EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi, first post on the forums. Been playing eve on and off for a year, however I've not yet completed the first epic arc, but I'm back on it now but now I'm standing infront of a brick wall that is Our Man Dagan, So I guess I'm still new to the game.

I've did a bit of research on this guy and he is a awkward fight. I'm in a mimitar Rupture and he's using the Mimitar loadout of rockets and autocannons.

My current loadout for this fight is

4 x 425mm autocannons loaded with Titanium Sabot M.
2 x Rapid Light Missile Launcher with Scourge Light Missiles.
3 x Armour explosive hardener
1 x Medium Armour repairer
1 x Damage Control 1
2 x Cap Recharger
1 x experimental 10mn afterburner
2 x hobgoblin 1 light scout drones.

With this setup I'm keeping to a optimal range of 1000m-1300m however I'm struggling to get past this guy as he just shrugs off anything I throw at him. The most I get him to is 50% armour before he takes my shields and armour down (with all three hardeners and repairer going) before I run out of power and have to bail out.

Any tips? I'm determined to solo this guy if it's the last thing I do however I just cant seem to kill him fast enough whilst he just destroys my shields and causes me to run out of power so I'm unable to harden my armour or repair the damage.

So I assume if I'm meant to stay at 10km about, then I should be swapping my weapons for something more effective at longer rangers? from what I read he apparantly counters your choice of faction's vessel, so in this case he uses 1500m-2500m autocannons against me?

You noticed he flies ruppie not a rifter, right? :)

I think "counters" means he has resists against damage dealt by your race and he hits your ships racial resists holes. If you have skills 425mm autocannons should hit fine at 10km, if you don't have them fit arty and just volley him from 15km or even more.

Dagan's resistances are as follows:
Thermal - 81.3%
Kinetic - 77.5%
Explosive - 73.8%
EM - 85%

I eventually got frustrated and teamed up with a pair of cruisers to just blast it him to pieces, although it still took a while.

I have read somewhere that Dagans´ resistances and damage are the same for all 4 paths, so you might consider omni-tanking.
Or try that new reactive armor module to find out where he does damage (and which is generally amazing, btw).

Anyway, the common opinion on Dagan is to either stay out of his range or get in real close and orbit under his guns. From there it is only a question of wearing him down....


Edit: Also, how about faction ammo? Sure it´s a bit more expensive, but might be worth the avoided frustration.

I don't know what to do, i have started this misson choosing Caldari, it is really strange.

First time i get to Dagan, didn't know what was i going to find, and I simply used a cormorant i with some hybrid weapons, mixed weapons, most of them with iron charges.

I took off his shields really quickly, even destroyed half his armor. Then, suddenly, it began to boost the shield (that was already below zero) and in few seconds he had 100%.

So i reloaded after wasting THOUSANDS of shots.

After a week trying the same ammo and weapons i first had, (that destroyed ALL his shield), i wasn't able to dent him.

So i began to read the forums, some suggesting to use explosive, some suggesting use vamps, some saying "i did it really quickly" and others saying "no way it is possible without help".

I have learned skills, i have a caracal cruiser, filled with NOVA assault missiles (four launchers, two of them Xperimental ones) i have wasted THREE THOUSAND missiles in a row ( I am not exagerating) while using medium vampire at 10km with my cap constantly around 2-10%. I was able to get his shield to 70%, but then boosted again (where does he find cap??? i was under 5% and using the nosferatu!). Then i tried Mjolnir, and after 200 wasted missiles, switched to scourge. Even worse.

I have then tryed to use the cormorant again, vampire, with every kinetik damage i could afford. Not a dent. Then used again the caracal with medium hybrid turrets with antimatter ammo at 500m. Not a dent.

Then i bought 4 425 medium projectile cannon. I learned projectiles to level 3. Used fusion, not a dent, then sabot, not a dent.

Are you all sure that Dagan works as intended?????

Specially after having destroyed SO easily ALL his shields the first time just with iron charges. Don't understand nothing.

Dagan is basically your first lesson in learning to fleet up, lol. His shield is merciless.

I first tried it in a Cormorant, couldn't put a dent in him. Went back to doing missions while skilling up for the caracal and just a few days ago went back to Arnon and tried again. This time it was piece of cake. It did take a while with one of the heavy missile types I had loaded up at the time, until I got bored and switched to another heavy missile type, after which he went down like butter. Can't remember which type the ammo I switched to was though.