Anyways the site is really hard and also annoying. NPCs focus drones heavily and repeatedly. They orbit fast and in long distance (HML are really needed, I used RLM because I switched to it from HML just recently as HML were really bad in terms of dps and with RML I couldn’t hit a ■■■■).
There is not only warp disrupting but also warp scramming if you get too close to the Drake or Osprey. Additionally manticores are target painting you and Drake,Osprey and the basttleship are cap draining (battleship from range of 20km already) and they are draining a LOT. I was out of the cap in a few seconds with passive gila fit.
Yes I know and that is great, on the other hand when you are not afking it and you lose 3 drones anyway it sucks and leads to not using drone boats in such pve at all.
It was specifically stated in the dev blog or press release that these sites were made for the ships that got buffed with the heavy missile update, and which used heavy missiles as their primary weapon.
The Gila does not fit this description, navy drake does…
I wouldn’t say that if there are handful of ships that can enter the site that using any one of them except the most efficient one is “using the wrong ship”.
But yes, Gila sucks there, you really don’t want to use drones there because of the constant annoying drone aggro. Hell one guy in my system even used Barghest and had more troubles than I had - had to warp off once and lost ton of drones as well and overally it took him far longer than me with Gila. I was fine, till boss showed up, but even then pulling and relaunching drones sucks.
EDIT: Rattlesnake sucks as much as Gila.
So yes it is just site for multiboxing (navy) Drakes, nothing else.
We did them in a little fleet of drakes…seemed to work well but we were way to many people and kinda over-killed the site. Seems the spawn got a time trigger and not a kill trigger for waves. Could get messy quite fast.
Well since it was our first time in the site we brought 2…well…logi drakes…and 4 heavy missile drakes… As said, way overkill but it worked well (apart from no good loot)