Originally by: Shadarle

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I've done quite a bit of work on the passive drake tank setups and have come to some rather odd conclusions.

1. It has a stronger passive tank than the Raven has active tank (unless the Raven uses expensive faction mods). Using T1/T2/Named items results in a far stronger tank for the Drake.

2. It passive tanks better than it active tanks.

3. It makes good use of Shield Recharger II's (first time I've ever found them to be worth using).


Here is the best all-around setup that you can fit within CPU/Grid limitations (at least this is the best I personally could fit). This assumes BC lvl4.

Hi:
7 Heavy Launchers, 1 Tractor.
Med:
3 Large Extender II, 1 Shield Recharger II, 2 Inv IILow:
2 SPR, 2 PDS

This gives you a peak regen tank of 495.99 dps averaged across the 4 dmg types. Drilling down you get:

EM=58.60% or 309.19 max EM tank
Expl=83.44% or 772.96 max Expl tank
Kin=75.16% or 515.31 max Kin tank
Therm=66.88% or 386.48 max Therm tank

You have 18095.46 shields and regen them in 353.43 seconds. You will actually have a little spare cap... tho not enough to use 3 SPR instead of 3 PDS.

This is the strongest T1 tank I've ever seen while using the spreadsheet I've made up to analyze tanks. It is overpowered to have such a massive tank on a t1 ship imo, but I am not complaining as I have every skill to use it. I can run with 1 setup (not bother switching anything between missions) and tank every level 3 mission. I do not have the 2 rigs to boost my shields/regen, but that would bring this tank up to T2 command ship levels... or close to it.


If you think you have a better overall setup, please let me know what it is... but I don't think there is anything better if you're tanking all 4 damage types.

If you want stronger EM and Thermal resists and weaker Exp/Kin you could go with this setup:

1 Active EM, 1 Active Therm, 1 Passive Kinetic, 3 Extenders II's
4 SPR

You'll get 358.6, 403.42, 489.0, 448.25 EM-->Therm resists in the order from above and 424.82 average. Or if you want more EM/Therm still you go with:

1 Active EM, 1 Active Therm, 3 Extender II's, 1 Shield Recharger II
4 SPR

You get 421.88, 474.61, 316.41, 527.35 EM-->Therm resists. 435.06 average.

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