Ships & Modules

Finally Drone Boats getting the love they deserve. I trained Gallente to fly droneboats only to find that they were lacking.

I wonder if CCP will do something about energy vampires aka NOS, they talked about buffing the nos since its become pretty useless (unless you're flying a frigate) after the nerf.

Drone damage amplifier....oh my....as if the dominix didn't bring enough hurt already.


I love it.

I think I hear that the drone damage module is low power, but I'd like to see a high power version, as my skills with turrets are lacking, I'd rather just rely on extra drone damage than lackluster turrets for that little bit of extra on drone boats

I got the impression that the armor adaptive hardener was going to be like the adaptive invulnerability field, just for armor instead of shields.

Edit - it turns out I was wrong.

Here is the Armor Adaptive Hardener I:
"An advanced nano membrane that can react to damage received to shift resistances over time to better resist prevalent incoming damage.

Only one of this module type can be fitted at a time."

There is only the tech 1 and it begins with blanket resists at 15%. It needs 24 CPU and 42 GJ every 10 sec.

I'll bet it's most effective when taking 1-2 damage types and least effective when taking 4 damage types.

This armor adaptive hardener does need quite a bit of cap, though. More than an invulnerability field does and nearly 3x as much as a single resist armor hardener, although it takes up only one slot while 3x hardeners obviously take up 3 slots. It may be too much cap for cruisers and below.

One interesting thing to note is that the overload bonus is -15% to duration allowing the module to adapt to incoming damage faster at the expense of heat and cap.

I don't know if armor compensation skills will work on this hardener as they don't work on the other hardeners.

So, assuming I have the cap to spare, it sounds like a viable replacement for a Damage Control II module on an Armor tanking battleship running most lvl 4 missions.

I would much rather have an armor hardener that uses scripts.

Something like:
unscripted: 20 omni

Kin Script: 40 kin, 20 therm, 20 Exp, 0 EM
Therm script: 40 therm, 20 kin, 20 EM, 0 Exp

EM script: 40 EM, 25 Therm, 15 Kin, 0 Exp
Exp scripts: 40 exp resists, 25 kin, 15 therm, 0 EM

"a dynamic hardener that shifts resistances to the last damage type you were hit with. Get hit with thermal for example, your thermal resistances go up until you get shot with something else."

I see this being exploited, you have one dude firing a high rof weapon with ungrouped guns, to get lots of hits in to shift resistance away, while the rest of your fleet volleys in another damage type.

It seems vastly inferior to Invuln fields (unless they change adaptive invuln fields to work like this too.

Fueled shield booster, but no fueled armor repper?
Winmatar boost, caldari secondary boost - this adaptive armor hardener doesn't make up for it.

Which ships have bonuses to shield boosting? Winmatar, Golem
Oh... they also use capless weapon systems.... great, now you can neut them, and you won't do much to their tank.
Meanwhile the ships with weapons systems that use cap must also use a tank that requires cap.

Neut a gallente ship and it cant fire and it can't tank (they are making gallente even more focuses to active tanking now with the latest frig change, fail)
At least the Amarr are better set up to buffer tank, so they just won't be able to fire.

This is fail balance

any confirmation on where those drone mods go?


having them on low slots sucks really, since they will compete with weapon mods and tank... most drone boats have utility highs that could use the mod.


anyway, i have the feeling i will stay with omni tracking instead of drone mods :/

i can think of the gila fitting those on lows, or the nvex... but mostly the gila.

/me puts down his drawing tablet and abandons his attempt to retexture Daniel Plain