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EOS could do with a Drone Bay of 275, not 250
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Dinsdale Pirannha
Pirannha Corp
#1 - 2013-08-29 15:32:42 UTC
Clearly, this is a drone based ship, given the bandwidth and bonuses.

The drone bay as it currently stands, with a bandwidth of 125, naturally leads to carrying a set of heavies, and a set of sentries.
But what about handling small targets. The tracking speed bonuses on the guns and heavy drones is great, but the ship still cannot hit fast-moving small targets.

Having a drone bay 25 units larger allows for a flight of lights to be carried, which is pretty much crucial for any drone boat.
Domanique Altares
Rifterlings
#2 - 2013-08-29 16:37:57 UTC
Trade-offs suck, don't they? No one says you have to carry sentries and heavies.
Dinsdale Pirannha
Pirannha Corp
#3 - 2013-08-29 17:32:41 UTC
Domanique Altares wrote:
Trade-offs suck, don't they? No one says you have to carry sentries and heavies.


Don't be a fanboi.
Ordo Malus
State War Academy
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-08-30 06:32:06 UTC
Dont be a pubbie who wants everything handed to him.
Cadre Arareb
The Cadre Arareb Foundation
#5 - 2013-08-30 10:17:13 UTC
Ok, So say CCP was to give your EOS 25 more drone bay,

What will they give the other 3 races who DPS isn't very dependent on Drone Power.

The supers will rise again!
Shpenat
Ironman Inc.
Transgress
#6 - 2013-08-30 13:06:40 UTC
Whoy would you carry sentries in Eos? Either you are fit for close range combat and hence need heavies (which are bonused) or you are set to stay away from enemies and hence need sentries (without bonuses so you are better off with ishtar anyway).

Bringing sentries and heavies makes little sense.
Vrenth
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2013-09-03 19:42:17 UTC
Shpenat wrote:
Whoy would you carry sentries in Eos? Either you are fit for close range combat and hence need heavies (which are bonused) or you are set to stay away from enemies and hence need sentries (without bonuses so you are better off with ishtar anyway).

Bringing sentries and heavies makes little sense.


I agree completely. Using sentries on this ship, you may as well be in an ishtar. Take advantage of the masive bonus it shares with heavy drones. Making them move and track like medium drones (or better) and do the DPS on the high end of BC hulls.. This extra done bay past 5 heavies should be used for backup heavy drones, and maybe a rack or two of light to deal with kiting frigates that your web+ heavies can't kill (not many come to mind).

The Eos and Ishtar are beast mode now, using partially unbonused sentries on the Eos is just silly though, and highly situational.
Dinsdale Pirannha
Pirannha Corp
#8 - 2013-09-03 21:08:20 UTC
Vrenth wrote:
Shpenat wrote:
Whoy would you carry sentries in Eos? Either you are fit for close range combat and hence need heavies (which are bonused) or you are set to stay away from enemies and hence need sentries (without bonuses so you are better off with ishtar anyway).

Bringing sentries and heavies makes little sense.


I agree completely. Using sentries on this ship, you may as well be in an ishtar. Take advantage of the masive bonus it shares with heavy drones. Making them move and track like medium drones (or better) and do the DPS on the high end of BC hulls.. This extra done bay past 5 heavies should be used for backup heavy drones, and maybe a rack or two of light to deal with kiting frigates that your web+ heavies can't kill (not many come to mind).

The Eos and Ishtar are beast mode now, using partially unbonused sentries on the Eos is just silly though, and highly situational.


Very soon, OGB's are going bye bye.
At that point, command ships will have to be on-grid.
And the Gallente Command ships are the defacto on-grid booster for Incursions then.
Sentries are the best option.

Further, in a mission based option (yeah, I tested the EOS on Sisi in missions, sentries are far superior to heavies which get eaten by NPC's.)