Missions & Complexes

Any chance you could add a "Last updated on dd/mm/yyyy" to your guide? Makes it easier to know when a new version is out with updated info.

I still need some time setting myself up but I'm really looking forward to giving blitzing missions and burners a shot so I really appreciate this guide.

Good Idea, I'll add that to the guide thanks :)

Glad it's helping!

The super carrier is the Gurista Base burner. I should probably make it a bit more clear. That is currently the only one I would strongly suggest not running at all. It takes extremely long and is extremely difficult even with bling gear. I have been able to complete it, eventually, with a BC but it took nearly an hour (To be fair I was learning the ins/outs of the mission and testing various things) but I doubt you'd get it down further than maybe 30min if you're lucky. The fighters and fighter-bombers have ridiculously tiny sigs and crazy amounts of HP. They do a LOT of damage and there is 6 waves iirc. You can't OH as the mission is just far too long and the payout, even if it was the max like other burners would make it one of the worst paying lv4 missions currently available in the game. If there's a 'trick' to it other than CCP giving us the finger then we haven't found it yet.

In other news, I logged on to the test server and saw that they mirrored the skills and gear. I also got just over 2mill free SP from the last mass test. I used this to get a good set of skills for Heavy missiles to test my RHML Barghest concept. And the results are so far...

It might actually work 0.o

Pirate invasion Angel is only 30 seconds slower than what I recorded in my Machariel and that's with the Mach using Hail so probably the single best mission in the Mach's favor.

Stop the Thief is probably a wash. Better kill time for the Barghest by a tiny amount but slower warp speed by a similarly small amount.

Gone Bezerk was nail-bitingly close. I needed 1 more volley and I'd be a whole 30 seconds FASTER than my Mach time. This is because the best ammo available for the Mach in that mission is Barrage (I tested). I have a feeling with the skills I can easily get that extra volley.

I have high hopes for Assault - Serpentis and attack of the drones but the random nature of attack of the drones might screw me over. The loss of 50m3 drone bay over the mach really hurts but the extra dps come december on the Barghest has me super excited.

This is the skills I tested with:
Guided Missile Precision IV
Heavy Missile Specialization IV
Missile Bombardment V
Missile Projection IV
Rapid Launch IV
Target Navigation Prediction IV
Warhead Upgrades V
Caldari Battleship IV <- this is going to be the biggest factor after the dps buff, followed by Missile Specialization. Rapid launch is the least useful of the lot.

I do not have implants affecting damage so I might start there.

Use the compare tool and always shop around! many items of the same (or even slightly different) meta level are the same stats wise but can be very different price wise. And checking eve-central is usually a decent idea.

[ 2015.11.21 02:32:36 ] (notify) Interference from the warp you are doing is preventing your sensors from getting a target lock on Burner Dragonfly.
[ 2015.11.21 02:47:00 ] (notify) Interference from Burner Antero's warp prevents your sensors from locking the target.

eh only ~15 mins of combat time but that was also with links and minor bling. Lop on what ~2-4 mins of travel time? 13.5m bounty, 11k LP, 3m reward (made up reward, as I don't really remember but seems ballpark)? It's not great but probably not among the worst lv4s. I did made a few mistakes as I haven't run it since it was on Sisi for testing. I decided to run it for SaG the other night saw the LP was over 11k and said why not. Probably won't be doing that again though. According to my post in the burner thread I had it down to 11m and change. https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=369477&p=36


Duo is quick, but I find it annoying as you need to loot something at range and there are a bunch of webbing thingys. although an MTU would probably help with that. also tends to be a bunch of jumps away, although that is more influenced by constellation layout than anything else.

The Spy missions go fast, but payout is pretty low. Good for getting an extra fast mission in when grinding for storylines.

Pot and Kettle, Haven't tried it. what is the standings hit?

Doing a quick rough estimate you *might* be hitting 2mill per minute *if* you were soloing gurista base. With links you are actually dropping below 60mill per hour. gurista base is absolutely horrendous, especially with that bounty, lowest of all the bases without even the loot blood base gives and taking two to four times as long. At max burner reward and taking only 6 minutes it might be worth running over normal lv4 blitz missions (not even the good ones) but only just. heck it might be as good as blood base, almost :P

Having massive issues with applying ECM in the team burners (seems to only work once per ship?). The first few i did was a breeze in my rail enyo, but then a day ago or so, the ECM problem started (together with what feels like a tank buff to the remote repper ships but that might just be in my head). Maybe i was just lucky on the first ones i did.

Edit: Burner navitas does not "flee" after successful ECM hence my 225 dps OH rails are not enough to kill the other one before reps start again. No idea what's going on tbh

Edit 2: Same thing with team vengeance

The major problem now (apart from landing ECM) is that the logi:s doesn't flee anymore for some reason, they just stay in normal range which means you have very little time to kill the other one (too little time for me, i've had to quit both missions) . Two separate missions in a row has been like this now. Would love to hear from some other people running these missions.

I'm doing everything exactly as i did before and suddenly it doesn't work.

Exact same thing with team hawk now. Almost 100% sure they've increased the difficulty of the team burners within the last 24h, kiting does not work. Whether it is intentional or not is another question.

Edit: Ok so i took a team vengeance again and after ten ECM cycles or so it landed -> THE LOGI FLED. What is this nonsense? The logi:s only flee rarely now? I give up

I'll give it a go and check to make sure, how's your dps skills? You should be using less than half the cap charges if your dps skills are decent.

did 2 enyo teamburner testruns on sissi today and it looks like they fixed the bug. was able to do the enyo in 1:30