Guys, tell me, what is the most profitable way to do lvl 4 missions now? I know that this way of earning is very bad now, and you can earn much more in the empire, but I don’t care. I played many years ago, and now I just want to chill out and do missions (but I think something has changed over the years). Which faction should I choose? Which ship? I’m not very interested in burners, but I would like to complete missions with the greatest efficiency. I will be very grateful for any help
If you are collecting loot + salvaje, it is more profitable to do missions in Gallente or Minmatar than Caldari or Amarr since Caldari ships drop almost no nice loot/salvaje.
Ships you can use marauder or BS.
I recommend that, don’t use expensive marauders if you’re going to do missions where everyone else is doing them since there’s a higher risk of getting ganked.
If you use expensive ships try to find a place where it is not a primary target for gankers.
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Use a Marauder, specifically a Paladin. Run L4’s out of Amarr, Ammatar, or Khanid space. No one is going to jack with you there.
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- Use a Paladin.
- Learn how to blitz the missions, aka killing only what is needed to turn in the mission as completed.
- Get some specific ships for specific missions where you only have to transport or steal an item or scout a location. A fast frig saves you tons of time here.
- Get some specific ships for the frig-burner missions and learn how to run them, it’s insane ISK/time.
- Have one of such bases in each empire, so you can shuttle/clonejump easily whenever you get a couple of missions you don’t want to run but also don’t want to decline (standing loss)
- Ignore most of the loot and salvage, it’s worth nothing compared to the money you make with the LPs.
- Turn in your LPs only for the most lucrative items or blueprints (and build faction items)
- Buy the tags required via longterm orders, so you pay well below average value for them.
- Sell the excanged/built faction items for not less than 2.000 ISK/LP. Non-Jita hubs may take longer to sell, but bring in quite a bit more money.
Sounds simple, but requires quite a bit of knowledge. But once you have everything set up and know what you do, it’s impressive money for such an easy and safe activity.
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Uniwiki for mission reports which generally list the blitzing options.
Don’t screw this up.
The good part of going to different locations is your usually not in one area long enough to be “Marked” for destruction by the locals and you get to learn and master all the different Empires techniques.
The bad part is its expensive and time consuming.
Think of L4 missioning in high-sec as Mining 2.0. I mean, it’s not bad ISK - and it is somewhat risk-free. You can quite easily make 60-100m+ ISK/hour without much effort. The only real challenge is not falling asleep from boredom…
If you just focus on Burner missions you can make upwards of 200m ISK/hour.
You can almost double both of that if you know what you are doing.
Some months ago we had the same discussion and I did run 1 hour of L4, non-cherrypicking, non-blitzing, no burners, just the next best L4s offered by the agent, full clear. I had the equivalent of like 180M after roughly an hour in rewards, LP and loot.
No argument there. The numbers I’m throwing around are from the lowest paying (0.9 of 1.0) agents with a low ISK/LP conversion..
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I know you have advised that you are not interested in burners but can I ask why?
The reason I ask is since HateLesS_Gaming passed away I have been trying to keep his legacy alive and started to teach efficient mission blitzing and anomic mission running to the community in his honour. The more unique part of my take on it now has been reducing the cost of entry to the burners. Where builds used to be in the billions they’re now considerably cheaper to run. If you want fits, advice and support just let me know in game and I’ll send everything. I can also show you live on twitch how easy the burners can be.
Either way I hope you find your mission running journey to be profitable and fly safe.