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Sakura Nakano
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Posted - 2010.09.30 15:09:00 -
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Hello,
what types of drones we have? and whats the difference between them?
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Louis deGuerre
Gallente
Amicus Morte
Shock an Awe
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Posted - 2010.09.30 15:18:00 -
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They're like mini-fighters.
Each race has their own that does their racial damage type.
Light -> kill frigate
Medium -> kill cruiser and up
Heavy -> kill big and slow like battleships
Sentries -> Very strong, but stationary gun platform
Mining -> Well, they mine :)
EWAR drones -> Mess with your enemy.
Logistic drones -> remote rep your friends.
If you want to fly BC and bigger you need to learn drones first or you'll lose them right away. You'll need drones to kill small stuff that your big guns can't hit.
For PVE Gallente drones are preferred as they do most DPS and most enemies are vulnerable to thermal (but not Angels)
For PVP Minmatar drones are highly regarded for their speed.
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Dhaul
Agent-Orange
Nabaal Syndicate
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Posted - 2010.09.30 15:21:00 -
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Edited by: Dhaul on 30/09/2010 15:22:44
Umm you should probably read the wiki articles, but to sum it up:
Light Drones - Fastest, lowest damage, highest tracking
Heavy Drones - Slowest, highest damage, lowest tracking
Medium Drones - The middle ground of the above two
That's the "normal" types of drones, special cases are below:
Sentry Drones - Highest damage longest range drones, "sniper" drones if you will. They sit in one spot and rain damage down. Best drones for PVE
Logistics Drones - Repairs armor or shield, cannot be used on self (for some reason)
EWar Drones - Use various types of EWar on targets. ECM drones are very likely the most popular
Each type of drone except Logistics have 1 drone for each race for a total of 4 in each category. For combat drones, the general rule is that Gallente drones are the slowest and highest damage and Minmatar drones are the fastest and somehow not the lowest damage. Most people use either of those two races, Amarr drones are generally poop (slower than minmatar drones and have less damage) and caldari are just a seldom used middle grounders. Each racial drone does a different damage type as well. Off the top ff my head, I think gallente do thermal, minmatar do explosive, caldari do kinetic, and amarr do EM.
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Alexi Blue
Minmatar
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Posted - 2010.09.30 15:22:00 -
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Each drone also has a T1 and T2 version of it. Generally speaking T2 drones are much better.
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Culmen
Caldari
Blood Phage Syndicate
Dead Terrorists
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Posted - 2010.09.30 15:58:00 -
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Edited by: Culmen on 30/09/2010 15:59:32
State above are the types of drones.
Every race has a full set of each type
IE there are Light Gallente Drones, Medium Gallente Drones, Light Minmatar, Medium Minmtar, etc
Unlike missiles there are significant differences.
Gallente Drones- Deal thermal damage, Highest Damage of all drones, Slowest speed,
Extremely popular for PVE purposes.
Minmtar Drones - Deal explosive damage, Fastest speed of all drones, decent damage,
The light ones are popular for chasing down ceptors or for any ship that depends on speed.
Caldari Drones- Deal kinetic damage, second highest damage, not very popular.
Amarr Drones - Deal EM damage, lowest damage of all drones, don't bother; nobody else does.
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Istvann
Minmatar
Everlasting Forge
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Posted - 2010.09.30 16:12:00 -
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I actually use all 4 types of drones in all 3 sizes....though I mostly stay with mediums. The medium drones do decently well against frigates and battleships even though they are suited for cruisers and battlecruisers. Which drone damage I use depends on what the mission or situation calls for.
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Dhaul
Agent-Orange
Nabaal Syndicate
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Posted - 2010.09.30 16:52:00 -
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 Originally by: Istvann
The medium drones do decently well against frigates
True for PVE but for PVP mediums are worthless against frigs unless they're scrammed and webbed. For instance, a hammerhead 2 has a base speed of 1,680 (up to 25% more with skills). Every frig with a MWD ever is going to leave it in the dust, and even AB fit assault frigs (aka essentially the slowest frigs) go near that speed. They won't be able to keep orbiting the frig so they will fall behind and end up doing 10% of their paper DPS if lucky.
