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Ikanex
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Posted - 2006.04.04 16:04:00 -
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I currently have about 5 months worth of SP devoted to Minmatar. I do level 3 missions in a typhoon. I have pretty good drone skills (can use t2 mediums) and decent missle skills (just about all of them to level 4 - exception being the specializations). I have so-so shield tanking skills from when i trained them up to use a cyclone.
My question is is it worth it to invest another 6 months or so into minmatar skills so i can use a tempest decently for lvl 4 missions, or would it make more sense to just jump on over to the raven bandwagon?
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Toaster Oven
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Posted - 2006.04.04 16:14:00 -
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I think the bonus change to the Typhoon will make it a rather nice mission running BS. So I dunno if I would switch just yet if you intend to use the Raven only for PVE.
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M00dy
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Posted - 2006.04.04 16:58:00 -
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Minnie BS are fine to solo lvl4s, just gotta tank correctly and do good dmg.
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HippoKing
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Posted - 2006.04.04 17:23:00 -
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for PvE, raven is better than the minny ships.
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Leandro Salazar
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Posted - 2006.04.04 17:30:00 -
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What exactly makes you think you need 6 months of training to use a Tempest decently in lvl4s? I did that when I did not even have 6 months TOTAL training...
The people that try to make you believe that you need lvl5 in everything to do things 'properly' are just full of it.
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Brutor Shaun
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Posted - 2006.04.04 17:31:00 -
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I've just started solo lvl 4 in my Temp. Hard going at times, but enjoyable and a challenge.
Why jump on the Raven bandwagon? Enjoy the challenge and stick to your Tempest.
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perfection
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Posted - 2006.04.05 11:37:00 -
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As with ALL minmatar ships you need a high skill level to be effective and they will always required a lot of cunning. You have to remmebr that the Minmatar ideal is to hit hard and worry about defence later so hit and run are usually the best tactics. Your biggest friend is the alpha strike! Speed and range.... Although you will take a lot of damage you can dish out huge amounts too.....
[ 2006.03.17 18:48:38 ] (combat) <color=0xffbbbb00>Your 1400mm Howitzer Artillery II is well aimed at Sansha Slaver, inflicting 472.5 damage.
[ 2006.03.17 18:48:39 ] (combat) <color=0xffbbbb00>Your 1400mm Howitzer Artillery II lightly hits Sansha Slaver, doing 697.2 damage.
[ 2006.03.17 18:48:39 ] (combat) Your 1400mm Howitzer Artillery II glances off Sansha Slaver, causing no real damage.
[ 2006.03.17 18:48:45 ] (combat) Your 1400mm Howitzer Artillery II glances off Sansha Slaver, causing no real damage.
[ 2006.03.17 18:48:46 ] (combat) <color=0xffbbbb00>Your 1400mm Howitzer Artillery II hits Sansha Slaver, doing 981.6 damage.
[ 2006.03.17 18:48:47 ] (combat) <color=0xffbbbb00>Your 1400mm Howitzer Artillery II places an excellent hit on Sansha Slaver, inflicting 1390.3 damage.
[ 2006.03.17 18:48:48 ] (combat) <color=0xffbbbb00>Your 1400mm Howitzer Artillery II places an excellent hit on Sansha Slaver, inflicting 835.0 damage.
[ 2006.03.17 18:48:59 ] (combat) <color=0xffbbbb00>Your 1400mm Howitzer Artillery II places an excellent hit on Slave Pen, inflicting 1296.3 damage.
you will have lousy hits and miss often so use your ships ability to its full and you can find you can also hit very hard.......
[ 2006.03.03 17:34:08 ] (combat) <color=0xffbbbb00>Your 1400mm Howitzer Artillery II perfectly strikes Pithum Nullifier, wrecking for 2189.5 damage.
[ 2006.03.03 18:12:30 ] (combat) <color=0xffbbbb00>Your 1400mm Howitzer Artillery II perfectly strikes Pithum Mortifier, wrecking for 1843.2 damage.
[ 2006.03.03 18:19:41 ] (combat) <color=0xffbbbb00>Your 1400mm Howitzer Artillery II perfectly strikes Pith Obliterator, wrecking for 2465.9 damage.
[ 2006.02.27 19:54:27 ] (combat) <color=0xffbbbb00>Your 1400mm Howitzer Artillery II perfectly strikes Guristas War Installation, wrecking for 3072.1 damage.
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Vexoth
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Posted - 2006.04.05 12:06:00 -
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I have noticed that alot of the Minmatar security missions involve fighting against Angels, which are difficult to fight in a Tempest. This is because Angels are the fastest npcs which makes them very difficult to kite. On the other hand, Raven pilots have optimal shield resistances against Angels (Explosion iirc) and could care less about velocity/range. And that would explain why you see so many Ravens in Rens(besides the fact everyone its a popular BS and ezmode). Anyone disagree?
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Evil Pixie
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Posted - 2006.04.05 16:29:00 -
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Use Autocannons.
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gobergin
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Posted - 2006.04.05 17:44:00 -
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OK, I am a returning player with decent skills, but a 8 month hole in my experience. As a result, I am a Noob with a Battleship (Tempest). I used to be a Noob with TWO battleships, but I tried the Shipyard Theft Level 4 mission last night and got totally shredded in about 30 seconds. I then watched as to friends in a Brutix and an interceptor methodically took out hte entire field.
Obviously I was doing something VERY wrong.
Could someone suggest a decent setup for a Tempest soloing lvl 4 Angel Missions? I will train any skills needed, and would appreciate an explanation of WHY I should spec that way....
Thanks (I hate feeling helpless when I've got this friggin big Battleship!) 
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