Why, marauders chew through missions as is,
I can't see the risk being worth it.

The risk being someone realising you're an easy gank and alpha ing you at a gate or undock

I bet you lose the polarized bonus by dropping your damage mods to get your extra reps and cap to run reps.

Seriously, the only use we've found for this is to have some random dudes equipped with polarized weapons in a classical brawling fleet, praying that they won't be primaried. Didn't even test it, don't know if it works. At least it would be a fun thing to try.

Polarized weapons are an excellent choice for L4 missions. However to get the most out of it you should also be using officer damage mods and preferably officer tracking enhancer/computers as well. To make up for the lack of resists you can just go lots of cap recharge with multiple officer/deadspace reps. To be honest you won't need much tank since you're doing so much dps, stuff will just die. If you want specific fits message me in-game and I'd be glad to help.

I wasn't thinking of doing Lvl 4s with this, but I've been kind of tempted to try something like this for blitzing lvl 3s.
~1 billion ISK give or take. 1217 DPS to 25km at all lvl 5s. Reps about 115 HP/s. But under 10k EHP. LoL!
Yeah, paper thin, but I wonder if that would work? Is that enough range to do 3s effectively?

polarized weapons are drifter mowers -not even sure if drifters use their super-weapon against a polarized fit ship.

r u being 4 realz

I heard people saying that a while ago, but I think it was speculation. no idea if actually true or not.

I'd wager there's a better than even chance they're trying to get a few laughs out of people trying it on Drifters, considering that Drifters are fairly ruthless and will almost certainly pod them in the attempt.

I guess i need to provide a fitting to get the discussion back on track somewhat. This is what I used on the test server:

[Paladin, polarized]
Imperial Navy Heat Sink
Imperial Navy Heat Sink
Imperial Navy Heat Sink
Heat Sink II
1600mm Reinforced Steel Plates II
Corpus B-Type Large Armor Repairer
1600mm Reinforced Steel Plates II

Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
100MN Microwarpdrive II
Heavy Capacitor Booster II, Cap Booster 800

Polarized Mega Pulse Laser, Conflagration L
Polarized Mega Pulse Laser, Conflagration L
Polarized Mega Pulse Laser, Conflagration L
Polarized Mega Pulse Laser, Conflagration L
Bastion Module I
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]

Large Energy Burst Aerator II
Large Nanobot Accelerator I

The fitting(without implants) costs about 460 million, the ship sports 42k EHP, DPS(with implants) with Conflagration is 1685 at 27km, with Scorch 1204 at 74km according to EFT.

Opinions about this particular fitting? Still a huge gank magnet? Not worth the trouble?
I am absolutely not familiar with Sansha/Blood raider flavoured L4 missions, therefore comments about tank potential and possible damage application issues are very welcome.

Polarized weapons are an excellent choice for L4 missions. However to get the most out of it you should also be using officer damage mods and preferably officer tracking enhancer/computers as well. To make up for the lack of resists you can just go lots of cap recharge with multiple officer/deadspace reps. To be honest you won't need much tank since you're doing so much dps, stuff will just die. If you want specific fits message me in-game and I'd be glad to help.

Be prepared to spend atleast ~2.5 billion in implants(full high-grade is pretty mandatory) and hull. Not..worth...it.........at....all...................well...unless you're bored and wanted to do missioning by the seat of your pants. Pretty sure Showtime/Blockade/Worlds Collide rooms 2/3 would make your butt pucker like you wouldn't believe.

I watched a fairly recent video today of a polarized Paladin with dual reppers doing a lvl4 Blockade against Blood Raiders with no issues in 14 minutes. As the gentlemen who posted just below you subtly pointed out, putting 2 billion in fittings on a 30k EHP missioning ship might not be advisable.

I suppose the Not..worth..it.......At....all........ part is elusive and hard to see in my post.. As for the paladin doing a mission without issue, that's really not the point. If there is no advantage using the polarized weapon system over a tech 2 system what would be the point? Other then proof of concept or a challenge?