Ships & Modules

If you prefer Mega Pulse just swap them out. The lower cap use means you can run the MWD for awhile to close range if you need to. I don't change anything else.

A DCII is 15% resists (no stack penalty). An EANM is 25% resists but has a penalty. 2x EANM > EANM+DC

2xEANM+RAH > 2xEANM+DC, unless you're taking all four damage types. But if you're taking 1 type it's twice as good, if 2 types it's a little better. DCs are great for boosting your total EHP in PVP. In PVE you are looking for sustained tanking ability more than EHP total. That's why there's no plates or extenders on active PVE tank mission runners.

As far as a tracking computer, or target painter or web, if you can't hit it with Mega Pulse + Multifrequency + Bastion, then the frigate/destoryer is too close, and you should be using your drones on it. You can hit cruisers reliably with Mega Pulse + Bastion. If there's a cloud of small ships around you that you can't hit, MWD in a line to lower their transversal, or just MJD and pop them as they come at you, then MJD back.

I only listed the RAH in the fit because it sounds like you have a good chance of ******* up the trigger. If you're confident you won't **** up the trigger, then just 2xEANM is fine.

Oh, and my fit is faction everything. A-type MWD, navy cap rechargers, X-type LAR, navy EANMs, navy heat sinks. You're in billion-isk marauder now--don't disgrace that golden hull by flying it like a poor. :)

The Guristas in The Assault will slam you with scourge missile after scourge missile. If you put on a Reactive Armor Hardener it will slam over to 60% KN resist because that's pretty much all you're taking.

2xEANM + 1xRAH. If you can't tank the pocket with an X-Type LAR in Bastion with those resist mods, you need to stop shooting the trigger in group 2 first. (And also train your skills, because even the full pocket should not break your tank.)

You can kill group 1 and 3 without aggroing Group 2. (Group 1 is closest, Group 3 is farthest. Both groups have elite frigs in them.) Just target the close elite frigs and shoot them. Now kill everything that aggros. Now shoot the far away frigs and kill everything that aggros. Now kill the cruisers in group 2. All you have left is battleships now. Look at how they are flying; one will usually be flying a little different than the rest--that's probably the trigger. Shoot a different one. If you pick wrong, the first shot spawns reinforcements. As long as you killed group 1 & 3 already, you should be fine, especially with the above tank.

Note that if you just kill group 3 the mission is over.

[Paladin, L4 Mega Pulse]

Corpus X-Type Large Armor Repairer
Imperial Navy Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane
Imperial Navy Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane
Imperial Navy Heat Sink
Imperial Navy Heat Sink
Imperial Navy Heat Sink
Imperial Navy Heat Sink

Gist X-Type 500MN Microwarpdrive
Large Micro Jump Drive
Imperial Navy Cap Recharger
Imperial Navy Cap Recharger

Mega Pulse Laser II, Conflagration L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Conflagration L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Conflagration L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Conflagration L
Bastion Module I
Small Tractor Beam II
Small Tractor Beam II
Small Tractor Beam II

Large Capacitor Control Circuit II
Large Capacitor Control Circuit II


Hobgoblin II x5
Salvage Drone I x5
Hornet II x5


Medium Standard Container x1
Large Standard Container x1
Scorch L x4
Imperial Navy Multifrequency L x4
Mobile Tractor Unit x1

That is my fit from Pyfa. Like I said you can swap to Tachyons freely. It tanks 500 eDPS without Bastion, 1420 eDPS with Bastion. 1156 DPS @ 27k + 15k (conflag) or 826 DPS @ 76k + 15k (scorch). Cap stable with MWD on. Does 982 m/s, and adds 99 DPS from drones which I only use on small ships or when I'm blitzing and not looting. Otherwise I have my MTU and Salvage Drones out while killing. I name the two containers #1-Hold and #2-Hold and I dump my MTU contents into them; they take up 975 m³ but can hold 1170 m³. I use Hornets on Angels & Guristas, and Hobgoblins on everything else.

