EVE General Discussion

Drake vs Drake Navy Issue
Drake has 6 launcher slots, at CBC level 5, you get 50% more damage per launcher, this comes down to the equivalent of 9 launchers.
Drake Navy Issue has 8 launchers at 0 damage bonus.

Drake has 4% resist per level, meaning 20% more resist at CBC 5, so you take 20% less damage before fitting resistance modules or rigs, which makes the Drake's tank basically the same ( in terms of EHP ) as the Drake Navy Issue.

All the Drake Navy Issue does better than the normal Drake, is fire from longer range and hit smaller targets.

Effectively, you guys made an attempt at a "sniper" missile boat.

Ok, now in terms of how we can use it.
PVE:
Drake Navy Issue is better at disposing smaller targets at higher range, BUT, fitting just 1 target painter to a normal drake, will make all those lovely Drake Navy Issue stats useless, seeing as it's a little easier to "sacrifice" a mid slot on the normal Drake.
Also, the extra range is over-rated and hardly means anything out there.

PVP:
You can make a "long" range sniper Drake.
But it being missiles, makes it useless again, since the travel-time of missiles makes them less than loved.


The only advantage i can see ( and it is only small ), is that HAM's effectively get the same range as normal Heavies, or just slightly over.
Out there though, the short range of the HAM's on a normal Drake, are only a very small "issue".


So i ask, anyone, the Drake Navy Issue, why does it exist?

It has nice texture

Good point, but is it worth that much extra iskies?

The question should be "Why does the Drake exist"....... death to all drakes !

It does less damage than the Drake ( provided you shoot kinetic, which most people do ) and all it gives back is more range.
I live in null, i know targets get out of HAM range often, but the inconvenience is really only small, i just don't find it enough of a reason to fork out 2 or 3 times ( think at this point in time, it's even 5 times still ) the iskies for it.

******Edit****** just checked eve-central, it's even 6 times the iskies and up.

Why would "most people" shoot kinetic, only reason would be when doing pve against guristas of when fighting T2/T3 minmatar shield ships. You do know that there's more to EVE than doing PVE in Caldari space, right?

The new navy BC are not a direct upgrade, because that would make them terrible OP (something I was afraid of to happen) but they're a sidegrade; they're not outright better but have a different use or focus. I'm sorry that you expected to have the super tanked Drake of hell for your ratting.

- because you don't listen. If you want people to have grown up conversations with you, act like one. If you act like a 5 year old who didn't get his candy you'll be treated like one
- no, they don't. Just most mission runners do
- you did, by asking why a ship with no direct dps increase or shield resists is so expensive. That means that you expected this new and expensive ship to have more dps and tank. From the second you heard about that Navy Drake you had dreams, wet ones, about the shlurp dps and super uber tank. I know you did, we all do because it's so obvious from this whole thread

- drake never was comparable to a tengu

- because you whine like a carebear

- as I explained before, it's really good in *some* situations, mostly pvp ones, and for those people it's possibly a good investment

You can, on EVEO GD. It happens all the time.

Grumpy much? Then you, sir, need to get laid.

Drakes Navy Issue officer/faction fitted erryday.

Op: you don't know how to use it, what is made for, you're desperately trying to make a horse out of a cow. Don't look any further, the problem comes from you, not the ship.