EVE General Discussion

I meant to say fighter DPS bonus, not drone but thanks for splittin hairs.

As for 'we're going to do this the srsbsnspoastinway' sorry. I though the forums were for the meaningful exchange of questions and answers, helping people get better at the game.

Clearly I forgot that I'm playing 'Troll Everyone Else Into The Ground Online'.

Edit: unless you're doing c5/6 wh sites, you don't need the reisist bonuses on the archon for carrier PVE.. end even then it's a stretch. These things have a lot of slots, and a lot of EHP

NULL Sec Sanctums stuff.

No meaningful difference between the armor carriers. Chimera is the worst with only 4 slots for drone damage modules. Archon is the most used and best fleet carrier (though Chimera could well be, the meta is just behind the curve in this one).

Drone balance pass and remake has been hinted towards as something CCP will do, which could end up with fighters becoming best for ratting once again. In that case, Thanatos would rock.

This looks pretty good: carrier for ratting.

Sentry fit thantos is what you're after. Anyway ratting in a carrier is easy and fairly safe as long as you're not an idiot. If it's your first time in one don't bother.

As said before it's a fairly quick and easy way to rat but there are cheaper and better ships for doing it in.

I'm just gonna throw this out there because it's hardly a state secret anymore. If you want the drone aggro mechanics to work like they did before the patch just fit a ECM burst to your midslot and light it the instant you come out of warp. Presto changeo it's like the old drone mechanics and you can use fighters just fine.

How it works: you become an 'electronic warfare' target which places you higher on the AI hate scale than your fighters. new waves will still occasionally aggro your fighters, like they used to.

The downside: you gain a 60 second PVP weapons timer while you have the ECM midslot active that prevents you from docking or jumping. the timer remains at 60 seconds until you de-activate the module, or enter warp (it deactivates in warp)

Edit: this also works with target painters (I have not verified myself) and works on subcapitals like Domi's, and with drones (not just fighters)

Edit #2: if you are going to use this trick in highsec, exercise extreme caution as you could be concorded very easily if your ecm burst hits another player or things like asteroids. this is mostly for low/null use.

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