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==Summary==

The '''Drake''', well-known for its excellent tanking abilities, is a very popular PvE and PvP ship. In PvE, the Drake can be passively shield-tanked for a stronger tank than a battleship, making L3 missions easy and L4 missions a possibility. However, without very good missile skills L4's will take a long time.

One of the Drake's main virtues is that it's very ''forgiving''. It is forgiving of poor fitting and missile skills: players with a mix of lvl 2 and 3 skills can fit and fly the basic PvE fit into L3 missions if they're careful (avoid The Blockade). It's forgiving of beginner play: the massive shield tank will absorb a lot of mistakes (but align to a gate when you're at 2/3 shield and warp at 1/3). What the Drake is ''not'' is l33t. It's annoyingly slow, so swapping out a shield booster in favor of an AB is recommended as soon as you're familiar with your shield and tank. It's got pretty anemic DPS, and it doesn't get a whole lot better with better skills. So while it's easy to get into, midway through your Drake career you'll be feeling the need for speed. And bigger guns.

In PvP, the Drake has the ability to field a massive buffer tank. While the Drake can be fit with Heavy Assault Missile Launchers, regular Heavy Missile Launchers are much more common due to the easier fitting and the very short range on HAMs. With Heavy Missile Launchers, the DPS of a Drake is not very impressive for a battlecruiser, but it has a long range for its class.

As of July 2013, the Drake is not recommended for [[Incursions]] and the EVE University Incursion community stopped accepting battlecruisers into their fleets. See [[Preparing for Incursions]] for more information on where to go from here.

The Drake is quite easy to skill for and pilot competently. Its tank bonus makes it forgiving of mistakes, and missiles are an easy to use weapon system that doesn't require the pilot to worry much about angular velocity and range. However, these factors also mean the ship reaches its maximum potential quickly; it is quite slow, has less damage bonus than other battlecruisers, and clever piloting can't be used to increase missile damage like it can with turrets.

==Skills==

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 ==Summary==
 The '''Drake''', well-known for its excellent tanking abilities, is a very popular PvE and PvP ship. In PvE, the Drake can be passively shield-tanked for a stronger tank than a battleship, making L3 missions easy and L4 missions a possibility. However, without very good missile skills L4's will take a long time.
-One of the Drake's main virtues is that it's very ''forgiving''. It is forgiving of poor fitting and missile skills: players with a mix of lvl 2 and 3 skills can fit and fly the basic PvE fit into L3 missions if they're careful (avoid The Blockade). It's forgiving of beginner play: the massive shield tank will absorb a lot of mistakes (but align to a gate when you're at 2/3 shield and warp at 1/3). What the Drake is ''not'' is l33t. It's annoyingly slow, so swapping out a shield booster in favor of an AB is recommended as soon as you're familiar with your shield and tank. It's got pretty anemic DPS, and it doesn't get a whole lot better with better skills. So while it's easy to get into, midway through your Drake career you'll be feeling the need for speed. And bigger guns.
 In PvP, the Drake has the ability to field a massive buffer tank. While the Drake can be fit with Heavy Assault Missile Launchers, regular Heavy Missile Launchers are much more common due to the easier fitting and the very short range on HAMs. With Heavy Missile Launchers, the DPS of a Drake is not very impressive for a battlecruiser, but it has a long range for its class.
 As of July 2013, the Drake is not recommended for [[Incursions]] and the EVE University Incursion community stopped accepting battlecruisers into their fleets. See [[Preparing for Incursions]] for more information on where to go from here.
+The Drake is quite easy to skill for and pilot competently. Its tank bonus makes it forgiving of mistakes, and missiles are an easy to use weapon system that doesn't require the pilot to worry much about angular velocity and range. However, these factors also mean the ship reaches its maximum potential quickly; it is quite slow, has less damage bonus than other battlecruisers, and clever piloting can't be used to increase missile damage like it can with turrets.
 ==Skills==