Drake Navy Issue

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Drake Navy Issue

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Caldari State Faction Battlecruisers Drake Class Command Bursts HIGHLIGHTS High Amount of High Slots HIGHLIGHTS RELATED UNI-WIKI REFERENCES EVE Online Ships Overview EXTERNAL LINKS Drake Navy Issue on zKillboard Drake Navy Issue on EVE Workbench Drake Navy Issue on Janice Drake Navy Issue on EVE Ref

After the resounding success tied to the launch of the Drake-class Battlecruiser, the Caldari Navy signed up a massive order to acquire a specific version for its own arsenals. The outcome, the Drake Navy Issue, while sharing a similar look with its step-father, serves a completely different purpose on the battlefield. Being more mobile, able to project missiles more effectively at range, against smaller targets and on a wider selection of damage types, this ship is ideal to support small scale conflicts and raids. SHIP BONUSES Caldari Battlecruiser skill bonus per level: 10% bonus to Heavy Missile and Heavy Assault Missile damage 5% bonus to Heavy Missile and Heavy Assault Missile explosion radius Role Bonus: • Can use one Command Burst module 50% bonus to Command Burst area of effect range 25% bonus to Missile velocity Required Skills Caldari Battlecruiser II4h 43m Caldari Cruiser III22h 13m Caldari Destroyer III8h 53m Caldari Frigate III8h 53m Spaceship Command I8m Spaceship Command II47m Spaceship Command III4h 26m Training Time what's this? 1d 21h 14m Estimated training time only for the listed skills based on zero implants and without neural remaps. Grouping ▪ Variations Drake Drake Standard Battlecruisers Drake Class Can use Command Burst module High Amount of High Slots 7 (6/0) 6 4 830 MW 500 tf 150 m/sec 450 m³ , Nighthawk Nighthawk Command Ships Drake Class Can Use Command Burst modules High Amount of High Slots 7 (5/2) 6 4 1,000 MW 560 tf 150 m/sec 700 m³ Ship Attributes Fittings Powergrid 950 MW CPU 550 tf Capacitor 2,500 GJ High 8 Launchers 7 Turrets 0 Medium 6 Low 4 Rig 3   ? Calibration 400 Navigation Max Velocity 180 m/s Inertia Modifier 0.53 Warp Speed 3.5 AU/s Base Time to Warp 9.92 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 50 Mbit/sec Targeting Max Tgt. Range 70 km Max Locked Targets 8 Gravimetric Sensor 23 points Sig. Radius 295 m Scan Res. 195 mm Structure Structure Hitpoints 5,625 HP Mass 13,500,000 kg Volume 252,000 m³ Cargo Capacity 450 m³ Armor Armor Hitpoints 4,875 HP Armor Resistances EM 50 THR 45 KIN 25 EXP 10 Shields Shield Capacity 8,250 HP Shield Resistances EM 0 THR 20 KIN 40 EXP 50

Summary

Introduced with the Odyssey expansion, the Drake Navy Issue (aka the DNI) is the faction version of the hugely popular Drake battlecruiser. It loses the Drake's resistance and kinetic damage bonuses in favor of more shield, two more launcher slots, and bonuses to missile velocity and explosion radius. The resistance swap for shield size slightly favors the DNI and improves with skills, but what really changes is the way the DNI engages targets. It gains a huge range boost, targeting and hitting targets past 70km with lvl IV skills and heavy missiles. It does approximately the same amount of damage as the vanilla Drake, but now uses a variety of mission-specific missiles (which gives it equivalent DPS to all rats, not just kinetic-vulnerable ones) and deals much better with frigates. It's also faster and more agile due to weight loss.

However, you lose the high utility slot and your wrecks are going to be more spread out (because you engaged them further away), so a new DNI owner will probably stop self-looting their L3 missions in favor of completing them faster.

You can also equip your DNI with HAMs for a 100+ DPS increase at the expense of half your range, half your tank, and 10,000 EHP.

HAM-fit DNI is one of the most popular wormhole fleet compositions. Because the mechanics of wormholes favor heavy brawls more than the long-ranged compositions which excel in large Null-Sec engagements and mass limits make battleships impractical for many offensive operations, faction battlecruisers are common as the heaviest practical class of ship, with more efficiency relative to tonnage than their Tech I counterparts and much lower skill requirements than command ships. The DNI's seven launcher slots, combined with the application and range bonuses compensating for both of the primary drawbacks of heavy assault missiles, give it tremendous offensive power, while its large buffer tank is difficult to break without a similar composition or capital ships, particularly when backed by Tech II logi ships, of which the

Basilisk

Basilisk Logistics Cruisers Osprey Class 6 (2/1) 5 2 1,050 MW 460 tf 192 m/sec 485 m³

would be the one most useful with a DNI fleet.

