Originally by: Snyderm

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Im finding now that there is no elite missioning ship if your Gallante (at least if youve trained sentries).

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Originally by: Marie Hartinez

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Since you have mentioned you have most of your skill points in drones, I'd recommend you either stick with the Domi or go with an Ishtar. I can't say anything about the Rattlesnake as I've never flown one.

While the Ishtar may or may not finish a mission faster then a BS, it does have some advantages. First it can speed, especially if you like to get in close and engage with blasters. Second it has a smaller sig radius compared to a BS, so you'll take less damage.

But flying an Ishtar in a mission can be a bit of a challenge and you need to pay a bit more attention with it. I have near prefect skills with it and once in a while I get caught.

As to T2 hybrids, they can be worth to train up as they have greater damage potential over T1. But that is up to you, especially if you, like me, use drones as your primary weapon.

IMO, T2 ammo is not worth it for PvE and I normally use T1 or faction ammo in my T2 hybrids.

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Originally by: Tulisin Dragonflame

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Originally by: Snyderm

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Im finding now that there is no elite missioning ship if your Gallante (at least if youve trained sentries).

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Depends on your definition of elite. The Dominix competes with >1 billion ISK faction ships and marauders in the top tier of PvE ships while being a tiny fraction of the cost.

The fact that Gallente don't have a super expensive mission boat isn't really a problem when the Domi works as well as anything else in the game.

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Originally by: Snyderm

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Question: Why does a Shield Purger rig require 50 calibraion points, and an Armor Auxiliary Nano Pump Cost 100 calibration points?

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Originally by: Celia Therone

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I share your pain, having gallente battleship 5 and flying a dominix with T2 sentries and heavies.

My current plan is to cross-train into a Rattlesnake then once I have shield and missile skills trained up perhaps switch over to a Golem.

The major problem with the plan is that it's a lot of training and involves giving up my play style.

I have to give a big WTF to CCP on drone play though... Navy Dominix more expensive than regular Dominix and less desirable for PvP (sentry rigging issues). Faction drones more expensive than T2 and same or less damage. Because the one thing that I really want to do is spend a couple of orders of magnitude more money for less damage. I thought that was demonstrated pretty well from the augmented drones that (almost) no-one uses.

On the other hand the Rattlesnake redesign does get props.

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Originally by: Aqriue

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1. Ishtar
2. Proteus
3. Gila
4. Rattlesnake
5. Typhoon!

Have you seen the buffs to the typhoon? Its a minmatar ship, but has a drone bay size half that of the dominix and gives no bonus to drones themselves, but its fast at 400+ meters a second and can use torps/cruise. I am thinking of training ito that with heavy drones and torps while using like an ultra fast interceptor once I am done Vargur training. Looks like it will be fun, but its not AFK boat

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Originally by: Snyderm

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Edited by: Snyderm on 13/03/2010 23:35:05
*Sigh*, so the Navy Dominix is a good ship if you active shield tank?

Call me crazy, but shouldn't CCP design a Navy Dominix that Uses sentries well and armor tanks?

Why would anyone train Gallante in the first place if we are all required to train missiles and shields to be competitive anyway? For crying out loud, if thats the best that can be done why don't we all just be caldari? We can be perfectly happy in our Drakes and Ravens. Sure its boring as hell without any variety, but thats what CCP wants.

Seriously? Active shield tank?

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Originally by: Cambarus

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The domi is, hands down, bar none, the most versatile ship in the game. How can you make the claim that ravens and drakes are boring and without any variety, when you're in the ship that has the most variety in the whole game? I have 2 races BS trained to V, 3 races BS tech II weapons, 3 races command ships with good support skills and tech II guns. If I had to pick one ship to spend the rest of my eve career in, do you know what it would be? The navy domi (or regular one if cost was a factor)

As far as the shield whine goes, active shield tanks are just better in missions. They let you use all your lows for weapon upgrades (incidentally the ships on which this advantage is made very clear are ones like the macharial and the domi, not ships that traditionally shield tank like the raven) If you want to improve your pve then yes, the best way to do that is to get shield skills. Gallente kind of get shafted in terms of their marauder (which I also fly btw, or flew rather)and while the domi is awesome, the other 2 BS hulls are kind of crap. However, this is made up for by the awesomeness that is the dominix. Seriously, did you not look at the stats on the ship I posted? You'll be hard pressed to find a better ship for damage projection in the game, and if you're going against kinetic/thermal rats the REGULAR domi (remember that the navy domi is an upgrade to tank, not damage) will go through missions more quickly than even the golem, arguably the best mission runner out there. The damn thing's basically a kinetic/thermal nightmare; not a whole lot of tank unless you really pimp it, but levels of damage that go beyond ridiculous, and in the end the isk/hour you make dictates how good a ship is at running missions, since every battleship in the game can be fit to tank them.

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