Ships & Modules

Raven is one of the better all-around ones if you have the missile skills.

For T1 you won't get better than a Dominix. In fact, it beats a lot of faction ships for sheer damage projection, range, and DPS while being easy to fly and cheap.

Most of the pirate battleships are good, depending on your skills and where you rat. Paladin will outperform it against EM weak rats, the other marauders are decent too, but those are a lot more expensive and skill intensive. I could be wrong, but from your post it sounds like the Domi is relatively expensive for you; if you're at that stage in the game, you won't find better performance for its cost/your skills most likely.

However, if you're more into fun rather than isk per hour, pretty much any of the old tier 3 BS will do.

Machariel is a favorite if you like balls high DPS and mobility, but bad tank. Its really only substantially better if you put the isk into it, and it can be risky to fly properly in a high DPS MWD fit without good skills and practice, but its a lot more fun than sitting in a brick.

If you're fighting EM weak rats, the Paladin is ridiculous now. With Bastion you can get 90k or so OPTIMAL at 1000+ DPS while being immune to EWAR, so you can just sit on field and melt everything without having to move with a ridiculous tank. However, Marauders have a very long skill plan to fly well.

CNR/Golem are both good if you like missiles, but in many peoples' opinions, missile spam is really boring because you generally have to count volleys to prevent overkill on targets far away. With the painter buff, the Golem isn't nearly as painful to fly anymore and missiles don't have range issues, you can easily hit everything on grid for full damage as long as it is painted.

Vindi/Kronos do a LOT of DPS as long as the targets are Kin/Thermal weak, but blasters have ass range, and in missions you generally aren't applying that paper DPS nearly enough for it to be as good as the alternatives. They're amazing in null anoms, though.

Yes you will. Fully selectable damage. 480 Mil ISK fully fitted. 1010 DPS. However, if you can run 2 accounts, fly one of these on one and an armour tanked Sentry assisting Domi on the other then you can destroy any Lvl 4 for less than 800 Mil.

[Raven, PVE]
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
DDA II

Large Shield Booster II
Thermic Dissipation Field II
Kinetic Deflection Field II
Phased Weapon Navigation Array Generation Extron
Phased Weapon Navigation Array Generation Extron
100MN Afterburner II
Heavy Capacitor Booster II, Navy Cap Booster 800

Cruise Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Cruise Missile
Cruise Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Cruise Missile
Cruise Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Cruise Missile
Cruise Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Cruise Missile
Cruise Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Cruise Missile
Cruise Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Cruise Missile
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Large Warhead Flare Catalyst II
Large Warhead Rigor Catalyst II
Large Warhead Rigor Catalyst II

Hobgoblin II x5