Skills

• Caldari Battlecruiser to at least IV to take advantage of the Drake Navy Issue's strong damage application.
• Missile skills depend on your use for the DNI. L3 mission fits use Heavy Missiles; train to IV and use Arbalest (Meta 4) or Caldari Navy HMLs. Drakes are widely used in factional PvP, and Heavy Assault Missiles can be trained for that to IV minimum. T2 launchers and the accompanying T2 ammo requires Heavy Missiles/Heavy Assault Missiles V and Heavy Missile Specialization/Heavy Assault Missile Specialization to at least I; this is a 10-day-ish train that isn't worth it if your intent is only to get to L4 missions. However, it can be worth it: you'll get to use T2 HMLs on your Tengu down the road, and if you're grinding reputation, there are a lot more L3 missions in your future.
• Missile Launcher Operation, Rapid Launch, Warhead Upgrades, skills that increase DPS and are thus vital to all missile-based damage dealing ships, should all be trained to at least IV.
• Along with the requisite Engineering and Electronic Systems skills required for adequately fitting most ships. Weapon Upgrades and Advanced Weapon Upgrades should be trained to V and IV respectively to help alleviate fitting problems.
• Guided Missile Precision, Target Navigation Prediction and Target Painting to at least IV to combat smaller targets and gain access to the T2 Target Painter module.
• Missile Projection and Missile Bombardment to at least IV and ideally V to maximize the range at which all missiles travel.
• Drones V, Light Drone Operation V, Medium Drone Operation V, Drone Interfacing IV and Gallente Drone Specialization I/Minmatar Drone Specialization I are all are important for getting as much DPS out of the 25m³ drone bay as possible.
• Due to the Drake Navy Issue's inherent shield tanking ability, Shield Operation, Shield Management, and Tactical Shield Manipulation should be trained to at least IV to improve shield capacity, recharge rate, and impenetrability.
• Shield Upgrades should be trained to IV to allow the use of T2 Shield Hardeners, Resistance Amplifiers, Shield Power Relays, Shield Extenders and Shield Rechargers.
• If you are using passive shield hardeners, EM Shield Compensation, Thermal Shield Compensation, Kinetic Shield Compensation, and Explosive Shield Compensation trained to level IV will further improve shield resistances. Note these skills have no impact on Multispectrum Shield Hardeners or other active hardeners.
• Finally, Hull Upgrades should be trained to level IV to allow use of the T2 Damage Control module.

Tactics

No sub-article about Drake Navy Issue roles or piloting tactics. You can write them here.

Notes

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Patch History

A long, long time ago...

October 2019 Release - 2019-10-15.1 Patch notes Every Cruiser, Battlecruiser and Battleship now warps faster than before. Warp Speed increased from 2.7 AU/s to 3.5 AU/s (+0.8 AU/s) March 2018 v.1.0 - Released 2018-03-20 Patch notes We felt a big change was necessary to give this ship some new life and hope that a pivot towards pure offense will do the trick. Caldari Battlecruiser bonus per level: 10% to Heavy Missile and Heavy Assault Missile damage (was 4% to shield resistances) Launcher slot count reduced from 8 to 7 (-1) Vanguard v.1.0 - Build: 974399 - Released 2015-09-29 Patch notes The Navy Drake is getting a changed skill bonus, with the previous missile velocity bonus leaving to make room for the shield resistance bonus enjoyed by the T1 Drake. Extra powergrid and drones open up a lot of new options for this ship, and it's gaining some of the biggest mobility bonuses (making it the most agile of the Navy BCs). Caldari Battlecruiser skill bonuses: 4% bonus to all Shield Resistances (Was missile velocity) 5% bonus to Heavy Missile and Heavy Assault Missile explosion radius Role Bonus: 25% bonus to missile velocity Can fit Warfare Link modules Slot layout: 8H, 6M, 4L, 8 Launchers Fittings: 950 (+50) PWG, 550 CPU Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 8250 (+375) / 4875 / 5625 Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / average cap per second): 2500 / 625s (-32.9) / 4 (+0.2) Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 180 (+30) / 0.53 (-0.11) / 13,500,000 (+171,000) / 9.92s (-1.91s) Drones (bandwidth / bay): 50 (+25) / 75 (+50) Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 70km (+10) / 195 / 8 Sensor strength: 23 Gravimetric Signature radius: 295 Cargo capacity: 450 Odyssey v.1.0 - Build: 584903 - Released 2013-06-04 Patch notes Ship introduced. Caldari Battlecruiser skill bonuses: +10% to heavy missile and heavy assault missile velocity and 5% bonus to explosion radius of heavy missile and heavy assault missile per level. Slot layout: 8 H, 6 M, 4 L, 0 turrets, 8 launchers. Fittings: 900 PWG, 550 CPU. Defense (shields / shield recharge time (s) / armor / hull) : 7875 / 1800 / 4875 / 5625. Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap per second): 2500 / 658 s / 3.8. Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 150 / 0.64 / 13329000 / 11.8 s. Drones (bandwidth / bay): 25 / 25. Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 60km / 195 / 8. Sensor strength: 23 Gravimetric. Signature radius: 295.

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