Shereza
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Posted - 2009.03.23 05:31:00 -
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If you're going to tag-team missions with two accounts at once the best Gallente salvage ship for you is probably the dominix, though if you only loot/salvage specific ships an ishtar might be better.
There's a couple of reasons for this. The dominix has a massive drone bay which will let you fit, as an example, 5 T2 heavy combat drones, 5 T2 heavy logistics drones, and depending on your preference anything else from 5 T2 sentries to multiple wings of T2 medium and/or light drones. Furthermore the ship's drone bonuses means that not only will your logistics drones be tougher to kill if they ever get aggro but the drones you assign to guard, or assist, your non-salvage ship will be significantly more effective than drones from a non-bonused ship would be.
These hold true for the ishtar as well and the ishtar also gets a drone range bonus which means that you can zip around evn farther from the non-salvage ship before your drones deactivate due to range issues. The higher base speed (almost 100% higher) is almost incidental, but still a potentially useful thing.
The biggest problems with both the dominix and the ishtar are the high slots, however. At 6 slots for the dominix and 5 for the ishtar you won't be able to salvage as quickly as other ships which would in turn be a double-whammy since you'd be killing NPCs faster due to the bonused drones.
I've tried salvaging during L4 missions with destroyers and it's okay so long as you don't rig them, but if you plan on rigging your salvage ship you really need to use a heavy assault ship, battlecruiser, or battleship. It's not pretty when you lose a 3x Salvage Tackle destroyer because a rat spawned at the wrong time and you couldn't warp out fast enough.
Personally, my salvage assistant preference is for the typhoon. I used to use an armageddon until I realized that the typhoon could hold more, move faster, turn better, and had 50m3 more drone space so I could fit logistics drones and combat drones, though in a heavy/medium split and not a heavy/heavy arrangement like you can do with a dominix or an ishtar.
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