you want to reposition your ship. Rattlesnake with sentries + cruise missiles and an MJD is about as easy as PvE can get. You can forgo much of the tank because you will just MJD away from anything that gets close enough to apply damage. It's easy to dual-prop with an MWD as well to move to gates/wrecks.
Tengu...classic brick tank ship. They solo 10/10's in null sec so short of an Incursion, there isn't much in high sec that will even dent your shields. A little slower to take down mission battleships, but you certainly won't be at risk of losing your boat to rats either. The only downside of the Hamgu I used was that my cargohold was always full of ammo and left little room for loot. I also like T3's because they are viable doing other things than mission running....scan down sigs, Wormholes, do some hacking, etc....they also simply get around faster than battleships.
Pretty much any T1 battleship, HAC, or T3 cruiser will faceroll high sec PvE, removing any semblance of challenge or threat from the content. Choosing between them is mostly a matter of personal preference and where your skills lie.
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IIshira
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
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Posted - 2017.01.05 14:41:06 -
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Alaric Faelen wrote: Tengu...classic brick tank ship. They solo 10/10's in null sec so short of an Incursion, there isn't much in high sec that will even dent your shields. A little slower to take down mission battleships, but you certainly won't be at risk of losing your boat to rats either.
T3's are about the only ships I haven't trained for... I really need to correct this . I thought if you got webbed in one it could go down in a L4 because it's speed tanked. This isn't correct? |
Anize Oramara
The Arch Dashing Dashers
817
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Posted - 2017.01.05 17:18:28 -
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IIshira wrote:Alaric Faelen wrote: Tengu...classic brick tank ship. They solo 10/10's in null sec so short of an Incursion, there isn't much in high sec that will even dent your shields. A little slower to take down mission battleships, but you certainly won't be at risk of losing your boat to rats either.
T3's are about the only ships I haven't trained for... I really need to correct this . I thought if you got webbed in one it could go down in a L4 because it's speed tanked. This isn't correct? T3's do partly speed tank but they also have insane T3 resists, in some cases can go into the high 90% in terms of resists.
A guide (Google Doc) to Hi-Sec blitzing and breaking the 200mill ISK/H barrier v1.2.3
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Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
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Posted - 2017.01.05 18:00:01 -
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Sure when webbed you may lose some of the speed tank, but you still have t3 resists and a sig tank. If you get webbed you can go down, it will probably take full room aggro on top of being webbed, falling asleep at the keyboard, or forgetting to online/activate modules. Worse case you should have enough EHP to blast through any webbing ship, and best case an AB tengu is faster than almost every npc webbing frig, you can make them chase you and one volley with fury.
My tengu fits used either a pithii or gistii b-type small shield booster along with10mn ab and typically an omni tank of 1 em 1 invlun. If I went up to a pithum medium booster I would have more raw tank than most of my lv4 battleships and would be able to face tank pretty much every lv4 out there.
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IIshira
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
1331
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Posted - 2017.01.07 19:29:56 -
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That reminds me of the dual LAR Dominix I used to have. Warp to 0, drop drones, go watch a movie, come back and mission complete |
Ion Kirst
KIRSTONE ALLIANCE
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Posted - 2017.01.07 22:07:30 -
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Anize Oramara wrote:IIshira wrote:Alaric Faelen wrote: Tengu...classic brick tank ship. They solo 10/10's in null sec so short of an Incursion, there isn't much in high sec that will even dent your shields. A little slower to take down mission battleships, but you certainly won't be at risk of losing your boat to rats either.
T3's are about the only ships I haven't trained for... I really need to correct this . I thought if you got webbed in one it could go down in a L4 because it's speed tanked. This isn't correct? T3's do partly speed tank but they also have insane T3 resists, in some cases can go into the high 90% in terms of resists.
I ran the Tengu for a long time in L4 missions before the heavy missile nerf. I did not speed tank at all. It's high resists and small signature is what helped the most against damage. Those things have stayed the same. I could just sit still, with many BSs firing at me, with the little Pith c-type SB running, and just start eliminating targets. In some missions I would move toward the BSs just to cut down the distance between me and them. The distance the missiles fly gets shorter and shorter. In the Tengu, I left the BSs for last. In running L4s in the Golem, I do the BSs first.
So, no, if you get webbed you will not go down.
Disclaimer: . . . but if you don't have your resists right, and your tank is based upon speed tanking, then you may be asking for trouble. So, keep the resists up for the mission, have a good shield booster, and you should be good. Then you don't have to worry about speed tanking.
-Kirst
Always remember Tovil-Toba, and what was done there.
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Vortexo VonBrenner
Raumfahrer Spiff Rakett Piloot Anslutning
2618
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Posted - 2017.01.08 04:13:50 -
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Rattlesnake
Don't care much for sentries, personally. I prefer the buzzy drones.
