Ships & Modules

Amarr BC / HAC hulls are not that well suited for shield tanking, notably because of their lack of mid slots and their (sometimes) native bonus to armor resists.

If i were you, i would look towards the absolution, which can dish out pretty good damage, all while sporting a decent tank. CS hulls will also allow you to fit a Medium Micro Jumpdrive, which can help a lot for some missions. If you're shooting EM/thermal weak NPCs, you should be fine. However, it will probably never beat a paladin / nightmare at this game.

If you are trying to tank (armor or shield tank) a hac, then you are playing it totaly wrong. Hac doesnt have the ability to tank like a BS and do similar damage at the same time, but if you willing to risk, go for speed tanking. Set 10-15 k orbit with deadspace afterburner. With maxed navigation skills and some 3-4% speed implants you will go 700 m/s, with snake mid grade set you can go up to almost 800 m/s, and almost nothing can hit you. The only thing you have to do is insta pop webbing frigates.

But with sacrilige tank isn't a problem, it does very low damage for LvL. With all lvl5 skills, 5 augmented hammerhead it does only 642 dps (with navy ballistic control) and this is no good for LvL 4 missions. Gila with better tank and all lvl5 skills does over 900 dps. And this is a huge difference.

shield boosters can rep more hp/s but armor reppers are more efficent on capacitor (if we dont look at ancillary boosters).
on the other hand shield tanked ship even if not fitted with extenders usually have bigger sig radius than armor tanked ships and they will take more damage, so it`s kinda balanced imho.

and anyway if you want to do lv4 fast forget about hacs or CS and get in something bigger with more dps

If you really, really want to fly a sub-BS Amarr ship in L4s then go with a Legion. A beam fit could look something like this:

[Legion, bloods beams]
Corpum C-Type Medium Armor Repairer
Corpum A-Type Energized EM Membrane
Corpum A-Type Energized Thermic Membrane
Dark Blood Heat Sink
Dark Blood Heat Sink
Dark Blood Heat Sink

Republic Fleet 10MN Afterburner
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script

Heavy Beam Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency M
Heavy Beam Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency M
Heavy Beam Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency M
Heavy Beam Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency M
Heavy Beam Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency M
Heavy Beam Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency M

Medium Capacitor Control Circuit II
Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump II
Medium Ancillary Current Router I

Legion Engineering - Augmented Capacitor Reservoir
Legion Offensive - Liquid Crystal Magnifiers
Legion Defensive - Nanobot Injector
Legion Electronics - Dissolution Sequencer
Legion Propulsion - Fuel Catalyst

737 DPS to 32+19 or 553 to 56+19. It's not exactly BS level damage and projection but it's zippy enough. Tank is more than L4s require on that as well; it's more for exploration. A HAM option could look like this:

[Legion, L4s HAMs gag]
Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System
Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System
Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System
Medium Armor Repairer II
Armor Thermic Hardener II
Armor EM Hardener II

10MN Afterburner II
Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II
Phased Weapon Navigation Array Generation Extron

Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile

Medium Rocket Fuel Cache Partition II
Medium Hydraulic Bay Thrusters II

Legion Defensive - Nanobot Injector
Legion Electronics - Dissolution Sequencer
Legion Engineering - Power Core Multiplier
Legion Offensive - Assault Optimization
Legion Propulsion - Fuel Catalyst

Meh. 579 at 29.2. But hey, it's selectable damage so maybe it's better for Guristas and Angels.

Train towards the Macharial, its a battleship that feels like a cruiser.

idk why people consider ships that take double the time to finish a mission more fun.

Hence the Machariel !

I get bored of doing it in interesting ships then just wonder why im not making 100mil+ an hour. Being poor is more boring than slow mission running.

You can play and train skills simultaneously

I know, mindblowing

Anyway, if you don't care about isk/hr but would rather have fun, then stop doing PVE and start having fun.

so you think BS are not fun (probably because they are slow?), you are willing to skill for large projectile and somehow you settle to skill for the Vargur which is a marauder that will be immobile once you press the bastion button when with pretty much the same training time (probably less) you could skill for a Machariel which handle like a cruiser but have BS dps and range.