Irdia Freelancer
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Posted - 2009.07.21 22:50:00 -
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My character is Amarr and I only have amarr ship skills. For easy level 4's I use an abaddon with large close range weaps (pulse lasers) and with ship bonuses, heat sinks, 1 lar, T1 weaps, faction ammo - its plenty. Even vs angels it will chew through them fine.
If I have a mission which the abaddon can't tank (eg when started doing lvl 4's AE4 bonus pocket was too much and didn't have enough cap to run 2x LAR's) I run a shield tanking apoc with min artillery.
I've read above that min artillery is useless. Interesting as with rubbish skills, no ship bonuses, its plenty for lvl 4's. Vs angels in AE4, the apoc with min artillery is only slightly slower to get through to the final pocket than the abaddon, and in the final pocket it shrugs off full pocket agro with ease.
Any race of ships can do well, including Mins.
The only npc I have failed to kill in a mission was the mother drone in 'A worthy task' or something like that - mission for one of the concord agents (lvl 2 agent?, 5/10 plex). Even 2 LAR's I think might be lacking on tank there for the final pocket. One can fly away and keep the damage down though. Those mother drone hits hurt - almost 2000 damage through almost 50% resists.
Get a battleship, 5 drones. Train up some drone skills to take out ships your guns can't touch. Even my poor drone skills and meds will take down most battleships with no ship bonuses. Most large ships carry 75 mtr or more drone space, enough for 5 small and 5 med drones. I prefer artillery over autocannon as longer reach. Autocannon has such short range I prefer artillery. If a battleship orbits too close for artillery, web it.
Do level 4 missiosn as soon as your comfortable doing them. They pay more than levl 3's and the level 4 storylines give better standing increases than lvl 3's. On my alt, trained into a battleship in under 10 days from creation, and within the next week it could solo most level 4's. You dont need that much skill for level 4's. More skill = faster completion, but large amounts of skill are not necessary. Take things slow till know missions. The guides give help but are not 100% accurate as written mostly by players who warp in a raven and shoot everything from warp in point. ie can do better than what guides suggest in managing agro. Better to Err with more tank than not enough costing a ship.
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