Missions & Complexes

A raven state issue would do the job

Mach because it saves so much on travel time which L4s tend to have quite abit of. If travel time was less of a factor I would say CNR but the difference is probably minimal.

Nightmare.

Nightmare for EM missions
Tengu for Kinetic missions

I specialized in both. You don't have to spend time changing your fit to match the mission damage. You just change the ship! It's ready to go that way. Yes it takes a long time to train both, but it's worth it.

Alternatively, My Raven was equipped with the following:

HIGH
06 x Cruise Missile Launcher I
01 x SMALL TRACTOR BEAM 1
01 x SALVAGER I

MEDIUM
04 x LARGE SHIELD EXTENDERS
01 x 'HYPHNOS' ECM
01 x MEDIUM SHIELD BOOSTER

LOW
01 x EMERGENCY DAMAGE CONTROL
01 x ARMOR KINETIC HARDENER I
01 x ARMOR THREMIC HARDENER I
02 x WARP CORE STABILIZER I

DRONES
02 x WARRIOR I DRONES
03 x HAMMERHEAD I DRONES

UPGRADES
01 x ROCKET FUEL CACHE PARTINTION I
01 x BAY LOADING ACCELERATOR I

ETF?
Must be a new program.

Anyway, tengu all the way for me.
Its just good allround.
Tanks pretty much everything, it might not always be the fastest but it definately is one easy going ship to run missions in.

It's obviously different based on the area that you mission in but if you had a choice, I'd take Nightmare (or Paladin) in Amarr space over Machariel (or Vargur) in Minmatar space myself. Faction ammo is usable to great effect, not necessary to use T2 ammo to push damage projection out to a reasonable level when fighting farther rats, and moving isn't even necessary.

Even with both using faction ammo, the Nightmare outdpses the Mach starting at 25km, and while there are quite a few missions where rats start close to optimal there are also missions where they do not, which means you need to take the time to get to the rats. Barrage is an answer yes, but not only does it do less dps even at maximum, but it only starts outdpsing multifreq at 70km, which does not even matter with the Mach's 77km lock range, and that is easily answered with ultraviolet etc. WIth the dps gap, and the damage projection difference I would think that the Nightmare is strictly superior not only against EM weak but thermal weak rats as well. Due to a lack of kinetic focused ammunition I would also wager that for kinetic rats with a secondary EM or thermal weakness the nightmare is at least on par. That leaves just angels and minmatar as a potential situation for Mach superiority. The damage projection difference is very important, even with an MWD the travel time on a Machariel is not negligible

I've been a proponent of projectile superiority for some time now but taking a hard look at the differences between these systems I think I would recommend flying a Nightmare anywhere outside of Minmatar space, and even then it's not that big of a deal to either decline a few angels missions or even just do them with a laser platform, the dps is so high.

A 10 billion isk navy- domi might tank even the hardest lv 4.
But, who on earth would spend 10 bil on a domi, lol.

Except for all the target painter micromanaging. No thanks, worst marauder hands down. Kronos beats it in Caldari space, easy.

lolwut? Learn to eft warrior

[Drake, Mission Tank]

Heavy Missile Launcher II, Trauma Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Trauma Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Trauma Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Trauma Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Trauma Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Trauma Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Trauma Heavy Missile
[Empty High slot]

Invulnerability Field II
Explosion Dampening Field II
Invulnerability Field II
Large Shield Extender II
Large Shield Extender II
Large Shield Extender II

Shield Power Relay II
Shield Power Relay II
Shield Power Relay II
Power Diagnostic System II

Medium Core Defence Field Purger I
Medium Core Defence Field Purger I
Medium Core Defence Field Purger I


Hobgoblin II x5

70 million, 1300 DPS tank against Angels, (30 minutes, so basically cap-stable) AE4 bonus room puts out around 1050 dps and is one of the highest dps L4 rooms, so yeah you can be webbed and painted to hell and back and you can still take a **** halfway through =P