Missions & Complexes

I can confirm the Rattlesnake is a great missioning ship for sentries, if you can afford it. Dominix also makes a terrific ship for the same act.

Ishtar requires a bit more skill (read: paying attention), and a bit more in terms of ISK, but it runs L4s with no problem if you can work with it. tengu is the same way, but you'll have to bling it out to run properly, to the tune of 1-bil or more.

Once again, I would like to thank everyone for providing such valuable input to my question. I really appreciate it guys!

Thanks

Since you are in a Dominix already, you have more gunnery skills? I also like railguns more than cruise missiles as I get to instapop any small ships. That combined with sentries can clear all small ships super fast. Also what your friend said is not true since there is no risk in level 4s unless you're doing them in lowsec which that itself is not worth the risk. You don't have to get all faction mods, some are more useful than others, like the MFS is better than tracking enhancer. Marauders are nice but they don't hold 5 sentry drones (2 on rattler with the bonus).

Man your SP is all over the place. Missiles are easier to use when you didn't max all your gunnery support skills as oppose to maxing all the missile support skills. But then again you don't have Caldari BS or anything either, probably better to get T2 Rails spec to IV and all gunnery support skills to V. Then get T2 sentries and drone support skills to 5 except durability and advance drone avionics 4 is good enough for those. Finally Gallente BS 5 (but train that to 4 before maxing all those gunnery and drone support skills.)

Yes I do look at the price of the Rattlesnake and Navy Dom too if that means anything the Rattlesnake use to cost a billion. If you want to use missiles maybe even a Raven or Raven Navy Issue before the Rattlesnake. Cruise Missiles don't require all the missile support skills to be maxed to be good. But you already have more Gallente ship, gunnery hybrid turret and drone skills than missile or Caldari ship skills. That way you can hold off on the drone skills. Thats if you really like missiles though.

IMO maxed gunnery skills and rails are better than cruise missiles for level 4.

If you like drones and want to keep using them stick with a domi for now. You're shield skills need work before you can look at a RS, which is where you should aim for. Its up to weather you go MJD route or not, I don't like them in missions.
A RS is more a drone boat, missiles are secondary so train them later.
If you have isk and are in a rush to get to RS, train both BS to 4, train shield skills to 4, get RS, active tank it without a silly MJD, get faction sentry's and you will do just fine. Run some rapid heavy's if you ant to put missiles as you are lacking skills there also.

if you don't want to keep using drones or don't like them. pick what you think you will like and train for that.
The test server is a great place to play.

I am traveling at the moment, so if you send me an in game mail I will send you a decent domi fit for missioning.. it does not have a MJD..

Navy Domi is a wrong ship to run all kind of missions. You need to adapt your damage type to be mission specific. Dominix has bonus for drone range, so you can use Garde even after you MJD-ved 100 km from you targets. Navy Dominix will produce mostly kinetic / thermic type of damage. Just like Armageddon Navy will produce mostly EM/thermic. Rattlesnake or Armageddone can use missles and drones, which make them very good drone boat. But Rattlesnake also hase very good tank, so professional missioners use Rattlesnake for sniper missions and machariel for close up brawling combat. Only snipering or only brawling will make you mission life tedious. IMHO best is to use those two ships according to current mood. You can run missions in relaxing sniper mode with rattlesnake or you can gat some hardcore with Machariel close up. Same mission looks very different from those two approaches.

Faction modules makes you interesting targets for gankers. Thats why it is not good to fit too many faction modules into your ship. Also if you internet connection fails for some time, you can lose the ship with all your fittings. And I have a feeling, that you are going to fly something, what you can not afford to lose.

So I would suggest to stay with Dominix, may be fit it like this:
[Dominix, Dominix - quad MWD]
Shadow Serpentis Large Armor Repairer
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Shadow Serpentis Armor Thermic Hardener
Shadow Serpentis Armor Kinetic Hardener

Prototype 100MN Microwarpdrive I
Large Micro Jump Drive
Federation Navy Omnidirectional Tracking Link, Optimal Range Script
Federation Navy Omnidirectional Tracking Link, Optimal Range Script
Omnidirectional Tracking Link II, Optimal Range Script

Quad Modulated Light Energy Beam I, Gamma M
Quad Modulated Light Energy Beam I, Gamma M
Quad Modulated Light Energy Beam I, Gamma M
Quad Modulated Light Energy Beam I, Gamma M
Drone Link Augmentor II
Drone Link Augmentor II

Large Drone Scope Chip I
Large Ionic Field Projector I
Large Drone Control Range Augmentor I

Garde II x5

Armor hardeners are not that expensive in Dodixie. You will need to switch them and drones according to mission you get. Lasers are against small and quick targets, so you will not need to recall you sentry drones to launch small combat drones so often. Gun ship does have certain level of comfort against drone boats like this, but Machariel is not cheap skill wise...

Pro mission runners don't snipe.

I don't remember any missions I couldn't do, but that was only in caldari and gallente space. and luckily a deadspace med booster and faction damage mods wont put you over a bil either.

I just realized your fit is a shield tanking fit. Why do you prefer that over an armor tanked Dominix? More DPS?