Missions & Complexes

You can't do 1000 DPS in anything else either due to resists.

And that 1000 DPS is going to be at what range? 30km? 40?

Also:

[Dominix, levekl 4]
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Federation Navy Magnetic Field Stabilizer
Federation Navy Magnetic Field Stabilizer
Federation Navy Magnetic Field Stabilizer
Co-Processor II

Federation Navy Omnidirectional Tracking Link
Federation Navy Omnidirectional Tracking Link
Pith C-Type X-Large Shield Booster
Thermic Dissipation Field II
EM Ward Field II

350mm Railgun II, Spike L
350mm Railgun II, Spike L
350mm Railgun II, Spike L
350mm Railgun II, Spike L
350mm Railgun II, Spike L
350mm Railgun II, Spike L

Large Drone Control Range Augmentor I
Large Hybrid Collision Accelerator I
Large Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I


Garde II x5

suck on that

1021 DPS @ 73km, no implants.

[Dominix, levekl 4]
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II
Co-Processor II

Federation Navy Omnidirectional Tracking Link
Federation Navy Omnidirectional Tracking Link
Pith C-Type X-Large Shield Booster
Thermic Dissipation Field II
EM Ward Field II

Dual Heavy Beam Laser II, Aurora L
Dual Heavy Beam Laser II, Aurora L
Dual Heavy Beam Laser II, Aurora L
Dual Heavy Beam Laser II, Aurora L
Dual Heavy Beam Laser II, Aurora L
Dual Heavy Beam Laser II, Aurora L

Large Drone Control Range Augmentor I
Large Energy Discharge Elutriation I
Large Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I


Garde II x5

this one might do more real damage though, can also use faction heatsinks to get over 1k DPS, this one stands at 984 with regular t2, in fact you could T2 everything and still gardes hit to 68km.

mael unlikely

tempest unlikely

Phoon yes

Raven, cutting it close

Apoc, sansha/BR yes

Multifrequency L range.

Thanks Suki, at least we put some useful content in this thread, too bad it is buried under so much garbage.

So while you're pittling away at them using long range crystals before they get in range of MF I'm applying 1k DPS from the get go.

Domi punches well above it's price bracket, start realising it.

Only one drone damage amp, cap mods in the lows... This is an obvious troll fit and post.

I guess by replying I'm feeding the troll

Go try it in BR Blockade.

Hint: you don't have cap booster.

Why would you leave that 7th med slot empty?

I watched it. For the record, I still think youtube is an awful medium for this stuff. It takes way, way too long to get points across and it ends up being a monologue that is very difficult to respond to. Listing your criteria, mentioning your core assumptions, posting a fit, and asking for dialog about it just works better. There's a cynical part of me that thinks you realize all this and that you don't want dialog. But then why would you post it to the forums?

So I'll engage with the video against better judgement.

Without engaging with the fit just yet, I'd like to question some of your underlying assumptions and criteria for what makes an effective Dominix. First, you assert rather vociferously that drone boats as a class are low damage and low maintenance as compared to gun platforms. I have no problem at all telling you this is flat out wrong; that's not a feature of drone boats, that's a feature of how you've chosen to fit your drone boat.

Now, obviously that's not an entirely popular choice. Many people, myself included, prefer to fit the current Dominix as an absolute murder machine, abusing the ridiculous new bonus it gets. And seriously, if it doesn't get a swift kick in the teeth sometime soon I'll be very, very surprised. The damn thing is capable of pushing out 800 DPS out to an 85ish km optimal with the tracking (though not effective tracking) of medium short range guns. Combine that with a MJD and suddenly you're looking at a mission meta that's hard to argue with: things die so fast at such long range that moving becomes entirely about avoiding a chunk of damage and limiting how much tank you actually need to fit.

Now, in contrast to that, you're opting to fit in an older style based on tanking missions to death while you have a sandwich. And you know what? That used to work pretty well. And it no longer really does. I'd be very impressed if you were able to actually afk in your setup without losing drones left and right. In fact, name a mission you've able to do that in and based on which one you choose I'll pay you out up to 250mil for a video showing that drones do not, in fact, draw agro when you're afk. Happily, in fact. It doesn't match my experience at all, and it throws your approach into question rather seriously.

So there you go. Tension between the idea that you can't really afk missions anymore versus that idea that instead you can roflstomp them in the same drone boat that used to be a little hard to use.

Ok, that said. Let's assume you can somehow afk missions these days; I'll suspend judgement on that for the time being. At that point I'm pretty comfortable asserting that you're not using the best ship for the job. Because that would be the Rattlesnake. It gets a resist bonus, a stupid tank whether you go passive or active, and can achieve cap stability more easily than your Dominix. I'm not sure where you got the notion that the Dominix/NDomi were the "best" drone boats in the game, but you really can't make judgments that sweeping without asserting some additional criteria (what are you doing with them? are you going for raw damage, tank, afk running, neut power, what?). Yes, the Rattlesnake is more expensive, but it does what you're asking a ship to do better.

Now, as far as some of your one-off assertions. First, I'm uncomfortable with the idea that you're advising people to use Wardens over Bouncers in Minmatar space. I'm sorry, but Bouncers are just plain better against Angels. It's a minor thing, but it bears repeating. Similarly, Curators are going to outperform Wardens against Rogue Drones and anything that shoots lasers. It's worth swapping them out.

Also, T2 CCCs. You said a couple of times that you would only be able to get two of them on -- which is technically correct. But you can keep the third T1 CCC on there at the same time; it fits just fine that way. Whether that's a good idea is up to you; I find large T2 CCCs to be stupidly expensive for their relatively minor benefits, but I highly suspect you would be able to drop at least one cap module if you made the change. That would mean either another omni or another DDA, and either would greatly benefit the ship overall.

I'm not sure what to say about your high slots. It's fine, I guess? But it's not like you can salvage/loot afk. That's always puzzled me; an afk fit drone ship with a bunch of high slots that require your attention. Why not just put some damn guns in there? But hey, that's just me.

I'm sure there was more, but this is already too much of my own monologue, so I'll cut it off. But I'm dead serious about paying to see you afk a mission. Just get in touch and we can make arrangements.