Missions & Complexes

I have not run this plex before and would like to give it a try.

After reading up all I can find on The Maze 10/10 complex, I would like to know from any seasoned maze veterans if it could be possible to run this plex using only a standard Raven, buffer fitted, being repped by a Basilisk?

Yes I am aware that T2 resists and low signature radius is recommended for this plex, and high EM resist is needed for the last room, so ishtar / nighthawk/ minmatar HAC's etc, but I'm an unskilled scrublord who can't use any of these ships, I do have friends I could tank it, but I want to try this out first =)




The First Room

After actually entering the plex in a n00bship, I have seen exactly which NPC's are in the first room, and tried to calculate their volley damage and dps using NPC database website.

I got: 1464 dps, with a 5948 volley. All Kinetic Damage. Does this seem correct?


The Raven will be fitted something like this (room for improvement, please feel free to suggest things, thats if you dont think the whole thing is a waste of time and it will get insta popped lol):

[Raven, the maze buffer]
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Damage Control II

Ballistic Deflection Field II
Ballistic Deflection Field II
Invulnerability Field II
Photon Scattering Field II
Large Shield Extender II
Large Shield Extender II

Cruise Missile Launcher II, Wrath Cruise Missile
Cruise Missile Launcher II, Wrath Cruise Missile
Cruise Missile Launcher II, Wrath Cruise Missile
Cruise Missile Launcher II, Wrath Cruise Missile
Cruise Missile Launcher II, Wrath Cruise Missile
Cruise Missile Launcher II, Wrath Cruise Missile
Large Rudimentary Concussion Bomb I
Large Rudimentary Concussion Bomb I

Large Core Defence Field Extender I
Large Core Defence Field Extender I
Large Core Defence Field Extender I


Hobgoblin II x5
Hobgoblin II x10

It is not capstable running the smartbombs, but i wont be perma running those anyway, with those off it is.

15 light drones because I am paranoid about being web/scrammed by frigs and losing all my drones somehow =p

Looking that fitting through EFT, it looks like it will be able to handle the first volley in the first room ok before reps arrive, does anybody else agree or disagree?

The Basilisk will be fitted with 5x 'Large S95a Partial Shield Transporters' and these can be perma-run (meaning no tank on the basi so if it gets aggro it goes boom lol, but it will have a cloak so should be ok)

This should give the above Raven fitting a 4000dps tank vs kinetic damage, which I'm sure is more than enough.



My main problem

The main problem I think I will face is the last room, the EM citadel torpedo's, I've looked all over the internet and can't find a definative number for the amount of damage they do, I've seen numbers from 15,000 EM damage to 180,000 EM damage... =S

Can anybody who has run this plex please give me an exact figure on the amount of damage these torpedos do?
And will the Raven fitting be able to tank it? (I may need to add more EM resist, using more Photon Scattering Fields or EM rigs, or even swap to a Scorpion standard issue, due to the extra mid slots, any suggestions?)

If it is 180k EM damage, I'm in trouble cos there's no way I'll be able to mitigate damage through speed or sig lawlz.

And my last question, are there any NPC's in the plex that are awkwardly hard to kill, and can't be killed by solo Raven?



Thank you for reading my wall of text, I look forward to replys, please reply if you have run this plex before or run this plex regularly, any information just copy pasted from google searchs i have already read lots of times =p
lots of love, BB x x x x


inb4 "no"
inb4 *link to wiki page*
inb4 "use ishtar/nighthawk/tengu/minmatar t2etc"
inb4 *google*
etc...

There are dozens of frigates int he last room, and half of them scram and web you. Just FYI.

And you are gonna need close to 90% EM resist for the last room. The maze is very hard to do, need at least 4 ships or so to get it done in a reasonable amount of time.

I have done, but i did it in a RR phoon... and died. But that was because he sent me in first instead of his Nighthawk (which would have tanked it fine).

Ur raven looks fine for most of it, but i would get a scorp and fit extra EM hardeners if u can

I will second this. You cannot tank the Maze in a Raven. Period.

The first rooms are nothing special. No one ever really mentions them because they're easy. The last room is the kicker.

You will be instantly scrammed and webbed to 0. You will be shot by the station for 6000 points of Omni Damage on warp in (this happens every time you warp the tank in, once). Everyone forgets about this because the proper way to tank the Maze is to use a low sig t3 and that shot often misses.

You will then be shot every thirty seconds by a torpedo that does 180 thousand EM damage, which you will take close to full damage from since your sig radius is enormous and you're going 0.9 m/s

Oh, and you're still being shot by a room full of guristas rats, too.

I tank the Maze in a Tengu, which can solo it if necessary, and usually use a second account for DPS (doesn't really matter what this is, since it's DPS). Fit a cloak on your DPS ship so it can avoid aggro on respawns.

When I lived in Guristas null, my standard Maze running comp was 1600mm plated Loki for tank, Oneiros for reps and 2x DPS ships. Could blitz the plex in around 30 minutes.

The torpedo does in fact deal 180k damage. All you need is a high EM resist + some extra for whatever faction you're up against.

As for tanking... Like said before, any T2 armor tanking should work, especially minmatar ones, though amarr should be fine, too.

Just make sure to sig radius tank it as much as you can.

Couple years ago, the first and only time I did it, a corpie yelled "I'm in a Golem, I can tank this" and died in a fire.

I'm not sure why you're so dead set on blowing up a Raven, but keep shining you crazy crazy star.