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Kharz Zendar
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Posted - 2006.11.09 21:20:00 -
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What does more dps against BC's.. Heavy drones or medium drones?
And the same question for cruisers? (I think heavys might have problems hitting them, but I could be wrong)
Kharz.
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Saucerhead
Forum Moderator
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Posted - 2006.11.09 21:32:00 -
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I believe it's heavies for both.
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Athena Starfire
Gallente
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Posted - 2006.11.09 22:05:00 -
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If your talking about against EVE generated pirates (hi-sec .5 and missions), I have seen that 4 or 5 Hammerhead I mediums will nicely dispatch most assailants.
If your talking 0.0 then I guess the bigger the better...
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Kharz Zendar
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Posted - 2006.11.09 22:06:00 -
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Thanks for the feedback guys.
Kharz
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Athena Starfire
Gallente
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Posted - 2006.11.09 23:11:00 -
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 Originally by: Kharz Zendar
Thanks for the feedback guys.
Kharz
Guy? Checks chest..I don't think so!
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SadisticSavior
Caldari
Edenists
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Posted - 2006.11.09 23:16:00 -
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Maybe it is different against Battleships, but that hasnt been my PvE experience so far.
Heavies get nailed pretty quick, and I lose mediums too. But I almost never lose light drones. They switch targets faster (because they move faster) and avoid getting hit much much better. Also, if I'm not mistaken, they have better tracking so they hit easier. Medium drones dont do me any good if they are floating through space as wreckage.
My skills allow me to use all three, but I still equip light drones.
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Radcjk
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Posted - 2006.11.09 23:19:00 -
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Agrro the target first. The flight speed of larger dronesis slower and so rats can and will dispatch them. However if you have the aggro first (acomplishable even in a dedicated drone ship with a single weapon, webber, nos, etc) then they wont even bother with the drones.
Shoot rat, wait for them to go red attacking you, then launch drones.
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JgGravy
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Posted - 2006.11.10 00:28:00 -
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Originally by: Athena Starfire
Originally by: Kharz Zendar
Thanks for the feedback guys.
Kharz
Guy? Checks chest..I don't think so!
Could just be a big guy?
The bigger they are the harder they fall(drones).
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Sakura Nihil
Tabula Rasa Systems
The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2006.11.10 01:12:00 -
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Originally by: Athena Starfire
Originally by: Kharz Zendar
Thanks for the feedback guys.
Kharz
Guy? Checks chest..I don't think so!
Kids these days and their lack of courteousy  .
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Athena Starfire
Gallente
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Posted - 2006.11.10 01:17:00 -
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Originally by: Sakura Nihil
Originally by: Athena Starfire
Originally by: Kharz Zendar
Thanks for the feedback guys.
Kharz
Guy? Checks chest..I don't think so!
Kids these days and their lack of courteousy .
I'll just have to go whip up on and be 'serviced' by a few Gallente Males in my stable..will make me feel a bit better.
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F'nog
Amarr
Celestial Horizon Corp.
Ascendant Frontier
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Posted - 2006.11.10 05:26:00 -
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Originally by: Athena Starfire
Originally by: Kharz Zendar
Thanks for the feedback guys.
Kharz
Guy? Checks chest..I don't think so!
Post pics or STFU! 
PS - "guys" is a gender-neutral term.
Originally by: DB Preacher
The only time BoB's backs are to the wall is when backdoor bandit is in local.
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Noluck Ned
FATAL REVELATIONS
Lotka Volterra
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Posted - 2006.11.10 07:37:00 -
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Originally by: SadisticSavior
Maybe it is different against Battleships, but that hasnt been my PvE experience so far.
Heavies get nailed pretty quick, and I lose mediums too. But I almost never lose light drones. They switch targets faster (because they move faster) and avoid getting hit much much better. Also, if I'm not mistaken, they have better tracking so they hit easier. Medium drones dont do me any good if they are floating through space as wreckage.
My skills allow me to use all three, but I still equip light drones.
Let the NPC's aggro you first. Only then is it safe to launch your drones.
