Newb Fitting Question(s)

[jrkilroy]

Fine.

Demonstrate the weakness of my search-fu.

Thank you for the response. I must have had the "wacky fits only" box checked.

[Morganti]

If you use evemon you can open a plan up for a toon and then go to a particular ship and there's a link at the top to battleclinic fits for that ship. You can look at the highest rated fits as well as ordering the fits by date. Passive tanked drakes are stupidly powerful for pve.

[RSM72]

From memory (I'm nowhere near my beloved EFT) the low-skill cookie-cutter L3 drake:

lows:
2x Shield Power Relay
2x Ballistic Control System

mids:
2x Large Shield Extender
2x Shield Recharger
2x Invulnerability Field (there is no need for mission specific hardeners with this setup)

highs:
7x Heavy Missile Launcher of your choice
1x whatever (I'd recommend a Drone Link Augmenter)

rigs:
3x Core Defense Field Purger

5x Hobgoblin

For battleclinic I generally recommend to stay away from that because alot of the setups there are really bad (even the high rated ones) for newish players.
If you are looking for missions fittings a good source is the EVE University Wiki (since you seem to fly caldari http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Caldar...nd_Skill_Guide).

EDIT: on rigging skills
1) they are important train those fast
2) you need the rigging skill only to apply the rig module to your ships hull once it is there you can pilot the ship and still get the rig bonus. So you can basically get the hull rigged by someone else or just buy a rigged hull from contracts.