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i am in agreement, the low drone bays lower the advantages the ship has, and seems like a pre-nerf.

100/175 seem correct to me. You have large cargo hold, give it a large drone bay too, and 100 bandwidth for 4x sentry for great projected drone dps that is stationary next to you in Bastion mode for increased synergy without power creep (matches most faction / pirate drone bays). Otherwise the extra projection is sort of pointless.

If you use salvage drones on a marauder, you are doing it very, very wrong

I agree... the drone bay is way too small. 75m3 is probably as small as i would find use full.

I, too, fit my Marauder with three tractors and a flight of salvage drones. However, I don't deploy them until NPCs are already dead. Shall I take this to mean that salvage drones don't draw any aggro?

Also posting in support of a 75m3 or 100m3 drone bay, even if the 50m3 bandwidth is kept.

I have them all up to 5 except for drone durability and my drones can still die pretty fast. Honestly, I've gotten to where I prefer shooting the frigs myself rather than letting my drones die. With that said, Alvatore, my salvage drones don't draw aggro very often, but I do lose one occasionally. I like to kill off all the frigs first in the mission then let my salvagers loose. They don't seem to be bothered much by cruisers.



This is how I do it :P

I agree 100%, even the "Sniper BS" Rokh has 50/50, and it has no use for salvager drones,.. and given the Marauder Class's perk is salvaging on the fly, this should be the minimum drone stat line with an extra 25m3 of drone bay to fit those Salvaging Drones.


I see where you're coming from with this,.. and with the new "structure mechanics" I'd love this as much as the next mission runner, but having said that, I can't see CCP agreeing to this, as it stands all Marauders get 75/75 at least, I can't see them buffing Drone Bandwidth when they're already doing so much to increase damage projection with the Bastion Module.


This in a nutshell,.. leave some flexibility.

This is all good to hear, I'd still like to see some of the resists baked into the hull and taken from the bastion module. Maybe make the resists on the module 15/15/30 (armor/shield//hull) and bake a higher resist profile into the hulls. This would give them a tad more survivability in fleet situations without keeping their rep bonus or damage application bonus. I don't think a battleship should ever have full blown t2 resists, that is overpowered with remote reps with their slot layouts, but a bit extra out of bastion without increasing their effectiveness in Bastion would be nice.

But did you also not see how unbalanced it was to have a web bonus on a ship with optimal and MJD bonuses? The ships were having their bonuses spread out over too many ranges. Even as it stands now I wish the tractor beam bonus would either be buffed to fit more in the operating ranges (60 to 80km), or be dropped for another bonus that would fit the hulls. Adding in a web bonus simply made things even more spread out (10 to 15km webs, 40 to 48km tractors, 60 to 80km optimal, and the 100km MJD) just made things even worse.

I'd much rather seem them make the ships that do have the 90% webs (Cruor, Daredevil, Ashimu, Vigilant, and Vindicator) become more viable then have that role shoehorned into an otherwise solid ship concept.

Good to hear

hmm the point of larger drone bay is so that if 2 dies you can replace in battle. imagine if you only have 5 drones and 3 of them die to npc frigates then you are scamed and webbed. you are stuck for a very long time.