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| ==Tactics== | | ==Tactics== |
| This is tactics from [http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Drake eveonline.com]:
| | If you are coming to the Drake from L2 missions, you are probably used to flying into the middle of rats and killing everything. That's a good way to get yourself killed in an L3 mission; many L3 missions feature enough NPC firepower to overwhelm even a Drake's tank. Here are a few pointers to start L3 missioning in a Drake. |
| | | *If the mission is unfamiliar to you, read about it in [http://www.eve-survival.com/| EVE Survival]. |
| With high resistances and the traditional [[Caldari]] bonus to kinetic missile damage, it is a powerful force against Guristas and Serpentis. It has already proven to be incredibly popular, with [http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/E-ON_Magazine E-ON magazine] reporting tens of thousands in service, more than any other battlecruiser.
| | *Because the Drake is passively tanked, you have no tools apart from running to mitigate excessive damage. If you shield drops to 50%, align to a celestial and start your afterburner. If you drop to the 25% alarm, warp out, dock, and then come back for more later. |
| | | *Shoot the biggest NPCs first (usually other battlecruisers); they're the ones damaging you the most. |
| The Drake is heavily armed, well-tanked, and can feel like a pocket battleship at times. However, the Drake is particularly slow, and whilst its defenses can match those of a battleship with ease, it utilizes a high proportion of its slots to do so. This makes most conventionally fit Drakes inflexible for solo PvP.
| | *Use Scourge Heavy Missiles for all NPCs <i>except</i> EM-vulnerable ones; use Mjolnir Heavy Missiles on them. |
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| One of a Drake's primary strengths lie in its potential immunity to [[nosferatu]] and energy neutralizer systems. As missile launchers do not require any capacitor energy to fire, a passively tanked Drake will not suffer any degradation in offense or defense at the hands of energy draining weapons. Drake pilots fielding invulnerability fields as opposed to passive hardeners may run into issues against ships that employ heavy neuting.
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| ==Notes== | | ==Notes== |
