On some drone boat hulls with no weapon bonuses (such as the Myrmidon or Arbitrator) fitting non-racial turrets can be a viable option. Using drones as your primary weapons lets you control the type of damage you're doing, and can free up space on your ship for salvaging (or other utility modules). With good support skills, dedicated drone boats can be very effective in PvE. For this reason, avoid ordering your non-sentry drones to attack distant targets, because if your drones start to take damage, they likely won't have time to fly back to your ship and dock before being destroyed. Also, using your ship's weapons on the rats attacking your drones may divert their attention. In order to minimise your drone losses, keep an eye on their health - if they start taking damage, order them back to your drone bay (which will cause the rats to target something else, usually your ship). At the extreme end, Sleeper NPC are very fond of attacking drones, so much so that solo drone boats have a very difficult time in wormhole PvE. In particular, elite rats (see NPC Naming Convention) have a higher probability of attacking your drones. This may entail extra skill training.įrigate rats may attack your light drones and above, cruiser rats may attack your medium drones and above, and battleship rats may attack your heavy/sentry drones. The sentries or heavies can do some DPS to cruiser targets (sentries work quite well on them when their angular velocity is low) and can augment your DPS against battlecruisers and battleships. If you're flying a battleship with a reasonable drone bay and decent support skills, such that your primary weapons can kill cruisers reasonably fast, you may also want to consider bringing a flight of light drones and three or more sentry/heavy drones. At this point it's good to have Tech 2 light and medium drones, as they are considerably superior to Tech 1 drones. Most battleships also have the dronebay space to bring at least a flight of medium drones as well, which will help you deal with NPC cruisers and battlecruisers. Standard level 4 mission battleship fits include a flight of light drones. because larger drones, too, have trouble with small, fast targets. Even if you're flying a battlecruiser with a 50m 3 drone bay for level 3 missions, it may be wise to bring five light drones rather than five mediums. (See Targeting time)įor this reason, it's a good idea to be able to field at least a full flight of five light drones when you begin to attempt level 3 missions. To compound the problem, in tougher exploration sites and level 3 and 4 missions frigates can be the most dangerous enemies, because they can warp-scramble and/or web you. It may sometimes be impossible to kill them using even medium-sized weapons once they settle into a close orbit around you. As you begin to fly medium and large ships, frigate-sized NPC enemies become increasingly hard to kill.
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