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Kolmogorow

Freedom Resources

Likes received: 391

#21 - 2016-07-24 13:18:19 UTC

I'm using a Deimos now and jump right into the crowd. The rats come almost into optimal range for Antimatter or Void and the blasters melt through the heap of ships like a hot knife through butter. Tank on the Deimos is fine, even for full pocket aggro from all 3 groups. One has to add an explosive armor hardener for the occasional Angel reinforement group though and then it's advisable to kill the Angels first to reduce the incoming explosive damage quickly.

Someone told me the nice trick to put myself into a fleet so I can tag all rats in the middle group with "1" before the battle starts. (Of course that doesn't work anymore if someone is already at the site and all 3 groups are intermingled.) I clear all ships tagged with "1" first and then either immediately MWD to the loot can or finish the remaining ships off for the bounties. If somebody comes in when I'm killing the remaining ships and threatens to fly to the research facility I usually stop the fight and burn to the loot can.

If someone is interested in the fitting:

[Deimos, Serpentis Event]
Medium Armor Repairer II
Armor Kinetic Hardener II
Armor Thermal Hardener II
Armor Explosive Hardener II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II

50MN Quad LiF Restrained Microwarpdrive
X5 Enduring Stasis Webifier
Phased Scoped Target Painter
Tracking Computer II

Heavy Neutron Blaster II
Heavy Neutron Blaster II
Heavy Neutron Blaster II
Heavy Neutron Blaster II
Heavy Neutron Blaster II

Medium Capacitor Control Circuit II
Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump II

Vespa II x5

Void M x16460
Antimatter Charge M x240

Maybe I will try a missile boat during the course of the event, just for the change. (Changing ships and trying new fittings might make that repetitive grind a bit more interesting.) I see that most people appear to prefer missile cruisers (lots of Gilas, Orthrus', Tengus around), sometimes I see battlecruisers like Myrmidon, Drake, Gnosis, rarely an Assault frig (Jaguar, ...), and even more unpopular battleships seem to have become.

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Lugalzagezi666 Likes received: 251	#22 - 2016-07-24 18:36:46 UTC Mach.

Doomheim 894
Morgan Agrivar Doomheim Likes received: 894	#23 - 2016-07-25 02:18:19 UTC I use the Gnosis.

Minmatar Inner Space Conglomerate 1,231
Mina Sebiestar Minmatar Inner Space Conglomerate Likes received: 1,231	#24 - 2016-07-25 20:55:00 UTC \| Edited by: Mina Sebiestar Used Eos/Gila/Loki/Dominix Best times with RHML fleet typhoon with 2 auto-target II mods in high slots set them on then wait for aggro one clip is usually enough to kill all cruisers/BC's in center group while drones mop up frigs.... mwd to can profit. You choke behind a smile a fake behind the fear Because >>I is too hard

Backwater Enterprises RD 84
Nikea Tiber Backwater Enterprises RD Likes received: 84	#25 - 2016-07-27 00:56:05 UTC \| Edited by: Nikea Tiber Megapulse nightmare. I got tired of rosupplying ammunition. my other nano is a polycarb

James Dashing

Bagman's Bookkeeping Services LLC

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#26 - 2016-07-28 23:55:34 UTC

Been experimenting with a lot of ships. HAMgu would be nice, until someone warps in and sits on the beacon while you're camping the can, and then you can't reach the rats that aggro on them. This is mostly only a concern if you're in highsec.

And so I've found HMLgu to be pretty much ideal for me. Warp in, mark all the center rats, turn on tank/AB, orbit can at 500m, proceed to kill. I usually start by 1-shotting the frigates, then take out the BCs/cruisers. Permatanks the entire pocket, but you won't be in there very long. As an added bonus, it's extremely rare for someone to gank the can, as there is only a tiny window in which the rats aren't all mixed up and only you have the center ones marked.

Kinda sucks for the Angel sites though.

I personally don't want to go any larger than a cruiser, as I seem to spend much more time warping around than I do actually running the sites.

Fit could definitely be optimized some more (especially the rigs), I just grabbed what I had laying around and threw it on my former HAMgu.

