Topic: Devs: Why are drainers not considered Ewar?
If you look at the description of a drainer, it sounds like the quintessential description of an Ewar module (you hack in and steal the energy). Yet drainers and neuts don't benefit from the long-range Ewar skill.
Taking light Ewar bots as an example, the Chameleon and Intakt have bonuses that both benefit from the long range skill, and yet Troiar pilots who spec drain do not get the benefits of this skill.
You might argue that you can use drains through a shield, but shield-specced Troiar (for example) have tremendous disadvantages. Their material cost is very high. You cannot farm high tier shield gear (as far as I know - someone tell me if I am wrong). Most of all... if you are targetted by more than one individual your shield goes down pretty quickly (I'm using the Troiar/small shield example - not enough EP to test Icthus yet) and you usually don't have the slot for a backup armor repair. The slow speed of the Troiar is already a pretty big negative.
As far as my experience goes, drainers are not very OP in any sense. It would help a lot to balance the ewar bots if Troiar pilots could benefit from the longe range ewar skill. Give Troiar some love.