Quote Originally Posted by LordsServant View Post
Or just use vexor navies?

They're kinda like an ishtar lite - 5% bonuses instead of 7.5%, but much easier on the training time and not an issue in terms of isk.

They actually tank a bit better than ishtars as well, ESPECIALLY armor tanked. Might be a better overall choice tbh, depending.
VNIs aren't too shabby. With a similar fit to my armor Ishtar setup fit, it has comparable tank , better sentry DPS and identical sentry drone tracking. Optimal + falloff take a hit, however I'd say most of my damage happens inside of the ~30km optimal the VNI gardes feature. Really only the Maras + sniping the initial frigates are the times I reach out to 50-60km.

Only problem w/ the VNI is the resists are slightly lower while the raw armor hitpoints is slightly higher. Both however have inferior armor buffer, inferior DPS, and inferior tracking compared to the armor Dominix. I need to start recording my runs to see if the warp speed and deceleration differences would be that big of a deal. I should be sitting in armor Domis this weekend and armor Ishtars in ~2 weeks.