I believe the filters only work once you've got the item that you're scanning up to 25%, which is when it tells you what type of structure it is, filtering other structures out before this would lead to misuse of the filers as there are filters for certain types of ships, meaning you wouldn't have to narrow your scans down with D-scan first if you were looking for one person's ship in particular.
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I recommend using an Arazu if you are skilled into it. It attacks mission bears in ways they really aren't capable of dealing with.

I recommend using an Arazu if you are skilled into it. It attacks mission bears in ways they really aren't capable of dealing with.

Really? I'm curious how you envision an Arazu killing an MTU in a timely fashion before the missioner slowboats on over and picks it up. Especially if the Arazu is fitting RSDs and set for kiting. Cuz if you are going blaster/gank then you might as well go with a different ship since the only real advantage you have is the CovOps cloak. And the cloak frankly isn't that valuable in hi-sec since you still need people to shoot you before you can shoot them. Sure the Arazu will work fantastic if they just shoot you instead of scooping. But in my experience the first instinct of the missioner is to scoop, and only agress once enraged by MTU loss. Perhaps I am just unlucky and regularly encounter a more cautious brand of missioner?

EDIT - LOL Jinxed by Sniper Wolf!

Getting aggro from a twitchy carebear is a challenge to say the least, so 9 out of 10 mission-flipping professionals surveyed choose assault frigates as the perfect sweet spot for not being 'scary', and still able to take down a battleship while also tanking rats.

The bear is cunning, but he has one major weakness -- he tends to fit weapon systems that are offset by an AB fit assault frigate and its small signature radius.

in fact, there is some evidence that pirates in empire are able to get under a bears gauss, rails and heavy blasters completely and take no damage at all while leisurely orbiting at 500m (once drones are primed and taken off field). Even torpedoes with their large explosion radius's are shrugged off.

There have even been reports of said assault frigs getting under the guns of well-equipped pwnboats.

I cannot confirm this. I...was never here.

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...an assault frigate is just what I had planned and coincidently, it's going to be an Ishkur too.

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Ah, you're THAT Feyd! Thank you good sir, an assault frigate is just what I had planned and coincidently, it's going to be an Ishkur too.

So, anyone got any good advice on an off grid boosting ship/fit? Preferably Caldari as I don't have the training time to spare to train up anything else for the foreseeable future.

I've seen Ishkurs shrug off bombs, too - Lost the drones, but got way with structure intact.

If you intend to scan down then blap MTUs in the aim of making bears shoot you (or just for the killmails on the MTUs), I recommend you pick a 0.9 mission system like Dodixie (which has several >0.7 systems around it that missions send you to, Vylade, Meves, Arg-something, Eglennaert, etc).

Every time you scan one down, warp to it, shoot it up, then post the killmail in local with a comment like "I accidentally the tractor, is that bad?" Someone will shoot you eventually.

I recommend using an Arazu if you are skilled into it. It attacks mission bears in ways they really aren't capable of dealing with.