Post your fit.

For The Assault, I might just put the Tengu in solo, as I have done it tons of time, and it just speed tanks the place. The alt has almost no missile skills, which is why I didnt go Rattlesnake, and why I dont really want to try to get him into a Tengu. The part that sucks is that he could fly a Legion, but I have a very strong feeling that he wont be as lucky as the Tengu. But if I go with a very high kin/therm tank on the Domi, and fit a cap booster with the LAR, he might tank well enough to use him, but the downside is that there was constant drone agro.

You have Gallente BS, you have Loki skills?

Get him into an autocannon/afterburner Machariel. Instapop the small annoying stuff, orbit the Machariel with your Tengu and laugh as both speed tank the rest of the NPCs

Hardeners being mission specific. Also, is there a way to copy that from EFT, so I dont have to type it all out?

im not sure how most of the people on here do it, but i use a mjd domi EVERY mission in gallente space. never once have to warp out, or ever go into armor. i guess its all on how you pilot it that makes you successfull.

I have been running level 4s with my Tengu for some time now, and they have always gone very smoothly. No warping out, good DPS, can orbit a wreck for most of the mission, and can run from the computer if needed. Against Guristas, the DPS is also very nice.

However, I was looking at using an alt to assist, instead of just salvage at the end. I figured that since I have an alt with decent drone skills, I would try semi-afking a drone ship, since I have seen many people mention it. (and since they are solo, I figured that this would work out perfectly with two characters.)

So I fit out a Dominix, took "The Assault," and flew my Tengu and Dominix out there. Tengu goes it first, and starts agroing the stuff, and the Dominix comes in about 30 seconds later. Most of the NPCs are about 40km off, and some out around 100km, so I toss out my Gardes. Since I dont have anything on me, I have to tell the Gardes who to target, and that is fine, because I have two monitors, and it took minimal time. Getting ECMed was a pain, but still. The problem was that about 15 seconds after the Gardes started shooting, half the ships decided that my space potato looked mighty tasty, and completely switched to me. I got my LARs going, and noticed that I had two Gardes taking damage. Scoop them up, wait 5 seconds, poop them back out. By this time, almost all the ships have switched to my Dominix, even though my Tengu is putting out more DPS, and is closer.

So I scoop up the Gardes again, and Micro Jump. This puts them about 120km away, which was farther than my 104km targeting range. No big deal, start floating him over while you mess around with the Tengu. Too bad that nearly all those ships were still on my Dominix, and pounding him with cruise missiles, even at 120km. (And I read SO many places that a heavy tank wouldnt be needed, because you just jump and range tank... Yeah...) So I get into targeting range, and drop the Bouncers. They dont get agro, but I have to scoop them and warp out because the damage was easily overpowering my Core A-type LAR. The Tengu now gets all the agro again, and spend the rest of the time at 100% shields, orbiting his wreck.

Once I get some cap back, I warp the Dominix back in, drop the Gardes, and about 15 seconds later I get agro again, some even to the drones. (this is post wave spawn, btw. Just random agro switches) Again, the Dominix is farther away, doing less DPS, and yet the whole room really likes the way he smells. Scoop, MJD, Bouncers, blah. Same results, but this time the room clears before I run out of cap on the Dominix. Tengu still orbiting his wreck, still at 100% shields.

Repeat for pocket two, including very sporadic agro changes towards my drones. Good thing that this was a "drop drones at 100km and make yourself a sandwich" ship, being that I spent almost all my time and attention babysitting it, while the Tengu actually worked semi afk for the most part. Just pick new targets, and start shooting after reloading for the most part.

So seriously, wtf? Why does everyone say that the Dominix is a great AFK ship? I should have just spent the extra time, got a second Tengu, and flown those two... Likely would have been nearly as fast, no slow boating BS, no warping out, no drone micromanagement, no crazy agro swaps (which I was assured wouldnt happen, being that agro was already taken...) etc. I did "The Score" as well, with very similar results. Even worse, I was so busy micromanaging the crap, that I MJDed and forgot to stop ship, and when my Bouncers got agro, I was 17km off...

TL;DR:

The Dominix is far from a semi-AFK ship, and I dont get why people suggest it as such. Especially not as a second ship for mission running...

as others have said, since the NPC change, there's really no great AFK boat. Domi's are still good, but you have to be at the helm. also, they work great in pairs with remote reps, which can also be used to keep your sentrys alive w/o constantly retracting them.

No, the character has up to medium spec Energy Turrets, as well as the Amarr cruiser/strategic cruiser. I have HACs as well, so was thinking Ishtar, but I dont have Gall Cruiser 5.

The Assault versus Guristas is a very different mission to The Assault versus Serpentis. Note that in the Serpentis version you can skip the difficult combat and simply go to the second room without shooting anything.

The Dominix is far from a semi-AFK ship, and I dont get why people suggest it as such. Especially not as a second ship for mission running...

Though you will typically find that once you start the RR the NPCs will completely ignore the vulnerable drones and attempt to break your massive tank instead. They're not particularly smart, those NPCs.

"The Assault,"

When you 1st warp in the 2nd group of ships 3 or 4 thoraxes and 2 frigates. Take them out 1st, 2nd take out the 4 battle ships. After that the dampening / ECM will not be as heavy and you can manage the incoming damage. One of my top 5 favorite missions.

WTS C5 Wormhole

Yea I run 4's over in Gallente space. So my information is for serpentis. As for AFK missioning personally that would be sorta slow if you can get around the drone aggro. Never AFK missioned either.

What does this tell us ?

CCP did their job very well with NPC KI, because they always stated ... they won't support AFK missioning or other 'afk get easy isk exploits'
And every ship with drones or without should have all you attentions during space travels !

Have a nice day