New drone

[eternal compass]

Lets make new drone that make your grinding ores / essence easier and faster. All the drone rn is just good for the illuvial but none for the grind mining/harvest. My suggest skill for the new drone is allowing you to shoot through the rock/tree, it feels so annoying that you have to run/fly just to shot the ore/plant behind the rock/tree/etc and would be better to have drone that helping with this. (Press F to activate and your next shoot will be ignore any object, Press F again to deactivate (Max stack 5 and charge 1 every 30sec))

[spice vigil]

need to increase the range of the drone

[drifting hare]

i don't like shooting through rocks and trees, but I can get behind being able to shot something like a guided shots. That way you can shot behind the rock, but not to another cave or something like that.

[neat heart]

Afaik the current stats on the drones are place holders. It has been discussed they will have differing abilities, strengths and weaknesses.
I understand the upgrade you are suggesting yet I also feel it would lead to being very static in the game.
You would literally just have to land in a few spots and shoot.
I feel this would get boring pretty quickly.
If you upgrade all your gear and add drones, you can get through the runs pretty quickly.