That's an interesting (albeit expensive) Rattlesnake fit to make $20-million ISK on a fairly risky proposition...

I don't get the whole "dangerous" aspect, unless they start arbitrarily hunting down ships in high-sec

]Yeah, it would be better if they were more aggressive, but then all those solo carebears would be pretty up in arms that they can't survive. I would like to see them actually roam, occasionally leaving their given systems and hitting up random belts and stations, maybe catching afk haulers and battleships and such.

Ever since they came out with the Drifters I wanted to get one to land on a crowded Jita gate during rush hour and watch the chaos, but alas, it doesn't work like that, yet.

High sec .... learn how to play the game FFS.

Like you said, it will be interesting to see how CCP responds to the snake and frigate scenarios with the next pass on Drifters.

Why aren't you people just adapting that fit to a golem? Shouldn't that be the obvious thing to do and not put massive amounts of bling into it?

Why aren't you people just adapting that fit to a golem? Shouldn't that be the obvious thing to do and not put massive amounts of bling into it?

I also had a shield repper toon, and drifters ignored the repper toon completely.

A snake can tank both the dps and the DD, provided you:

Spend alot of ISK on the modules
Have an in-system booster
Just before you drop the overshield and get the DD, you hit overheat

If there are two drifters, your tank will break. Bring logi.

Huh. Well that's weird, the bastion doesn't even put golem's resists significantly above the rattle's.

Yes. There is no possible way to mitigate the incoming damage from the doomsday.

When the overshield is depleted, all active locks are lost, a 5 point scram with a range of 500km targets your ship, and the Drifter will doomsday you with full damage as long as you are targetable on grid.

In the case of warping before the Drifter can fire its doomsday, the next ship you return in will be doomsdayed.

One of my guys was actually playing around with the Drifters the other day and when he warped away from them, he actually saw the sneaky jerks pass him in warp, and they were on grid when he landed.

I thought I had mentioned on the Rattlesnake fit that I had a perfect booster providing links? *Sorry, I had passably casually mentioned links, but not that I had my perfect boost character in a vulture with a mindlink providing the extra to bridge the gap*

Yeah, on its own it can't make the ehp requirement, but with a perfect link boost it easily tops it, with extra hp and higher resists.

Kk, played around with it a bit further based on the suggestions and wow, apparently a 4th extender rig does a lot more than the 3rd extender in the mids so good call.

[Rattlesnake, max buffer]
Caldari Navy Power Diagnostic System
Caldari Navy Power Diagnostic System
Caldari Navy Power Diagnostic System
Caldari Navy Power Diagnostic System
Caldari Navy Power Diagnostic System
Damage Control II

Pithum A-Type Adaptive Invulnerability Field
Pith X-Type EM Ward Field
Large Shield Extender II
Pithum A-Type Adaptive Invulnerability Field
Large Shield Extender II
Large Shield Extender II
Pithum A-Type Adaptive Invulnerability Field

Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II, Inferno Fury Heavy Missile
Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II, Inferno Fury Heavy Missile
Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II, Inferno Fury Heavy Missile
Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II, Inferno Fury Heavy Missile
Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II, Inferno Fury Heavy Missile
Small Tractor Beam II

Large Core Defense Field Extender II
Large Core Defense Field Extender II
Large Core Defense Field Extender II

Gecko x1
Federation Navy Garde x2
Republic Fleet Berserker x2

Overheated (lasts for 2-3 minutes) with perfect links you get 1.15 million ehp, and 2400 omni dps tank. Also to keep in mind, you don't have to do a terrible amount of dmg to the overshield before it goes down, so the 70k shield at an average of 93% would be more than sufficient to hold the dps and take the DD. The only downside is the 3rd deadspace invul adds another billion to the cost. You can also buff it a touch more with the 3 or 4% shield implants for cheap.

Like you said, it will be interesting to see how CCP responds to the snake and frigate scenarios with the next pass on Drifters.

PS. Using a full Genolution implant set with both 6% shield implants you can get to 2600 dps tank and 1.25 million ehp... but again, not cost effective if only to say you beat a Drifter solo and to farm 15-20m in loot from each one.

I wondered about >1m EHP calculation you did here, and I wanted to try it out in real eve.. so, I dragged my booster toon over to Jita and undocked, and with my skills, which is missing one lvl on caldari BS, and 2 lvl on shield resist skills to be maxed, I got 533k EHP ingame, while EFT says 620k EHP. ( I also got SM-705 and SP-905 plugged in ).

When I overload with t1 links, I get 815k EHP ingame with Navy Scorp.

I can only assume that the calculation you came up with here is based on EFT tool, not ingame fittings window ?

I believe EFT calculates the numbers differently.

Also, I was using a perfect T2 link booster in the appropriate mindlink/ship for max bonus. I mean what else is there for my 3rd pilot to train after I capped out most of the industry stuff?

If I could just transfer the ship to Sisi to test this. The copy ships command didnt copy the brand new setup Scorpion Navy for some reason..