EVE New Citizens Q&A

For a domi, you go heavy tank and sit still. Ideally you park next to T2 sentries, but even if you are just using T1 heavies the speed you pick trying to be mobile up won't be enough to mitigate damage even with an afterburner running.

Just use eve-survival.org to look up the mission triggers and recommend damage resists, then equip your Domi with 2 of each resist needed, and two Large Armor Repairers (Tech 2 should be a priority, but meta 4 work well enough). Fill the rest of your slots with cap rechargers and cap rigs until you are cap stable with both reps running, and anything you can throw into the highs that adds damage are just a bonus.

Tech 2 large guns are ideal, but not needed. You can get by with medium rails or even just a civilian gun to draw aggro while the other highs are just drone range extenders, salvagers and tractors to keep yourself occupied while you slowly crawl through your mission.

A dual large rep domi with 2x2 resists is darn near unkillable in PVE unless you go out of your way to aggro way more than necessary.

... to draw aggro.

Newbies aren't going to have the skills to equip up both drones and heavy rails. If you are flying a domi, you focus on getting T2 drones first since they are your main damage source, and you use the civilian gun to draw aggro so they don't get killed.

If you intend to focus on getting large hybrids to T2 first, you are better off in one of the other Gallente battleships that aren't drone boats.

TLDR; It significantly reduces incoming damage when you are moving, even slowly.

For what it is worth, I kite in my battleship, a Navy Raven. I can kite all but fast moving Angels using just an afterburner.

With the long range of cruise missiles, I can even kite out to 105 km, where NPC can't touch me (NPC battleships don't seem to hit past about 90 km). Unfortunately, that is too far for drone use (I do use drones on things get within drone range though).

You can also orbit a warp-in beacon, or acceleration gate, or sentry drones.

Good reference so you can avoid pulling more aggro than you can handle:
http://eve-survival.org/wikka.php?wakka=MissionReports

A random fit from Battleclinic that looks decent (choose appropriate hardeners for the mission damage types):

[Dominix, Dominix: LVL 4 dual rep domi]
Large Armor Repairer II
Large Armor Repairer II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Armor Kinetic Hardener II
Armor Kinetic Hardener II
Armor Thermic Hardener II
Armor Thermic Hardener II

Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II

Dual Heavy Beam Laser I
Heavy Diminishing Power System Drain I
Heavy Diminishing Power System Drain I
Drone Link Augmentor I
Drone Link Augmentor I
Drone Link Augmentor I

Large Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Large Capacitor Control Circuit I
Large Capacitor Control Circuit I


Hammerhead II
Ogre II
Hobgoblin II

They should be counted just like any other cap mod. Are you using Large Capacitor Control Circuit I ? (I'm not sure if there are other capasitor rigs, but this is the most used.)

Probably. Though drones will respond to things you cannot target. More useful with sentry drones though.

Also, I did warn it was a random Battleclinic fit

Been doing level 4s in a battleship since before i can remember, and the only situation where i move on the mission is when i need to get to the other accel. gate.
This said, however, kiting in battleship is pretty much possible, however, you'd most likely need a long or very-long range weaponry, such as cruise missiles, tachyon beam lasers, 1400mm artillery or 425mm railguns to accomplish that. However, it requires more skill as a player and as a character, because the mentioned weapons (save for cruise missiles) require greater fitting than their close range counterparts (drones need no skill). And kiting while using sentries isn't exactly a good idea, because you'll get to scoot back over to them to pick them up. Unless you use disposable sentries.
As for missioning in domi (done that myself, and still sometimes do), it's usually way more straight-forward. You just slap as much tank on it as you can get - usually dual-rep armor tank, although as of lately i'm more inclined to fit shield spiders or active burst shield tank, but those are more advanced fitting strategies and spiders always involve more than one character.
And don't forget to add some of those shiny new drone damage modules as well.

I think I ran into a bad combo of sentry towers, web frigs, and battleships. Took out the sentry towers first, since they normally tore me up bad, but then the frigs caught me... So I'm sure there's more that I did wrong than just kiting, but for now, I'll try a slow and steady tanking approach. Thanks for all the help folks.

I am just going to drop this here as an idea. I run active-shield tanked mission ships myself. I build them to have at least 10 minutes of cap, but I never complain if I can make them cap stable. Below is a active shield tanked Domi that is based on having no skills but uses low-skill items and is already cap stable (remove capacitor flux units as skills permit). You would switch out the hardeners depending on the mission, but at base this is a 71/60/40/50 (em/th/kn/ex).


[Dominix, Domi Simple Shield Tank xl]
Beta Reactor Control: Capacitor Flux I
Beta Reactor Control: Capacitor Flux I
Beta Reactor Control: Capacitor Flux I
Beta Reactor Control: Capacitor Flux I
Beta Reactor Control: Capacitor Flux I
[empty low slot]
[empty low slot]

'Copasetic' Particle Field Acceleration
Large C5-L Emergency Shield Overload I
Heat Dissipation Field I
Photon Scattering Field I
Photon Scattering Field I

[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]

Large Capacitor Control Circuit I
Large Capacitor Control Circuit I
Large Capacitor Control Circuit I

I had some something simialr once as a drone boat/aggro tanking boat for a new group of players I was working wiith (cap stable)

[Dominix, USS Wolverine]
Capacitor Flux Coil II
Capacitor Flux Coil II
Capacitor Flux Coil II
Capacitor Flux Coil II
Capacitor Flux Coil II
Capacitor Flux Coil II
Capacitor Flux Coil II

Invulnerability Field II
Invulnerability Field II
Invulnerability Field II
100MN Afterburner II
X-Large Shield Booster II

Drone Link Augmentor I
200mm AutoCannon II, EMP S <- Never trained hybrids, was dealing with frigates that attacked the group
200mm AutoCannon II, EMP S
200mm AutoCannon II, EMP S
200mm AutoCannon II, EMP S
200mm AutoCannon II, EMP S

Large Capacitor Control Circuit I
Large Capacitor Control Circuit I
Large Drone Control Range Augmentor I

A dominix specifically is slow and heavy. Fit a very heavy tank and rely primarily on drones for damage. A double-repper armor tank with capacitor rigs works well, as does a lighter but still pretty hefty shield tank. You probably don't want to worry about your railguns too much... honestly, at low skill levels, you may not even want to bother putting full-sized guns on, small or medium blasters to kill tackling frigates or even saying "**** it" and just filling your highs with tractor beams and salvagers (and one civilian blaster for getting aggro) will serve you as well or better.

Once you have better secondary skills and you don't need to itemize as hard to do decent damage, you'll likely want to move to a somewhat lighter tank (for armor, a single repper with repair rigs) and some large T2 rails and start relying on DPS instead of tank for survival (just killing stuff before it kills you). You're still not going to be able to kite much, though, the ship is just too heavy and doesn't have enough base speed to kite anything but other BSes without an MWD (which is probably a waste of your time, though you're welcome to build an MWD Domi if you want, obviously).

This doesn't necessarily apply to all or even most battleships, though, the other two Gal BSes rely on hybrids primarily rather than drones so they need to be run a bit more mobile.

I'd just like to thank all the helpful folk, again.

So far, my new Domi has lasted approximately 300% longer than the first iteration. Seems alot safer now, too! Hopefully I'll be able to finish at least 5 L4 missions before I blow it up, this time.