Perhaps you’re hearing that mission-runners are having a lot more trouble with L4 missions now that rats are switching aggression.(1) The primary impact this is having is mission-runners were previously able to bring in a tank ship, then follow up with any DPS ships that they were going to use, then immediately bring in a Noctis to loot and salvage the mission. This allowed the most efficient clearing of the mission sites since the Noctis would take no or minimal aggression. This was good because the Noctis has a thinner tank than a modern T1 frigate and has the signature radius of a battle cruiser.
As a result, the Noctises now have to wait until the mission is clear before coming in. Problem with that is that mission loot has been nerfed so much over the last couple of years that it’s not really worth looting or salvaging missions if you can’t do it concurrently with running the mission.
So missioners just aren’t bothering.
Here’s the secondary effect:
That’s the price of Tripped Power Circuits, one of the four most common T1 salvage components. “Trips” go into T1 rigs… lots of T1 rigs. Notably though, they go into Core Defense Field Extenders, missile rigs of all kinds, and Cargohold Optimization rigs. Three other T1 salvage components are just as commonly used but drop more often. The market is running out of “Trips” first, but the other three common types are soon going to follow. The price of “Burns” — Burned Logic Circuits — has almost doubled. There are 11 other T1 salvage componnents that are even less commonly used but their prices are also starting to go up. Here’s Armor Plates:
Guess what kind of rigs those go into. 
So as a tertiary effect, you can expect the prices of rigs to double or more over the next couple of months as the market re-stabilizes to this new reality. Sooner or later, the T1 salvage will become valuable enough to dedicate a mission ship to bringing it in, such as the Salvage Myrmidon that was my FOTW a few weeks ago. But that’s a while off yet, so you might want to stock up on rigs you use a lot.
Just thought you should know…
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use a salvage tech 3
Marauder. Salvage the BS rats while you're working the mission and go from there.
I've always just flown in a Paladin, can easily tank all L4s without trouble. Only issue is v Guristas and getting jammed. So I just avoid those missions, lol. Hell half of the time i don't even deploy my drones.
Follow up, I think with the noctis, marauders become a bit useless considering the abilities of a noctis made it feesible to change ships or have an alt follow you in. This change makes Marauders shine again.
So that's why ancillary rigs are so lolexpensive now…
Following up on that, I fly dual domi remote rep-setup with sentries in havens and forsaken hubs and since the new changes to rat AI my drones aren't being shot anymore, I love it, coupled with the buffed drone damage amps I'm making 20% more.
But I might want to go salvage them wrecks I now leave lying around
I too fly a double-rep Domi, but with two tractors and two salvagers, one rail, and a drone aug, all in light of this. Starting to add 10-15mil per trip. Which translates to more is you know what to do with it all.
I dont do missions no more
Alternately salvage from the previous mission in the noctis while doing the next mission in your pew pew ship. Thats how I used to do it when I was grinding them hardcore.