EVE New Citizens Q&A

I have a character that I haven't played on for like 3 years. Activated it again, and I'm sort of at a crossroads. Have around 13,5mil SP, most of it focused into Gunnery and Amarr ships. I have Amarr Cruiser and Amarr Battlecruiser at V. My aim was always to get into L4 missions as a base of sorts before I struck out and did other stuff. I want to have a base that I can use for income (Even if it's boring) before I risk throwing away tons of stuff in low/null/wormhole space.

However, I've seen people talking about doing L4's in the T3 cruisers. I don't doubt that it's possible, but is it a good idea? I'm already kinda tired of how bulky and slow my Harbinger is, and I imagine it'd only get worse if I got into an Abaddon. Playstyle-wise I think I'd much rather be in a Legion, but is it as fast/easy in L4 missions as, say, an Abaddon? I realize that most probably fly Tengus if they do fly T3s, but I don't have any Caldari ship skills, and don't much fancy waiting another 3½ weeks to get Caldari Cruiser V when I already have Amarr. I could have the Amarr T3 cruiser skill and subsystem skills at 4 each in less than 2 weeks.

So I guess I'm asking, is flying a Legion in L4 missions (solo) even feasible?

And, follow-up, if it is, would a fit like this work?

[Legion, L4]
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II
Armor Thermic Hardener II
Armor EM Hardener II
Medium Armor Repairer II

Tracking Computer II
Tracking Computer II
Tracking Computer II
10MN Afterburner II

Heavy Pulse Laser II
Heavy Pulse Laser II
Heavy Pulse Laser II
Heavy Pulse Laser II
Heavy Pulse Laser II
Heavy Pulse Laser II

Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump II
Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit II

Legion Defensive - Nanobot Injector
Legion Electronics - Tactical Targeting Network
Legion Propulsion - Fuel Catalyst
Legion Offensive - Liquid Crystal Magnifiers
Legion Engineering - Augmented Capacitor Reservoir

So... It'd be better (ISK/hour-wise) to stick with the current plan of putting some beam lasers and a micro jump drive on an Abaddon and going to town?

Okay, put another way, then.

Fun/hour = Legion. The less bulky my ship is, the more I like it.
Isk/hour = Abaddon. Also, the quicker I make my isk, the less time I'll have to spend on missioning.

Due to a Legion being smaller, it's safer to fly than a BS, too? Or have I misunderstood that?

I use a Dominix, Sentry Drone, MJD with Afterburner set up. MJD out to max range. Snipe the targets and profit So using the same basic strategy should work on an Abaddon.

Pretty much anything can blitz L4 missions as long as you can break battleship tanks.

Whilst I don't mission much, I need to occasionally to fix up my security status, and when I do, I use an Ishtar, a t2 drone-based cruiser.

It combines almost battleship DPS, with good resists, a tiny sig radius making me harder to hit, speed, and most of all, the versatility of spare midslots allowing me to fly a ship that can PVP while PVE fit.

You're forgetting one very important thing--the Abaddon awesome-tanks.

It is just a freaking bad-ass Battleship.

Alright, alright. :p

Get the Abaddon as a workhorse now, then start with the blingy Legion later.

A sort of connected question. It'll take me around a month to get Weapon Upgrades V and then Adv. Weapon Upgrades to IV, and Large Beam Specialization IV too. The 8 Tech2 beams are very powergrid hungry, even with fitting skills at V (Other than Adv. Weapon Upgrades, obviously). Would it be stupid to just run with 7 of them while I train skills? Better to just get 8 Tech1 beams instead while I wait?

This ^^

or you MJD into brawler range, go into bastion and kill everything with applied 1k dps

Factional webifier with 15km range - against frigs. And/or burn away to lower angular velocity of the targeted frig.