GreenSeed
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Posted - 2011.11.12 10:47:00 -
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dualboxing DPS wonGÇÖt really yield much increase in mission time, since you have to control/target all the ships, IMHO. best way would be to have your alt be on a noctis, so you can avoid the downtime of flying back and forth.
now having 3+ alts on space flying droneboats is a completely different story. drones chew batleships like piranhas, And its not expensive at all.
A 4 gila fleet flown by one person can put 2 man fleets to shame. and yeah i did test this. even racing a goodlike mach + nmega they still couldnt kill faster than my gila swarm.
Gilas fly faster to the mission, they get to gates and triggers way faster, and they actually kill faster. ofc you have to amortize more accounts, noone will discuss that. but the accounts plex themselves manufacturing, i run missions to use time between batches, so plexes never are part of the equation.
if you have low skills, all you need to do is fly to the room, agro one pocket with each gila, use one sniper fit to pwn the triggers, and watch how NPC, Fleet Commanders dont know the meaning of focus fire. then just alt tab to your 5th noctis alt. and salvage as fast as you can.
gilas are really fast ships with low sig, and the drones kill stuff so fast that the room will peak dps only for one - two minutes top, if it ever does, so when i say "tank" i mean 2 invuls will do the job perfectly + a few passive shield mods on the lows, rigging for passive or +% shield is just a waste, the +sig will actually hurt your tank so just rig anything else, or just dont.
Battleships go down in seconds, and if theres a wtf spawn recall drones, and relaunch.
and you DONT need to target anything!, you dont even have to tab back to the gilas.
if you want to make it even more lazy mode and you ahve some nice skills you can fly one rattler and use it to just agro everything, then set all drones to "guard" the tank. setting drones to "guard" makes all your drones focus fire on the same target, and if they dont, its just chaos for the first target wich is almost 90% of the time a frigate, so it goes down in seconds, and then they all focus the same target. 20 drones hover like a discoball over NPCs for a few secs and then boom, sometimes half of the first volley gets the job done, so youll see your drone swarm fly from explosion to explosion. anyone whos flown carriers knows the feeling. ;p
a med swarm will one shoot anything bellow a battleship, and by the time all of those lil ships are dead the battleships are close enough that dropping heavies is perfectly fine. seeing a battleship eat a 3k damage volley every 4 secs is kinda op.
with good enough shield skills you can swich the rattler for a well tanked gila again, but you might want some light RR doing bonus rooms. (shouldnt be a problem since your highs dont need launchers)
Anyway, if you want to do it for the fun, go drone boats. if you want to lower your mission time stick to the dps/noctis combo. And thereGÇÖs no point in getting more than 2 accounts if you just mission with them.
btw if youGÇÖre concerned about price, before using gilas, i used armor Nvexs. never lost a single one, but i did have to RR betwen them. and armor would go from 100% to 40% in one sec xD. gilas are beasts, need no RR, no cap either, and just wont die. drone boats on lvl4s do need some training btw. around one month for full shields + another for gallente crulvl5 and then cross train to caldari, but hardly any need to get crulvl5. and obviously interfacing to 5. 
protip "warp fleet to" is your friend, and if you run the same agent with all 4 gilas... you only dock every 4 missions. :o
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