Unless of course you were interested in skilling for incursions. Are the Mastery skills a good rough guide of what to skill into?Sorry if it comes across as stupid, there isn't much up to date information that i can find regarding such things, most of the forums i have seen are just people suggesting caldari missile ships or drones.Different kinds of PvE will favor different ships, but in general as minmatar you want artillery (long range) with the eventual goal being the Maelstrom, or Machariel (minmatar+gallente pirate battleship)The rupture would be better than the stabber for straight pve because it is tankier, the stabber is faster.Hurricane or tornado can both be good, Hurricane is better for missions (better tank/sustainability, medium guns to hit frigates) Tornado is good for ratting, that is killing pirates in belts, safely (extreme range/alpha)You did not mention which kind of PVE you want to do. a lot of ships have close to the same roll in their respective classes.rifter->Thrasher->Rupture/stabber->Cane->Tempest/MAel6a) Autocannon Vargur, pimp, active tank (L4, Marauder 5, gankers love it)I always fit a DCU and put as many gyros in the lows as possible while keeping the ship alive (up to 4, then go for TEs because stacking penalty).Make sure you always have light drones to deal with frigates, preferably T2 when you get a chance.Large artillery sucks at tracking (so do large autocannons but less so) so you might be tempted to use a tracking computer with a tracking script.
It can mount a good active armour tank or regenerating passive shield tank (as below) and use artillery and drones to destroy mission rats from range. Missiles and drones also struggle less with application when compared to weapon turrets.Generally for pve people try to fit shield tanks instead or armor to free up low slots for damage or application modules. Do i want the Rupture or the stabber? Probably good for L1 missions.Rupture: Passive shield tank: 2x shield power relays, large shield extender, 2x resist modules, 3x purger rigs. For PvE the progression would probably be along the lines of Rupture > Maelstrom > Incursion fit Maelstrom if you are in HS. Or just get a vexor navy issue.What sort of fit would i want for my eventual entry into the machariel? Estimated training time only for the listed skills based on zero Base Time to Warp is essentially the time needed for this ship to align and accelerate until it reaches 75% of its top speed and goes to warp. When in doubt, train drones to T2.

A number of fittings work well; in E-Uni fleets the most common approach is to fit an armour buffer tank (as below) and provide extra DPS and some sticky secondary tackle. The priority displayed here is meant only as a basic guideline for prioritizing targets on a theoretical level, actual field priority may differ depending on the circumstances.
The Rupture has superior firepower and is used by the Minmatar Republic both to defend space stations and other stationary objects and as part of massive attack formations. The Rupture is slow for a Minmatar ship, but it more than makes up for it in power. However, without very good missile skills L4's will take a long time. Minmatar Cruiser to at least IV to properly take advantage of the Rupture's DPS buff that comes with every extra level in the skill. Tashiell Gao, Minmatar Inside. They tend to either be short ranged or low dps.EVE has very little linear progression and if you're just trying to move on to a bigger ship as you play you're going to be very confused when you realise you're being less efficient doing the activities you're are doing but with what you think is a "better" ship.What you need to be doing is figuring out the best ship for your current activity. Arty tracks super badly and autos are pretty meh.Talwar (maybe), Cyclone or typhoon would be my go to minmatar ships for rattingLarge arty has trouble with tracking, but in the sense of progression medium arty tracks just fine.

The one I'm using can almost solo -0.6 belt rats but cant really break the tank of the battleships. This fit is way over the top for lvl2 missions. If you enjoy pve then you could look into getting a gila, and later a rattlesnake. The time displayed here is the base calculated time with no account for any warp related skills, modules or any other effects. Anybody got any good fits they could share with me. I think most things the hurricane can do PvE wise, the Maelstrom would just do as good or better, unless we are talking about DED sites that lock you out.I would definitely suggest VNI for the first train, and go from there working on drone or other support skills, if i were you. Whats the ship progression like for Minmatar?

However, you lose the ability to change the script to the range script so use accordingly.Vargur only requires 4 tank modules maximum: bastion, adaptive invulnerability field, shield booster, and DCU. They can also fit a probe launcher and do highsec combat sites (anything less than 4/10 DED) just fine. If you get into L3 though, the Stabber isn't gonna cut it for sure. EVE Online - Rupture Fit [pve] Telen Nilaer.