Missions & Complexes

Not sure on the SP, but I originally flew LvL 4 missions with a little over 2m sp. I had to warp out often back then nd lost one or 2 BS.

Now you have the mission guides to assist you, the lost ships should be zero if you manage the spawns correctly.

3m sp should be fine if they include bs to at least 3 ( get this to 5 if you're going to be a mission runner) a fully fit T2 tank and decent drone skills to enable you to kill the elite frigates that will be scramming you.

You may want to use a domi with a dual rep tank until you get the hang of things. The missions will be slow at first until you can hold enough sp in the right places to whiz through them.

Good luck.

IMO for level 4 missioning in a BS you need:
1. Full Tech 2 tank.
2. Tech 2 light and medium drones.
3. BS skill at a minimum of III
4. All cap skills at a minimum of IV

This is pretty much the core and you can work on your other skills as you do the missions, but these set of skills will usually ensure you keep your ship intact when you start level 4s.

It is no fun at all to fly L4s in a BS if you haven't raised your support skills as mentioned above. No fun at all.

Thanks to all of you for your insightful views and inputs, really appreciate all of them. I'm currently looking at one of battleclinic's PvE fits for the dominix and I'm training towards that. I've gotten T2 hardeners and reps, currently aiming for T1 sentries and possibly T2 guns (good god, takes forever). Just a quick question, do sentries do more damage to BS rats then lets say, T2 hammerheads?

Yes, they do. They are like battleship-size guns.

As what comes to the topic, it takes about six months of training to fly an active armor tanked drone battleship properly.

T2 Sentry drones
T2 Heavy drones
Drone Interfacing V
Drone support skills at least IV
T2 Large hybrid turrets
Gunnery support skills at least IV
Gallente Battleship V
Cap skills at V
Advanced Weapon Ugrades and other fitting skills at least IV
Navigation skills at least IV

As you can see, "properly" is highly subjective.

If you want to fly a domi, make T2 sentry drones your priority. I wouldn't fly one without. Drone interfacing to IV and Gallente Battleship to IV. But those T2 sentry drones make all the difference.

This. Forget T2 guns for now and get T2 sentries. The rest can fall into place later.

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Semantics aside, yes, my subjective view is based on the principle of progression- maxing ship classes before moving to the next one. Also consider other areas of the game, not just missioning. You might get much more tangible benefits from maxing out a Myrmidon, than from rushing into a Dominix.

You'll do fine with level IV skills in most cases, but whatever anyone might say, proper (tm) Domi has T2 Sentries and/or Heavies. It's your main weapon, and there is a major difference in performance from T1 > T2.

Don't do L4 in a BS, train for an HAC and tank happily whatater you meet.

My 2 cents, TT

I have a ls alt I trained into a raven. It has just over 5 mil SP. That will give you Caldari BS4, all the supporting skills to 4, T2 tank, T2 drones and T2 cruise missiles. I have no problems running lvl4's solo. Still not entirely sure why I did this tbh.. must have been bored. This alt is mainly a hauling alt, so barely gets used