Are Marauders worth it?

If all you intend to do with that character is mission running, then yes, train for Marauders (including up to level 5). They are definitely the King of PVE. Plus, you can salvage and loot and the same time. In the end, the investment will be worth it, and the ship should pay for itself.

Marauders are worth it. But they are also a yummy target everyone wants to catch and kill. So it is not worth it to do lowsec in a marauder I'd say. Unless you own that lowsec and neuts are rare.

Hisec lvl4 are just nice. But watch out for can flippers. Never ever shoot at anyone. They want your marauder, not your crappy wrecks.

A fellow corp mate has a Golem, and he dual boxes it with a Tengu, I feel quite perfetic in my hurricane running around salvaging his wrecks, the two of us can run lvl 5's in about an hour like this, and I'm bringing no DPS (except a couple of warrior drones) and very little tank.

The Golem litteraly melts anything bigger then cruiser in seconds, and I have seen a Battleship go down in a 3 volley before (he does have insane skills though some 6+ year character here)

It's tank is very respectable also, although generally we let the tengu tank, the golem tractors all the wrecks and the hurricane puts it's 8 salvagers on behind it.

He could easily breaze lvl 4's solo in it, I can't think of anything better really, although if you are salvaging too the problem becomes multi tasking :)

Only thing I saw the Golem struggling to kill was scraming frigs, (the warriors dealt with them quickly though) it can kill them, but it takes a lot longer/wastes ammo to get hits with big guns/launchers.

I decided to use the Paladin. I skilled capacitor skills on 5, and all remaining on the 4. In h-slots I put four beamy's, tracktor, salvager and DB smartboomb(for scrammbling/webing frigates and some drones)thanks to that I destroy everything within a radius of 7.5 km. Small targets beyond the reach of damage I destroyd using drones. On m-slot I put 2x capacitor recharger and 2x tracking computer. The rest of fit is 2xCCC, LAR, 2xhardeners, 2xHS and tracking enhancer(all t2 except rigs). That fit works perfect for Royal Khanid missions, which are usually against the DB and Sansha. Sometimes I use AB and DBweb(but TC in med slot is much better chose). Additionally, you can increase your dps with chip to turrets damage(+5% I do not remember the name now).

Hi terry could you please describe which sleeper sites you are doing? ive been doing perimeter ambush points (they're ok..) also which ship do u use and what is ur fitting? thx!

In response to the person who posted about the Paladin. I couldn't imagine undocking it without two stasis webs on it. I use mega pulse lasers, MWD, tracking computer 2, 2 x stasis webs. You get such a huge bonus to stasis webs in that thing any ships imaginary npc pilots face will slam their pod visor when you turn them on. While running class 3/4 wormhole sites in mine I go for the largest targets first and let the frigs swarm around me, then at the end i use the stasis web setup to insta pop each one. Level 4 missions are for new characters in my opinion. I make 750m isk a night scanning down sleeper sites based out of a class 3 wormhole (the other wormholes around you are the key). This allows me to pvp in my absolution without worrying about losing ships.