Missions & Complexes

What ship are you using to run these? I saw Johnny Pew was using a Cerberus on sisi.

The 3 waves of cruisers in the 2nd pocket doing Thermal damage take a while to grind. The BC spawn at the end is trivial after getting through the cruisers.

I haven't come across one of the low-sec variety yet.

My HAM Tengu appears to be the fastest and at no risk to warp out. Tried my exploration Stratios, but the incoming damage was a tad too fierce. Just pulled my Domi out of mothballs and ran a couple after some modifications; ok, but Tengu is far easier to do. The Cruiser AI will switch targets every wave, usually at least 3 or four times if you use drones. Usually after the first cruiser in the wave gets dropped, they will switch to drones (if you are using any other weapon system/agro). Ran into numerous Gilas running the sites and even a Rattlesnake was making the ponderous turn into the acceleration gate for the second room. I felt best with my damage being over 700/second; any lower and you can do it, but it takes way too long. Noticed that some site runners in high sec are fitting webs and a point to catch an occasional ninja cargo stealer. I imagine that low sec is a hunter's paradise with these; like waiting at feeding stations for the prey to show up.

Turns out an Ishtar with heavies works very well.

My guess is that CCP designed the 2nd pocket to take long enough for plenty of players to join the party.

"Collect Compact TEBS Interfaces from the facilities from your kills. The top 20 collectors will have their names mentioned on a commemorative landmark."

see http://www.eveonline.com/thehunt.html

^ i say sell them to someone that want his name on some board for isk

Anyone got any faction / rare drop from high sec sites seems they don't have high grade loot?.!

I've found a Hawk works well for Lowsec and going to try a Harpy after work. The combination of speed, signature radius and fitting for thermal resist means you take very little damage and scourge fury rockets chew through the ships pretty quick. It is worth hunting down the transportation sites. There are more rats in there than the detention sites but they have much lower resists (scourge rage rockets apply double the damage to cruisers in the transport site to cruisers in the detention sites) and they use hybrids so do even less damage due to tracking.

The final rat in the transportation sites is a battleship and will ECM you so bring some ECCM (sebo).

It will take longer in the Assault Frigate than many other ships but most players hunting in Lowsec won't bother trying to pop a cheap Assault Frigate and it's easy enough to warp out if they come in after you. Also a cheap ship to replace if you do lose one.

Edit: Harpy works very nicely too and has an amazing tank. Had an MASB and never had to use it once. Turns out it is more than capable of handling ships trying to jump you in Lowsec too.

Yeah. I had used either armor Ishtars or passive shield Gilas for the Blood Raider Gauntlets at Halloween and the Operation Frostline sites at Christmas, but both the Ishtars and Gilas didn't work well for the first few GDFs I tried back on Friday...

So I hopped into the Hamgu I trained into back in December. I'm in a Nightmare/Paladin jump clone, so no missile implants... and my missile supports are mostly at L4. But t2 Hams (spec at L3), all Tengu subsystems to 5 and it takes about:
* ~2 minutes for warp in, 3 waves of frigs (with cal navy scourge HAMs), take gate...
* ~8 minutes for 3 waves of cruisers + BC (scourge rage HAMs for entire 2nd room, does more damage due to Tengu kinetic bonus than scourge inferno HAMs)... 2.2 second cycle time, have to reload scourge rage twice during each room 2.

So about 10 minute sites on average in a solo Hamgu, and very enjoyable. Wins most contests, too.

Anyone get any Scorpion Guristas skins yet?

Polarized torpedo Golem with Faction torpedoes and a grappler for the initial wave of frigates.


Just Bantam and MOA.

You guys are funny with all your shiny stuff...my Blaster Brutix with Hob IIs works fine for the Detention Centers in Hi-Sec.