Missions & Complexes

Hi, on my main I am currently running l3 missions in a Drake and training towards raven->RNI for l4. I also have an alt flying a noctis and sweeping the wrecks i leave behind, but i realized that most of the time I just deploy MTU with him and afk salvage with drones.

What ship(s) and fit would you recommend if i wanted to switch from the noctis to something tanky enough to be in the pocket with the drake pilot and support him somehow and salvage with drones at the same time? It still has to have sufficient cargo hold for the loot and salvage. The noctis pilot is slowly training Scimitar for incursions and can fly only Minnie ships so far. Maybe fit some remote shield boosters and couple tractors? Thanks!

I'd prefer to fly something smaller than a battleship, also I don't need it to do dmg, only to deploy salvage drones and possibly support the main somehow and not get blown up at the same time.

On lvl4's a second ship warping in will aggro the whole pocket on some missions. Not a big deal for a skilled tanky CNR, but a low SP raven may have problems. Considering it can take a minute or two to take down a BS rat with a raven or CNR (more tanky), I'd choose a blackbird or rook, myself. Jam and take out elite frigs, while cycling targets on the CNR every couple minutes. Jamming also useful against mission pirates.

Drone aggro is a common problem on lvl4. Not to mention the jammers, damps, scrambles and webs, often elites. Then mission pirates hehe, but can be avoided mostly.

Fly a smaller dominix - aka myrmidon or prophecy.

Both of them have very robust tanks. Both of them can assign you drones, and both of them have bonused lights if you need to get unscrammed in a hurry (and probably won't lose their lights to drone agro if you do that, because both of them have bonus drone hitpoints too).

A Scythe is a good ship, I wouldn't put too many cargo expanders on it as that affects its velocity. Cap modules are also an important factor if you want to take advantage of its Shield repping abilities.

I also like what Tauranon has said however their cargo capacities are smaller.

Dominix might be good but its too big for me and also super ugly. I checked the Prophecy and I like both the looks and the armor HP. I want to put at least 1 t2 tractor, 1 salvager, 3 cargo expanders on it. What do you think I should stick in the remaining slots to make it durable and a bit more useful if possible, but keeping it semi-afk?

On Salvage Drone Aggro - It can happen. It's rare that they will be targeted and blown up by NPC ships - but I've lost 3-4 of them in the last month from just not paying attention to them.

Do not use a Blackbird or Rook. Once you use the jams all npc rats will instantly aggro you. Using any Electronic wafare mod is the quickest way to get full aggro.

Well you are going to get it anyway with two players as I mentioned, at least on some missions. Even using drones can do it. Main thing though is just taking out the frigs and cruisers with missiles (or whatever ordinance), not everything needs to be jammed on warp-in, but handy when you need it. BS can get very boring, just sitting and counting it shoot off volleys, not a bad thing to be busy with a faster smaller ship. Not as effective as two BS's though. My personal choice would be CNR and a Scorp with mjd, though I know that there are more purely efficient ways to do missions. Fun factor = AF or Navy frig orbiting a BS. Vulture wouldn't be a bad choice either.