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Athena Starfire
Gallente
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Posted - 2006.11.10 08:16:00 -
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Originally by: F'nog
Post pics or STFU!
PS - "guys" is a gender-neutral term.
I would love to have a pic..been waiting for my "!" replacement for 5 months now...
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SadisticSavior
Caldari
Edenists
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Posted - 2006.11.10 18:22:00 -
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Quote:
Agrro the target first. The flight speed of larger dronesis slower and so rats can and will dispatch them. However if you have the aggro first (acomplishable even in a dedicated drone ship with a single weapon, webber, nos, etc) then they wont even bother with the drones.
Shoot rat, wait for them to go red attacking you, then launch drones.
Some things I have noticed in my own experience so far:
1) Light drones are very difficult to hit, so they can act as decoys if they have aggro. Drawing fire that might otherwise actually hit and damage me.
2) While I cant repair drone armor in the field, I can repair drone shields. I dock them and immediately launch them...and damage to their shields is immediately repaired.
I can repair Med and heavy drones too the same way of course, but because they are slower it also takes them a lot longer to dock. And they take damage the entire time.
Maybe its different in PvP.
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Sonya Rayner
Amarr
LDK
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Posted - 2006.11.11 02:12:00 -
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When i've got a little higher skills on drones (t2 mediums) i've noticed that mediums take much less time to handle a cruiser, eve though the time needed to blow it up is almost equal, the time drone spends to reach the target differs greatly, BC's on the other hand are best served with heavies. And lights do best agains little buggers (friggies).
Also, it is much viser to take the aggro on you, since when your little fellas gets tech2 their price changes substantially.
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Michelle Deathmind
Amarr
The Merchant Marines
Miners With Attitude
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Posted - 2006.11.11 03:02:00 -
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Simply put, light drones are fast and agile with excellent accuracy. Other drones, frigates and small targets are prime targets for these loyal little buggers.
Medium drones do more damage, but are slower and less accurate, allbeit tougher. Cruisers, destroyers and other such medium sized targets are ample prey for these bouncers.
Heavy drones are just the next step up the ladder. Stronger, slower, go after large targets, like battlecruisers and battleships.
The final and ultimate minion is the fighter. A pack of these guys will rip a battleship a new one pretty quickly in the hands of a competent pilot. It's one of the aspects that makes a carrier such a mean mofo.
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Schinoble
Soar Angelic
Pirate Coalition
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Posted - 2006.11.12 11:30:00 -
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for a cruiser if you have a weeber heavy drones are fine they will outdamage the rest.
without a webber for a cruiser your better off sticking to med drones
for a battlebruiser heavy drones all the way.
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Luxor Danith
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Posted - 2006.11.12 16:43:00 -
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My $.02 on the subject:
In mission I almost never need lights, i use mediums. On a few mission, like the Illegal Activity series, I do run into some frigs that are challenging for the mediums to catch, but a webber will usually take care of that, especailly if you have a launcher or two you can task to help the drones out. I think lights are a pvp tool, more helpful agaist very light fast ships, but you generally dont see many of these in missions.
Heavies I would save for BC and up in an ideal world, but if you had then out and there as a cruiser handy you could pop it.
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Matae
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Posted - 2006.11.13 03:29:00 -
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Heavy drones do have a rough time hitting cruisers that are moving without a web. Other things greatly affect this as well.
Drone navigation skill speeding up the drones speed.
Cruiser using a AB and orbiting far enough to maintain a good speed.
BC's are a slow moving slug a majority of the time. They also have a large sig radius meaning that the heavies should have no trouble hitting them. Ships like the passive tanked ferox using 3 large t-2 extenders increases this radius to hitting the broad side of a barn. I would imagine a dread could track a passive ferox mwding 
After kali this may change but I would still imagine in a damage to hit ratio that heavies would still work on a bc better then mediums.
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Noluck Ned
FATAL REVELATIONS
Lotka Volterra
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Posted - 2006.11.13 10:20:00 -
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Oh I wanted to add one more thing: Against NPC Battlecruisers I find Sentry drones to be the most effective.
Warp in at about 60 km from belt and the sentries rip em to pieces as they approach you.
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