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*The Navy Drake Dilemma*

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Lephia DeGrande
Luxembourg Space Union
#21 - 2014-03-29 11:47:17 UTC
Are we talking about PvP or PvE?

Because the Navy Drake can outmatch any Drake anytime oh and unlike a Drake the Navy Drake can counter a Purifier. (especialy a 10mn Afterburner Purifier and no, i am not kidding!)
Lloyd Roses
Artificial Memories
#22 - 2014-03-29 16:56:34 UTC
This is about the pvp-side, or the Navy Drake being made for a task that doesn't play out -at all- with the hull itself. It is not the meta or certain circumstances to cause it, it's simply a matter of velocity and signature radius. A Drake as a skirmisher was a decent choice when the competition was non-existant, and cause that drake was a kiting swiss-army-knife with acceptable dps-output (even then, before HML-nerf two BCUs with a drake's heavies was considered suboptimal regarding damage) - the navy drake though has less basedamage, the weapon got nerfed in the meantime and loss of the resistbonus compared to the civilian one just nullifies the extra-hp promised by the navy-tag.

Then compare the Navy Drake and the Raven and you see what the Drake wanted to be *in small*. It didn't succeed.
Onictus
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#23 - 2014-03-29 17:30:46 UTC
Most of the issue with the navy drake medium missiles.


HMLs are utterly trash, and HAMs are a niche thing like blasters.
Arthur Aihaken
CODE.d
#24 - 2014-03-29 21:38:41 UTC
It's not necessarily a problem with damage application on the Navy Drake, but damage as a whole. When you have smaller vessels that can potentially put out almost twice the DPS...

I am currently away, traveling through time and will be returning last week.

Caleb Seremshur
Commando Guri
Guristas Pirates
#25 - 2014-03-29 22:25:52 UTC
I feel sometimes that cal navy sub bs were deliberately gimped with pdu in mind
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