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Drifter battleship thrashing, have you been able to beat it and how?
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Piugattuk
Litla Sundlaugin
#1 - 2016-11-14 00:03:36 UTC
I got thrashed by the drifter battleship in a

The Eagle was an insta pop

The Nighthawk was killed in seconds

The Astarte got owned

And the SNI did not survive the super weapon.

What can survive long enough to actually win a fight with a drifter BS?
elitatwo
Zansha Expansion
#2 - 2016-11-14 00:33:36 UTC
Nothing in EVE survives that murder-death-ray thingy.

What you need to do is bring 2 battleships, one is going to go poof in the process and it is usually not even worth doing it in the first place.

When I said "challenging" I mean challenging, not unbeatable.

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Cyclone Organic
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2016-11-14 02:25:26 UTC
To tank that Drifter super weapon, you will need a Paladin with 1600 plates and bastion module. Actually you can find a video on Youtube about how people managed to kill a Drifter battleship in high sec.

And about that POS kill idea, as far as I know, it is not feasible anymore.
Piugattuk
Litla Sundlaugin
#4 - 2016-11-14 04:41:13 UTC
Well...guess I'm not alone then, the cruiser are tough but those BS, man.
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#5 - 2016-11-14 05:00:36 UTC
I once saw a guy in a Caracal take out a Drifter battleship.

He essentially "tanked" it by staying 70+km out with a MWD. And because he wasn't *too much* of a thread, the Drifter did not Doomsday him.

It took awhile, but he did it.

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Barrogh Habalu
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2016-11-14 07:16:00 UTC
A now-irrelevant note, since the gist of it was already mentioned.

When Drifter incursions were still a thing, people were doing them by swarming them in Thrashers. It was indeed associated with stupid amount of reshipping.

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Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#7 - 2016-11-14 15:50:35 UTC
Drifters are one of the biggest wastes of time in the development history of EVE IMO.
NIFTYGetAtMe
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#8 - 2016-11-15 20:34:39 UTC
ShahFluffers wrote:
I once saw a guy in a Caracal take out a Drifter battleship.

He essentially "tanked" it by staying 70+km out with a MWD. And because he wasn't *too much* of a thread, the Drifter did not Doomsday him.

It took awhile, but he did it.

I think that is complete BS. A drifter does 1k dps with is normal guns and Doomsdays whoever takes down its shield every time its shield goes down. It also goes 2000-4500m/s and has a 5 point scram out to 500km, a 40km 60% web and 60GJ Neutralizer. There is no possible scenario a lone Caracal could kill a Drifter Battleship. If troll, nicely done, but Drifters are just too much of a thread for info like yours to be spread around.
Paranoid Loyd
#9 - 2016-11-15 21:05:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Paranoid Loyd
NIFTYGetAtMe wrote:
I think that is complete BS.
There is no possible scenario a lone Caracal could kill a Drifter Battleship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wh-S_4i8Gg

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NIFTYGetAtMe
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#10 - 2016-11-15 21:16:50 UTC  |  Edited by: NIFTYGetAtMe
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
NIFTYGetAtMe wrote:
I think that is complete BS.
There is no possible scenario a lone Caracal could kill a Drifter Battleship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wh-S_4i8Gg

Well I stand corrected, it happened. However, this must be a bug or exploit because all Drifter Battleships scram out to 500KM. Perhaps it was pre-patch... or not even on TQ. It doesn't red-box the entire time; something outside the current game mechanics is going on in that video. They also have infinite range on DD and sig makes no difference.
Uniraver Avaniel
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#11 - 2016-11-16 14:30:15 UTC
Piugattuk wrote:
I got thrashed by the drifter battleship in a

The Eagle was an insta pop

The Nighthawk was killed in seconds

The Astarte got owned

And the SNI did not survive the super weapon.

What can survive long enough to actually win a fight with a drifter BS?



I usually kill them without any loss when they spawn from Seekers.
Warp to seekers in your Carrier, engage with fighters. warp to something 700km off.
- Pray for Drifter BB spawn.

Kill it as it warps in with your fighters.
It won't use the DD since you'r usually around 300-500km off when it pops.

Haven't seen anything worthwile drop so far though.
Ashlar Vellum
Esquire Armaments
#12 - 2016-11-17 00:01:50 UTC
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
NIFTYGetAtMe wrote:
I think that is complete BS.
There is no possible scenario a lone Caracal could kill a Drifter Battleship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wh-S_4i8Gg

Cin didn't use caracals he used cerbs.
Lil' Brudder Too
Pistols for Pandas
#13 - 2016-11-18 03:03:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Lil' Brudder Too
Ashlar Vellum wrote:
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
NIFTYGetAtMe wrote:
I think that is complete BS.
There is no possible scenario a lone Caracal could kill a Drifter Battleship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wh-S_4i8Gg

Cin didn't use caracals he used cerbs.

This method has since been patched out. CCP was not excited about the possibility of someone *easily* solo'ing their baby. They no longer seem to have a reasonable offensive range limit, at least one that matters as we are only able to target out to 250k.

To counter that, a rather shiney Snake or SNI (need something like 700k ehp) can solo a drifter BB. But as has been mentioned, the loot drop is not worth the cost of fitting the ship, plus you become a gank/grief target.

Don't assume carriers can easily solo as one of the early victims to the Drifters was indeed a carrier. Their DD does something like 700k omni. (its been a while since i looked at the hard numbers.

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