EVE New Citizens Q&A

Dagan is meant to be your introduction to teaming up with others, the mission description itself suggests just that, he can be a tough nut to crack solo, especially as a newbie.

Your best bet is to shout out in local, you'll generally get both newbies and older players offering to help you out, if you get a fellow newbie especially one with the same problem, team up with him, kill your Dagan and then kill their Dagan. Older players will help you out, many remember their first attempts at killing him and will help you because of it, don't forget to thank the newbie or older player who helps you.

Good luck, and have fun. You can run the same arc again 3 months down the line, it's good for your standings.

Thanks to Tau for helping!! This was my first time to team up with someone. Looks like it's time to join a corp.

Older forum posts on this question state that Dagan posesses slightly different defenses, depending on which faction you choose for the mission.

It is probably best to team up with another player, and other players will be happy to have your help, too, but I did manage to defeat Dagan by using a destroyer. A cruiser would probably be better, if you have the skills trained. (Some players claim they have finished the mission in a frigate, too.)

In a destroyer, I stayed out of range of Dagan's neutralizer and killed off his escort ships. I then returned to fight Dagan's cruiser alone. (Repair your ship to 100% first.)

I charged toward Dagan, entered a fast, tight orbit around his cruiser, and Dagan was no longer hitting me with his neutralizer, and his cruiser's guns could only hit my destroyer once in a while. I could easily repair the occasional damage. (Depending on your own skills, you might be able to attack from long range, especially if you fly a cruiser.)

The hard part was figuring out which type of ammunition would damage Dagan faster than he could repair it. Dagan will be vulnerable to a specific type of damage (electromagnetic, thermal, kinetic, or explosive). But the exact type of damage to use against him depends on which empire faction you chose in a previous mission. (I spent a lot of time and ISK trying out different types of ammo.)

Eventually, I killed Dagan solo in my destroyer (Thrasher) with seven autocannons and one light missile launcher, using ammunition that caused explosive damage . Again, your version of Dagan may or may not be vulnerable to the same type of damage.

Getting slightly off topic but....why did they do that?

Because Dagan is evil and needs to die over and over again.

Also it is a good way to get chatting with new players and then you try to recruit them to your corp.

I did that.

Why, cause it's so awesome to see the ****** die over and over after you had trouble with him the first time you did that arc.

And of course it's a great way to interact with new players, answer their questions, give them tips and tricks and sent them on their way to become EVE's greatest pilots.

I will say that the mission instructions led me to believe that whichever faction I chose to help would actually be sending along a "fleet" to help me take him out. Obviously that didn't happen so I wonder what the point was to choose a faction to deliver him to.

Think of them more as an audience than help, you're there to prove yourself as a bloodthirsty gun toting demi-god to them, and in return you get a substantial standings gain with them for successfully doing so.

Faction NPCs are normal(ish) human beings, with all of humanities frailties, when they die they stay dead, you as a capsuleer are an immortal, you never die, you just wake up in a new body.

I've killed Dagan many many times, but I've never done the Blood-Stained Stars arc.

Heading to Arnon now in blaster Harpy. I could use some Minmatar faction.