Missions & Complexes

L3's with this ship (with mission specific hardeners), yay or nay?

Omen Navy Issue - Contubernium

Note: I don't want to use a Harbinger for reasons unclear.

Would take a couple of days of training, but otherwise fittable. Thanks

with a navy omen a mix of speed tanking and kiting should allow you to tank far more than just the paper rep amount. That said if you get webbed you need to watch that number, and for that reason I'd probably use light drones as they should be better for dealing with frigs and spider drones. with proper piloting practices you should be able to blap npc frigs unless they spawn very close.

that said your skills seem a bit low, maybe it would be better to stick with level 2s for a while.

as for fit I'd probably go for something like this (based on skills I'm assuming you will need the acr) there aren't really any compelling high slot mods for that empty slot, plus it is very close to the CPU limit. as said earlier a mix of kiting and speed tanking will be the basic set of tactics for this ship. I'd probably pop a cap booster when I got down to ~15% cap as then i would have burned through all of the peak recharge and 800 cap is a pretty big amount for a cruiser.

and maybe keep a set of beam lasers around if there are any missions that call for them. I haven't done lv3s in a while so the tank might be a bit too light for a few. although last time I went around doing lv3s for standings I remember them being laughably easy for a drake with near max skills.

[Omen Navy Issue, asdf]
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II
Damage Control II
Armor EM Hardener II
Armor Thermic Hardener II
Medium Armor Repairer II

10MN Afterburner II
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
Medium Capacitor Booster II, Cap Booster 800

Heavy Pulse Laser II, Scorch M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Scorch M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Scorch M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Scorch M
[empty high slot]

Medium Energy Locus Coordinator I
Medium Energy Locus Coordinator I
Medium Ancillary Current Router I

Warrior II x5
Hobgoblin II x5
Cap Booster 800 x12

I ran Level 3's in a Prophecy and found it fairly easy to tank, but a bit slow using drones to clear so switched to a Harbinger, it takes some thought about tactics as you won't be able to tank some missions comfortably, you'll have to get the correct aggro and keep moving with the most transversal, but it's twice as quick in a Harbinger

You can get 4 damage or even 5 damage mods onto a L3 prophecy, and garde IIs project to 45, and racials even further. Even setup for L4s with only 3 damage mods, I shot an 8mil tick in an L4 serp recon with a sentry prophecy as a test.

its also fast, so you can park, blap everything, and then race over to the next gate, you don't pay a lot of post combat time penalty with them for being stuck tending sentries.

Nay.