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Drones are now useless in Missions
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Auduin Samson
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#101 - 2013-02-03 18:17:15 UTC
Since Retribution was deployed, I have lost maybe five drones total to missions. I rarely used drones before this expansion, so maybe I just didn't already have a preconception of how missions should go. All in all, I've had excellent luck with simply keeping my drones in until they are needed. Once a frigate starts shooting at me, I send drones after it, but if I try to send drones after frigs before they are in range to shoot at me (even if I have already drawn aggro from them), they will switch to the drones. Missions are now much less about drawing aggro and letting your drones clean up the mess and much more about proper asset management.

I don't feel in the slightest that drones are now useless in missions. My primary source of income right now is running missions, and I use drones in each one of them. The only time I have lost any drones is when I sent them out prematurely or just wasn't paying attention.
Morrigan LeSante
Perkone
Caldari State
#102 - 2013-02-03 18:24:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Morrigan LeSante
Nor I, but like you, I don't fly a drone boat. Imagine they were your primary weapon system. One reflected by the hull bonuses and curtailed high slots to balance it.

One suddenly curtailed to Sentries, or ultra short range only.

You see, that'd really annoy me.
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#103 - 2013-02-03 22:11:35 UTC
Jack Miton wrote:
Please put that in a meno and title it 'sh*t i already have read 100 threads about'. ill get around to reading it in a bit.

this is probably one of the threads you already read, likely back in December.

#1 Posted: 2012.12.04 11:32
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#91 Posted: 2012.12.06 20:27
#92 Posted: 2013.02.02 00:20


yea back then op probably had a point, which is why ccp fixed it. now things are fine, except maybe for a few select missions.

@ChainsawPlankto on twitter
Mund Richard
#104 - 2013-02-03 23:49:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Mund Richard
Chainsaw Plankton wrote:
yea back then op probably had a point, which is why ccp fixed it. now things are fine, except maybe for a few select missions.
If by fine you mean people using only sentries and lights if targets are under 10km or only if there are no elite NPCs around, then I suppose you are right.
And drone bay became a bit tighter on many ships due to needing spares.

But I manage fine with my sentries I suppose.
Huzzah 125/375!

"We want PvE activities to require active participation and mirror PvP more closely." Stacking penalty for NPC EWAR then? Lock range under 9km from over 100 in a BS is not fun. Nor is two NPC web drones making me crawl 10m/s. PvP SW-900 x5: 75m/s.