Well, the point was those NPCs all have similar names so you can differentiate between them. And as far as I know, there is only one level 4 mission with EoM which is "Gone Beserk".

http://eve-survival.org/wikka.php?wakka=Assault4gu
Guristas don't do EM or explosive damage. Maybe you're thinking of Angels...

Speed reduces incoming damage by some measure. The amount varies depending on what sort of attack is hitting you and what the variables in that attack are. But by general rule of thumb speed = good. However, MWD increase your signature radius which makes you take more damage from those attacks, so the benefit of speed is negated by that signature bloom.

As others have stated, and I myself did in the last post I did in this thread, Guristas are going to hit you with a LOT of kinetic damage, and some therm. There will not be any explosive or EM damage in this mission. I reassert my previous advice for tanking this mission, two x-type kinetic hardeners and one x-type thermal. They're cheap and you'll get your money's worth out of them as you mission frequently, I promise.

I will also reassert my previous advice in regards to your mids. If you're using Tachys on that Paladin, a sensor booster and some tracking computers will allow you to hit everything in the room (use x-ray crystals and don't be afraid to shoot into some falloff range). You don't need the MWD for that mission - you can hit all NPC's from where you land and there's no travel time to any gates. So, if you're using the MWD you've already done something wrong because you never needed it in this mission. Worry about MWD in other missions, just get through this one for now.

Quick tips for this mission (assuming NON-blitz, killing as much as you can for bounties)-
1: Land in first room. Lock all targets in your immediate area. Locate the battleship with highest bounty, move that target lock to a different location on your HUD so you don't immediately fire upon him. Kill everything in your immediate area, and that BS last. Hitting him triggers a reinforcement wave.
2: Kill the reinforcement wave, which spawns about 100km away. With your tackys, tracking computers, and sensor booster, you can immediately fire upon and start killing those targets.
3: After that wave is dead, you should have some elite cruisers that haven't noticed you yet. Fry them then activate the acceleration gate.
4: When you land in the second room, target the farthest enemy from you. Fire upon him. Take note of every enemy that is now aggroing you. They're all part of the same spawn group. Lock them all up and kill them. That finishes the mission. The remaining groups you can attack and kill at your leisure, and if it gets too hot, just turn in the mission and be done with it.

Missiles do not increase damage from the speed of which they impact target. In fact they have an "explosion velocity", which via a complex formula, they do less damage as the |absolute speed| of a target increases. So if you fly straight at an enemy missile or straight away from it, it doesn't make a difference.

What DOES make a difference is your signature radius. Remember I told you that using the MWD blooms your sig by a factor of five. So you'll definitely take more damage from missiles because of that.

If you're taking turret fire, at that point your direction of travel relative to the source of the fire, becomes very important. You want to maximize your relative traversal movement in respect to the target, so it's more difficult for him to hit you.

Also, you don't need tech II tachys. They're nice, but if you have enough sp in the baseline skill (large energy turret) to use pulses, you can do enough damage with beams to skate by. It'll be slower and tougher if you're lacking Tech II, but it's also tougher to face-tank more enemy fire by being in brawling range.

Indeed, but I'm working with what I've got. What I've got is a man with a Paladin. I'd much rather Kronos that mission, but I already mentioned that.

I disagree on needing to blitz it. Paladin kills them just fine. What it lacks in optimal damage type it makes up for it with excellent application.

To the OUZA guy, I know the difference between faction and deadspace modules. I was telling the OP if he didn't have an X-Type LAR fit he needs to stop flying a Marauder like a poor.

Anyway, bastion + 2 eanm + rah = you basically can't die most L4s. Marauders don't need specific resists.

Missions will occasionally get gimped after downtime if you've cleared the objectives. Otherwise they re-spawn. Forget missiles - boring as sin (you're not missing anything). Autocannons for the win!

How long did that take you in a Kestrel? I usually opt for the Polarized Garmur.