Omnidirectional Tracking link + tracking speed script two Drone Navigation computers two drone link augmentors in utility highs three drone damage augmentors
drones kill npcs and don't get eaten up too badly drones don't care about jamming Rattlesnake has 275% bonus to heavy drone damage
Nightmare
Mostly for sansha rats, really, but fun.
Fun to zip around in a fast BS (caldari BS 30%bonus to AB per level) and fun to fry stuff with lazors.
Tengu
Tengu is fun but slower mission completion overall if you care about that.
Pop the small stuff then mediums while skirting at distance with AB, then orbit a BS and enjoy the furious lightshow as they try to hit you but can't effectively. Small shield booster runs constant and will take care of what damage they do land. fyi - if you get slowed down (web or hung on a rock or something) you are red glowing dust in about 1.7 seconds. Fun, though!
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Agondray
Avenger Mercenaries VOID Intergalactic Forces
387
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Posted - 2017.01.08 10:07:23 -
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Zayden Bryant wrote:The Bigpuns wrote:Give us a clue - what ships can you fly now, where are your skills invested, do you have a budget? Answer might be golem, might be dominix, might be wolf. Do you have a style of play you prefer, or a goal? If isk is your goal, then yes, that burner blitz guide is the only real answer. I started out focusing on drones, and moved into a rattlesnake. which makes a transition to the Bharg easy enough. I dont have the Marauder skill, but I dont mind training. Also, my budget should be sufficient for a non-blingy fit. I havent tried a Marauder since before the bastion mode, my worry about the Golem is damage projection. Can it hit frigates?
ever since the barghest came out everyone is obsessed with using it for pve because of it simply having a faster missile speed, not a launch rate or anything while there are other ships that fill the hole better.
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Anize Oramara
The Arch Dashing Dashers
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Posted - 2017.01.08 10:14:28 -
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Agondray wrote:Zayden Bryant wrote:The Bigpuns wrote:Give us a clue - what ships can you fly now, where are your skills invested, do you have a budget? Answer might be golem, might be dominix, might be wolf. Do you have a style of play you prefer, or a goal? If isk is your goal, then yes, that burner blitz guide is the only real answer. I started out focusing on drones, and moved into a rattlesnake. which makes a transition to the Bharg easy enough. I dont have the Marauder skill, but I dont mind training. Also, my budget should be sufficient for a non-blingy fit. I havent tried a Marauder since before the bastion mode, my worry about the Golem is damage projection. Can it hit frigates? ever since the barghest came out everyone is obsessed with using it for pve because of it simply having a faster missile speed, not a launch rate or anything while there are other ships that fill the hole better. That's part of it but the real thing with the Barghest is the damage bonus making it viable to run RHML in PVE. On other battleships RHML is a straight downgrade in dps (and range) compared to faction cruise while in the Barghest they have about the same dps and same application while having enough range.
A guide (Google Doc) to Hi-Sec blitzing and breaking the 200mill ISK/H barrier v1.2.3
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Ion Kirst
KIRSTONE ALLIANCE
227
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Posted - 2017.01.08 21:51:39 -
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Vortexo said,
"Tengu is fun but slower mission completion overall if you care about that.
Pop the small stuff then mediums while skirting at distance with AB, then orbit a BS and enjoy the furious lightshow as they try to hit you but can't effectively. Small shield booster runs constant and will take care of what damage they do land. fyi - if you get slowed down (web or hung on a rock or something) you are red glowing dust in about 1.7 seconds. Fun, though!"
If you get popped in 1.7 sec if you get webbed, then you just need a better fit. Something is wrong.
I don't orbit the BSs, (I don't speed tank). My Tengu can absorb damage from many BSs, and it's active tanked. As I said I actually save the BSs for last.
Could you show us your Tengu fit?
-Kirst
PS: I'm going to dust of my Tengu and run a few L4s.
Always remember Tovil-Toba, and what was done there.
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Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
2420
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Posted - 2017.01.08 22:59:41 -
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Agondray wrote:ever since the barghest came out everyone is obsessed with using it for pve because of it simply having a faster missile speed, not a launch rate or anything while there are other ships that fill the hole better.
Barghest has 6 launchers with a 50% damage bonus for 9 effective launchers so it has a dps advantage, most other missile ships (raven, navy raven, golem, typhoon) end up with 8 effective launchers. is a lot like a machariel that shoots missiles with better speed and agility than most other missile ships too.
Personally I like the bargest because it can mjd/mwd out of range of everything and head shot the mission completion triggers with cruise missiles. Or use auto-targeting missiles to semi afk the mission.
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