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Tista
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Posted - 2009.04.06 09:42:00 -
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What would you say the best drone is in eve, and for what purpose?
I'd like ship suggestions with drones and why you use those drones!
Tista. -------------------- "this is the templar fighter used by carriers" Originaly quoted by Shania Eria.
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GyokZoli
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.04.06 09:49:00 -
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Edited by: GyokZoli on 06/04/2009 09:50:00
Originally by: Tista What would you say the best drone is in eve, and for what purpose?
I'd like ship suggestions with drones and why you use those drones!
Tista.
Nighthawk with Hobgoblin IIs. Pew-pewing NPCs. The hobs are against the frigates ofcourse, but they are also able to take out the BCs in some time.
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Amad Kadu
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Posted - 2009.04.06 12:00:00 -
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EOS Abitrator Vexor Vexor Navy Issue Myrmidon Curse/Pilgrim Dominix Ishtar Ishkur Moros
What ever your skills can support. If you want to go after Frig/Cruiser the Ishkur with Warrior II (fastest). For everything else Medium or Heavy drones. Type depends on enemy and resists. Most of the time i just use Hammerheads II, Ogre II or Hobgoblin II (against small/fast vessels). Best DMG Mod, worste optimal-range, average speed. Against targets with very high thermic resistance i use most of the time minnie T2 (for example against angels). But you could also field the apropiate drone if you want....i'm just to lazy :)
If you can't use Gallente take whatever your race have with biggest Dronebay available. Bit you won't have as much gank as you could get in a dedicated droneboat.
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Tista
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Posted - 2009.04.06 12:11:00 -
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How about e-war or logistics?
any suggestions or knowledge on these? -------------------- "this is the templar fighter used by carriers" Originaly quoted by Shania Eria.
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Thercon Jair
Minmatar Nex Exercitus Skunk-Works
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Posted - 2009.04.06 12:20:00 -
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Edited by: Thercon Jair on 06/04/2009 12:24:09 Edited by: Thercon Jair on 06/04/2009 12:21:29 For PvP purposes I usually use the minmatar variants, that is warrior, valkyrie and berserker. They are the fastest of their respective class and deal out explosive damage, yet they are only the third most damaging drone variants (I think). Explosive is a nice damage type to use in pvp, as most ships (with the exception of Amarr T2) have low armor explosive resistances, and are mostly armor tanked.
And, I hate gallente drones for PvP.. they are so slow! My pest can outrun them on a MWD... (pest goes 1.1km/s, while ogre IIs make 800m/s)
I also like to pack a full flight of warrior IIs with 1-2 reserve drones rather than packing 1-2 medium drones and a few light drones in ships that have a 30 or 35m3 dronebay. This is so I can get rid of small tacklers, which is IMO now more important than getting those 10 more dps out of the dronebay. Also, if the guy with the medium/small mix loses a drone, he has no reserve, and now I have more dps
For Missioning I usually just have a flight thermal or kinetic drones in bay, since I hate switching drones around for each mission. Now I only have to switch them out every few missions. Works since I have always either the best or second best damage type applied. Real men do it the hard way: fly Minmatar! |
Shana Matika
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Posted - 2009.04.06 12:52:00 -
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EWar: The poor mans Falcon. Can be useful on Ships like Brutix who can field 5xmedium ECM. With 5 of those you've at least most likely a jam within an acceptably time frame. Disable your target and stay out of range while your ecm drones get to work. Then zoom in an kill your victim. Can work, but also can fail. Depends on your opponent.
Logistic Drones are some kind of ECM proof logistic. But i've no actual expierience or informations on this. Most pilots tend to use drones more to force falcons to leave the battlefield. Curse/Pilgrim are great at this i guess.
It's all about your purpose on the field...what do you want? Every Module/ship/utility have a purpose...you just have to use it the correct way.
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UMEE
Tactical Initiative Dark Cadre
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Posted - 2009.04.06 16:10:00 -
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generally you dont train a specific drone because it's "best" or cool. you train for drones that make your respective drone boat perform well. overall, the most useful drone is the ogre II; performs well in L4's and does great in pvp if youre on top of your target.
ogre II isn't enough though, against HACs that can kite them for example. you'll need sentries as well for distant engagements. warrior II's are important for obvious reasons, and then zerk II's which can dish out so much pain to ships neglecting their explo resists.
for close range engagements, i'd fly the Ishtar/Domi with 5x ogre 5x zerks and 5x warriors. if you expect to engage someone 20km+ away from you, add bouncer II's...gardes and wardens have their uses.
therefore to fly a drone boat WELL, you'll need: t2 ogres, sentries, zerks, warriors. ECM drones are for drone boats, as you wont do any dps while using them.
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Holy Lowlander
Lone Star Joint Venture Wildly Inappropriate.
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Posted - 2009.04.06 16:36:00 -
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ECM drones are prety cool , train for them tista.
The drones I commonly use are: warrior II's , Valkyry II's , vespa ec-600's and sometimes hornet ec-300's.
Alot of people tend to use hobgoblins and hammerheads as their damage drones , but I prefer warriors and valkyries as they are alot faster and deal explosive damage. So they deal more damage as hammerheads and hobgoblins in alot of situations.
Vespa ec-600's are incredibly effective against cruiser sized ships , its great that if you know your going down and your in **** , to just send out your ecm drones and try to get away =]. They're also nice if your solo pewpewing and end up against 2 other people and you'll be able to jamm 1 of them making your fight easier :). they stole my sig :'( |
UMEE
Tactical Initiative Dark Cadre
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Posted - 2009.04.06 19:59:00 -
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Originally by: Holy Lowlander Alot of people tend to use hobgoblins and hammerheads as their damage drones , but I prefer warriors and valkyries as they are alot faster and deal explosive damage. So they deal more damage as hammerheads and hobgoblins in alot of situations.
explosive drones are only good if you know your opponent will have crap explo resists; i.e. you wouldnt use them on amarr ships, nor would you use them against shield-tanked ships; it's good to have both thermal and explosive drones.
Originally by: Holy Lowlander Vespa ec-600's are incredibly effective against cruiser sized ships , its great that if you know your going down and your in **** , to just send out your ecm drones and try to get away =]. They're also nice if your solo pewpewing and end up against 2 other people and you'll be able to jamm 1 of them making your fight easier :).
ECM drones are good if you have terrible drone skills, or if youre flying a blaster cruiser like rax or deimos. with drone interfacing 5, t2 hammers and valks are a significant addition to your dps. in addition, you'd never use ECM drones on a drone boat like pilgrim/curse, isthar, etc. in other words, theyre highly situational, and chance to jam is quite low to begin with, even with mediums.
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