Introduced in the patch yesterday were a pair of mods extremely attractive for any drone boat:
Drone Damage Amplifier I: 27 tf CPU, 1 mw PG, 15% Drone Damage Bonus
(requires Drones I, Weapon Upgrades I)
Drone Damage Amplifier II: 32 tf CPU, 1 mw PG, 19% Drone Damage Bonus
(requires Drones IV, Weapon Upgrades IV)
Naturally, adding as many of these as possible is of interest. In Guristas space where rats orbit at different distances, and the damage is heavily skewed, you can easily fit three (!!!) of them, although at the cost of your sentry damage rigs. For Serpentis space, where 2 Omnis are almost mandatory, I've only found a way to fit one. If you can figure out a better fit, don't hesitate to post in the comments.
[Ishtar, solo plexing]
Medium Armor Repairer II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Shadow Serpentis Armor Thermic Hardener
Shadow Serpentis Armor Thermic Hardener
Shadow Serpentis Armor Kinetic Hardener
Omnidirectional Tracking Link II
Omnidirectional Tracking Link II
Large Peroxide Capacitor Power Cell
10MN Afterburner II
Eutectic Capacitor Charge Array
Prototype Cloaking Device I
Civilian Gatling Railgun, Civilian Railgun Charge
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]
Medium Sentry Damage Augmentor I
Medium Sentry Damage Augmentor I
Garde II x5
Ogre II x5
Hammerhead II x5
Hobgoblin II x5
This is a tough boat to fit on low skills. You need Drone Rigging IV to have enough CPU, and really nice capacitor skills to be cap stable (although if you're close to cap stable, you can skip a cycle on the rep every so often and you'll be fine.
The tanking stats are the same as the previous fit, and the DPS is 20% better than the no guns fit - 640 dps with just your sentries. The cloaking device is there in case you're in hostile space, so if you're completely confident in the safety of where you explore, you can drop it and upgrade to t2 cap mods for easier cap stability. The gun is only there to draw aggro in sites where rats don't auto-aggro, of course.
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