Dragoon: Difference between revisions

  | shipimg=Dragoon.jpg

  | shipname=Dragoon

  | class=Destroyer

  | grouping=Standard Destroyers

  | hulltype=Dragoon Class

  | faction=Amarr Empire

  | roles=Droneboat

  | variations=<i>{{Ship|Pontifex}}</i>

  | lows=4

  | mass=1,700,000 kg

  | extrahold=

  | extraholdtype=

  | bandwidth=25 Mbit/sec

  | info=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.<br><br>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.

  | scanres=525 mm

  | reqskills=*{{RequiredSkill|Amarr Destroyer|I}}

  | totaltraintime=9h 18m 20s

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The Dragoon is an [[Amarr Empire|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.

The Dragoon can field a full flight of drones, which makes {{sk|Drones|V}} an immediate 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 {{sk|Capacitor Management}} and {{sk|Capacitor Systems Operation}}—really help it, as does the skill which reduces the capacitor burden of energy neutralizers, {{sk|Capacitor Emission Systems}}. It's good to have these trained to at least IV.

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.

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.

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.

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