Abyssals seem like a great entry point but I'm struggling to wrap my head around how to fit for higher tier ones.

I started Amarr and past T1 all I see is a swarm of easily-accessible Caldari fits, Ishtar fits, and extremely high-end faction fits that only happen to include skills someone who started Amarr would have trained.

There's also the occasional billion-ISK tech 2 Assault frigate fitting.

Since it's been out a while I presume it's mostly been solved. Are there any earlyish Amarr fittings that can push past T1 on anything other than electric? Because it's starting to get frustrating how many people just disrrgard midgame Amarr ships and spam hundreds of easily-accessible fittings for Caldari. Is this just a type of content where shield tanking excels for soloing?