The same is true for warrior 2's and interceptors/drams. Warrior 2's can hit about 6300 m/s with Drone Nav 5 which is just barely enough to catch a non overheating ceptor and certainly not fast enough to keep an orbit and solid DPS on it, and they will simply not touch an overheating interceptor.
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Intense Thinker
Minmatar
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Posted - 2010.09.30 18:32:00 -
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the Templar is an Amarr fighter drone.
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Tandin
The Knights Templar
R.A.G.E
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Posted - 2010.10.01 06:15:00 -
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Originally by: Intense Thinker
the Templar is an Amarr fighter drone.
Technically fighters and fighter bombers aren't drones. They have pilots 
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Intense Thinker
Minmatar
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Posted - 2010.10.01 08:30:00 -
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Originally by: Tandin
Originally by: Intense Thinker
the Templar is an Amarr fighter drone.
Technically fighters and fighter bombers aren't drones. They have pilots
Robots...
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My Postman
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Posted - 2010.10.01 12:04:00 -
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Originally by: Istvann
I actually use all 4 types of drones in all 3 sizes....though I mostly stay with mediums. The medium drones do decently well against frigates and battleships even though they are suited for cruisers and battlecruisers. Which drone damage I use depends on what the mission or situation calls for.
Are you telling us you are using amarr drones? 
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Amarr drones are s***. Completeley useless.
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Dhaul
Agent-Orange
Nabaal Syndicate
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Posted - 2010.10.01 13:13:00 -
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Originally by: My Postman
Originally by: Istvann
I actually use all 4 types of drones in all 3 sizes....though I mostly stay with mediums. The medium drones do decently well against frigates and battleships even though they are suited for cruisers and battlecruisers. Which drone damage I use depends on what the mission or situation calls for.
Are you telling us you are using amarr drones?
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Amarr drones are s***. Completeley useless.
Curators aren't terrible :D
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Chainsaw Plankton
IDLE GUNS
IDLE EMPIRE
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Posted - 2010.10.01 13:55:00 -
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the whole light/med/heavy has been discussed so
gallente drones have the best dps but are the slowest, do therm damage
caldari drones are a bit faster, but do less dps, and do kinetic damage
minmatar drones are the fastest, and do pretty good dps, doing explosive damage. warrior IIs are the famous "anti frig" drone,
amarr drones are pretty much 100% useless, they have the best armor or some other stat no one gives a **** about. they do em lolage (kinda like damage, but mostly the enemy laughs too hard they die)
sentry drones are a bit different, with gallente being the highest dps shortest range (maybe best tracking, but don't hold me to that), then amarr, then minmatar, then caldari as the longest range lowest dps, worst tracking.
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Lost Greybeard
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Posted - 2010.10.01 20:05:00 -
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Originally by: Louis deGuerre
They're like mini-fighters.
Each race has their own that does their racial damage type.
Light -> kill frigate
Medium -> kill cruiser and up
Heavy -> kill big and slow like battleships
Sentries -> Very strong, but stationary gun platform
Mining -> Well, they mine :)
EWAR drones -> Mess with your enemy.
Logistic drones -> remote rep your friends.
If you want to fly BC and bigger you need to learn drones first or you'll lose them right away. You'll need drones to kill small stuff that your big guns can't hit.
For PVE Gallente drones are preferred as they do most DPS and most enemies are vulnerable to thermal (but not Angels)
For PVP Minmatar drones are highly regarded for their speed.
This, but I'd like to add that there are modules that increase range and tracking speed which can render medium drones much more effective frigate killers if you have the spare slots for them, and modules that increase drone movement speed that can make heavies viable anti-cruiser weapons in certain situations. There are viable pvp setups using the speed boosters to give Gallente drones the agility of Min drones as well.
Also, if you're running gallente and using drones as a primary weapon drone range extenders are great.
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