EVE General Discussion

So goddamn sexy.


The nerdiest of internet spaceship nerds are already plotting drone based fleet concepts.


****'s gonna be so awesome.

Drones aren't the only weapons that drone boats have though. I've seen a T2 sentry Ishtar fit going around with over 1k dps.

That they are about to be nerfed :p

Bwa ha ha ha!!! YESSSSS!!!!

I practically used them as drone boats before. It's like a domi that got stuck on a trash compactor.

Thank you for answering my question!
I'd wish, industry would become a topic like pvp in the priority. i.e. testing topics.

A Gila with the new mods can go as far as 710+ dps with an ok tank. That's almost comparable to a tengu dps, with the exception of not needing any missile charges. Don't know tbh, but the bonuses are somewhat OP as far as i know.

What's the tank like on that 700 DPS Gila?

I had a domi shooting me with curators from 80km away, 300-600 volleys with 40% em resistance, pretty nasty tbh.

These mods definitely favor the shield boats or shield set ups for what normally should be an armor tanked boat. (I'm only talking about for use for PVP, don't care much about PVE.) The Mrym frankly is left behind if you want to try and capitalize on both its armor bonus and drones bonus and use one of these DDA. Better off still guns and tank in many set ups vice expending the CPU on the DDA. The Gila/rattlesnake look like they get the most benefit and perhaps other boats like some of the Winmatar ships, but I haven't tried it on those yet.

As a fairly heavy user of the Myrm I've found the DDA disappointing. If I shield tank the Mrym, I still get vastly superior performance just focusing on the maximizing the guns. If armor tanked, then I find the CPU requirements of the DDA prohibitive for the damage increase and the corresponding sacrifice for other mids. Just not worth it.

I have not tried it on the Ishtar yet.

Certainly can't fit it well on an Ishkur which is sad.

Ok on the domi but I can get far more performance out of a blaster shield tanked domi focusing on the guns vice the drone damage.

Overall I still think the regular T1 drone boats are still left behind in the dust, and certainly the "Drone Masters" didn't really get the big benefit out of this buff.

Either way, certainly not overpowered considering all the other drawbacks to drone boats. (slow {the heavies especially}, destructible, cost, some racial drones just suck and thus limit damage type selection, can't be overheated which is a huge difference, sentry's....don't get me started, the majority of the EWAR and even these new light web drones suck.

Perhaps if the drone damage modifier on drone boats also boosted specialty drones like rep,EWAR, web etc it might be worth it.

I guess for afk mission runners in a domi this DDA is probably nice?

I'm rather unimpressed with the module, to be honest.

Gallente are supposedly "drone masters", yet most of their hulls are armor tanked, and the module position conflicts with the tank. Which makes sense - trade tank for gank. However, other races' ships that can either be shield or armor tanked, can go full tank and full gank. So much for "drone masters". And many hulls can't really fit it. Ishkur is one example. At least with my skills, very hard to squeeze it in there.

On boats like Dominix, where only roughly half of the damage comes from drones and the remainder from turrets, this module creates a pretty awkward split weapons system. Remember how nobody liked the Merlin because it had split weapon system? Two turrets, two launchers? Well, Domi is the same, only instead of turrets/missiles you get turrets/drones. Typhoon gets incredibly awkward as well - turrets, missiles AND drones! Three weapons system, in one hull, each with its own damage module.

I admit that with the upcoming ship rebalance, which with luck might reach battleships by the end of the year or early next year, some ships might change. But for now, this module is iffy at best. Rattlesnakes love it, since aside from drones all they have is 4 unbonused launchers. But other boats can really take it or leave it.