Warfare & Tactics

It's not always worth it to shoot buffed drones off a drone boat, they can have as much combined ehp as the hull it'self when you factor in how much harder they are to hit.

1) always kill gecko's unless you're confident you can win and you want to loot them
2) if you can't hit the drone boat with your primary weapon, like if you're in a brawling ship and you're getting kited by a tristan obviously you might as well shoot his drones.
3) Unbuffed drones from ships with only one flight. like if you're fighting a breacher they lose a lot of their dps when the drones are gone, same thing with most non-drone boats especially when they're tanky and the fight's going to last a while anyway.