EVE New Citizens Q&A

Sister of EVE Epic Story Arc - The Blood Stained Stars - Our Man Dagan

I noticed new players like myself asking in local for help to kill this guy a few times so thought I would show how I did it being a new player in the same boat. I am only a few days old and hardly any skills past lvl 1-2 but you can kill Dagan with a noob skilled Algos destroyer in just a minute or two of shooting with the right amount of damage to break his tank.

I used 3 t1 medium explosive damage drones and 5 t1 meta 4 blasters with cheapy faction antimatter ammo. Kill the escorts with light drones and then switch to mediums, orbit Dagan at 500m, web him and blast away until dead. The afterburner just means he can never hit you as long as you are orbiting him at 500m. He was dead in 1-2 mins with this setup. All he used on me was a target painter and that did not seem to do anything with my speed up.

Anyway hope that help my skills are crap and I am only 3+ days old char so it is possible. I chose Caldari option for the missions if that changes anything.

[Algos]
Anode Light Neutron Particle Cannon I
Anode Light Neutron Particle Cannon I
Anode Light Neutron Particle Cannon I
Anode Light Neutron Particle Cannon I
Anode Light Neutron Particle Cannon I

Small F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction
Experimental 1MN Afterburner I
X5 Prototype Engine Enervator

Magnetic Vortex Stabilizer I
Upgraded Co-Processor
Drone Damage Amplifier I

Hobgoblin I x6
Valkyrie I x3

Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S x1325
Antimatter Charge S x33210

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Skills that I have, Hardly any really.

Drones lvl 3
Light Drones lvl 1
Medium drones lvl 2

Cap Management and Cap Systems Op lvl 2
CPU management lvl 3
Electronic Upgrades lvl 1
Power grid management lvl 3
Weapon upgrades lvl 1

Gunnery lvl 3
Small Hybrid Turret lvl 3
Controlled Bursts lvl 2
Motion prediction, Rapid firing, Sharpshooter lvl 1

Navigation lvl 3
Acceleration control lvl 1
Afterburner lvl 1
Evasive Maneuvering lvl 1

Shield Management lvl 1
Shield Operation lvl 1
Shield Upgrade lvl 1
Tactical Shield Manipulation lvl 1

Gallente Destroyer lvl 3

Long Range Targeting lvl 1
Signature Analysis lvl 1
Targeting Management lvl 1

You need about 120+ dps, 150ish to do it comfortably, to kill Dagan.

As a side note; you fitted a small shield extender, those aren't very useful at all tbh. IF you fit an extender, always fit oversized (if it exists). So frigates and destroyers, assuming they want to use shield buffer, should fit medium shield extender.

Ah, the Algos... what a beautiful boat. Which reminds me, I need to upgrade mine, I haven't used it since the first time I ran that arc...

Anyway, props for getting a solid fit; it's quite common-place to see people taking long-range weapons into that fight, and that almost always doesn't work too well.

So, did you need 2 shots to off him or did a single one suffice?

Personally, I use an Assault Frig to do the Epic Arc.... mostly to get around quickly, though.

A a l commorant also works brilliant as you can get massive range and kite for days. And changing the neutrons for tails may work in your favour

Off grid boosted Abaddon here (pre ship changes).

Land at range...lock...shoot once and pop

Didn't Dagan neut like a ***** too? Or did they take that away? I want to remember killing him in a rail fit Algos just to stay out of neut range. Took a few minutes but got the job done.

If you are using short range weapons you probably want to use a MWD. This way you can close with the enemy quickly. You just have to turn it off when you get there so your cap recovers.

Its the mission before dagan that has neuts. Damn annoying though.

As other people have pointed out, I be confused. It's not Dagan that neuts, it's the dude before.