Mr Ignitious
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Dara Cothrom
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Posted - 2009.03.09 21:03:00 -
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Edited by: Mr Ignitious on 09/03/2009 21:03:42
we need to look at the aggro mechanic itself i think. If it's like wow where the main target is just the one with the most threat generated (which is how it sounds so far) then a drone user should fit for ways of generating lots and lots of threat.
edit: quick apology for WoW reference, but it seemed relevant.
My hope would be is that you can generate your threat via nos/neut/guns/RR, w/e for a while then after you've generated enough threat to yourself you can deploy your drones. "DPS very very very slowly..." with drones to not get the aggro on them. It really makes drones suck still because longer you wait the less damage you're going to be doing total, but it seems the only solution i can come up with so far.
Example:
[Ishtar, WH]
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Amarr Navy Armor Explosive Hardener
Damage Control II
Adaptive Nano Plating II
800mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
10MN Afterburner II
Phased Weapon Navigation Array Generation Extron
Medium Capacitor Battery II
Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II
Medium Remote Armor Repair System II
Small Nosferatu II
Heavy Electron Blaster II, Antimatter Charge M
Heavy Electron Blaster II, Antimatter Charge M
Heavy Electron Blaster II, Antimatter Charge M
Anti-Explosive Pump I
Anti-EM Pump I
If you have a couple ishtars then your tanks will be quite formidable (i'm told sleeper BS rats can actually miss ships, apparently not drones though) so HAC's may still be a reasonable choice. But the point would be that your ishtars support eachother, use blasters, RR, and ewar to generate a heft amount of threat. After a bit of time and you feel that sufficient threat is generated then you could perhaps drop sentries and sick all of them on one target to hopefully bring it down very quickly.
Now if this is NOT the case, and some idle drones still just get wtfbbq'd then i'd be mad. I would want to drop my sentries, have them not shoot but wait, and then pull the frigs/cruisers out to lower transversal and then try and quickly eliminate them.
This should hopefully be the case and just mean patience and careful management of drone threat. But if it means sleepers just annihilate drones upon release then something needs looking at.
 Originally by: CCP Zulupark
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