Ships & Modules

This highly depends on what else you could put into that slot. With gunships, you have to balance dps and tracking, giving you limited slots to play with. With missiles, though, you can only put BCUs into low slots, at which point it's a question of more tank (damage control) vs. about 60 extra dps. And since you should run with as much dps as possible in pve, BCU almost always wins.



You get less dps out of a DDA than you do out of the 4th BCU. However, some fits use a DDA in CNR's fifth slot to boost the drone damage a bit.

People keep posting stuff like that yet in the seven years that I've been playing I've never seen it actually work out that way. Personally, I think being stupid puts up a bigger "Please... Pretty please gank me!" sign than putting expensive stuff on your ship does. I say that as someone who routinely flies 500m+ ships with 2b+ worth of modules on them and hasn't come close to losing any of them.

I always thought that the 4 BCU (3 CN, one T2) + 1 T2 DDA was the standard for the RNI. Gank is king in PvE, and the faster you destroy a DPS spike the less tank you need to finish the room. A DDA is a very good choice, it gives you the ability to down frigs fast while multitasking the spike (missiles against the biggest DPS or towers, drones against the scramblers-webs).

A DC is an odd module to use in L4 PvE, you should have a pretty adequate active tank without it.

LOL, drone agro, yes,

They have been repeatedly "tweaking" it, without ever mentioning it in the patch notes. Still it is much better than it was. BS's will now not target light or medium drones, but when sending them after elite frigates you pretty much have to put them on passive and control them manually. They also often get targeted by frigates they do not even agro.

Often frigates you agro will switch to the drones. If you baby sit them you will not lose many, but the days of setting them on auto agro, and leaving them to deal with frigs while you kill the rest are long gone. Drones now have to be micro managed to survive. On top of that some sites/spawns hate drones more than others.

They now have a bar that controls hate generated by drones. for a while they had it turned down to the point drones were almost the same as they used to be. Now they are messing with it again.

After the AI change I changed my tactics. With target painters and precision cruise missiles I rarely use drones on my Raven anymore.

Thanks, but I don't see anything in either of those that mentions anything about them having a bar to tweak aggro, or that they're messing with it again without putting it in the patch notes.