Ishtar

 

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Ishtar

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While not endowed with as much pure firepower as other ships of its category, the Ishtar is more than able to hold its own by virtue of its tremendous capacity for drones and its unique hard-coded drone-control subroutines. Developer: CreoDron Touted as "the Ishkur's big brother," the Ishtar design is the furthest CreoDron have ever gone towards creating a completely dedicated drone carrier. At various stages in its development process plans were made to strengthen the vessel in other areas, but ultimately the CreoDron engineers' fascination with pushing the drone carrier envelope overrode all other concerns. SHIP BONUSES Gallente Cruiser bonuses (per skill level): 7.5% bonus to Heavy Drone max velocity and tracking speed 10% bonus to Light, Medium, and Heavy Drone hit points and damage 5% bonus to Sentry Drone hit points and damage Heavy Assault Cruisers bonuses (per skill level): 5000m bonus to Drone operation range 5% bonus to Sentry Drone optimal range and tracking speed Role Bonus: • Can fit Assault Damage Controls Required Skills Gallente Cruiser V29d 15h 6m Spaceship Command II47m Gallente Destroyer III8h 53m Gallente Frigate III8h 53m Spaceship Command I8m Heavy Assault Cruisers I50m Energy Grid Upgrades V11d 20h 26m Power Grid Management II47m Science I8m Weapon Upgrades V11d 20h 26m Gunnery II47m Spaceship Command V5d 22h 13m Capacitor Management IV3d 3h 25m Power Grid Management III4h 26m Training Time what's this? 63d 9h 37m 40s Estimated training time only for the listed skills based on zero implants and without neural remaps. Grouping ▪ Variations Guardian-Vexor Guardian-Vexor Special Edition Cruisers Vexor Class 5 (1/5) 4 5 725 MW 400 tf 180 m/sec 480 m³ ,Vexor Navy Issue Vexor Navy Issue Faction Cruisers Vexor Class 4 (0/3) 4 6 850 MW 350 tf 210 m/sec 460 m³ ,Vexor Vexor Standard Cruisers Vexor Class 4 (0/4) 4 5 700 MW 300 tf 195 m/sec 480 m³ Ship Attributes Fittings Powergrid 740 MW CPU 340 tf Capacitor 1,400 GJ High 4 Launchers 0 Turrets 4 Medium 4 Low 6 Rig 2   medium Calibration 400 Navigation Max Velocity 175 m/sec Inertia Modifier 0.565 Warp Speed 4.5 AU/s Base Time to Warp 8 s what's this? Base Time to Warp is essentially the time needed for this ship to align and accelerate until it reaches 75% of its top speed and goes to warp. The time displayed here is the base calculated time with no account for any warp related skills, modules or any other effects. Drones Drone Capacity 375 m³ Drone Bandwidth 125 Mbit/sec Targeting Max Tgt. Range 80.00 km Max Locked Targets 7 Magnetometric Sensor 23 points Sig. Radius 145 m Scan Res. 294 mm Structure Structure Hitpoints 2,300 HP Mass 10,600,000 kg Volume 115,000 m³ Cargo Capacity 560 m³ Armor Armor Hitpoints 1,600 HP Armor Resistances EM 50 THR 67.5 KIN 83.75 EXP 10 Shields Shield Capacity 1,400 HP Shield Resistances EM 0 THR 60 KIN 85 EXP 50

Summary

One of the best cruiser class ships, the Ishtar can deal some serious damage with drones with a good tank. The Ishtar has the bandwidth to field a full flight of heavy or sentry drones, and it has a 375m3 drone bay, allowing it to carry several different drone flights. Without refitting the Ishtar can deploy sentry drones and snipe, or heavy drones and brawl up close, while carrying light and medium drones to deal with smaller ships. The Ishtar has no bonuses to weapons, so its highs are free to use drone link augmentors, cap warfare, or guns to add DPS.

The Ishtar is currently one of the most popular kiting ships due to good speed and tank combined with the excellent damage projection native to Sentry Drones. It is widely used in small - medium sized gangs with great success - the kiting fit below is quite standard. The ability to deal damage at good range without using high slots allows you to fit Neuts to combat tacklers that manage to get a grip on you.

The Aegis release in July 2015 has substantially changed the slot layout of the Ishtar: While previously it had 5 mid and 5 low slots, after the Aegis release these were changed to 4 mid and 6 low slots. This means that previously popular shield fits cannot be used anymore while armor fits gained a buff. Note that any pre-Aegis fits posted below have to be adapted.

Skills

The Ishtar is primarily a drone boat. Since most of its DPS comes from drones, decent drone skills are required to fly the ship to its full potential. Decent drone skills might look like so:

•  Drones V (1x) - Required to unlock most of the following skills; allows control of 5 drones.
•  Light Drone Operation V (1x) - Required for Tech II light drones; 5% bonus to light drone damage per level.
•  Medium Drone Operation V (2x) - Required for Tech II medium drones; 5% bonus to medium drone damage per level.
•  Heavy Drone Operation V (5x) - Required for Tech II heavy drones; 5% bonus to heavy drone damage per level.
•  Sentry Drone Interfacing V (5x) - Required for Tech II sentry drones; 5% bonus to sentry drone damage per level.
•  Gallente Drone Specialization IV (5x) - Or other racial drone specialization skill. Required for racial Tech II light, medium, heavy, and sentry drones; 2% bonus per level to racial drones requiring this skill.
•  Drone Interfacing IV (5x) - 10% bonus per level to drone damage; a very important skill for maximizing DPS.
•  Drone Navigation IV (1x) - 5% bonus per level to drone max velocity; drone reach targets and return faster.
•  Drone Sharpshooting IV (1x) - 5% bonus per level to drone optimal range; especially important for sentry drones.
•  Drone Durability IV (5x) - 5% bonus per level to drone shield, armor, and hull hit points; drones last longer.

The Ishtar is difficult to fit without the proper fitting skills. Consider having the following fitting skills trained:

•  Power Grid Management V (1x)
•  CPU Management V (1x)
•  Weapon Upgrades V (2x)
•  Advanced Weapon Upgrades IV (6x)

Finally, the Ishtar is a Tech II ship and should be fitted with a Tech II tank. Depending on your preferred fit, you can use a Tech II shield tank or a Tech II armor tank.

Tactics

No sub-article about Ishtar roles or piloting tactics. You can write them here.

Notes

In Mesopotamian mythology, Ishtar was the goddess of love and war. Also known as Astarte.

Patch History

A long, long time ago...
19.01 Releas - 2020-2-23 - "Bastions of War" update (Patch Notes) MWD bloom bonus removed from heavy assault cruisers. October 2019 Release - 2019-10-15.1 Every Cruiser, Battlecruiser and Battleship now warps faster than before. Warp Speed increased from 3.3 AU/s to 4.5 AU/s (+1.2 AU/s)

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