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Volaria
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Posted - 2006.12.03 19:03:00 -
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hmm where to start, i recently started running missions and after a few days of the mind numbing boredom of throwing missiles out of my ferox i decided to switch to rails, missions became more interesting to play around with and so wanting to move onto battleships i built myself a rokh (yes for lvl 3's lol)
anyway having a bit of fun with that but i ran into the blockade mission and somethings bothering me about it, the mission itself is fine but there is a group of cruisers, dire pithum enforcers (iirc) now this is the problem, i'm only hitting them for 8 maybe 9 damage 15 - 20 with excellent and wrecking hits im going through 600 - 1000 rounds of ammo and taking close to 5 minutes to kill each one, if im having trouble with cruisers in a lvl 3 mission surely railguns are going to suck for doing lvl 4 basically am i wasting my time training railguns if all i want to do is pve? are missions only for ravens and missiles?
anyway i switched from 250mm rails to 350mm rails and antimatter and a load of tracking computers/enhancers and warped in at 60km and after 1 whole clip of antimatter (about 640 rounds of ammo) i still only had it at 50% bit of a dissapointment really anyway i decided to warp out and reject the mission.
any advice on what ship to use for lvl 4 missions that isn't a raven ( missiles are boring and it looks crap lol) or a dominix (drones are boring and it looks crap)
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xHalcyonx
Amarr
CyberDyne Industries
Axiom Empire
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Posted - 2006.12.03 19:49:00 -
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A command ship or HAC.
:)
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Volaria
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Posted - 2006.12.03 19:57:00 -
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doesn't matter, cancelled my account \0/
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Midshipman
Merch Industrial
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Posted - 2006.12.03 20:26:00 -
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Want me to put your stuff to use in case you don't come back?
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SunTzuRaven
Gallente
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Posted - 2006.12.03 20:51:00 -
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It wasn't your weapons fault. Those ships have some ungodly high resistances (their bounty should be something like 220k), wrecking for 20 is annoying, but its what you can expect to see against them.
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St Dragon
Blood Association of Dragons
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Posted - 2006.12.03 21:33:00 -
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 Originally by: Volaria
doesn't matter, cancelled my account \0/
loL weirdo cancelled 50 mins after the OP post.
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Volaria
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Posted - 2006.12.03 21:55:00 -
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grow up, whats weird is sticking your nose into a thread with the sole intention of throwing about random insults or snotty childish comments, a hobby that seems all too prevalent on the eve-o forums, which just makes me feel even better about leaving.
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slothe
Caldari
Forsaken Empire
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Posted - 2006.12.04 08:06:00 -
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Edited by: slothe on 04/12/2006 08:10:03
i used to solo lvl 4 missions in a 350mm railgun fitted megathron.
350s work nicely.
but i have to call you a weirdo for cancelling as well 
i mean why make the post then just leave hehe (i dont mean this in an insulting way i just find this whole thread funny).
if you are leaving can i have your stuff? (seriously i could use that rokh).
oh and if you change your mind i could probably help you with a decent setup - but it helps to post your full setup when asking the question ab initio.
oh and i know what you mean about eve-o forums your right. but other forums like scrapheap challenge exist which are pretty good :)
also if you are intent on leaving try pvp first, its fun.
Before complaining about any ship try flying Minmatar |
Aterna
Minmatar
M'8'S
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Posted - 2006.12.04 09:16:00 -
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My megathron ratting setup:
7x 350mm rails ( no awu yet)
1x tracking computer
1x sensor booster
1x web
1x cap booster w/800s
1x lar II
3x hardener II
3x mfs II
I shoot antimatter and get decent dps out to 36km. With better skills that will change. It is also worth noting that I have crap BS skills (gallente BS 2, Large Hybrid 1)
Stick with the game, it is easily the most rewarding, most mature MMO on the market, and probably will be, so long as it drives away the kids who can't handle the deluge of information, stats, and general complexity.
One thing you can do, is check the resistances of the npcs you're fighting with EVE Explorer, and see if their highest resist is kin/thermal. If so, a Missile ship will be your best bet, because you can swap your damage type to suit the mission or the rat. Missions are boring. Ratting is boring. Mining is boring. PvP is fun. Piracy is fun. Bubble camping in low sec is fun. Smacking Far Quazar every time he comes knocking in his stabb'd Deimos is fun. But Mission running is not fun.
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Hephaesteus
Gallente
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Posted - 2006.12.04 12:05:00 -
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If you are flying a Rokh why not try blasters? tried it on mine and it worked a treat.
I used iron ammo for frigs, cruisers and battlecruisers then switched to antimatter for the Bs's. With iron ammo I had over 20 kms optimal and including the falloff I was hitting ships over 30 kms away. It has to be said that although iron ammo is not the best damaging ammo, it works  .
Rokh
Megathron
Eagle
Vulture
Eos (with drones obviously)
Astarte
All these are good mission ships, but the secret to flying them well is knowing how to use them and knowing the rats in the missions.
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Lord Loom
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Posted - 2006.12.04 12:32:00 -
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Definitely not the sole problem of the railguns, as mentioned already some of the NPCs in The Blockade have very high resistances and become a real pain to kill unless you can hit their resistance hole, which is harder with a weapon system that always deals the same two damage types. I had to switch to EM missiles on my Ferox because even the 2nd lowest resist wasn't good enough, and the ammo consumption was high either way. Also, cruisers' sigs further reduce the damage you do with BS weapons, which should be less of a problem in L4s
as for the "cancelled my account" comment, maybe you shouldn't have posted that, or the topic 
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Wotar
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Posted - 2006.12.04 12:56:00 -
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Those Dire cruisers are HACs. They take any ship quite a while to kill. Not something I'd really consider cancelling my account over =D
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