Missions & Complexes

If you're looking for isk/hour you might try your hand at blitzing in a tengu. I've found it to easily average over 100m/hour and a load of fun even though i was getting tired of missile boats.

I've heard the paladin and vargur are both top tier mission runners as well if you want to get away from missiles.

Blitz L4 missions for SoE. Each LP is easy to convert at 2k with the probes or probe launchers. You want to get the faction standings over 5.0 so you can pretty much freely decline missions. While you work you're way up you'll need to be more selective with what you can decline and what you can't

Here's some of the best missions, i would share my full excel if i knew how

Recon 1 - 4 minutes from accept to turn in worth 20m
Gone berserk - 20 minutes full clear with returning in a noctis for loot/salvage 40m
The assault - less then 10 minutes - over 20m
Stop the thief - buy a report off the market 5 minutes for 10m
Dread pirate scarlet - kill her in pocket 3 with rage fury hams before she jumps loot the implant for 35m for 10 minutes

With 5.0 to the faction you can pretty much cherry pick the most profitable. Until then your still going to be making close to 100m even when you have to blitz an angels.

I would avoid blockade in a tengu it's very slow and annyoing with short range and kin damage.

My stats are 4 or better in all related skills to ham and shield tanking. My tengu is worth about 750m with 3 navy bcus and a dead space booster almost 0 pimp. I can pretty much run semi afk and watch a show while completing missions.

Confirmed for the Paladian, 2-3 hours in one can net you enough to buy and fit a a non insubstantial t1 fleet of frigs&abc's.
Haven't used the vargur, though I hear similar things about it.

Long ass haul to get into one though,
until you have the prerequisites I'd happily recommended a navy apocalypse.
Very good lvl 4 runner and bear in mind I was using it in caldari space so gurristas were rather tough on the LAZORZZZZZZ.

This is where the big flaw with "easy 100mil/hour" arises from. Yes it is possible, yes people do it. But maintaining 100mil/hour just doesn't happen. Gone Beserk has given me as little as 10mil in loot before and upto 35mil on a good day. Your not going to be getting bounty ticks much above 15mil at the BEST of times. 65mil in LP/loot is possible just the loot portion contains a fair bit of luck.

As for the OP's question, as mentioned the Paladin is an awesome ship. Had one a few weeks myself now and wouldn't change it for anything now. As long as you mission in Amarr space you will have a great time. Realistically you can expect between 50-75mil an hour depending on what missions and what loot you get. Sometimes it's better, other times its worse.

Sentry Dominix simply blows everything else out of the water. 410m isk for 1,001 dps. Swap the reactive hardener for a magstab to get 1,057 DPS. (Implants: http://puu.sh/7n2k9.png)

Thanks for all the advise people, certianly a lot to think about.

Without Implants it does drop to 977 DPS (1028 for the Magstab Version) yes, but it still outdoes anything else at the 400m ISK range and a lot of more expensive ships.

[Maelstrom]

8x 800mm Repeating Cannon II (Hail L)

Large Shield Booster II
Shield Boost Amplifier II
3x Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Cap Recharger II

3x Gyrostabilizer II
Tracking Enhancer II
Damage Control II

Rigs to suit.

5x Hammerhead II
5x Hobgoblin II


1150 DPS, 563 Omni tank. With CCC's stable for 10mins with everything running. I do not doubt the Dominix is a nice AFK ship, but saying it blows everything out the water is a pretty bold statement.

I would definitely fly a Mael over a Domi for L4s (for reasons that have only a little to do with performance), but I'm with Caitlyn... using a single-TE Hail Mael for comparison? Seriously? By the time you get close enough to something that you're not losing half your DPS to range, you'll be losing it to tracking instead.

Without knowing how good your Drone or Turret skills are it's hard to give realistic advice.
Changing from a Missile Boat to another system could entail a lot of training, and I don't know how prepared for that you are.

BC's are not optimal for L4's .. they can do them, but they do them slowly.
So forget BC's.

Your best options have already been mentioned previously here.
Look at each, see which requires the least training time.

Rattlesnake - Droneboating has changed, micromanagement is now a thing, also the Guristas line is getting a fairly radical overhaul, so check F&I forum for the pirate faction rebalance thread.
Machariel - It's currently one of the most flexible BS in game, but as a pirate faction ship there are going to be changes made to it.