Dragoon

 

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Dragoon

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The Dragoon follows old religious tenets - ones thought rather dark by the majority of the cluster, but found perfectly normal by Amarr minds - that to exist as God's chosen people means fulfilling a very definite and often forceful role. This includes not only imposing the will of God, often through the time-honored methods of mindless proxies, but also profiting, even being nourished, off the energies of others. As such, the Dragoon focuses on sending out a mass of drones, ones capable not only of swiftly hunting down their targets but also of inflicting tons of damage once contact is made. Moreover, the Dragoon is able to drain the target's energy in the meanwhile, all with the aim of leaving it little more than a trembling husk. SHIP BONUSES Amarr Destroyer bonuses (per skill level): 10% bonus to Drone hitpoints and damage 20% bonus to Energy Nosferatu and Energy Neutralizer optimal range 10% bonus to Energy Nosferatu and Energy Neutralizer falloff range Role Bonus: 25% bonus to Drone max velocity Required Skills Amarr Destroyer I16m Amarr Frigate III8h 53m Spaceship Command I8m Training Time what's this? 9h 18m 20s Estimated training time only for the listed skills based on zero implants and without neural remaps. Grouping ▪ Variations Pontifex Pontifex Command Destroyers Dragoon Class Can use Command Burst module Can fit a Micro Jump Field Generator 5 (3/3) 3 5 55 MW 220 tf 330 m/sec 380 m³ Ship Attributes Fittings Powergrid 58 MW CPU 155 tf Capacitor 600 GJ High 5 Launchers 3 Turrets 3 Medium 3 Low 4 Rig 3   small Calibration 400 Navigation Max Velocity 240 m/sec Inertia Modifier 2.87 Warp Speed 4.5 AU/s Base Time to Warp 6.76 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 75 m³ Drone Bandwidth 25 Mbit/sec Targeting Max Tgt. Range 39.00 km Max Locked Targets 6 RADAR Sensor 10 points Sig. Radius 66 m Scan Res. 525 mm Structure Structure Hitpoints 850 HP Mass 1,700,000 kg Volume 47,000 m³ Cargo Capacity 300 m³ Armor Armor Hitpoints 950 HP Armor Resistances EM 50 THR 35 KIN 25 EXP 20 Shields Shield Capacity 750 HP Shield Resistances EM 0 THR 20 KIN 40 EXP 50

Summary

The Dragoon is an Amarr destroyer with bonuses towards drones and energy neutralizer range. Like its cousins, the Sentinel and Curse, the Dragoon is designed to cap out the enemy, rendering them helpless while its drones do the hard work of dealing damage.

Although drones offer fully-selectable damage, the Dragoon is not typically used for PvE combat, because its hull bonus to energy neutralizers is useless against NPCs. However, the Dragoon's 5 high slots, makes it a good potential PVE ship with salvage capability while keeping its full complement of launchers or turrets.

Skills

The Dragoon can field a full flight of drones, which makes Drones V an immediately desirable skill for piloting it; Amarr pilots will want to have Drones trained to V as they move up to cruiser hulls in any case, so it's worth getting this core skill out of the way. Drone support skills make a big difference to the Dragoon's potential DPS, and for serious PvP work T2 light drones are strongly desirable.

Like other Amarr ships, the Dragoon lives by its capacitor, and capacitor skills—notably Capacitor Management and Capacitor Systems Operation—really help it, as does the skill which reduces the capacitor burden of energy neutralizers, Capacitor Emission Systems. It's good to have these trained to at least IV.

Tactics

Range-bonused energy neutralizers from the Dragoon can present a serious threat to frigates. Note that the amount of energy drained is not bonused, and that the Dragoon's capacitor must sustain the burden of running energy neutralizers. Several things can help with this. One is remembering that once a capacitor is drained past its point of peak recharge (c. 25% to 33% capacitor left), its recharge rate collapses, and so a single neut can keep a target at nearly zero capacitor once several neuts have "broken" its capacitor recharge.

Another is using nosferatu modules to recharge energy from any larger enemy ships nearby. Since a nosferatu transfers capacitor to your capacitor if you have less raw capacitor than your target, not if your percentage of capacitor is lower, the Dragoon can run its own capacitor off the energy of an opposing cruiser or battleship for some time. A third help can be giving up one of the Dragoon's sparse mid slots for a capacitor booster. Advanced pilots can also consider the Mindflood combat drug: none of this drug's potential side-effects inconvenience the Dragoon. If its own capacitor can be sustained, the Dragoon can "cap out" other destroyers and cruisers.

With T2 drones and decent support skills, the Dragoon's drones can make short work of most frigates too slow to outrun them, and can add DPS to a gang's efforts against larger targets.

In PVE, the Dragoon's relatively low tank limits its ability to take on particularly large targets or large combat sites, but a capsuleer can with relative ease take on level 3 combat sites by taking advantage of the drones and extending their control range letting you kite out of range of missile batteries and other defence platforms. The extra 2 high slots lets you use these for quicker salvage instead of capacitor warfare.

Notes

The word dragoon was initially used to refer to some early firearms, by analogy to fire-breathing dragons. Through transference from weapon to user (a kind of metonymy), it became associated with mounted infantry who used horses for mobility but dismounted to fire, and then later came to be used to mean some types of cavalry soldier.

Patch History

A long, long time ago...
Lifeblood v. 1.0 - Build: 1203953 - 24.10.17 High slots reduced from 6 to 5 (-1) Mid slots increased from 2 to 3 (+1) CPU increased from 150 tf to 155 tf (+5 tf) Retribution v. 1.0 - Build: 476047 - 04.12.12 Ship introduced.

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