Missions & Complexes

I was able to finish AE using a t1 drone and rail domi, now I know I need a few more skills however...

Boy was it slow and boring! I really hope is isn't that way for everyone because if these things don't get a lot quicker with practice (and maybe some T2 equipment) I don't understand how people can keep running them. Part of me is ready to go exploration full time. At least you are constantly interacting instead of deploying sents, orbiting them, and waiting for the target BS to pop.

You forgot go make a sandwich and watch a movie

I think it takes me in a kronos about an hour to do the full kill+ salvage of that mission. solo. Im not sure i havent run it timed in a while, but if i didnt do the full salvage in the kronos (two tractors and one salvager) it would take me half the time.

In a rail domi, its still manageable in terms of time, as the Angels have a very nice (in terms of drones) habit of close orbits. so drone travel time is fairly low, though they start far away.

get your drone skills up before anything else if you are going to continue with the domi. the rails are secondary damage and the tank should be enough no matter what happens in a AE room (sans the bonus room which can stil kill a 800 dps tank vs angels as the damage changes resistances in the bonus room)

Doing missions is not what makes EvE fun.

there is A LOT to optimize when running lvl4 missions. not only your skills, but also your ship/modules, as well as the way you choose and fly missions has severe impact on your speed and your income.

@OP: If you don't like missioning, don't mission.
Gets significantly more fun when you have some skills for it, but YMMV.

Regarding Domis and them being slow in general...
Domis can do missions plenty fast. They could do it before Inferno (and drone damage mods), too. Their reputation as mission slowboats comes from people using them AFK, or nearly so (overtanking at the expense of a full gun rack, releasing drones, and making a sandwich).

They have problems that prevent them from really being among the *top* mission boats, though. Most of all, it's that sentries require you to stay in place, which both kills your efficiency on missions requiring travel, and prevents a lot of fancy flight tricks that make ships like the Machariel great. Also, it's skill intensive compared to many other options of similar potential.

But I have yet to find a ship that can match it for certain missions, like Recon 1 and Gone Berserk.

I think I died embarassingly fast on my first attempt at AE4... :) Got awesome advice to try killing frigates with cruise missiles and no drones.

It's all in the skills. Every race has a decent mission/pve ship, but they all take a bunch of skills at very high levels to run Level 4's quickly and efficiently.

Since you have Gallente Battleships trained, try looking into a Machariel. You'll need Large Projectile Turrets/Large Autocannon Specialization + Gunnery Support skills, and a decent set of tanking skills.

If you really want to keep using Drones, look at the Rattlesnake. It's ridiculously tanky for a mission boat, and has the same speed issue as the Domi, but it makes the Domi's "easy-mode missioning" look like finals week at MIT.

My personal favorite for making missioning more fun is trying out new fits, and just basically seeing how many "fail fits" I can get to work. Favorite so far: 1400mm Howitzer Maelstrom. It breaks angel Battleships like they're made of some kind of fragile substance that breaks easily when hit by really heavy objects...