Missions & Complexes

Wellll, you can use the Domi on Epic Arc missions, but since for some missions it lacks tank even if said tank is way too much for L4's, you have to start getting creative with your fits and tactics. It's not as foolproof as L4's but it's still pretty hard to die if you don't do something stupid like thinking you can get these last two fat red crosses while at 50% hull already. And the total rewards from the good Epic Arcs are enough to pay for the ship several times over, not including the ~priceless~ standings gain.

Some parts of epic arcs have NPCs that roll up quickly and deliver really effective kicks to the nuts. My nearly perfect Dominix pilot with a great armor tank took a beating more than once, even while not standing still. You could probably go out and spend a lot of money to really ubertank the Dominix, but to me that defeats the purpose of the ship: cheap and effective (though not necessarily efficient ISK/hr-wise). Might as well get a pimp-tank Rattlesnake at that point. "Cheap" has its merits just like "efficient" does.

Some Epic Arc Dominix tactics:
* Most missions are in pockets within which you can warp from point to point, bookmark to bookmark (or bookmark to veldspar, whatever). Make such bookmarks for on-grid warping.
* Often, incoming damage and EWAR isn't effective at very long range (~200km) and in case of EWAR cruisers, you can very nearly instapop those with T2 sentries when they start MWD'ing to approach from ~200km away (because you warped in at that distance Not possible in all missions, but is possible in oh so many). The batteries are also usually easy to pop with sentries.
* You can fit your Dominix to have a 200+km lock range and at the same time have sentries with vastly increased optimal. Three Omnidirectional Tracking Link II's give you Wardens that have a 130km optimal, 91km Curators, 104km Bouncers and 51km Gardes (aww, poor Gardes). Add falloff on top of that and you can have sentries that start taking out EWAR cruisers and/or frigs well before you start taking craploads of damage. This fit does leave you with a significantly crappier tank.
* When the NPCs get too close for comfort and you're in a lol-snipe Domi, having just popped most if not all cruisers and some battleships, warp to an on-grid bookmark. Lather, rinse, repeat.

As has already been said: is this the most efficient setup? Hell no. Does it work? Of course. Obviously, you can aim for greater efficiency if you're serious about running missions, but the Dominix is pretty damn nearly foolproof when it comes to achieving the goal of "objective completed" and not dying, while also not putting that much effort into actually running most missions. I haven't insured a Domi in ages because it is literally a waste of money to me. I would have spent far more on insurance payments than the platinum payout in case of an unfortunate event. Never lost a PvE Domi.

Flying it afk or actually flying it?

If I only flew Amarr I'd be inclined to try using an Abbadon with arty or ACs. It'll nerf your DPS of course, but if you have enough buffer I bet you can at least kill all the neuts and scrambling frigs. If your tank is good enough you can just keep plugging away, or you can warp out to refit with lasers or change ships. The latter may be faster overall even if you don't really need to warp out.

If I ran that arc right now I would do things a bit differently, but that's just based on the characters I have available. I'd probably dualbox with a pair of spider tanking ships consisting of a missile flinging Caldari BS and a Minmatar BS.

i see your fighting blood raiders in CAP heavy ships, try moving to an area where you dont have to fight nuting missions.

You have a lot of choices,but THE misson boat is Marauder.
It not slow Tank&Drone **** as in Dominix,but Marauder have evrything you need for misson – very good dps on 850+ (domi can do that as well with heavy drones,but its just a „paper“ dps as heavy drones travel a lot,and Sentry drones Miss a lot),very good restists+ bonussed Tank,range,Tractor beams for pulling mission objectives(Cargo container with militants and all that ****),Marauder can lock 10 Targets,so you much less clicking and locking and as a bonus,you spend 50% less on ammo (well not really good for Ammar :)
In Galente marauder (Kronos) you tank with Armor but in a lot of missions you only cycle repairer for 2 cycles,as its bonussed,resists are insane and Mission looks like – Warp on 100km,lock all&kill 70% of whole room before they even start to land some hits on you – shoot the rest – pull the objective with tractor - warp out

So imho,if you can afford that t3 legion..go for Marauder,you not only „do“ lvl 4 mission but totaly own them,you will se the difference

It takes half a brain to make L4's foolproof.

I used a tengu and had 0 issues running the arc, then I ran it as a group with a tempest, tengu, and basilisk, and then I ran it in a gila (passive tank, CPRs to keep the ab running under neuts). These missions are actually really easy, the neuting isn't very strong and the only real issue is tracking disruption, so just don't use turrets, or if you do, you AC/Arty. With a bit of speed and range the rats should never hit you at all.

To be fair though, I have never finished the amarr arc on the amarr side, I always switch to sansha, and I never destroy the neut towers because you lose sansha standing when you shoot them. For the low sec sansha part, an ishkur works fine, if you are really scared a cov subbed tengu is fine too.

Tengu is kind of out of the question, that would take months of training to do effectively. as much as I like the tengu Im just not goiing to spend the time going for it.

also, my schedule is too hectic to really try and get help right now, my aim is definitely to do them solo.

Just curious, if they shoot your drones, will they 1) get concordokken, and 2) will the drones retaliate so they can shoot you? (Assuming agressive drone setting)

not when youre trying to tank the sh*t out of it so you can survive the amarr epic arc...
if I was going for a DPS fit it would be a very different story, but thats a very flashy way to lose 950m isk and not my idea of a good time.