My fitting suits my play style. What I was trying to do was use you fitting to see how you play. I stay and fight, so your fitting would fail for how I play. However it may be great for your play style. There is no "best" fitting. It depends on how you play. Do you hunt tanks, fight swarmers for your teams tanks. act as an AV distraction for your ground vehicles... all these and more effect the fitting.

EDIT - see your last post. You are a harasser not a force multiplier. In which case your build works but still to me is too risky. Catch a shot when those hardeners are off and you are down.

Mine dosen't have any mobility modules. :P
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High Powered
3 Azeotropic Shield Extenders
1 Shield Booster

Low Powered:
1 LP Control System
1 Local Powergrid Expansion Unit

Turrets:
3 XT Fragmented Missile Launchers

The benefit to this is that I can shrug off a few swarms. The downside is if anyone brings in a fancy forge gun that can two shot me, I can't get away as easily (about a 40% survival rate, if I had to guess)

I have an incubus.
1x militia sheild recharger
1x militia shield resistance amp
1x militia armor repair unit
2x voltic armor plating
1x militia 60mm reinforced steel plates
1x advanced missile launcher
2x militia blasters

and i survive just fine. if there isn't a lot of av.

I shoot down more dropships than other tanks with my railgun madrugar, I mean, two hits and free WP. Funniest thing are ADS pilots who try to kill me, they do literally no damage (wtf?).

Prometheus
2x Fragmented or Cycled Missile Launchers (still determining which guns random blueberries find easiest to kill with)
2x N-Type Vehicular Hardeners ( occasionally swap out one hardener for a remote armour repairer if I see an armour tank)
1x 60mm Reinforced Polycrystalline Plates
1x Light IG-L Polarizes Armour Regenerator
1x Shield Extender I
1x Shield Regenerator I

This is my latest load out and I love it in terms of tanking the first few hits of AV. Recently, however, I've joined a string of games where the other team wields Ishukone Assault Forge Guns. Wasn't so proud of my tanking abilities after that. Given, I have sacrificed an afterburner for a bit of extra tank. Yes, perhaps that afterburner will get me away from hit 2. But when the second forge gun round takes me out, and its already charging as the first shot hits me, will I really get away? I'm still testing to see if my shield modules (plus the steel plate, as I can only run the nano fibre plates if I have the afterburner) improve my survivability more than the AB.

What I find extremely frustrating about playing solo as a LogiDS pilot, though, still is communicating with randoms. Spawning in my dropship is all well and good, but getting people out can sometimes be a frustration. When a gunner gets a kill with my turrets, for example, they seem to ignore everything that's happening to my ship simply in the hope of getting another kill. Fife timely, I've removed one or two players from the team, and I hate the thought of that, so I try spend more time finding kills to compensate, and end up dying more.

I definitely survive longer when there's a tank on the field. AV is split between us and occasionally I try to brave the horrid RAR and ST mechanics and try support the tank. Still very hard. If they move its extremely painful to compensate without crashing or losing connection with my module. Hell, simply establishing a connection is annoyingly difficult.

But with the way dropships engines automatically align with the horizontal axis of my dropship, I find its much easier to pick up speed even in my armour dropship simply through a shallow dive, and this saves me from most AV. Generally, its only when three or more people have advanced AV in a game (which is frighteningly often) or one chap with a prototype forge gun that takes me down.

If I don't recall or hide my dropship, generally I lose it every game I bring it out, as there's always seemed to be some guy with high end AV lately. May be poor decisions when choosing routes to fly, may be because I decide to linger in one spot for too long. All I know is I wish we had inbuilt afterburners. That, and a WP system, and I'd be content.

I have an incubus.
1x militia sheild recharger
1x militia shield resistance amp
1x militia armor repair unit
2x voltic armor plating
1x militia 60mm reinforced steel plates
1x advanced missile launcher
2x militia blasters

and i survive just fine. if there isn't a lot of av.

I call complete bullshit.

Assault dropships are some of the most uneconimical toys in the game, it's not worth paying 900,000 ISK and 2mil SP for something that can be taken out in 5 seconds from a 70,000 ISK Assault forge.

WTF? an all militia fit on a vehicle that cost 500k by itself?
i call BS that he even has an assault dropship.

Don't you mean 10k isk DAU2 assault


or really just the militia is all you need. That's free and cost no SP to boot!

try 1.1 mil isk for a proper fitted ADS

meant forge