Ships & Modules

Hi capsulers, (warning wall of text incoming)
I have to ask some question, but i should state some point before.
So i'm the worst type of carebear you can find around, as a pretty casual gamer my presence in the game has been discontinued, and basically all i do is marketing and mission running to round my standing. And hell i'm fine with that.
Flying ship bigger then my drake wasn't in my plan at all, i skipped the normal drake>raven>cnr>golem cause is a path too much specialized in mission running for me, and now that i have almost 10 caldary navy standing it's simply not worth (=read: i can do more isk/hour in marketing and camon grinding lvl 4 is so boring).
So now i've the average skill to fly a tengu, but I've boosted my drake to the point that some people can easy call me lunatic. So i'm kinda sheptic to simply change ship.
With the drake i can tank all the lvl 4 mission and i've decent dps, 426 kin damage (374 when omnytank is needed) + 92 thermal from drone (yeah good drone skill too).

and now the noobish question!

My tengu should be cheaper as possible while still beating my drake, the full gank tengu will boost my dps to 649 but lack of drone to handle frigates really warry me, considering i'll use the tengu for high sec exploration and caldari state standing grind (cosmos / lvl 3), not only lvl 4 mission. Will the dps incresing suffice for that or should i use all the rig slot to rigoring the missil launchers?
If yes how should rig my tengu? like 2 rigor rig t2 + 1 flare t2? Geez i dont have idea at how that stuff work i just let my drones handle frigate and cruiser

How much the speed and signature will reduce the damage to tank? And if I cant use ccc rig this mean no cap stable tengu? I've played passive tank for 2 years you cant expect me to pulse my booster xD my carebear heart will hurt. This will meant DED booster are a must in the tengu? like giustum c-b medium or pithi a-type, should i just buy 2+bill of stuff for the tengu to beat my drake in dps AND tank, should i warry to be suicide ganked out of jita too oO?
i mean drop a caldary navi balistic controll for some cap stuff will not be the end of the world, but drop the 6th launcher for a more tankish tengu will drop the dps a lot.

So in the end any advice in what i should do? cause i'm confused. Just one thing, i will never ever use HAM, they are so... i mean... camon!


Sry for the bad english and the overall confusion of the 3d, hopefully some expert tengu's pilot can easly reply at my question.

many thanks in advance

fly safe!

edit: just another little question, how much the 50+ signature radius added by the scourge fury hurt the tank of a tengu?

I wouldn't worry about Frigs or Elite Frigs in your Tengu. The setup above is very close to what I fly and flying a Tengu in Level 4's is easy mode.

One Warhead Rigor II isenough caldari missile with guided missile precision lvl 4 + some 3% implants have abaut 75 explosion radius, only spider drony you will have to hit more then 2-3 time.

[Tengu, New Setup 1]
Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System
Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System
Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System
Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System

10MN Afterburner II
Pithi C-Type Small Shield Booster
Shield Boost Amplifier II
Shield Boost Amplifier II
Invulnerability Field II
Magnetic Scattering Amplifier II

Heavy Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Heavy Missile

Medium Warhead Rigor Catalyst I
Medium Warhead Rigor Catalyst I
Medium Warhead Rigor Catalyst I

Tengu Defensive - Amplification Node
Tengu Electronics - Dissolution Sequencer
Tengu Engineering - Augmented Capacitor Reservoir
Tengu Offensive - Accelerated Ejection Bay
Tengu Propulsion - Fuel Catalyst

Add meta lvl where needed.

Not if you use cheap faction mods.

2 x pith B small boosters are around 110 mil total, 4 x CN bcs are 350 mil +but since u have CN lp, u can get them for half of it.
U can use t2 ab but rep fleet 10mn ab is better.

Use 3% missile hardwirings, cheap and gives good enough boost.

USe t2 rof rig and a rigour and a flare.

You can theoretically reach 850 dps with all 5 skills, scourge fury missile and 5% implants.

You will kill frigs quick enough with CN missiles, but be careful until u r used to the ship. Missions with mercenaries and WC second room will kill u easily enough if u think u are still in a drake..

tl dr: Use faction mods and cheap implants. U won't be ganked for that and it will be awesome dps.