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ships with drone bonuses?
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Gitanmaxx
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2013-01-02 16:07:30 UTC
I have recently started cross training other systems outside my amarr lasers and armor and have enjoyed drones. I'm at T2 medium drones.

I was wondering what ships of frigate and cruiser size have drone bonuses. I know I could look at the info of every ship and write it down......but frankly i'm kinda lazy.
Raemes T Quirk
United Systems Industry
#2 - 2013-01-02 16:30:46 UTC
You, as amarr, have the arbitrator, curse, and pilgrim. All excellent drone ships. Good drone skills will help you with a lot of your ships though
Gitanmaxx
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2013-01-02 16:33:16 UTC
Raemes T Quirk wrote:
You, as amarr, have the arbitrator, curse, and pilgrim. All excellent drone ships. Good drone skills will help you with a lot of your ships though



Thank you. I'm interested more in the other races ships though as I've been cross-training. i have frig/cruiser up to 4 for both caldari and gallante as well as t2 hybrids up to medium. I'm just not sure which ships outside of amarr have drone bonuses.
Alara IonStorm
#4 - 2013-01-02 16:42:28 UTC
Frigate

Tristan
Ishtar
Worm

Destroyer

Dragoon
Algos

Cruiser

Vexor
Arbitrator
Navy Vexor
Ishtar
Gila
Curse
Pilgrim
Legion + Proteus (Can be configured that way)

Battlecruiser

Mrymidon
Eos (Not really)

Dominix
Navy Dominix
Rattlesnake
Sin

These are the most prominent ones that rely on Drones. Frigates have full flights but no Dmg bonus and the Eos, no one really knows WTF is going on there but it is turning into a real Drone Boat soon.
Gitanmaxx
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2013-01-02 16:48:13 UTC
thank you very much. I really appreciate it.
Zarnak Wulf
Task Force 641
Empyrean Edict
#6 - 2013-01-02 16:50:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Zarnak Wulf
Your low hanging Gallente fruit will be the Tristan, Ishkur, and Algos.

The Tristan is a T1 frigate with a 40m^3 drone bay. It can launch a full flight of lights and has a bonus to both drone and hybrid tracking. The Ishkur is an assault frigate. It carries two flights of lights. It's bonuses include a hybrid damage and optimal bonus. It's drones also get more HP. The Algos is a destroyer. It has a 65m^3 drone bay with 35m^3 of broadband. It's drones get a damage and HP bonus and also get a MWD role bonus. It too has a hybrid tracking bonus.

Your more advanced drone ships include the Vexor, Ishtar, Myrm, and Dominix. All but the Vexor though are slated for rebalancing.
Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#7 - 2013-01-03 14:01:34 UTC
Tengu can have a dronebay


25m3/25mb
5x light somethings
Batelle
Federal Navy Academy
#8 - 2013-01-03 15:03:44 UTC
The plunge on drone ships is deciding if you want to train for the ishtar/gila/navy_vexor/dominix/rattlesnake. If you are training for those ships, then you must train for either t2 heavy drones or t2 sentry drones, but preferably both. If you plan to stick in other drone ships (with 75mbit or less), training for t2 heavies is nice but far from critical. For these ships instead focus on getting EW drone interfacing to 4, Drone Interfacing to 5 (extremely good), and drone navigation 5 (a rank 1 skill).

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Gitanmaxx
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#9 - 2013-01-03 15:37:11 UTC
thanks for all the help guys. My drone skills are actually pretty good, i've been training them a while before trying to fly a drone ship. I can use T2 mediums and almost t2 heavy. I'm starting to look at the destroyers because I want to stay in small ships since I'm horrible at pvp and will be losing quite a few ships.
Rache Bartmoss
The Perfect Harvesting Experience
#10 - 2013-01-04 10:30:34 UTC
Kitty Bear wrote:
Tengu can have a dronebay


25m3/25mb
5x light somethings


Unbonused, but otherwise you're right. Otherwise we could name a bucketload of other ships that can field a full flight of light drones.
Vilnius Zar
SDC Multi Ten
#11 - 2013-01-04 11:36:08 UTC
Note that the Prophecy will probably become a drone ship as well, although that's not set in stone yet (and I hope it won't happen).
Maeltstome
Ten Thousand Days
#12 - 2013-01-04 16:08:37 UTC
i. love. the. gila.