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Risk reward of low diffcuilty guristas site versus higher.
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Steve Spooner
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#1 - 2013-08-08 08:22:52 UTC
A guristas 6/10 site can be soloed with an ishtar/cerberus/tengu/your choice of ships that can run level 4's and you can pretty much chill lay back press f1 and cruise through it.. You can probably do the same with 7/10's and maybe 8/10's if you've got some dead space modules. 9/10's and 10/10's however have a constant risk of scramming frigs costing you the ship that's easily worth 1 bill. The rewards for 7/10 are hardly worth anything because who buys pith c type stuff? The loot for 8/10 and 9/10 are pretty much the same, meaning they're at most worth at most 400 mill, versus the 1.7 bill and 800 mill modules dropped in the ezpz 6/10 sites. The 10/10's most valuable drop is 750 mill in Jita and you either have to kill a station with insane regen, torpedoes, and spawns waves of scramming frigs cruisers bc's and bs's, or a ultra tanked battleship that kites you because he's a giant ****. So where is the logic in 6/10 being the most profitable of all guristas sites and having the least relative risk? Infact 3/10's are easily on par with 8/10 and 9/10 while being easily soloable in a Drake or Naga or vexor or preferred method of afk running sites. Hell fit a t2 frig with a tank and you can do it well enough.
Tauranon
Weeesearch
CAStabouts
#2 - 2013-08-08 09:18:07 UTC
Its not an inherent problem with the game, its just that the game market reflects the fact that cruisers are useful for more things than battleships, and there are far more cruiser sized classes than battleship sized classes.

If CCP in the future finds more reasons for pimp solo battleships to do things, then the market will respond in kind.
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#3 - 2013-08-08 18:28:54 UTC
Large and XL shield mods are getting a boost. It might help; it might not. I've long said invulns should have been BS mods in the first place but oh well.

Also, BCs can't get into 3/10s. Were you thinking 4/10s?
Chinicata Shihari
Perkone
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-08-09 18:26:57 UTC
Guristas 6/10's are the holy grail of DED sites. Dropping a max of 3bil. They are easily soloable with good rewards but are rather rare because everyone wants them. The Maze(10/10) and DG FSP (9/10) are eaily soloable with a tengu and can have drops of 1bil +. The Maze and DG FSP can also be gotten from ratting escalations and on an average 3 hour seesion of ratting you can expect 1-2 escalations. This makes them valuable in the long run because you could get 1 per day for a week but only 1 6/10 in an entire week.
Steve Spooner
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#5 - 2013-08-10 02:53:22 UTC
Maybe, just maybe, instead of Pithum A adaptive invul, they bump that up to pith c, pith b, pith a, and hell even pith x. I'd be happy running crappy sites with bad shield booster drops if those could drop.