Sorry to say i have petitioned for a refund. Many threads have come down about dropships in general and i feel im going to follow Skihids (sp?) and refund. I will more than likely specialize in one thing like medic and if i have some points left over, might throw a few towards some basic ships for now. For being one of the most fun things to do in dust it has become the most painful experience as well.

Perhaps one day when CCP finishes dealing with QQ over AR & SR's maybe just maybe they will take a look at Dropships and not with the nerf hammer they continually swing at it. All in all im just dissapointed, im not even mad anymore.

Good luck to those who continue to fly fully spec'd into ADS, i applaud you and will cheer when i see you guys flying above and morn you when you are killed by militia forge gun. I will say a little prayer.

"There are old pilots and bold pilots but few if any old-bold pilots"

i have some skills into the eryx as well. Fully tanked with dam resist mods and im still one shotted out the sky, 1 million gone poof. Afterburners wont save you, moving around will give you another few seconds. only staying very very high to which almost no WP/ISk rewards..

I ran a few times with some awesome gunners who went 20/0 as well. It was only because the other team was stupid and didn't bring out forge guns. even militia.

I woudn't tank into resist mods, and instead go into extender mods. I have 3 sheild extenders on my Eryx and it can withstand about 4 shots from FG's before loosing its shields, which about 85% of the time gives me enough time to activate my overdrive injector and get out of there. I'm not using an afterburner, just 1 high-slot over-drive injector with PG extenders in my low-slots so it can afford the PG to have 3 sheild extenders and 1 Afterburner

Resistance mods increase your effective health, not your actual health. This not only improves how you take shots, it also affects how you rep. This means (with a 15% resist mod) that for every point you rep, you gain 1.17 effective health. In short, you're repping like your health sucks, but as a whole your health is decent. It's not as good as if you'd put extenders on it, but resist mods take astronomically less power grid than an extender, meaning you can fit something else in those lows if you want. For example, my Python has 2 proto damage mods, 2 proto extenders, a proto amplifier, a proto booster, and 3 proto missile launchers. You can tweak that to make it more tanky by adding PDU's in the lows, and if you really have no care for offensive capabilities then you can go for a pure buffer tank.

Tried double stacking jovians on an eryx, improved the accerlation hugely but I don't think the loss of tank is entirely worth it. And I've gotten burned badly with some useless bluedots in an eryx, idiot gunners shot a blaster installation and that thing ripped through me. Have to recommend putting joves on a ADS though, makes the python go so fast. And I might spec into LLAV's after the respec, give myself a cheaper way of helping my team than flying a pi+¦ata.

Yeah, blue dot gunners are "hit or miss". I try to never expose myself to enemy turrets with a blue dot in my ship just for that reason. My main purpose of bringing the Eryx was to have a mobile spawn point directly over the objective but it wasn't taken advantage of nearly as often as I would have hoped. I blame the cluster spawn mechanism because people probably want to spawn with the blob for saftey.

I'll try the Joves on the ADS while I still have it. I loved the agile responsiveness of Precursor and that might just duplicate it.