Buwaro Draemon
The Unholy Legion Of DarkStar
DARKSTAR ARMY
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Posted - 2013.05.22 07:35:00 -
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I know, I know. Another dropship QQ thread but it is true.
We get no rewards (CCP said that they are working it but god knows when will it come to us), we get destroyed quickly, militia forge guns, Railgun installations now have a godly range that can now shoot you at your spawn base, we didn't get any buff and all AV weapons got a 10% buff too making the dropship weaker.
I tried so hard to not rage whenever my 800K ISK ship can get shot down by a a (almost free) and low level forge gun. I have no grudges against higher tier forge guns since people actually wasted skill points in them to be actually good rather than a 1k 0 meta level forge gun. It was a horrible ide to bring it to the game. But now that we have the plasma cannon why not replace it with that?
The Railgun installations are no fun either. Almost (every time) I go to my spawn area to get repairs done to my armor (I fly Gallente dropships) I get pined down by one located near the enemy's redline or a little bit closer to the action. And since Railgun installations are hybrid they do 100% damage to both shields and armor. I can try to activate armor hardeners and repairers but the moment they kick in I am already eating ground. Why increase the range of the railgun installation and most importantly why increase the AI's tracking range? The moment they lock-on on you, you, must either try to elevate (which if you don't fly a assault dropship you'll take way more time elevating) or try to evade it and since the AI almost never misses you know you are f*cked and quickly need to find a safe place to land and call it back.
No problems with the blaster or missile ones.
Also their price is increadibly high as all of you know. Paying half a million or more ISK to fly a ship that has little difference from it's militia variant? Even free LAVs have more resistance and are more rewarding then a half a million ISK ship.
As of now the only usefulness they have is:
-Call it when battle starts
-Drop squad mates at a location
-Recall dropship before everyone zeroes in on you
-Repeat
That's the only way I see dropships being used in battle. I rarely see one last the whole match or just 10 minutes. Dropships are a flying coffin. Even the good pilots admit it. I like receiving compliments about being a good dropship pilot and all but those compliments won't restock them (sorry if I sounded harsh there :/) But it's true. Since Uprisingaunched I have waisted 3million SP in them and more than 20 million ISK restocking them.
When the respec comes again I won't doubt that there will be even fewer pilots. I know I won't waist a skill in them. I'll just save them for the jet fighters which I am hoping that they won't be as horrible as the dropship.
Now I'll be finally getting Proto gear and be good at it. Maybe get an HAV or Logi LAV.
It was fun flying them while it lasted. This is one pilot signing out of dropship duty.
And to those that will stick with the dropship, you have my respec and |