EVE New Citizens Q&A

Maintain speed. Speed, namely high angular velocity, makes it harder fro them to hit you.

Also do NOT dual tank, shield or armor never both. And an mean never... this isn't just some elitism thing where "pr0s" says what is good or anything, it just really doesn't ever work. You only dual tank if you want some lawls. Buffer tanks will run out of PG and CPU before you can dual tank and active tanks will cap you out in 3 seconds.

The rifter can however do either one. Pick one, stick to it (for that ship anyway) and then fit some resistance on there. Damage controls are great no matter which tank you use cause they add resistance to everything, even structure (the only modules that does so).

Make sure to keep an eye on the overview and look for the icons of ewar. Webbers and warp scrammers are top priority

One point to add to Culmen's advice.

The drones will be in two groups - make sure you get intitial aggression from only the closest group and lead them away using the kiting method Culmen describes. When they have been dealt with you can turn your attention to the others.

Them Minmatars must have tried to work something with nanites to rebuild shields on the go... mix of repair paste and duct-tape maybe?

First error, and made by almost all new players (now and in the past), is that you use both a shield and armour tanking module. General idea in EVE is tank one of them, some ships prefer shield tanking (Caldari and some Minmatar) while others prefer armour tanking (Gallente, Amarr and again some Minmatar). Keep in mind that I say prefer as you don't have to armour tank an Amarr ship, though shield tanks usually aren't as great on them as armour tanks due to their slot layout and base shield HP vs armour HP.

2nd error, also depends how far are you in the SoE Epic Arc missions, is that you might use a ship that is too small for the duty. Have you done all 5 career agents for a start, if so you should have a destroyer as a reward from I believe the Adv. Militairy one. Train to use that ship and it should give you a bit more bite against frigate sized rats in mission over your frigate, destroyers can be able to complete the entire SoE Epic Arc, with the exception of one of the last missions (not trying to reveal spoilers) as it's a really hard missions for newer players.

J'P

Hi there, as a newb myself I faced this damned trap yesterday and well... lost 2 Coercers to them until I figured out how to take them all out.

But I think it was worth the effort because I learned two damned important lessons. The most important one... don't leave your hangar without a warp stabilizer. I flew into the hornet's nest and got pinned down. Due to their stasis webifiers I couldn't move and the warp scramblers did the rest to keep me pinned. Luckily I did indeed insure my ship, so the loss was not thaaaat big (didn't take real worthy items with me). In the second try.... yeah well laugh about me, sometimes you have to learn it the hard way. I chose to take em out by distance, so I bought a new destroyer, bought beam lasers etc. and radio s crystals. The thing is... the warp stabilizers decreases your range. So I left it out... took out some drones until they came near the 10km range so I jumped out, recharged and jumped back in. And yeah...well... sometimes you should think twice when playing a real online game... I jumped right back in where I left off, so I got pinned down again, far from taking them out from distance. They were still only on the brink of the 10km range and I couldn't jump. So that's the story of my second loss... The third attempt was way better and I learned a lot of things during this fight. I guess one of many hard lessons. Well it cost me some ISK (still angry about it...) but keeps you from risking too much.

So my tipp for this mission...take a destroyer, you should get one by doing the military tutorial or buy one (affordable after the tutorials imo). Don't risk anything you can't afford to lose. Scout your enemies, be prepared to face strong enemies and be able to flee and reequip. Try to take as many out as possible by range and then jump back in prepared for close infight, tank amor or shields, not both, jump out rather too early than too late.

Really the only mission during the story arc (as far as I got until now) which really posed a challenge, but damn it was really fun figuring it out.