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Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II

Limited 1MN Microwarpdrive I
Enfeebling Phase Inversion ECM I
Enfeebling Phase Inversion ECM I
Enfeebling Phase Inversion ECM I

Light Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Inferno Light Missile
Light Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Inferno Light Missile
Light Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Inferno Light Missile

Small Processor Overclocking Unit I
Small Processor Overclocking Unit I
[empty rig slot]

'Augmented' Hobgoblin x2
Warrior II x2
Acolyte II x1

Tested on all 5 burners and it works like a charm except for the guristas one, since it 2-3 shots you when you get out of lock range. The only other one that this fit has difficulty with is the sansha one since it can go out of your lock range then dive back in very quickly, need to overheat jammers when that happens or you die fairly quickly.

Guristas mission will need a bit more thought; perhaps even just a tanked worm will take care of it.

I think the ships are immune to Tracking Disruption, but not ECM for some reason (which is far more effective). Just tried to fight the Daredevil Burner with a Sentinel with 2x TDs with -76% optimal each, and it still was hitting me at 12km.

decline, then try that agent again. there was something way back, about how agents already have a mission they intend to offer you, even before you ask them, so if it's your normal agent, then they'll have a normal mission in their queue. Decline it and ask again, and you should get a burner mission.

same thing happened when I tried it.

This missions are super waste of time.
We killed 15 burners, guess what, EMPTY WRECKS

All of the burners are WAY overpowered, can't be soloed, they can't be killed even with 2 players in group, you need at least 3 players.

Rewards are NONE, nothing drops.

I'll be skiping those missions, even level 1 missions are better to do and have better rewards.

The Guristas Burner ingores my scram on him once he switches to my drones.

I'll see if I can reproduce that, thanks for the report.

Read the Dev Blog and this thread. These NPC reflect the power of a pirate implant set wearing, faction/deadspace fit pirate frigate, using command links.

The rewards are as previously mentioned broken by the fact that the mission reward system is dynamic and dependant on user data. When it comes to drops I don't imagine CCP will want to flood the 'rare' module market high drop %. The rewards will probably be reasonable a week or two after patch day.

I could be wrong but I expect there may be pilots without the ability to complete these missions even when they are able to breeze through lvl 4s semi-afk.

You will need to use a combination of specific fittings and ships to beat complete these missions.
All this being said I am sure these NPCs require some tweaks when it come to balance.

Roger. Expectations adjusted.
I'll go enjoy the puzzles some more then :)

*Note I am still at work and have been unable to test the feature*
Fozzie will you have some sort of warning display before accepting a Burner mission?

When I run mission I have the bad habit of spamming 'complete mission' and 'accept mission' before I have even read where/what I am supposed to be doing. I worry that people may accidentally accepting a Burner mission and not have the resources to complete it.

I feel the introduction of the 'niche' missions may catch certain players (especially newer pilots) off guard leading them to losing ships and losing standings to abandoned missions.

If CCP's goal with this is to make PVE more challenging while expanding the ship types needed for missions and making people look at lvl 4's differently I have a better idea, which might even encourage utilizing the help of other players which is also one of the goals CCP has, you know, get people out of the solo aspects of the game.

How about you just dial back the ship allowances for normal level 4 missions, so that only frigates or cruisers or maybe even remove T2 ships from being able to enter. I routinely take random underpowered ships into lvl 4 missions (either by myself or to help a friend) just to add the extra interesting-ness. Solo'ing Gur Extravaganza lvl 4 with a T2 fit Merlin can make it incredibly more interesting. It might even go so far as encouraging non-incursion use of logi ships?

Due to the server's current instability I'm not going to touch these burner missions with a ten-foot pole until tomorrow (almost started one, but before I could get the ship built/fit here comes our friend socket disconnect again). Also add to that the extreme overpowered-ness these frigs seem to have. Yeah I understand they are supposed to be over-powered, but one of the things I would really like to see from NPCs (and have been wanting for a while), is that they would have actual fit ships, within the fitting requirements of the ships they are using. Yes, you can increase the difficulty of the NPC by giving it more and more expensive fits in terms of faction/deadspace as compared to lesser rats only using meta/T2 modules. But having frigate sized rats that can perma-tank 300+ dps while also webbing, scramming, using a prop mod, ewar (TD/jams/nuets), and still being able to output massive dps at range. Just seems like they are way exceeding the fitting restrictions that a player would be able to do with an endless bank account even.

Also one question I had, the Blood rat, he nuets, are those nuets overpowered/oversized for what would be possible to fit on a frig (eh-hem *cough* sansha incursion frigs) or are they infact small sized nuets?