I am flying Minmatar ships and flying in Minmatar space so it would be Angel Cartel ships I am fighting. I am leaning towards a Typhoon but I am alpha and cannot use a lot of the T2 items. I am currently using a Hurricane but it is painfully slow! Any suggestions on fits for these missions?
cruise missile phoon with double armour rep; use at least two rat specific hardners.
Though tbvh you would probably just be better off training for a raven.
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As a fellow Alpha I would suggest a ship with guns. I briefly flew a Raven and had lots of trouble managing my tank and killing things quickly enough. I upgraded to a Rattlesnake before totally changing gears and switching to a Vindicator. I find it a lot easier to survive with the instant damaged provided by turrets.
I fully admit that a lot of my problems can be attributed to my lack of skill early in my L4 carrier. As it stands now I don’t plan to go back to a missile boat.
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Tempest and Typhoon (or their fleet variants) are excellent ships for level 4 missions. The Tempest Fleet Issue is a very forgiving ship - fast, large buffer tank, and lots of fitting headroom. It’s also one of the least expensive faction battleships.
The big guns will make short work of battleship rats but will have trouble hitting small stuff - you’ll need drones for that. If you like the Hurricane, Tempest should be a comfortable fit.
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The only large T2 weapon system alpha char can use is rapid heavy missile launcher. So at the end you will stay with the rattlesnake as many of us.
Meanwhile low skilled char can benefit a lot from using Praxis as a mission boat. It is mainly drone boat, but drones are needed in PvE anyway… You can try any weapon / tank approach you want.
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And what makes you think that flying a pirate faction boat at level 1 will do much gooderer than a tech 1 boat?
Some piece of advice, my young paddawan, you need to be patient and level the Raven before you put judgement on something you do not understand.
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the RS has an innate bonus to shield resist, thus to both active and passive tank.
dont need as much sp to max out alpha skills for a raven, i did have a cap stable alpha fit im sure but unsure where i left it.
when you only really have 5 mil to play with…
also the drake and raven have been know for years as the best t1 low sp pve boats for missions.
I use a rattler in null missions atm that gets over 1300 dps
im not an alpha.
you can also solo c4 wh in a raven… but prolly not with alpha skills. 
The guy that said about using the praxis is probably right though, not onlt are praxis cheap as chips but very little skill point required for the actual ship.
[Typhoon, Typhoon PvE I RHML High Skills]
Large Armor Repairer II
Reactive Armor Hardener
Armor Explosive Hardener II
Armor Kinetic Hardener II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
100MN Y-S8 Compact Afterburner
Phased Scoped Target Painter
Missile Guidance Computer II
Cap Recharger II
Republic Fleet Large Cap Battery
Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II
Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II
Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II
Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II
Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II
Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II
Drone Link Augmentor I
Large Capacitor Control Circuit II
Large Capacitor Control Circuit I
Large Capacitor Control Circuit II
Republic Fleet Valkyrie x5
Missile Range Script x1
Caldari Navy Nova Heavy Missile x150
This worked well for me. It has ammo, drones and hardeners suited for angel cartel (EXP/KIN). If you are fighting something else, change those accordingly. The downside is huge reload time.
The only problem with that is, that the total number of Praxis’ in the game is finite. I do hope however that there are currently enough of those in the game.
Do some more L3 missions, save the isk and buy a Machariel.
A fit to start with:
[Machariel, T1 guns]
Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II
Large Armor Repairer II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Armor Explosive Hardener II
Armor Explosive Hardener II
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
Heavy Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I, Cap Booster 800
Tracking Computer II, Tracking Speed Script
500MN Cold-Gas Enduring Microwarpdrive
800mm Heavy ‘Scout’ Repeating Cannon I, Fusion L
800mm Heavy ‘Scout’ Repeating Cannon I, Fusion L
800mm Heavy ‘Scout’ Repeating Cannon I, Fusion L
800mm Heavy ‘Scout’ Repeating Cannon I, Fusion L
800mm Heavy ‘Scout’ Repeating Cannon I, Fusion L
800mm Heavy ‘Scout’ Repeating Cannon I, Fusion L
800mm Heavy ‘Scout’ Repeating Cannon I, Fusion L
Drone Link Augmentor I
Large Projectile Burst Aerator II
Large Anti-Kinetic Pump I
[Empty Rig slot]
Republic Fleet Warrior x5
Republic Fleet Berserker x4
Cap Booster 800 x15
An then just pimp it a bit with some faction items and maybe some level 3 implants for your clone, while dropping to a 3 slot tank(rep + 2 resist modules) and going with 3 faction gyros.
prolly get more at xmas
That would be cool!
Alpha’s get 20 mil SP. FYI.
Thank you kindly for regaling me on your extensive ingame knowledge and Knowhow, im sure you have helped many people and your tales are full of awe and wonder.
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