Missions & Complexes

Mordus Headhunters still full room aggro.

I got full room aggro in massive attack (serpentis) in the first pocket, with many scram frigates. At the moment when i send out light drones they all switch to the drones and killed them all in 10 secs, and switched back to me (i was still scrammed). My mission ship can tank a lot of damage, but not for infinite time. That's how i lost a paladin.

Meant to update this to say Angels in worlds collide melted my Raven, then proceded to work through my double rep domi as if it was butter.

Ive run both sites solo in that domi and never had to even warp out before never mind crap myself and spam warp button

The Assault, Serpentis, still full aggro. Tested 30 mins ago.

I want to try Worlds Collide Serpentis/Gurista, but I have the usual concerns. I've been lucky enough to maintain my light drones in most of my missions since patch. However, I have concerns about my tank in this one.

Given that I'm doing around 550-650 tank for each of them, I'm contemplating dropping some drone damage amps for more power relays and a XL ASB.

King of The Hill 13/13 Amarr Storyline COSMOS mission - full aggro in every room.
16 BS, 6 BC and 4 cruisers (almost each can neut) in room 4 at once is kinda crazy.


BTW, I think all NPCs just have about 40-50km proximity aggro, in certain missions groups which are too far don't aggro. It's not right anyway, cuz most dps'y missions have entire swarm of enemies too close to your warp in.

Also, is it just me, or NPC's who sometimes used shield boosters or repair modules before patch are now permarunning it (pretty much like every module they have now)?

Its weird they gave the npc's sleeper ai, but kept the rewards pretty gimped (not really advocating for more money from missions, but this does fly in the face of their risk vs reward philosophy).

I have also noticed that several npcs do use their rep's WAY more often, the frigs use them damn near constantly.

Is this the new CCP policy of making PvE missions feel like PvP combat, cause basically we're being ganked atm, so they pretty much have it spot on.

I really don't mind if CCP came out and said "we're stepping up missioning so you have to bring a group of people, and you can no longer do it solo" as long as we got a heads up and rewards are scaled to fit with that concept, cause frankly, since I started playing I have only seen running L4's as the "you're new at this game, you have low SP, so the only way for you to make some starting ISK is to grind these missions till you want to blow your brains out".

I used to read the same thing from people playing Global Agenda and grinding the PvE group missions as they were as repetitive as all hell - and I have like 640 hours in that game - and if CCP managed to turn that around and make missioning more of a "lets see what we get today" rather then a "oh I just got AA, let me check my notes: 20 minutes run, 40 mill full salvage" sorta thing, it would be much appreciated.

I guess since EVE is really PvP centric, missioning wont be a priority, but I can dream.

WC sansha/angels avoid .. it is leathal ... stage 2 on both side get full room aggro , warp scramble by 2-3 frigates , webbed , and weapon disrupted by 2 BS npc who move to 45k optiomal .

this is not fun at all


Tildah

Caldari COSMO Lost Love - Wei Tadaki 2/3. Full room aggro on the first room. My buddy and I tried to run it. I was in my CNR and he in a normal Raven. I managed to tank it for maybe a minute before fleeing. He ended up in structure.

The issue I have is that once this expires I wont be able to complete the arc and get the big reward which is somewhat annoying.