gang pvp & mission running

[tchallawow]

hey folks - I'm just doing my beginning tutorials for my triple. However, as I plan I'm looking to do gang pvp w/ my friends but run missions for money (I hear L4 pays out decent).

I've been reading the solo incursion thread below this one, wow! but realistically, I don't think I could do that many.

Anyhow, if you had the situation where your friends want to do gang pvp and you want to make money on the side when they are not around. You had 3 multibox accounts, which direction would you go.

Any comments are appreciated, even shouts of noob :-)

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I ran 3 drakes in level 4s for a while before I jumped ship (lol) to Rift. They're cheap, relatively fast, shoot inexpensive ammo and don't hurt all that much if you lose one by accident. If you have the money to fit the more advanced T2 BS builds, that would work as well (and can kill L4's faster than BCs) but it is a LOT more expensive. Whichever you have the skills and investment for. If I had the skills for Paladins or something really good at long-range beam weapons, I'd do that judging by the videos I've watched. (Golems just seem like they're too....close to the edge of micromanagement, and shoot expensive missiles.)

[tchallawow]

how about domi - domi - hurricane?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I've heard good things about domi setups. I have no experience with them. I'm also not a big fan of drone micromanagement.

[Kromtor]

if you have 3 ships you can make anything work for L4's. drones are not really much to micromanage, for multiboxers they can be less because you can have them all assist 1 guy and then just select targets and destroy them one by one with him while keeping cap stable reps going on the other ships. domi domi hurricane will definitely work and both ship types are of great use in pvp as well, plus the domi is versatile as hell and can do some remote repping, neuting, etc too if you want to get fancy.

[Redbeard]

My biggest issue with the domis (and this is coming from somebody with gallente BS 5 and maxed drone skills) is that the game really F's drone users. If you get disconnected, you will lose your drones. If you aggro additional stuff and dont babysit your drones, you will lose your drones. Drones have to travel around to stuff.

Dont get me wrong you can put out some scary numbers in a domi when skilled but i dont think its worth the hassle. And imagining that across mulitple chars makes me want to hurl. I have since switched over to caldari for missioning and its no fuss.

My 2 cents.

[tchallawow]

well. I do appreciate the info.

My idea is to dual box for pvp w/ some friends and run L4's - L5's w/ 3 triple box for missions and money. Eventually, i could see my 3 going into incursions w/ some help.

In any event, i'm with you, less management is better, so call me crazy, i want the least micromanagment.

So with that in mind, you mention caldari, which flavor would you recommend?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

My biggest issue with the domis (and this is coming from somebody with gallente BS 5 and maxed drone skills) is that the game really F's drone users. If you get disconnected, you will lose your drones. If you aggro additional stuff and dont babysit your drones, you will lose your drones. Drones have to travel around to stuff.

Amen. Having to carefully send/recall/send/recall/etc. to keep them from dying annoys the crap out of me.

[Kromtor]

using my new fleet it has been a while since i had to worry about drones dying cause mine are currently t1 cheapies. but ya that is a real pain in the ass.

[leroyreborn]

I found drone to be easier to keep dps applied to the enemy ships. just warp in first with you main ship ( one set up to tank) argo the room then i jump in my 2 sentry domix put out the sentry drones and have them guard the main ship and they will start shooting away. You have to watch them to see if there getting shot but lest there right there by your ship. You got to baby sit them but if you go with a gun or mission set up have to baby sit them to make sure there shooting some thing. As for missiles are great for pve but when boxxing i found you end up sending way more missiles than needed at a target to kill it.