Missions & Complexes

Ive come to learn that L4 missions are fairly doable in cruisers, but I cant seem to kill the BS ships in a decent time frame per BS.
what would be the best thing to do to try and get more dmg out to kill them quicker?
I fly Minmatar ships and im somwhat skilled enough to fly decent fits but the BS's either rep a lot of dmg or tank it, delaying me in completing the mission.
tips and advice greatly appreciated!

Frankly I don't think that L4 missions are doable in a t1 cruiser with alpha skill limitations. Prove me wrong but I think only a few odd missions can be done without encountering plenty battleships who are likely to overcome your defense systems.

Also, make sure you're not getting grazing / missed shots if you're orbiting with an AB at 1-5km. So long as your tank is fine then it's exlcusively down to your dps number and how well you apply that dps. Make sure you're not screwing up your own application by having a too high transversal. There's some good cheap-ish implants that can help as well. Just max out that DPS.

The best ship in EVE is friendship. One option for improving completion times is to fly with a friend.

In addition to Anize's advice about raw DPS and tracking, consider using a stasis webifier to improve damage application against faster moving targets.

Also consider upgrading to the Gnosis. It may be harder to fly since it is bigger and slower, but it should get more DPS.

Good point, Gnosis is after all the perfect newbro / Alpha boat. Should be able to get decent dps and tank numbers out of it I'd think but I've never run the numbers for a maxed Alpha clone.

End of the day Lv4s might not be feasible from a isk/h standpoint for alpha characters regardless.

I used to do lvl4 missions 2-3 years ago in a Gila. Gila did around 900-950 DPS those days. Now they removed 4-th low slot, but it still should do around 850. So it is ok for lvl4.

But I doubd it is possible to do Lvl4 with alpha limitations.

If only I had a dollar for every new player I have heard tell me this over the years, I could have that new car I want.
You think you can handle them, then along will come one of those level 4 missions with multiple energy neutralizing elite frigates or just for giggles they will throw multiple elite frigates (or even worse the spider drones) that will web you down to a snails pace. And then there are those that simply for giggles will offer you both options at the same time. Or you will come up against one of the level 4's that have multiple waves of ships that spawn based on time where the combined DPS coming from many different areas around the mission pocket will quickly leave you in serious trouble or floating among the remains of your ship. Yes, I agree you can run level 4 missions in a T1 Cruiser I do them all the time in destroyers and Assault Frigates, my point here is that because you have been able to do them to this point only means that you have not drawn a mission yet that will give you problems, that does not mean they do not exist. To that end I suggest you use EvE Survival as a way of pre-screening missions to help decide if they are ones you want to try.

If you want to run level 4's for the challenge of running them then by all means, be careful but have fun and do them but I think you would be better off running level 3's if you want to make ISK / LP.

Just until recently I was doing l4s using sentry drones with my Dominix and a MJD on a trial account. It wouldn't be a big stretch to drop the sentries from the Navy issue Vexxor I dont think. If you can burn out to 100k and drop some sentries you should be good. Buy all 4 sets of the faction drones and read evesurv for resist holes.

Exequror navy can do over 1000 DPS with omega skills (with tiny 110 m signature), so I guess it can still do 400-500 with alpha. So it should be no problem to kill even fast reparing rat in large FW complex. The quetion is, can your cruiser tank blockade or wordus head hunters if webbed / disrupted? Plenty of smaller ships will still put large pressure on your tank. So isk/hour will be much lower comparing to L3 missions, IMHO.

It was about 10mil/hr when I did them in a semi-afk VNI with pretty low skills (only lv4 in hull skill, heavy drone operation and all drone support skills, and social skills).
I'm sure a maxed alpha clone can do far better in a gun boat.