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Heavy drones - CCPs joke.
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Black Canary Jnr
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2014-01-10 14:19:46 UTC
With all the current moaning about drone assign you would be forgiven for forgetting about our poor friends the heavy drones.

With lower DPS and being easily speed tankable, not to mention actually having to travel to shoot stuff, why should players use heavy drones over sentry drones? They are a bad joke, much like 'defender missiles'.

/thread.
Tiberu Stundrif
Nifty Idustries
Pandemic Horde
#2 - 2014-01-10 14:35:10 UTC
Do you even Ishtar?

The Ishtar platform gives drones the buff they've needed for a while.
Clean Protagonist
Southern Cross Monopoly
Flying Dangerous
#3 - 2014-01-10 14:36:27 UTC
Heavy drones have more damage and tracking than sentry drones
HiddenPorpoise
Jarlhettur's Drop
United Federation of Conifers
#4 - 2014-01-10 14:38:04 UTC
Heavy drones melt faces if you charge headlong into blaster range.
Batelle
Federal Navy Academy
#5 - 2014-01-10 14:52:27 UTC
The Eos and Navy Vexor are designed to be heavy drone carriers (ishtar is good for both). They are brawling ships, and when you're brawling, you're gonna want heavy drones anyway. Assuming they catch a target, they can do a very good job hitting smallish stuff. The big issue with heavy drones is aggro in PVE, although there is some vodoo magick about that allows a 100mn AB ishtar with 2 navi computers to get 751 dps out of Wasps and pretty much kill sanctums without the drones taking any aggro.

Wasps with 2 t2 navicomputers and HAC 5 can move pretty damn fast.

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Callic Veratar
#6 - 2014-01-10 17:08:34 UTC
The unfortunate side effect here is making heavy drones usable on all ships will make them stupidly OP on the few ships that currently use them well.

Perhaps rather than changes to the drones themselves, a few new modules could be introduced that give benefits to the drones. There's already the tracking, control range, and damage mods. How about a drone speed mod? A drone MJD module, where they appear on a target rather than having to fly out?
Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#7 - 2014-01-10 17:27:03 UTC
Callic Veratar wrote:
The unfortunate side effect here is making heavy drones usable on all ships will make them stupidly OP on the few ships that currently use them well.

Perhaps rather than changes to the drones themselves, a few new modules could be introduced that give benefits to the drones. There's already the tracking, control range, and damage mods. How about a drone speed mod? A drone MJD module, where they appear on a target rather than having to fly out?


Drone Navigation Computer already boosts drone speed.
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#8 - 2014-01-10 17:42:23 UTC
Confirming that Berserker IIs are awesome at ranges where sentry drones start sucking (sub 12kms).

How did you Veterans start?
Robert Caldera
Caldera Trading and Investment
#9 - 2014-01-10 18:23:06 UTC
you can freely move on grid without loosing your drones at some point, still being able to recall them at range.
Priestess Lin
Darkfall Corp
#10 - 2014-01-10 18:29:11 UTC
They are too slow and often die before you can recall them.

When discussing weaknesses of heavy drones vs fast frigates: baltec1- " A thanatos with a flight of geckos killed a bomber gang while AFK. So yea, they track frigates just fine." https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4678049#post4678049
LUMINOUS SPIRIT
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#11 - 2014-01-10 22:07:39 UTC
In short-ranged battleship warfare, Ogre II is better then sentries. For example, a blaster Mega or a neut gheddon getting up in your face and sic-ing Orges on you is not to be laughed at.