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[ForFallen]

Hi all! I need best build for DRAGON N-1 !!! Help

[Flagrant]

No, I'm not biting.

[CheeseThief]

DRG-1N
This is the setup I find the most fun with the 1N chassis.

[Doctorduck]

Hey,
For a Dragon 1N, I've been using this:

Head: 18 armour, 1 ton of SRM ammo

Center torso: 55 front armour, 25 rear armour. 2 SRM 4, and an XL 350 engine ( I know this is pricy, but 94.5 KPH is too good to pass up. with speed tweak, you go 103.9 KPH)

Right torso: 36 front armour, 20 rear armour.

Left torso: 36 front armour, 20 rear armour, 1 medium laser.

Right arm: 40 armour and an A/C 10.

Left arm: 40 armour and a medium pulse laser.

Left leg: 56 armour and 1 ton of A/C 10 ammo.

Right leg: 56 armour and 1 ton of A/C 10 ammo.

Also use DHS and Endo-steel structure. If you're tight for ammo, you can take FF and get another ton of ammo.

The A/C 10 is your main weapon, so shield with your left side (unless your left torso is crit). the SRM doesn't have very much ammo, so I would chain fire it.

Hope this helps!

[Roburn Bliss]

DRG-1N

[The Great Unwashed]

When you have SSRM I take it you like to hunt lights? You use streaks but you do not have BAP installed so you cannot fire against ECM mechs. The ERLL is also not particularly effective against lights and SSRMs work poorly against anything but lights. You can switch the XL280 or two ML to fit a BAP.

You also have SSRM ammo in your arm with the ERLL. If the arm is destroyed you loose your ERLL but also the use of your streaks. Depending on how the game goes, you might carry this SSRM ammo late into the game. You can put the SSRM ammo in a leg and move one ton of AC5 ammo to the AC5 arm. The AC5 ammo is probably expended quickly and the odds of a critical hit on the AC5 ammo are quite small. For your legs it doesn't matter much what type of ammo goes off...

Not sure about the torso MPL (trade for 2 tons of ammo or AMS or more engine) but still: DRG-1N

If you did not fit the SSRMs against lights then you could try SRMs:DRG-1N. Again a MPL exchangeable for more ammo, should you find you need it? This build has nearly 15 DPS...

Fast & boring: DRG-1N. Could say Meta but there is no Meta for dragons? Very easy to use with all weapons under one button and all weapons in the arms. This is the one I'd probably pick for the 1N. If it plays right you can grind this DRG-1C with it. Hot, but will keep going longer into the game.

Edited by The Great Unwashed, 07 April 2014 - 09:10 AM.

[Plaguetongue]

mid range fighter

http://mwo.smurfy-ne...571ce7a4c83830a

this should work good on medium ranges, if you going close range you might wanna switch the large lasers for streak missiles and medium laser

[Heckbird]

Try this sexy beast

http://mwo.smurfy-ne...d06ec97379e3c90

I haven't speed tweeked it yet and it still out preforms any 1N builds I've tried. The AC/2 is there to work as a supplementary weapon that helps distract foes and costs little to no heat, with amples amount of ammo. You got to use the speed of the dragon to out maneuver heavier foes.

[kesuga7]

wubly build that has worked well for me

87.6 kph - 11 doubles - 2 mid lasers - 2 srm 4 - 200 srm ammo - 2 AC 5 - 150 ac 5 ammo
http://mwo.smurfy-ne...08aa23883ff1bdd

[qki]

the one I use:

http://mwo.smurfy-ne...7d08939363ad64e

[Tarriss Halcyon]

Gauss, ER Large, Medium Laser, XL engine. Yup, a variation on the Dragon trial mech. Been using it since before Trial mechs were a thing.

[DarkonFullPower]

@Plaguetongue @Heckbird

May I ask why you are using Beagles in non-Streak using mechs? There are better uses of 1.5 tons in my opinion. And the AC/2 build, even keeping the Beagle, can fit FF to get 1 extra heatsink or ammo + 10 more points of armor.

EDIT: Example of the above:
http://mwo.smurfy-ne...9459a201f1c3463

Edited by DarkonFullPower, 11 May 2014 - 03:12 PM.

[Zordicron]

2 ppc, ac10. XL300. I think 3 tons of ac10 ammo. Bunch a DHS.

Arm mount ac10 for face blasting with easy aim, 30 point alpha strike for those people that arent paying attention to you. Two alphas makes betty complain, but it comes down pretty quick, quick enough to add a little chainfire after the fact.

You are the dmg adding support machine. Atlas pal engaged? use your decent speed to line up a nice torso blasting 30 point alpha, or chainfire if you are at a bad angle to make the foe change his tactics to gain advantage on him.

NOTE: not so great at 1 vs 1 brawl, but well placed ac10 slugs make people pretty nervous and you can use it to gain positional advantage for team help or retreat or even just to win the brawl. Normally though, if someone wants to be in your face it's because they have AC40 or some other crap. best to use AC10 to shoot sideways at them as you twist and escape.

[Heckbird]

DarkonFullPower, on 11 May 2014 - 03:03 PM, said:

May I ask why you are using Beagles in non-Streak using mechs? There are better uses of 1.5 tons in my opinion. And the AC/2 build, even keeping the Beagle, can fit FF to get 1 extra heatsink or ammo + 10 more points of armor.

I have the bap so I can quickly get target info on enemy mechs to see what components are critically wounded and strike there.
This is my own personal Dragon and I don't generally like to throw FF on mechs because it usually serves little help to decrease weight, and it makes it difficult to make changes to mechs.

Edited by Heckbird, 14 May 2014 - 10:29 PM.

[Aleski]

http://mwo.smurfy-ne...835b7d1001806ee

I don't have try this one, but if i buy a DRG-1N i will try something like that. PPC and Larg Pulse are good together, PPC high mounted in the shoulder for snipe a little, Larg Pulse for lights. And if heavy mechs are coming close, Machine Guns to crits them to death and SRM8 for more damages...

XL350 is decent in speed...

[xMintaka]

When building Dragon's I've found it pays to decide early what range you want to fight at.

For me, it's almost always long range. The fragility of this chassis isn't conducive to knife fighting (at least in my hands). So all of mine are set up as fire support.

I don't own the -1N yet (all the others though), but it seems like there are a few decent build options. The shoulder Energy Hardpoint is key. Not as useful as the two on the -1C, but even so it makes it possible to ridge hump. You can shoot what you can see.

Guass + PPC

It's not meta if it's on a Dragon >.>

Edited by Lunatech, 19 May 2014 - 07:19 AM.

[The Great Unwashed]

Well, if you like standing behind ridges you are much better off in a Firebrand when you can fire both those weapons from a concealed position, carry more ammo, DHSs and BAP for only 7kph less (which isn't a bad thing when you stand behind ridges )

Edited by The Great Unwashed, 19 May 2014 - 07:06 AM.

[xMintaka]

Firebrand costs real money. DRG-1N doesn't

[Desist]

My Dragon 1N build. Used to be super awesome and is still pretty good. Use your arms to tank damage and run around being a precision killer.

[Golrar]

So, I needed 1 more to elite my Dragons. With my 1C and 5N, my build is nearly identical, 2xERLL and LB10X. Only difference being the position of the second ERLL. But I went with something a little different with my 1N, and I have to say I really like it. Haven't finished my basics yet, but still averaging 500 dam with it. The ERPPC is hot, but is there for close in firepower. I suck with ACs inside 200m.

http://mwo.smurfy-ne...78da858d8f6c0d5