Use sentries or use light drones to assist your BS against orbitting small targets.

Get aggro first?

Not afk mission anymore, essentially. In the olden days you could deploy drones after you've aggro'd the room and things would be fine, you could let the drones do your dirty work.

But now you need to actively manage aggro. Put guns on that droneboat, attempt to actively shoot your enemies and let the drones assist.

I don't like it either though, personally. Back when I tried missioning again I basically had to set up a sentry domi fit with a MJD. You're pretty much forced to use sentries unless all you have left are frigates orbiting you.

You're able to use drones. You just can't leave them without supervision and you have to take more care in ensuring that the rats find you a bigger nuisance than the drones. The reason they don't remove all the drones is because there's no reason to. They most certainly aren't forbidden.

Either use Sentries outside their range, or use a bit of EW to make yourself be perceived as a bigger threat than your drones.

You now have the knowledge necessary to be successful, it's up to you to use it.

your pretty much forced into sentries now. combat drones are out of the question.

I keep reading about this "problem", and I'm not having it. Only occasionally NPCs concentrate fire on one drone but there's plenty of time to recall it.

Could be be due to having Level 5 in all light drone skills and specializations?


Nah. There must be something we can just assume instead and complain to CCP about.

Method 2:
Fit several remote reppers
Deploy just sentries
Lock them all
Rep whichever ones catch aggro

Note: Even just one RR is good to carry, to fix drones that you fail to recall fast enough.

Method 3:

Bring friends. With 3 or more ships on the field drones rarely catch aggro.

What kind of drone did you use and what enemy ship were on the field when you used them?