EVE General Discussion

You're looking to fly a dread by the time you're at ~13-14M SP? That's not a good idea since I doubt you've been training dread-related skills exclusively - and the skills you train on the way to be a hyper-focused dread pilot aren't really useful for anything else (no T2 gun specs, no prop mod skills, no drones, etc etc)

Dreads are POS bashers and they can be fit to kill battleships, but they're not that great beyond that. You can use dreads anywhere outside of hisec and they can dock, so that's not a problem.

Also, you don't use dreads in an unsupported solo fashion, you'll just get hotdropped by a pile of supercarriers and blown up before you even lock your first target.

1. You can use it to apply 7000+ DPS with it to a given target when in siege mode. The issue being that siege mode includes tracking penalties making it useless against anything other than static targets (POS towers, stations), other capitals, or in rare cases the odd battleship.

2. Anywhere in lowsec or nullsec.

3. A dread is like any other ship. If you don't have a combat timer you disappear when you log out. You also can (and should) store them in stations, as they're a 3 or 4 billion ISK investment you want to keep safe.

4. You often need a small support fleet go to with them, they only have war immunity while in siege mode, thus can be quite easily tackled and up close your guns will not be able to do any damage to orbiting targets.

Also, at 10m SP it's unlikely you'll have the support skills to properly operate one in the near future. You'll want elite capacitor skills, almost elite defensive skills, you'll need advanced weapon upgrades V to get the siege module, and then you'll need to invest a few million SP in jump skills alone.

My suggestion would be you look at something more fitting for your pilot's skill level. Dreads are expensive and not all often used unless you've got a POS or IHUB you need to blap with 10+ of them. In the mean time you'd probably be much better enjoying yourself with the ISK you'd save by not buying one, from learning to properly fly battleships.

1) there is literally nothing fun you can do with dreads. they suck for PVP, even as anti-capital platform. Only thing you can do with dreads is join null sec alliance and grind sov. hint: it's the second most boring activity after mining.
2) nobody in eve flies a titan on their main. reason for that is that you can't dock with it and once you are IN the titan you'll never leave it until you die. enjoy being a bridge.

Double that.

Then add some more.

An unpimped moros is pushing around 14k, with heat and pimp its more like 18k

Right Blap dreads are no fun and they can only be used against Pos and BS... hmmm what have WH ppl been using all this time.

You can also use them to bash wormholes.. When you get a dread fit it with all the tracking pimp you can.. Then scan out and warp it to a wormhole. You need good tracking to hit the wormhole. You also have to shoot both sides of it so shoot the outside for one seige cycle, then jump in and shoot the inside for 3 seige cycles. When it dies it drops plexes..

Thats why we have dreads in wormhole..

True Story

SSC guy can vouch it works

Well sure, but it'd be odd to choose them over the moros unless you have something very specific in mind.

If your hell bent on getting into capitals then go for carriers. It is more versatile and can have some use outside of combat(logistics). Dread is something you go for if you need to grind SOV, other then that it won't get much use.

Base tracking was halved at the same time. The change was made to hinder Titans blapping subcaps, not to enable dreads to do so more effectively.

Doesn't have the same shock and awe feeling.