EVE General Discussion

What loot are people picking up?

Gecko
TEB's
Skins
BPC
Ammo

so far

oops, perhaps I shouldn't brag.

In the highsec (and WH/null) sites:

Jackets
Quafe Zero
Faction ammo
Skins (Bantam/Moa)
TEBs

Haven't tried them in low

Worm BPC

I'm picking up damage... lots and lots of damage....

There is such a disparity between the ease of the first room and the brutalizing of the second room. My nice long range cruiser slaughters the frigates pretty quickly. Getting dumped in the middle of 5 cruisers that brutalize you at short range and even at long... well, I am clearly in the wrong ship fitting. Getting better at fitting all the time, but still have to figure out how to tank that cruiser dps...

So... I'm getting a repair bill!

But I'm stubborn and I'll keep trying!

I made the initial mistake of trying this in a jackdaw for giggles. I could get the tank right but not the DPS. Some things worthy of note. Caldari T2/T3 ships have high thermal resists making them nice and easy to tank for the sites. Others may need a bit more thermal damage resistance help but is typically made up for with a single mod.

Passive gila (purger rigs and 2 LSE IIs + 2 passive thermal resist mods) or active tengu work wonders in the sites per my experience. Also I've seen plenty of vexor navy issues, ishtars and a cerberus or 2 running.

Got a Rattlesnake BPC from a highsec site. So those highsec sites can give nice thing.
So far the lowsec has only yielded a gecko and skill extractor.
Top this off with 20 skins and double the clothes.

For tanking: the highsec version uses thermal missiles and they do always the same amount of damage, no matter if you MWD or lower your sig, speed tank, etc. Not sure what is up that.
Lowsec seems to be easier then high. Ran a PvP fitted cane through those with ease, the tank on the cruisers seems to be way less then those of the highsec.

Also look at the patch notes. CCP is changing the loot tables every (other) day so maybe we get better stuff as the event nears it end.

Yeah, definitely elite cruiser stats (the bounties should have been some unmistakable hint of that). Ran one in a Golem for the giggles and they do take two full salvos to kill, which is elite cruiser territory for my part.

Oddly, CCP really needs to do something with how the inventory manager estimates market value; Guristas Moa Skins still get show up as 250M ISK which is laughably off by a very wide margin. I know early sales may have been near those values as ISK value for things in Eve can be in a word turbulent at best, but it's been days since the event began and they've been like that since.

Clothing
Quafe zero
Skill extractors

Absolutely true! I was stoked last night, finally got my tank working right and was able to tank all 5 cruisers but it takes massive capacitor to do so with two active tanking Thermal defense modules. Only one passive. The passives just aren't strong enough.

Tried blasters, more useless than the rails, switched back to rails and stayed at 15km and was able to kill one cruiser, but it was not an optimal fit.

Discovered that the cruisers don't shoot the drones (the Frigates do... en masse!). I'm going to dump all EC 300's on them and not worry about activating the defenses except to get the ECM drones on them. Then I can stop burning through cap booster charges like mad.

Light at the end of the tunnel, but yes, awesome fitting experiment lab.