Ships & Modules

I've been messing around with a HAM Drake fit in EFT this morning and can get 843 DPS from that, so you have a lot of options for increasing DPS TBH.

Is there a reason you are using T1 ammo instead of T2? Low SP?

If you post your fit then people might be able to give you more accurate advice; it's difficult to give rig suggestions without seeing the rest of your fit.

Generally the standard for a passive tanked Drake is 1 Sheild Power Rely II and 3 Core Defense Field Purger for level 3's, maybe replacing a hardener for a painter.


When I was lazy I used to do some level 4's with a Drake with 1-2 SPR's because I could AFK. Furies vs Battleships saved a lot of time because their buffers and HP regen, you could kill them in almost half as many shots, that equaled more ISK overall in completion speed and less tedium.

MY pve drake looks like this:

BCU II x 3
Shield Power Relay x 1

Invulnerability Field II x 1
Pith C-type Kinetic Defelection Field x 1
Large Shield Extender x 2
Phased Weapon Navigation Array Generation Extron x 1
10MN Afterburner x 1

Heavy Missile Launcher II x 6

Medium Core Defense Field Purgers x 3

I mostly deal with guristas rats .....

Tanks vs guristas 230 ehp/s
Dps with Caldary Navy Scourge = 355 at 55 KM range
Dps with Scourge Fury = 415 at 42 km range

I use mostly Core defense purgers for pve and Core defense field extenders for pvp.....

For Drake:

Purger riggs for PVE
Extender riggs for PVP

I suppose not. If you're going to drop that sort of cash you'd be better off in a BS. A fun exercise though!

That's what I did. Pith A Medium Booster & Amp and 2 mission specific resists. Numbers looked OK IIRC.

WIth the resistance bonus + an invuln, you're probably better off with another extender/purger instead of the EM rig. If you're going against EM heavy damage, just fit a specific hardener. Typically I would stick with shield rigs on a drake to keep the fit versatile, but the rigor rig is a very good option that will not go to waste. It works well with a target painter or in place of one.




Anything you put a Pithum A-type med booster on turns to gold. Its not necessarily an indicator of an great fit (i mean, I can active shield tank a damn mega if i wanted with one of those). You could buy a faction fit tengu with a c-type med or a-type small booster for the price of that pithum a-type, and it would do a lot better than your drake. Only reason to pimp a drake out that much for missions is that its less likely to get scanned and suicided. That said, this may be a good enough reason, and even without the expensive mod, there's nothing wrong with active tanking a drake.




Do not ever NOT use Rage HAMs or Fury HMs when shooting BCs/BSs/structures. Especially when you're pushing over 8m sp in missile skills like OP is. If you have low base dps this will make a huge difference in the speed you take down BS. If you have high dps already, then you'll go from 'dying quickly' to 'melting.'

Also, HAMs work very well right now. They also hit frigates much harder than heavy missiles (faction hams rip elite frigs apart with high skills). Range is still an issue. At least its just range you have to worry about and not range, dps application, and pg use, like before.

Missile precision makes the use of Rigors in PVE unneeded. you could also remove a shield mod in the mid slots for a target painter if you still fear loosing to much damage against a smaller target.