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Celestine Santora
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Posted - 2011.02.09 21:23:00 -
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I know the traditional line of thought is that EW drones are crap unless they're ECM drones. This seems obvious in the case of TP, damp, and neut drones. Webber drones at least seem useful in theory, though?
What is it about them that makes them considered to be crap? From what I can see the biggest thing is that they only come in berserker size for some unknown reason which makes them only usable on a couple ships (mega and hyperion essentially). Would a blasterthron with a flight of webber drones do well at all? Obviously the blasterthron's biggest problem is its' inability to dictate range, but with a bunch of webber drones on its target shouldn't it be able to close the range and issue a beating?
Also, if we pretend for a minute that there were webber drones in light and medium sizes, would they see much use on other blaster ships like the thorax and brutix?
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King Rothgar
Amarrian Retribution
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Posted - 2011.02.10 00:09:00 -
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They are of very limited usefulness. The fact that they only web by 20% and that webbing is subject to stacking penalties really hurts them. The only ship I use them on currently is my maelstrom. On the maelstrom I use a pair of webber drones and a pair of heavy TP drones. The reason is the ship is very weak on tackle and it's relatively easy for a cruiser/BC to duck under its guns. The two webber drones slow them down enough so that when combined with the +50% sig radius from the two TP drones, I can generally hit them. They aren't a substitute for proper tackle, they only work against those who want to fight you.
Before everyone screams noob and stuff, I only use those drones when solo or in a very small gang without any respectable tackle. If proper tackle is present, I use the standard ECM/DPS drones.
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Mister Normal
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Posted - 2011.02.10 06:05:00 -
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I would use them... but i would not use them first :(
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Aquana Abyss
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Posted - 2011.02.10 13:37:00 -
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Masterminds at CCP balancing made e-war drones stacking penalized (with modules). smaller web drones were (pre-90% web nerf) considered too imbalanced to be implemented.
So of those 5 SW-900 drones, One works fine, another at 50% effectiveness then the rest are virtually useless. Don't bother at all if you have a web fitted.
Something perhaps more worthwhile considering is using a rainbow effect of E-war drones, 1x ECM, 1x SD, 1x SW, 1x TD, 1x TP.
However E-war drones are much lower hp than damage drones and pop quickly, and there's really very few situations that roughly 10% of any ewar type will help more than a set of damage drones would.
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Magnus Orin
Minmatar
United Systems Navy
Wildly Inappropriate.
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Posted - 2011.02.10 17:32:00 -
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I'm not speaking against improving the current webber drones, currently all ewar drones aside from ECM leave something to be desired, but could you imagine light webber drones in game?
No one would be able to fly interceptors ever again.
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Nadarius Chrome
Celestial Horizon Corp.
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Posted - 2011.02.10 23:21:00 -
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Anything you would want to web, they can't catch up to. |
Aerilis
Gallente
Percussive Diplomacy
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Posted - 2011.02.10 23:59:00 -
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Light webber drones would be awesome, and the perfect anti-nano weapon (There really isn't a hard counter to nano at this point, except maybe gallente/minmatar recons.)
That vagabond kiting you at 20 km? Throw 5x webbing warriors at him, and while hes occupied trying to pop them burn into him and put your own web on him.
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Mister Normal
Metanoia.
Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2011.02.11 00:27:00 -
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What about neuting drones, anyone have any experience with them?
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Michus Danether
Galaxy Eaters
The Jagged Alliance
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Posted - 2011.02.11 13:57:00 -
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Edited by: Michus Danether on 11/02/2011 13:56:59
Neut drones are pretty handy against frigs, but anything else... meh.
But really a ship-board neut is more effective.
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