Drones - Revision history

King111 at 00:54, 25 February 2026

2026-02-25T00:54:47Z

yuugh at 08:59, 17 December 2025

2025-12-17T08:59:18Z

yuugh: 125%->100% bounce damage

2025-07-09T03:51:07Z

125%->100% bounce damage

iPod: added Red Drone Source

2025-06-06T16:58:16Z

added Red Drone Source

iPod: updated description (requirements) for Red Drone

2025-06-06T16:57:23Z

updated description (requirements) for Red Drone

yuugh: reduce weight by 83.33% (repeating)

2025-06-02T04:23:15Z

reduce weight by 83.33% (repeating)

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iPod: Added Red Drone

2025-06-01T07:21:07Z

Added Red Drone

iPod: Updated DPE for Heat weapons, updated weapoin effects for bounce, chain, area effect damage, splash, updated Empyreal Drone and Empyreal Piercer Drone stats.

2025-06-01T06:47:27Z

Updated DPE for Heat weapons, updated weapoin effects for bounce, chain, area effect damage, splash, updated Empyreal Drone and Empyreal Piercer Drone stats.

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Nurse Joy: Updated aug slots for Warpastic Drone+

2024-09-13T22:53:09Z

Updated aug slots for Warpastic Drone+

starwyrm: Clarified the impact of drone skills on Permanent Drone slots; Added a note re: Engineers and Drone Ops.

2024-06-29T19:25:07Z

Clarified the impact of drone skills on Permanent Drone slots; Added a note re: Engineers and Drone Ops.

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 | class="radiation" | R Proj
-| Red Disruptor
+| Red Drone Disruptor
 | 490.62
 | 400
 | 0.690
-| Inherits velocity, Ethereal
+| Inherits velocity, Ethereal, On hit does a 125% area effect damage effect with range 600
 | 1.6
 | 28
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 | 591
 | class="surgical" | S Beam
-| Red Phaser
+| Red Drone Phaser
 | 603.8
 | 530
 | 0.30
+|On hit does a 125% area effect damage effect with range 300
 | 6.3
+|

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-| Looter's Toolkit<br/>Requires 1 in [[Piracy]]
+| Looter's Toolkit<br/>Requires 6 in [[Piracy]]
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 | [[Strontium-90]] Mission
-| Kleptomaniac's Toolkit<br/>Requires 1 in [[Piracy]]
+| Kleptomaniac's Toolkit<br/>Requires 21 in [[Piracy]]
 | Energy Charge +10%, Electric Tempering -10%
+|

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 | 0.630
-| Inherits velocity, On hit does a 2 bounce projectile effect with 600 range with 125% damage
+| Inherits velocity, On hit does a 2 bounce projectile effect with 600 range
 | 3.1
 | 3

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+| [[Red Outpost]] trade in
 | A Red Rogue standard drone. Requires 23 in [[Piracy]], [[Neurobound]]
 | Shield Max +10%, Damage +40%, Rate of Fire +25%, Tracking +10%, Resistance to Damage +14%

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-| A Red Rogue standard drone.
+| A Red Rogue standard drone. Requires 23 in [[Piracy]], [[Neurobound]]
 | Shield Max +10%, Damage +40%, Rate of Fire +25%, Tracking +10%, Resistance to Damage +14%
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-| 2
+| 4
 | [[Warpastic Drone+ Blueprint]]
 | Weapons: [[Warpastic Hot+]] (Heat), [[Warpastic+]] (Mining)

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 * By default a maximum of three can be deployed, but the [[Engineer]]'s subskill [[Drone Mastery]] allows more to be deployed, to a maximum of 6, along with the [[Engineer|Droney Adv. subskill]] giving an extra temporary drone slot for any class.
-* Affected by [[Drone Ops]], receiving +2 Drone Ops per level in [[Drone Deployment]], totalling +40 Drone Ops at Drone Deployment 20.
+* Affected by [[Drone Ops]], receiving +2 Drone Ops per level in [[Drone Deployment]], totalling +40 Drone Ops at Drone Deployment 20. [[Engineer|Engineers]] also gain 60 Drone Ops from a class skill, for a total of 100 or more Drone Ops.
 * Stats can be boosted by using a [[Drone Controller]].
 * Gain +5% weapon range per level in [[Drone Research]], totaling +25% range at Drone Research 5.
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 Permanent Drones have infinite lifespans and tend to be much more powerful than temporary drones, but can only be deployed in buildable star systems (Warp 0-1 Earthforce layer, Wild Space, and a few special places), but are also immense in size.
-* Maximum drone slots limited by [[Drone Deployment]] and [[Drone Research]] skills, higher tech permanent drones take more drone slots to deploy.
+* Maximum drone slots are limited by [[Drone Deployment]] and [[Drone Research]] skills, each skill grants +2 slots per level. Higher-tech permanent drones take more drone slots to deploy.
 * Can be given augmenters via the [[Astral Injection]] skill.
 * Affected by [[Drone Deployment]], +3% Shield, Energy, Damage, Shield Recharge, Energy Recharge, Tracking, Rate of Fire, Radar and Range per level, up to Drone Deployment 20. (Note: most drones use shield capacitors, meaning their shielding won't be boosted as much as you would expect)