Missions & Complexes

i'd go with a cheap ass drake and grind some isk until I have enough to get a battleship or T3 that can be replaced.

I am personaly pretty happy with a typhoon for Amarr LVL4s

Decent fit Drake would easily clear any L3 and even some L4's chap.

If you can fly Caldari and have the relevant missile skills personally I would look at clearing L3's in a Drake until you are confident again, then look at getting a Raven for L4's. Once again get confident clearing those, then look at getting a Raven Navy Issue or if you have the Drone skills, a Rattlesnake.

A good skilled raven will outperform a Tengu for L4s, but since you are lacking the T2 CMs and a lot of support skills that vastly improve CM performance compared to HMs, the Tengu or drake would be probably the better choice for now. The navy Drake is in general a faster Drake with more range, that is not so limited to kinetic damage, at the expense of some tank. It was mostly inspired by the old nano drakes, used by some pvp corps, when they introduced them, but since it can select the damage type like the raven, it could be actually be worth the price for pve to in your case, but then again for just 200M more you can already use a T2 fitted Tengu. The Tengu is pretty much a upgrade over a nighthawk/drake what still uses heavy missiles, providing a very powerful tank, high speed, good range and quick warp speed without losing dps over it. It is probably your best bang for the buck with your current skill set(you should however work on the support system skills for the ship, bringing them to 4 first). Or if you want to save some isk for now, just go with a drake that can be as cheap as 60-70M fully fitted and rigged and can be fairly effective as long as you use 3-4 BCUs and don't passive tank it.

As for WH the Tengu is much better for wormholes, since it got the lower mass, lower signature, higher speed and much better tank than the Raven.

Get an SNI, have fun. If you can't do cruise and drones, spend a bit more on a Navy Drake and rock the heavies.

Tengu >> Raven for solo missions. And I would never take a Raven into a WH.

If you are looking for a missile boat to just run missions then I'd go Drake -> Scorpion Navy Issue. Better tank than a Raven with relatively the same DPS. When solo I place more importance on tank over DPS.

Would any of you guys know a fit for said Drake? I'd be interested in a Navy Drake as well.

What would a 500-700m tengu fit look like?

And my last question would be what skills should I get to improve my Tengu-ability?

I'm interested in keeping it all written down so I can work my way from the drake to the tengu, but I am afraid my skills won't let me pilot the tengu properly.

I'm sitting on about 850m isk, with zero income, as I said before.

it's worth pointing out though that a ferox is a really good mission ship for those level 3's if you don't have really good missile skills. A drake properly skilled and using T2 missiles will clear virtually all level 4's without too much difficulty but you need around about 5 mill sp in missiles to get the best out of it.

The ferox is a nice alternative, fun to fly, can be passive shield tanked and with the right ammo can kite nicely at range and blap the rats whilst still remaining effective. It's probably not good enough to solo most L4's though as it isn't quite as tanky as the drake.

I mention it though because it's even cheaper than a drake and a nice change. It's a bit of an unsung hero when it comes to mission running, but an all round good ship.

Try to think outside of the box. I mean like think inside trash can..... typhoon, fleet issue maybe.

The navy scorpion should be your first goal for real isk per hour doing L4's.

Do what ever you got to in the mean time to make that happen.

Just as long as you dont factor in E-War.

The Navy Raven has the better ship bonus for damage projection but the navy scorp can fit at least 2 extra electronic warfare modules compared to the navy raven and still have the same tank and DPS.