Missions & Complexes

Which WC was this, against what rat type?
Were her hardeners on?
Wasn't she getting neuted?
(Sorry for the question, but I did see a tournament match have 100B go up poof with the ganglink resists not turned on... )

I've just made a random fit in EFT, tanks only 448 against angels (weaker resists) with all T2 mods, but has a buffer of 144k.
In 20 seconds that would be like... over 7000 dps?

I haven't done that setup of WC yet, but that sounds messed up.
Did you try looking at the logs?

Anyone else ever had the impression that sanshas do some 8k dps?

Oh, no I'm not worried about your ship

I'm worried about the implications there, and how it could happen to others.
Might be a bug we don't know about yet, or some other.
Not only should two people be able to do it, but in a navy battleship, even one, with the proper fit and skills.

I do assume it was in the Sasha side and not the Angel room.

I got that mission 2 days ago and did it just fine in a rattlesnake. Got full aggro in the research center too.

My main solo lvl 4s in a Maelstrom

Tech 2 tank of about ~440dps can be adjusted to mission specific hardners for higher tank
Tech 2 AB for range control
Tech 1 1400 MM Scout Arty (I only have 360k skill points in guns right now)
Tech 1 Drones (500k skill points)

I use Fusion and Phased Plasma for BC and BS shots
I used Depleted Uranium and Titanium for Cruiser and Frigates (Better tracking with this ammo)

Don't launch drones until everything is on you and then go for frigates first just to make sure you cannot be tackled or webbed.

Pick off the frigates with arty if they are outside of drone range otherwise go for cruisers and BS so as to lower DPS actually hitting you as fast as possible. Generally speaking killing the BS first can be bad since they trigger additional spawns.

Set orbit to max range and keep at range to optimal for Fusion rounds. (example 85k orbit and 26k keep at range)


Now I am not saying this may be the fastest way or the best, but it works. My attack skills suck overall, though my defense is pretty good.

If I can solo with these skills, then you certianly can if you have 19m in combat skills.

Pretty much.
Figure out what went wrong.
Something definitely did.

If this trick still works, I can't understand where all the drone aggro QQ comes from. Soo... Does it?

Oh, to supplement the point, it was noticed by some, that once rat starts web/scram you, it won't switch target to your drones. Maybe it's wrong though as it's entirely possible that people rely on red/yellow box to determine rat target, but can be confused by rats aiming tackle at the ship, but guns at drones. Can anyone confirm/deny this?

I must admit that I haven't tested missions by myself yet. Only logged this month to set training queue several times, and accompanied incursion fleet once (incursions are old story atm).

1) The recall-release exploit is considered a "feature" that will get patched out as soon as possible.
It does work, we don't know for how long.
I personally never used it though, as getting used to the new AI and saying it's fine is not about using a basically cheat that will get fixed, and if I'm giving feedback about the new AI, I'm doing it for it's intended form, and not it's exploited. As it will be the only one in a bit.
2) Overheadet Golem (shield boost amount, T2 ship) ain't exactly the freshly returned or new player's perspective.
You are obviously right that they can be done so, but any mistake punishes you a great deal, and such many rather fit for safety.
3) tackler not swapping for drones:
I believe I had tacklers pealed off from me at times, but not always. I do try to keep agro from my drones.

First off, soloing in Level 4s is still 100% doable. The difficult ones have been bumped a notch while the vanilla ones sub 6k type LPs are pretty much the same albeit you must consider the Ewar. For the difficult missions esp Worlds Collide, you do need to think about a very good tank, omni resists must also be high say about 88. Go grabs some deadspace mods or faction mods to meet the challenge. Ships that can solo tank I have tried so far:

All T3, Bhaal, Kronos, Golem, Paladin Pulse, Rattlesnake (easily the best tank and has an equally good dps now), Rokh Blaster, Sacrilege (dual rep, with 1600 plate), Nightmare (pulse and three faction NOS) with faction/deadspace (so you can imagine how you need to spend here).

Generally these ships with standard T2 that can't hold tank: Raven, Apoc, Abaddon, Geddon, Navy Geddon, Navy Apoc, Machariel (armor and shield config just can't even with faction), Vindicator(same like the mach).

The drone whinage is a case of 'you protest too much' I have only lost 3 drones.. all of them light drones. I fear that the whine comes from people who really are afk-missioning or have little skills in drones or BOTH. Sentries/med and heavies are the way to go.

Drop me a line if you need any advice since I am now officially 100% carebear mode.

Best to find someone for a couple of joint missions to get a feeling.

You can handle sentries still fine (allthough with unnerfing mission prolonging micromanagement). What you should take care of is of course frigs first. It seems that they have some kind of insta lock even on you small drones. So micromanagement isnt a good solution.
If frigs are around 5-7 km you can dare shooting them with you small drones, but be prepared to bring another set of w5 with you. It could happen, but is not a must.

For my taste we have an "egg and chicken" problem. CCP made changes to the AI, without changing the mission load and an overhaul of the drone system.