Ships & Modules

Wouldn't that just push the Ishtar out of its niche? One that already is debatable as far OP given that sentry drones are bs sized weapon system.

Assuming that the T3s rabid dog euthanasia argument is valid, then giving the Proteus a superiors bs sized tank with obscene damage and projection of sentries seems a stretch.

people are losing their minds over Ishtars and sentries and you want 125mb on a cruiser hull that can reach 200k ehp with a T2 tank, ignore bubbles, get Haloed down to Zealot levels of signature, get 100+ sensor strength, warp cloaked and.... eh... something else that im sure forgetting.


are you mad?


edit: i agree on the turret thing, the drone prot could use another turret, and probably an MWD Drone bonus like the Dragoon/Algos, but more Mb/s is a bad idea.

Outside of s ram range, yes.

The 100mbit bandwidth on the proteus is a perfect example of how T3s should be balanced compared to hacs. No need to change it.

Considering you can't use the cover reconfiguration with the drone synthesis projector you wouldn't get a cloaky warping 125mbit cruiser eve in the drone synthesis sub were buffed to make 125mbit possible.

I agree, and I use it like that. It has sufficient dps to kill "screaming", and sufficient dps to drop the structure in the maze (partly because the mazes defenders can't interfere with drone dps), and it has excellent mobility to go and complete those in hostile space, doubly so now that we can refit when we get there.

(ie the yurt upgrades the proteus more than it does the ishtar, because the proteus travel fit is better than the ishtars).

Ishtar does about 750-800 dps @ 50km. Its fast, can kite, but no tank and no point range.

Drone proteus with rails will do about 650-700 dps @ 50km, has 5x the tank, can extend point to 50km, BUT is slow and cant kite.

Cloaky stratios can do about 650 dps @ 50km and is middle ground between ishtar's speed and proteuses tank; as bonus, has enough mid slots to fit ECM or damps.

I would say, every base is covered. Want tank? Go proteus. Want speed and gank? Go ishtar. Want tactical surprise? Go stratios.

The only thing is, I dont really see the use for a sentry proteus over rail proteus, for example, but I suppose it could work in big null alliance fights as fleet doctrine fit. Nullify your proteuses, and you have ultra-mobile 80%+ resists fleet of small-sig cruisers that hit as hard as mid-tier battleships.

I suppose if you make proteus do 1000dps with sentries, it would become king of fleet fights in the current meta.

how about no, scott....

The drone proty V ishtar and laser legion V zealot are examples of how T3 should look. At least according to ccp.

Unless the opponents freefired, that guardian blob was doomed.

Even if the guardian pilots all repped the right target the drone trigger just has to switch between 3 targets and then they'll shortly get 2 salvos away before the reps switch and hit - the drones hold their lock on the old target so switch faster after the first time. (ie > 50% per salvo is sufficient sometimes to get rid of repped targets, doesn't require full alpha).

You'd probably offer 5 boats that were all bricked as a lure in order to get a bombing run off in a wormhole fight, as bombers are a pretty reasonable counter to sentry blobs, and because sentry blobs are not cloaked when moving you should be aware of their composition. can be hard to form up bombers without them realising though (if they have cloaked scouts on your infrastructure).