Missions & Complexes

Hey i got into missioning for a few weeks now and i wonder what you think is one of the hardest lvl 4 missions? I havent done all yet, like Angel Extravaganza Bonus room. And i didnt do Enemies Abound 5/5 until now because i read so much stories that its so hard etc. but these threads were old and after i went in with my legion with medium skills i would say, it was so easy that i wondered if they nerfed the mission someday..(?)
So especially for amarr, what do you think is very hard? I am only scared to frigates which orbit at under 7km since i dont have drones with my legion and if they scramble me i wont ever kill them but didnt happen yet..

The L4 arc missions are often a lot harder than regular L4s.

Showtime I remember being quite painful. I imagine the amarr arc also has some hard missions.

Trick to 'Smash the Supplier' is to bring long range and speed, an AB will do, keep them outside 50km ideally 70km and your golden. Of course sometimes you end up with loot spread across 200km but it works.

I think that damage wise, AE Bonus is still the toughest of L4s. But I'm not doing anti-faction anymore, so there could be some nasty surprise as well (though I remember doing Smash the Supplier, it was good run for money too).

With a web, 2 TCs and some manual piloting with the AB frigs are not a issue(that is after you are already get webbed). In general you just keep it out of web range, then the legion is actually one of the best hulls to kill frigs.

The bonus room of AE isn't this hard in a Legion, but it takes ages so I generally skip it(similar as with all other amarr hulls). Mining Misappropriation can hurt if you have a 4 popes spawning at 100km, and really give you trouble during getting close. Blockade can be similar if you need to move to far away from the big BS spawns(if you get to much TDs on you). Pirate scarlet can give you a little bit of issues in a 2 slot tank if you get a lot guristas spawned and need to tank them for 2-3 minutes while being permajammed.

Enemies Abound can be fairly hard if you lack the dps to kill waves quick and npc damage increases, what can be a big problem for a bs sized ship.



It doesn't take that long in a gank fitted Abaddon or Paladin(22-26 minutes w/o bonus room), what isn't to bad if you look at the bounty's. The only mission I really hate in Amarr space with laser hulls is Assault vs Guristas, since the jamming is super annoying.

The most ANNOYING missions are Serpentis Blockade and Serpentis The Assault. Both of these missions have a tons of damping ships and they take WAY too long to do solo.
I can complete them just fine but they take so long that these days I decline them and hope for a better offer from my agent.
Dread Pirate Scarlet can be a pain if you roll up lots of ECM-ing Gurista ships but otherwise it's a simple enough mission.

Well so far for me as a legion pilot i had never any problems with tanking a mission. Though i didnt do AE yet but Mining Misappropriation or Enemies Abound ( which is by far my favourite mission ) didnt make me rep much. But i really hate ewar, especially tracking disruption. Thats why i will never do the blockade again, it takes ages with a range of 5km.. And i dunno why the legion should be good in killing frigs. If ever a frig gets close to me while i am webbed, it is only slowly possible to hit them with multifreq and 2 tracking speed scripts ( though i dont have the skills for tracking speed yet ). I know some nps orbit at under 7.5km, like 2km which makes it impossible to hit them for me.
I never got dread pirate scarlet yet (?) so dunno about that. I will try AE soon once i get it again and only decline blockade and vengeance. I feel very comfortable with my 770 dps legion and in abt 1 month with 950/1050 dps everything should be a piece of cake except for ewar. ( i prefer t3 instead of bs )

I think you are right. I can also imagine that triggering all spawns in The Blockade at once can break almost any tank.

Though 'hardness' of AE Bonus stems from two factors:
1. Whole room aggroes on entry.
2. Sentry batteries have very good range and start hitting since the beginning.

So while some missions may be harder to tank, you can almost always manage it sometimes. With AE you are always going full monty.

Oh, and there's another ballsy mission: Evolution bonus (scramming frigs which trigger battleship spawns).

iirc, sticking around for oh god I forget the name....The one where you take the quaffe from the warehouse results in unexpected amounts of neuty-pain.

Might've just been a rude shock though, I've only done it once.

Edit: Cargo delivery, that's the one.

You just need to move out of the centre and keep over 20km towards the neut BS, it is a pretty easy mission in a Legion. The Serpentis version you get in Amarr space is even better, since you can position yourself at the spawn point of the BS in the first wave, making it possible to get every BS down with conflagration before they can move away from you(a gank fitted Abaddon, NM or Pala is still a lot quicker).



Use a little manual piloting with the AB to drop transversal to the frig. With a bit practice you will never miss your drones again, but be glad that you can handle frigs a lot quicker and without them. For Duo of Death(6 spider drones), WC 2. pocket or Silence the Informant you can also fit a web to get rid of frigs at close range super fast. We used Legions back in the days to kill like 50 Frigs with ten times the EHP of the L4 variants in Incursions with 8 Legions in like 120 seconds.