Ships & Modules

Preferably caldari or amarr if possible, could you guys suggest a fit and ship

To which we should add Gila and Ishtar in no particular order as it depends on the rats.

WTB passive armor tank

Fit above is almost exactly what my missioning character uses.
The tank is staggering, although I recommend the 5% shield capacity and 5% shield recharge implants to make it even better.

I use the missiles purely to draw aggro, you can swap them for light assault missiles (or whatever they are called nowadays, rapid fire missiles I think?) to kill close orbiting frigs while your sentries chew up the big stuff if you want to both dps tank and remove any scrams quickly, your dps is in your drones and quite often they will pop targets before the cruises even arrive.

As I now dual box, I use a Rattler for pure tank, only 1 tracking link and drone damage mod, only T1 drones because I don't pay much attention to the toon.

If time is *not* an issue, (as in, you start a mission, and will go AFK for longer than it will take to finish), then you can go for a truly massive tank that does only about 300 DPS


SPRs and PDUs may be mixed in the lows as needed for cap stability (PDUs still give a 15% peak recharge rate boost to shields, while also giving that same boost to cap, whereas SPRs give a 31% peak recharge rate boost, but have a massive 35% penalty to cap recharge rate... I also like the bit of a buffer boost the PDUs give).

You cal also use the not- too expensive C-type passive resists (which with appropriate comp skills are better than T1 hardener) In which case you need no cap, and can do all SPRs instead of some SPRs and some PDUs (though I haven't determined if its worth it.

For Wuxi Wuxilla's fit, if you are going for maximum tank, lets simply swap the 3x drone link augmenters for 3x PDUIIs (so it won't cause cap issues, and you'll be better off against neuting enemies you could probably manage with 2x PDU and another SPR):
Max cap increases by 15.7%
Recharge time is reduced to 76.6%
So peakcap GJ/second is boosted by 51.1%

The same goes for shield... a 1,000 DPS tank becomes a 1,500 DPS tank... but wait, there's more
You can ditch the omni links for shield recharger IIs (at this point, they give about the same recharge/sec as LSEs, without boosting sig radius)
So that boosts shield recharge by (1/0.85)^2 = 38.4%

Multiply those two together (the number for swapping damage mods for PDUs, and the tracking links for rechargers), and you get 2.09

You've now doubled your tank.
Or rather, increased it by 109%
A 1,000 DPS tank turns into a 2090 DPS tank with a lot more cap to run the hardeners.

It may not be fast, but it is "safe" most missions you can get aggro, release a flight of hammerheads or Ogres, and walk away.

I have both a passive and active shield Nighthawk, I used to love the passive one for level 4s until I tried the active one. Now the passive is just for level 5s while the active completes level 4s much faster and has a much better tank and higher dps. I also have a Rattlesnake but I find using drones for missions to be rather boring though there is nothing that will dent the shields on that thing, its a beast.

I feel like my drake is one of the best passive tanked ships, that i have access to.

I can run most 4s without real trouble... you start to run into problems when you cannot use the drakes speed, to dictate engagement range.

The missions that dump you into brawling range can be a death sentence, when the web/scram frigates get ahold of you.

unfortunately, my caldari BS skills blow, so i haven't had the opportunity to setup a mission runner in that ship type.

Rattlesnake looks fun to fly *if* you only tank it to a portion of its full tank potential and put the rest towards damage application. I know that the question is asking which is the strongest tank, but you also mention L4s, so I think you really honestly don't need the highest tank of all of the ships. If you can tank 600-800 dps (800 is high but makes high-dps rooms and full spawn/room aggro a lot more comfortable) and put the rest towards damage, the ship with the best damage application is the one to go for.

...It's not passive if you're using a shield booster.