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Obsidian Dagger
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Posted - 2012.12.04 20:20:00 -
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The drone bay, now a perfect place to carry 5x Mining Drone I, 5x Salvaging Drone I, and some cheap hornets to throw out for a few seconds to distract the scrambling frigates in missions while you warp away. |
Obsidian Dagger
Nitrus Nine
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Posted - 2012.12.04 20:23:00 -
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Alysa Taal wrote:Obsidian Dagger wrote:The drone bay, now a perfect place to carry 5x Mining Drone I, 5x Salvaging Drone I, and some cheap hornets to throw out for a few seconds to distract the scrambling frigates in missions while you warp away. Good idea with the distraction!! Betting 100 ISK that will be the one time it doesnt switch agro :)
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Obsidian Dagger
Nitrus Nine
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Posted - 2012.12.04 20:32:00 -
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baltec1 wrote:Ocih wrote:Just another example of cart before the horse. Drones weren't designed to take full aggro and they are the only way to really kill frigates in a level 4 mission. When I did these missions in the nightmare I never needed the drones and that was with tachyons.
My current plan is to carry a selection of T1 laser crystals and swap them out when I have to take out frigates, and keep drones for cruisers and salvaging and stuff.
The thing about using drones for killing frigates is not that it is impossible to kill frigates with BS weapons, but that it DOES need more skillpoints invested in gunnery, and that's really going to slow down the careers of newer carebears. It also means a greater chance of losing your ship (NOT something carebears are willing to risk), if you are on the edge of losing your tank and are unexpectedly scrambled by an angel spy or something.
The only functional solution is more skillpoints in tracking and falloff affecting skills, and maybe some tracking computers loaded with scripts. But since that will a: take training time away from mining skills and b: impact tank, a lot of carebears are going to lose a lot of ships very quickly.
They will adapt, carebears in particular and EvE players in general usually do (or stop playing), but for the short term, it's going to be a great sellers market.
Especially for drone manufacturers. |
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