Is this still worth it to eliminate the mission modules so I can ignore assassins and their ilk when I choose since dan added cloak to terraformer droppers etc?

Tying this into an upcoming scan run to kill 2 birds with one stone.

Switch to Sillixx to overload decks prior to changing to Drannik as well as Explorer to boost my scan run. If there is zero reason to do that any more I'd likely go Inergon Explorer for the time being to power my way through what I feel are miserable missions.

not worth it anymore.... unless you want to increase the chance of Graxis appearing

It's worthless now with the good stuff having 50 cloak.

I was hoping to hear your view on this. I went Inergon Explorer for the scan run and to help get through the drannik chain.

Is drannik still enough to farm npcs at a decent rate for terraformers etc?

It is basically REQUIRED now unless you spend a lot of time building AP and your energy, and possibly attack. Radiant cannons are important later on to get beyond tech limits on attack. Drannik gives roughly the same or better xp bonus as inergon/human, but you get more done.

Rare drop rate is perhaps 1 in 450-500 of say terraformers, provided you are high rank and most of the fixed rank stuff is gone (say, > 600)

What about keeping those mission based low lvl npcs around. I'm starting to feel like they might be inhibiting me getting more blade harvesters etc.

For example I still have the Rogue Data Analyzers and the Chron Shift Carriers and have kept them on purpose for the okish xp but I'm not so sure it's doing anything either then lowering my odds of getting what I really want to appear now.

The other reason I kept them around was that by the time I figured out I needed to stop doing missions or not be able to ignore Dan's wrath towards the npc community I was only 1 completed mission away from no way around it of course that's not an option any more.

Yeah having more of them on lowers the rare drop rate, but may increase xp if they are fixed rank and your attack is good. In the end though only the analyzers were worth keeping for me.