[GI] 10th drone

I s the only way to obtain the 10th drone (ZEUS) the same as the Apis. Or is there another alternative.
Also what are the overall benefits of adding this drone.
Thnks.

 

You can obtain the 10th Drone (Zeus) by:

1. Collecting Gold Booty Boxes on "Zeus Day" event and you could either collect zeus parts per booty box or if your lucky you could get a whole zeus drone from one gold booty box. Gold booty boxes can only be opened by green booty keys.
2. Collecting an Obsidian booty box and get a whole Zeus Drone with a chance of 0.5%.
3. Paying its required uridium cost on Tech Center (the uridium cost will be lowered by the number of your collected zeus parts). 1.5M uridium is the default price if you don't have any collected zeus parts and if you have collected all the zeus parts you will get it for free just like in Apis..


Benefits of Zeus:

Same as Iris and Apis when at level 6 grants 10%/20% laser dmg/shield respectiveley and also has 15 upgrade levels. It also has 2 slots and can also be equipped with Stat and cosmetic drone design.

*Note that if you are full havoc/hercules/epic demon on X number of drones and when you get the Zeus drone, you will need to have another havoc/hercules/epic demon drone design and equipped if to Zeus in order to benefit from the drone designs' set bonuses.

havoc = 10% dmg on lasers on drones
hercules = 20% HP
epic demon = -5% reload time for conventional rockets

 

Hi ~samohen~(success)
•»Radiance«• has given a very full and accurate, as far as I can see, description... but seeing as you ask about the advantages I feel that the addition of lesser damage(own ship deaths) relative to Iris and Flax should be mentioned...
Apis and Zeus can both take ~100 'pops' at which point, or before, they will be totally destroyed and need replacement, where the Iris is ~50 and the Flax less even than that ...
The DRO-02 CPU found in Shop-Extas or the Auction "Drone Repair CPU 2
This CPU automatically repairs your drones when they have received the maximum damage upon ship destruction, as long as you have enough Uridium or Credits (depends on the drone type). Good for 32 repairs."
can be equipped to protect against total destruction if you equip it on both configs of the ship you are flying but some ppl dont entirely trust them so I would still check periodically and maybe, as I do, step the damage per pair of drones thereby avoiding a total wipe-out in the event you dont watch their damage closely enough...

 

Thanks guys please close

 

Closing as answered with great responses.

Take Care.