Wormholes

Bit of an issue, I'm in a small WH corp that is based in a C5, but typically raids the lower classes for PVE. I am exclusively skilled in Gallente ships with 4.3m sp in hybrid turrets (no blaster spec), Cruiser5, BS 5, HAC 3, 3.7m sp in drones, and decent armor rep skills. I need a ship/fit that can work with my corp considering they are almost exclusively shield tankers. Any remote rep ships they bring would focus on shields to benefit the majority of people involved.
Maybe a railgun BS/BC with a buffer tank and maybe one rep, or a viable dual rep set up. I would like to avoid drone boats, Im so sick of watching my drones get popped and Id like to take advantage of my gunnery skills. It wouldnt be a big deal to have to warp off if I take large ammounts of aggro. It doesnt need to be an ultra win ship, just something I can contribute to the group effort with to bridge the gap between mining and PI runs.

Make that a RR and your good. Both Mega and Hyperion can be (ab)used in C4 shield plexing fleets (you should be able to fit a T2 tank though)

Local reps wont work or gimp you totally...

Gallente really doesn't have many options for lower Class in a shield tank, primarily because Medium Rails are just awful and the ships have no mids. Your best bet is a Deimos fit for shields, or maybe a Vigilant. Alternatively, if you have T2 Sentries an Ishtar might work.

Either way, Crosstrain sooner rather than later if your Corp intends to continue Shield tanking.

Thanks for the advice everyone. I might consider the railgun deimos or something along those lines. Its a shame how useless the entire race's method of fighting is in WH combat. Going to look into cross training soon, cause I severly doubt they would change over to armor tanking lol.

Proteus dps, best dps.

Yeah, Shield skills are garbage ATM. EVEmon says im 25 days away from a newbish shield tanking setup

For C3s RR Domis and sentries work great of course you need an RR partner if somebody else has the RR you could consider going ishtar and sentries for c3-c4 and you can pull 700 dps without issue in an ishtar and it tanks pretty tough. Navy issue mega can buff shield tank very well.

My 2 cents

Run the Dominix with a partner or two if you can. It's an excellent ship, easily rivaling the Tengu based on its reduced cost and higher damage output with a remote rep setup. Ishtar, as said above, tanks great, but can run into some issues with the neuting.

I currently use a shield fit Dominix in our C4 fleets that puts out about 1100 DPS out to 50 km and 900ish out to 97km. We use a Basilisk energy paired with a Raven or other 2 high-slot spare battleship (tempest, typhoon are examples) for our reps. For C4s you only need to tank up to 1500 EHP rated DPS with whatever reps you're getting from your logistics. You can go with less but you better bring the heat for triple or quadruple battleship waves in Frontier Barracks and Sleeper Information Sanctum.

Svo.

Shield Sentry Ishtar would be a viable choice.
The Myrm Shield tanks well, as does the Dominix.

Another option add Caldari Cruiser to your skill lineup, the Gila can deal some serious facemelting dps (for a cruiser) whilst having a very solid tank, using the launcher slots is optional as they are unbonused.

Useless in WH combat? Best damn race for wormhole combat, and the others aren't even exactly close behind with a few exceptions.

As what comes to C3 PVE, shield tankers have to go all the way up to T3 before they can match a low-SP T1 Gallente setup, and missiles are still worse than sentries+lights. Dominix, King of the Skies.

If you want to run armor Gallente in C3s, join us!