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Jagerjaques
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Posted - 2009.05.02 20:08:00 -
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Well this is my mission running alt. I can fly level 4s in both a raven and a drake pretty well but it does take a while and while my skills aint great I'd love some info on the best skills to have for either ship even if its a link to a guide outside of the eve site. I have all the core skills up and I can use a tech II tank for both ships.
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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2009.05.02 20:15:00 -
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Skills don't make that much of a difference compared to the actual fit of the ship. Skills are more of a "so you can make the better fit" thing rather than anything else, with very few exceptions.
Basically, start with 2 (Drake) or 3 (Raven) T2 ballistic controls and T2 launchers of the appropriate type, plus a flight of T2 light drones (also a flight of T2 med drones on Raven) and go from there.
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Mawusi
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Posted - 2009.05.02 20:57:00 -
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Edited by: Mawusi on 02/05/2009 20:58:03 I concentrated on the following skills when I spent 6 months running lvl 4 missions :-
Shield Compensation Shield Management Shield Operation Shield Upgrades Cruise Missiles Target Navigation Prediction Warhead Upgrades Guided Missile Precision Missile Bombardment Missile Launcher Operation Missile Projection Rapid Launch Weapon Upgrades Advanced Weapon Upgrades Signature Analysis Long Range Targeting
IMO all of these skills will benefit your Raven whilst mission running. Also train up Drone skills to drop those frigs quicker (especially if they have you scrammed).
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Johan Sabbat
R.E.C.O.N. Dara Cothrom
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Posted - 2009.05.04 00:12:00 -
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If it's faster mission times your after then I'd recommend upgrading your ship to the Raven Navy Issue with Caldari Navy Cruise missile launchers and Caldari Navy Ballistic Control units (assuming you can get the isk, upgrade the ship first for that extra launcher hardpoint).
The extra drone skills that would be useful are: Combat Drone Operation Drone Durability Drone Interfacing * Drone Navigation Drone Sharpshooting Drones Racial Drone Specialisation Scout Drone operation
* this adds 20% to drone damage per level so in very useful
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2009.05.04 04:19:00 -
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Originally by: Jagerjaques I can fly level 4s in both a raven and a drake pretty well but it does take a while and while my skills aint great...
I'm in the same ships as you. I fly the Drake for the missions that need more tank, I fly the Raven for the missions that need more gank. Currently I'm saving for a Raven Navy Issue - that extra launcher is going to be very useful (not to mention the 50% more shields).
To get your mission times down, make use of the Fitting tool. Every time you run a mission, save the fit you used to finish that mission. If you never drop below 50% shields on your Drake, alter the fit for that mission to give you more gank (another BCS II, for example, or another target painter). If you never drop below 40% capacitor on the Raven, alter the fit for more gank.
You can get more damage out of your Raven by fitting a Warhead Flare or Rigor Catalyst - the higher explosion speed means that NPCs using afterburners will take more damage, the smaller explosion radius means you do more damage to cruisers (and frigates, but you're using T2 drones to kill the frigates already) - or a Warhead Calefaction Catalyst rigs which just increase the damage by a fixed percentage.
I'm not sure about the fascination with CCC rigs in Ravens - if you do more damage to start with, you'll reduce incoming damage faster.
An easy way to finish missions much faster is to bring a friend along. The friend could be flying a Vexor to help you take out frigates and cruisers, then proceed with salvaging the wrecks. Once the dangerous NPCs are taken care of, the friend can leave his drones on "Assist" or "Guard".
With two people you'll complete more than twice the number of missions per session, so your profit should be going up.
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Not Well
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Posted - 2009.05.06 09:18:00 -
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Mara,
That is the best and most sensible idea I have seen for weeks. Many thanks.
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