Lloyd Roses
Imperial Guardians
The Aurora Shadow
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Posted - 2012.06.22 12:14:00 -
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So I've spent some time reading through here and want to post my own 50cent in a little list aswell:
- First problem, it's maybe one of the most useful ships in almost any situation at a moderate price, very ow SP requirement and absolutely NO player skill requirements. Seriously, everyone can anchor to smthng and press 2 buttons.
- While 'only' projecting around 400 dps, a drake's 400 dps are some of the best dps in Eve, being onlly affected by the targets movement, but not by your own. It's reduced by low sig and high velocity, but I barely run across a AB'ing gang in Null.
- Issue: 'EHP', the combination of fighting outside point range together with missiles only needing one damage module (the BCU) makes the drake use it's slot layout in an awesome way, any turret ship has slightly better damage which is not affected by targets 'pure velocity', but comes at the price of taking the target's angular velocity aswell as the distance into consideration. So you are provided with a lol-tank that is super-straight to fit, having 'only' missiles' natural disadvantages.
- The training time for a T2-fitted Drake is awesome. Myrmidon wants to be the same way.
- Drake is an awesome Allrounder: PvE, PvP... Drake is a master of both. And for PvE at least, it exceeds the other BC's capabilities by faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar. Man, a drake even cleans out a whole C2 WHILE baiting a small gang. Because of EHP/tankability. I forgot: Drake can neither mine nor suck gas, pls fix that.
Ive asked myself countless times why I'm not flying a Drake, but keep sticking to Hurricanes. The only reason is: I am more stylish, and I'm atleast ony using the second most (amost equally overpowered) used ship in whole Eve. But I can't PvE in it, have to MWD for 15 minutes before I can start shooting in a PvP situation and I'm quite sure a lot of myrmidon/harbringer/prophecy/ferox/brutix users feel the same. Oh wait, there is no Ferox, cause you can fly the Drake - which is way more powerful while having a lower SP barrier.
But oh wait, it has tradeoffs:
it has less shied when fitting a web (lol #1) - try flying a shieldcane/harby... oh noes, 40k EHP with shitrange
it has less shieds when fitting a point (lol #2) - check above
it takes time to reach it's max velocity and aligns like a brick (lol #3) - many bigger ships behave this way....
It has the signatur of a small battleship (lol #4) - yes because non-titan-turret-ships care so much for your sig when you are burning away
So the only remaining tradeoffs are imo: damage is delayed, it ony has 400 dps...
(missing letters occurs due to my evil keyboard, it is about to be replaced, btw: I typed that in flow as my 50 cent, drakelovers dwi, there shouldn't be a ship that shines so bright for such a price)
Edit: especiayapprng=especially approving (edit again) to posts #108, #114 and #115 :) |