Missions & Complexes

Ok. You convinced me. I refit, not exactly the way you had yours but along similar lines, and it kills the rats far quicker than my version did.

You can't AFK run the sites but the cap is relatively easy to manage just by "feathering" the LAR and injecting the odd bit of cap. If one were worried about running out of cap boosters there are loads of them in the wrecks you can pick up as you go.

Also, one LAR seems to be more than enough to tank a level 4 mission. My fit was probably overkill in the tank department and under-whelming on the dps side.

I made a couple of changes as compared to yours.

> No AB (I don't move around much anyway) so I substituted that for a sensor booster so I didn't need the sensor boosting rig.
> also only 1 drone link augmentor but I put a small T2 tractor beam on it so I could drag wrecks to me and collect the cap boosters if necessary -- result of opting not to put an AB on it
> only 2 Omnidirectional tracking links. The other slot still has a tracking computer
> opted not to put the EANM on so I substituted that for another magstab.
> I also left the CCC in rigs in it for now because I wanted to be sure of the viability of this fitting before I changed them.

Conclusion: better dps, tank is more than adequate. You have to actually watch the screen but you'll clear missions quicker with this. Cyniac had the right idea.

Here's the fitting if you're interested in seeing what I did with your ideas.

[Dominix Navy Issue, Tinu forum experiment]

Core A-Type Large Armor Repairer
Armor EM Hardener II
Armor EM Hardener II
Armor Thermic Hardener II
Armor Thermic Hardener II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II

Omnidirectional Tracking Link II
Omnidirectional Tracking Link II
Tracking Computer II, Tracking Speed
Target Painter II
Medium Capacitor Booster II, Cap Booster 400
Sensor Booster II, Scan Resolution

425mm Railgun II, Spike L
425mm Railgun II, Javelin L
425mm Railgun II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge L
Drone Link Augmentor II
425mm Railgun II
Small Tractor Beam II

Large Capacitor Control Circuit I
Large Capacitor Control Circuit I
Large Capacitor Control Circuit I

So, periodically I've been running level 4s for years using the exact same combo of ships. Lots of things have changed in Eve over time and I regularly look in on these forums and see people suggestion super dooper awesome faction fit ships, but my old standby works great.

Raven (or any DPS ship really) and a Domi. The DPS ship ought to have some sort of a tank on it. The Domi is used as a support ship, remote repping (shield if Raven) and to put out drones. Use the Raven to take down the big stuff and the drones from both the raven and domi to kill the cruisers/destroyers/frigates (targeting tacklers first).

The advantage of the Domi is it has a decent native cap recharge rate (that you should obviously augment with cap chargers in your mid slots and cap rigs) and can fit a damned good tank in case it takes aggro (large and medium duel repper set-up preferably) -- the domi tank keeps you from having to warp out if it gets aggro'd. You have to be a bit careful about making sure that it's the Raven you use to get most of the aggro most of the time, the point is the Domi can take it for a while if you blow the mission and draw agro from the wrong group of rats.

This isn't sexy but that means it also isn't expensive.

I can fly any sub-capital ship from any faction at this point. I've tried lots of other two-ship set-ups but this has worked for me for the better part of 6 years, and often using fairly lowly skilled characters. At the lower skill levels you just need to swap out your resist mods to tank the predominant damage from the mission (use the mission reference sites people have been posting).

A two-DPS set-up can work like you've been trying, but you have to seriously up the DPS output from those ships you're using. Having a support ship that can tank, rep, and throw out some DPS (like my beloved Domi) will always be a safer, more stable option.