Of course, this assumes that a frigate will be useful in factional warfare. Worse that losing your ship, for me at least, is then trying to re-equip the new one. I will have to work out a standard PvP fitting for it and keep supplies on hand. I already have the blueprints for the missiles. I should probably just buy a blueprint original and make some to keep on hand. And since I am strongest in missile skills, that means a Kestrel. Since PvP is going mean dying a lot, frigates will have to do when it comes to my budget. However, if rewards are going to be similar to what happens with loyalty points, I may have to head back to Caldari space.Īnd then there is the question of what to fly. Once the Empyrean Age expansion goes live, with my standings, I can join either the Amarr or Caldari militia. On the other hand, armor plates seem to drop often, and those I do not need, but other people seem to, so they make me a bit of ISK. I still have not collected the 100 I need to make the first cargo rig for my hauler. It is not raining alloyed tritanium bars. Drone missions generally drop some of that sweet, sweet plush compound that, when refined, yields up a chunk of zydrine. The bounty total when fighting pirates is usually huge, two to eight times the actual mission reward. So far level 4 missions have been lucrative. It is a shame to waste cruise missiles on them. There have been a few where frigates and cruisers have made up the majority of the targets. I will also have to bring my Drake out to where I am currently running level 4 missions.
That will boost me past half a billion ISK in the bank, once I find a buyer. Since I seem to be getting the hang of the Raven, I will probably sell the Rokh. That was something of a change from level 3 missions where a load of Widowmaker missiles pretty much solved all problems. I had to call it a night and come back the next day, fight my way through the whole thing again, then finally go after him with the right missiles and drones, and I still emptied my launchers five times before I got any hull damage on him. The named battleship at the end of the mission, the guy you need to take out to finish, had a really strong armor tank, one that I could not break through on my first attempt. It also got me to pay attention to the ammunition I use. That got me used to paying attention to the active shield tank that the Raven requires. Then I picked up one called Vengence that I ran by myself. Is it hot stuff or the suck?Īfter a rough start, which is how it always goes, I think I am finally getting a handle on level 4 missions with the Raven.Īctually, it did not start off rough, as a friend and I ran a couple of level 4 missions that I could have done solo in my Drake. What is everybody’s favorite laser crystal?Īnd what is the deal with the Amarr Navy Slicer blueprint I can get with my loyalty points? I do not see any for sale and the ship itself does not show up in the EVE Online Item Database. Perhaps I can make some ISK reselling those.
I’m saving up my laser crystal drops from missions to trade them in for Amarr Navy versions.
I have all the implants I need at the moment and the weapons, ammunition, and skill book options are all focused on laser turrets, which does not do me much good. The downside is, now that I have a bunch of loyalty points stored up with the Amarr Navy, I have figured out that they do not have much for me to buy. I wonder if that carries over to factional warfare? It is nice that the Amarr and the Caldari appear to be allied, so that my running missions in Amarr space did not hurt my Caldari Navy faction at all. I already have all the jump clones I need, but it is nice to have the option. My standing with the Amarr Navy is now over 8, so I can make jump clones at their stations as well as Caldari Navy stations. Plagioclase, so very common in Caldari space, is not available in Amarr space, so now I am chronically short of pyrite, and when you are making something like, say, a battleship, you need a lot more pyrite than isogen. That is good, since I was always short on isogen back in Caldari space. Kernite, kernite everywhere! And, as long as I get up early enough and mine some before some Dutch corp rolls in and clear cuts the system, I am rolling in isogen. I have notes for what should probably be half a dozen posts on EVE Online at the moment, but I have been busy at work and in Sinnoh of late, so I am going to summarize a bit.