Ships & Modules

I have all the armor resistance compensation skills at V.
I was actually reading up more on the Assault mission, and I think the problem is the guide says the damage type is Kinetic/Thermal, but they were firing lasers at me so maybe it is EM/Thermal. In which case no wonder I was getting murdered.

Try a reactive armor hardener. You get between 30-60% resists with it. That and a damage control are all I've ever needed for Assault.

Yeah, I am going to try that too. I think mainly the low EM resist is what is the problem. I am going to look up the NPC name tonight and double check on the damage type. I think I just naturally assumed they were guristas doing Kinetic damage. But if they were hitting me at 100 km then they definitely were not using ballistics.

Thanks for all the advice on the tanking and the damage part too. I will definitely re-do my rigs to get more maximized damage. The question is, will the burst Aerator and the locus coordinator have stacking penalties with the Tracking computer?

If they are Guristas, use a T2 Damage Control, Reactive Hardener and one of the Corelum Deadspace energized membranes. Avoid the triggers and should should be able to manage aggro no problem. Insofar as the rigs, yes - the Aerator is stacking penalized - but it still gives you an +8.12% rate of fire increase. And implants aren't stacking penalized, so you can get another 10-14% DPS as well. As long as you script the tracking computers for optimal range it will not conflict with the tracking bonus on the Locus rig.

I don't think they were Guristas. Gurista battleships don't hit you for 150-200+ dmg at 100km do they?

Hmm, So would you recommend one Aerator or two, or one Aerator and one Locus? Will the locus rig extend my optimal range beyond 80km?

I have not put in any combat related implants yet, I will probably get some to improve on dps too.

Yeah, Guristas can be brutal - since they're primarily missile-based with 100km+ range. If this was for a Caldari agent it was Guristas, and you're primarily looking to plug a kinetic hole.

One T2 Aerator to improve rate of fire and a T1 Locus for tracking speed. Having the T2 rig is imperitive as you get 8% with a T2 and about 2.5% with a T1. If you want the furthest optimal range run three range-scripted tracking computers.

If those NPCs were called Pith they were Guristas, Sansha's Nation are called Centus or Centis, Serpentis are called Corelum or Coreli, Blood Raider are called Corpum or Corpi, angel cartel are called Gist or Gisti and Rogue Drones are called Alvus or Alvi.

And Mordus are called Mordus.

Yeah the reason I don't use Tachyon beams is that I never trained large beam weapon specalization yet.

Also I thought about both MWD and MJD and I liked the tracking computer better.

Otherwise your setup is not much different than mine. I prefer damage control II because it adds a lot of passive resists without much in the way of cpu/power/cap etc. As I mentioned earlier, the reactive armor is not going to help when you kill stuff so fast. But if the fight drags on I can see where it would come in handy.

This is my Kronos fit. I swap the hardeners to match the mission.

[Kronos, Kronos]
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Tracking Enhancer II
Reactive Armor Hardener
Armor Kinetic Hardener II
Armor Thermic Hardener II
Khanid Navy Large Armor Repairer (These have gone up in value so might replace it with a core x-type)

Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
100MN Afterburner II
Large Micro Jump Drive

Neutron Blaster Cannon II, Void L
Neutron Blaster Cannon II, Void L
Neutron Blaster Cannon II, Void L
Neutron Blaster Cannon II, Void L
Small Tractor Beam II
Auto Targeting System II
Drone Link Augmentor II
Bastion Module I

Large Auxiliary Nano Pump II
Large Hybrid Collision Accelerator I (Still haven't decided what to put here so this is a place holder)

Hornet II x10
Salvage Drone I x5
Warden I x2
Void L x8000
Null L x8000
Optimal Range Script x2
Tracking Speed Script x2

I went back into the mission last night and everything respawned. This time I paid attention to the damage type and the names and they are definitely guristas. Piths to be exact. I guess I missed the missiles flying around the first time because there are a lot of them.

I put the active adaptive hardener on the ship and all the resists gravitated towards kinetic after a while and I was still getting heavy missile damage. I decided to go back and just fit 2 damage specific hardeners Kinetic and explosive and redo my cap because this setup did not have a sustainable cap.

After all the running around to Jita and back I still didn't finish the mission, left the last room undone so probably will have to start over again tonight.

3 things I've noticed:

1. Having the Burst Aerator and the Locus coordinator did not change my DPS that much. I might be better off with a capacitor rigging.
2. Drones were getting killed fast no matter if they were light, medium or heavy, but they sped up the fight, maybe I will swap out a heat sink for a drone damage booster.
3. Without a MWD I could not catch up to some of the pith missile ships. But with them on I could not get to cap stable without the cap reactor. So cap rigging is definitely needed. Longer range beams could also help but I would have to train them.

So this mission is still a bear, I may just skip the first two rooms tonight so I can finish it. The loot wasn't bad from the battleships though. They dropped some large Arbelest cruise or torpedo launchers.


I would love to fly a Kronos but that would mean training up Gallente ships.

PS> After fitting those hardeners, It doesn't matter if I agro the whole room, I can tank them just fine now as long as my cap holds up even without the bastion. The key was the faction explosive hardener to boost my explosive resist. I also removed my damage control II .

Right now my lows are 3x Navy Heat sink, 1 faction B Armor rep, 1 Faction A explosive Hardener, 1 faction A Kinetic hardener and 1 nano membrane.