[Tengu, HML]
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II

10MN Afterburner II
Gistum C-Type Medium Shield Booster
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Kinetic Deflection Field II
Phased Scoped Target Painter
Cap Recharger II

Heavy Missile Launcher II, Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Scourge Heavy Missile

Medium Rocket Fuel Cache Partition I
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I
Medium Hydraulic Bay Thrusters I

Tengu Propulsion - Fuel Catalyst
Tengu Defensive - Amplification Node
Tengu Offensive - Accelerated Ejection Bay
Tengu Electronics - Dissolution Sequencer
Tengu Engineering - Augmented Capacitor Reservoir

Scourge Heavy Missile x11000
Scourge Fury Heavy Missile x1200

Mi Pen Rai 155
Tam Arai Mi Pen Rai Likes received: 155	#27 - 2016-07-31 17:32:59 UTC guy in a tempest got concorded when i flew in to a site and he was running smartbombs i fly a rail ferox, i just trundle to the can and kill everything by the time i get there- i know i could do it faster but m'eh

Sara Starbuck

Adamantine Creations

Likes received: 86

#28 - 2016-08-01 06:53:48 UTC | Edited by: Sara Starbuck

I managed to get gold about week ago and stopped pretty much after.
I used HAM Cerberus, 700dps to about 39km with rage. If i needed more range i could fling javelins to 71k.
I usually sat at beacon while mid grp agroed me, dropped frigs while they were coming towards me.
After frigs died, i stared moving toward the box while cycling mwd once, cruisers and the bcs usually died same time when i was at looting range of the box.
I didnt need to kill the sidegroups since i had all the remaining middle group ships locked so i just killed them and ignored sides. Usually I had about 10 HAMs in tubes when last middle group ship died, so i could just reload on way to the next beacon.

Blazemonger Adoulin

BLAZE INC

Likes received: 14

#29 - 2016-08-02 14:32:55 UTC

I just warp in and sit at the entry point, Gila with light nova missiles. Let middle group come out and kill frigates, then cruisers and when the final 5 are targeted move to can while the rest is killed with hammerheads. I get to the can for the 1st spawn before the side group catches up and kill them with hobs (frigs) and hammerheads (cruisers).

Usually by the time I get all of them the 2nd spawn is in the can so I grab that, loot whatever ships I can and jump out..

Normally 6-7 minutes.. on average 6-10M ISK of loot, have gotten a few implants of 130M +..

No need to spend millions on anything else.. When there's Angels mixed in it's a bit harder. Also have run into a few wing leaders who have faction loot..

Shallanna Yassavi

qwertz corp

Likes received: 560

#30 - 2016-08-02 23:06:38 UTC

A polarized harb worked well enough. Sit on the beacon, lock all the frigates, start pegging them with microwaves as they come in. If you shield tank, you can put 3 HS and 2 tracking enhancers in the lows, and take an optimal rig. Mids are MWD and large extenders.

I put a nano in the other low so it would be a little easier to respond to stuff MWDing at close range.
Salvage drones don't aggro Serpentis, so I carried a flight of those and set them to work once stuff started dropping.

If you get into a stay-on-the-box contest with that ship, it loses.

A signature :o

Morgan Agrivar

Doomheim

Likes received: 894

#31 - 2016-08-06 06:41:18 UTC

Fun fact as this event is coming to a close.

When you clear one of the major combat sites, if you wait 5-6 minutes, there is a chance that the Research Vault respawns with more loot.

I did not believe it until someone showed me after we both cleared the site and I warped off and he told me to come back. It did respawn another 4 of those chips after I looted it earlier.

Would have been nice to know that earlier. Missed out on lots of extra loot.

What?

Perkone Caldari State 132
Discordia Duenna Perkone Caldari State Likes received: 132	#32 - 2016-08-11 23:53:25 UTC \| Edited by: Discordia Duenna I was doing shipyards in 1:20 with an orthrus and a mach, these smartbombers sound slow :) Gilas and Ishtars were so annoying in these sites tbh, slowboating idiots with drones that aggressed the whole room, taking their cans was joyous, so was placing a 5 mill bounty on each Gila. 383,050 pts