Missions & Complexes

While 2-3 minutes is possible, depending a bit on your dps on the targets, the amount of overall tank(like 700 dps means you only need to puls the booster every now and then in a high dps ship) and how to spawn waves or position yourself you probably will need a bit more early on.

I would aim for something like 4-7 minutes for a 500 dps tank in the beginning and drop a bit of tank with better skills and when you know the L4 missions inside out. AB doesn't help much negating damage on a BS and it also reducing the dps you can put on the targets in turret ships, since you create a higher transversal speed, reducing your hit chance and dps with it, what requires you to tank longer. I for myself are also not a big fan of a cap booster, since the charges take away a lot of room that you need sometimes to scoop the mission loot and have to be refilled every few minutes, while many ships can be flow without capacitor rigs and cap mods or just need one more cap mod(worst case example using a mwd fitted laser BS).

Btw most people over tank her BS and make them cap stable because they are semi afk and don't want to pay to much attention, not because so much tank is really needed if you focus on your game.

Edit: I normally run a 200-300 dps armor tank on my BS for L4s with 2-5 minutes of cap for it, depending a bit on the hulls. I think in the Vargur I had a 400 dps tank with about 4 minutes of cap and a 350 dps tank on my torp golem(unsure I think it was like 5 minutes of cap, been a while) before the changes to marauders, but I don't tend to use shield fittings for L4s that often.

i can think of only a few missions where the incoming damage would require 1k burst tank but since the introduction of the allmighty MJD there is no need for anymore than 400 tank in missions

i havent seen what u want to fly. When i decided to run missions i stumbled over a cap injected abaddon fit. Since then i run always cap injected.

[Raven, mission]

6x Cruise Missile Launcher II (Scourge Fury Cruise Missile)

Domination Kinetic Deflection Amplifier
2x Domination Thermic Dissipation Amplifier
X-Large Shield Booster II
Heavy Capacitor Booster II (Cap Booster 800)
Large Micro Jump Drive
Parallel Weapon Navigation Transmitter

Damage Control II
3x Ballistic Control System II
Type-D Attenuation Signal Augmentation

2x Large Warhead Rigor Catalyst II
Large Warhead Flare Catalyst II

and here is a not injected (should say i like sniping in missions) it has 4 minutes on cap never tried it out so and i think the ac one is the more often used fit

[Maelstrom, Mission]

8x 1200mm Artillery Cannon II (EMP L)

Large Micro Jump Drive
Gist C-Type X-Large Shield Booster
EM Ward Amplifier II
Thermic Dissipation Amplifier II
2x Tracking Computer II (Optimal Range Script)

4x Gyrostabilizer II
Damage Control II

Large Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Large Projectile Burst Aerator II
Large Core Defense Capacitor Safeguard I

if your starting missions i would highly advise to go with the "borring not so interactive" route of MJD since you can pretty easily make a nice tank based on a LARGE shield booster while not totaly gimping your missle aplication
ps. if you want to have those epic piloting moments why not skill up to a t3 ?
ps2. some basic planning and trygonometry helps to go around rooms fast

Since your pilot is about as new as mine, I'll tell you from my pov as a new player:
Forget about all those expensive and high skill fits people link to you for now. They are probably all really good and and well thought, but neither you nor me will probably fly a T2 or T3 ship anytime soon. No offense to anyone, but sometimes I think, people are too experienced and have too high skills to really imagine how far new players are off using the good stuff they advise.

I also call bull on the 1000 dps/tank formula for lvl4s. Needed to bliz them? Maybe, I don't have a clue. Needed to do them? No way.

What I say is: If you are not looking for blitzing, but a bit more of a challenge, try out higher level missions sooner.

I am neither an experienced nor really good player, my account is a few days younger than yours and I run lvl 4s since a week or more. I have 531 dps, 247 ehp/s (armor tanked) and my cap runs out in less than 5 mins (w/o prop mod). I started lvl4s with less than that and am now doing the Gallente epic, that is said to be way more difficult than the lvl 4 missions, since I saw no issues doing the lvl4s. I am half way in and it is way more fun, since it actually is a challenge.

I am quite sure we all can blitz and farm stuff more than enough later on. My advise is: just go for it!

P.S.: No, I won't pay for your ship, if you get blown up :)

The damage is immense in the last few missions, I think it exceeds 1500dps pretty easily.

But he is right about the T2 fits, those are linked more as a guide of what and where you want to train. You can substitute T2 with Faction or if your really brave Deadspace modules, but when your new that's a massive waste of ISK if it gets lost in a mission. Meta 4 have some aspects that are better than T2 for certain modules, but for the most part you want to train for the T2.

Really don't want to sound like a wiseguy, but I can't even fit an MJD. You are right, that I try to snipe for afar as much as possible though.

Edit: Basically what I want to say is, missions become more interesting if you take a risk. But I don't want to derail this thread any further.

If you have a MJD fitted, you can do most missions with being able to run a 400 DPS tank for 7 min, that's what i'm using on my domi.

The only problem i have discovered is that some missions break the tank of the domi, because it lacks mobility. If you are using a ship that can kite, i think that tank would be enough to complete all level 4 missions as long as you don't pull more then you have to.

had a long discussion about it on another thread starting here made it short i prefer the damage application of the navy raven the other the better ewar capabilities of the navy scorp. Both ships fullfill their role but i still think the bigger alpha and better damage application means faster mission with less missiles used. But both r viable mission runners.

done that arc with 2 navy ravens with mid skilled chars the trick is to get the right resist profile and to be prepared to warp off you rpolly wont kill more then 1-2 at a time - but i heard reports of people soloing those in a passive rattler with max tank