Roime
Shiva Furnace
Dead On Arrival Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.19 07:17:00 -
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Enemies shoot your drones, because that way they can remove dps from the field. CCP is working on improving NPC AI to make it more realistic, in order to make PVE grind less boring and remove the artificial border between PVE and PVP fits. This is something that players have wanted for years, and is certainly change I very much look forward.
Why? Because fighting smarter rats is more fun than ******** empire rats.
Quote:CCP has worked hard to create drones as a PRIMARY form of damage for some ships in this game and now they are effectively BREAKING THEM! Every call back is time my ship is doing under 200 dps for that whole travel time. Every time they are going back to the target is the same thing. Trying to recall heavy drones? GOOD LUCK!
There are three ships in game with drones as primary form of damage, and even they all have bonus to high-slot weapons.
Why do you send heavy drones far away, when they are a close range weapon? Sentries=railguns, heavies=blasters.
Quote:~If you are SOLOing a mission and running a Raven, is agro EVER an issue? NO! Because you are the only target.
~If you are running a mission solo and in a Raven, can agro swapping kill your missile launchers? NO
~If you are running a mission solo and in a Raven, can even your missiles be stopped by agro? NO
In a Raven, your drones have no bonuses to dmg or HP, so it takes them longer to kill frigs, and they are more vulnerable to getting killed. And once they are killed, poor Raven pilot is in trouble as his indestructible main weapon can't hurt scramming frigs.
Drones don't instapop. Try yourself- don't waste time "getting agro" next time, drop sentries on the poor rats immediately and one-shot frigs and cruisers. You'll see your sentries getting hit, but resistance is futile- in many cases all the small ships are dead before you have to recall/redeploy drones, if at all.
Drones are an extremely powerful weapon system, the fact that they are destructible balances this to an extent. A well piloted drone ship is capable of dealing excellent damage to targets of any size, from point-blank range all the way up targeting range, something that other ships simply can't do even with ammo switching.
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Roime
Shiva Furnace
Dead On Arrival Alliance
1425
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Posted - 2012.11.19 10:16:00 -
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Dztrgovac wrote:Solution is very simple. Sell all your Navy Domis, Rattlers and Ishtars before patch. Train for Golem. CCP still hates drones, always has, they cause lag and so must go out.
Fun fact: missiles cause more lag
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