Missions & Complexes

Fit a couple Rapid launchers to kill scram frigs.

It really is not as much of an issue as people make it out to be. Sure, drones die, it happens, wow =D

Refit your ships, put some webs, TPs, RR on it and use it (EW against enemies, RR on your own drones) and you lose aggro fairly rarely)

i think these changes are huge for missioning, i think we can cope with that but a little warning would have been appropriate

i also nearly lost a golem in a serp assault (full room aggro etc) but i think its just back to the old days of 1200 dps tanks, missions will take more time but are all manageable

i think ccp tested the whole drone thing o rama and decide its ok and i have to say yes they were right but i think CCP totally forgot --> how the new EW changes affect certain missions

most noticable the damps - in assault u get so much damps that targ range -90% and locktime +90% ! for a full skilled pilot with all targ range skills in a golem this would be 11km lock range and 240sec+ locktimes on scramfrigs while eating 1200 dps from full room 8)

btw my golem only survived because of the new drone mechanics - at 54% armor the scram friggs started scramming the drones and i got out hurt but alive 8)

Been reading this thread and just my luck Worlds Collide is offered to me.

Ive been sending a brick Drake in first to grab agro and kill frigs first before sending in my main DPS ship, so far no problem with The Score and Dread Pilot Scarlet, these missions can still be soloed easily.

So I send in my drake into the angel 2nd Room, whole room agros, 3x webbed 2x scrammed, Was tanked for angels with about 600DPS I guess and shield was folding fast, I managed to get a gap in the scrams and warp out in very low shield. However my Drake character is low skilled though so a 1000DPS tank here should hold, also you need precision heavy missiles for the elite frigs here, my drones vaporized on being released.

As for doing this room solo, A Tengu setup that use to be able run C4 before the neut fix would work. Or a heavy tanked ship that is able to destroy ships form BS down to Frigs and then release the drones once most off the DPs is of the field.

Serp Assault was one of my toughest.

The first pocket was, how to say, hard? Damped to total hell, I had to take full agro in NPC optimal. Left the mission after I somehow managed to target and dispatch the frigates, and changed my fit so that it could equip an XL ASB. Filled the rest of the inventory up with cap boosters.

Went back in and started to hack away at the major DPSers. Nailed 1/3 when shield got to 33%, then kicked off the ASB. Shield was nearly back to 100% when the ASB ran out of boosters.

I did this twice. Shield got to around half when I kicked off the 2nd go round. After that, the incoming DPS was manageable.

The 2nd and 3rd rooms were not so bad. Much less on the dampening.

Used a passive rattler with passive amps, 3x shield power relay IIs, and 3 T2 purgers. Without the XL ASBs, would have needed to drop the DDAs for more power relays for sure.

I lost 1 hobgoblin because I was stupid when releasing them. He was webbed and didn't come back. So my streak is over.

It is definitely harder having to deal with full pocket optimal agro.

I spent about 2 hours trying to do the level 3 Blockade. My Drake (poor skills, but still - it's a friggin lvl 3) could not tank them and I had to warp out several times, before I got bored, switched to a harpy and speed tanked through the rest of the mission.

I noticed CCP has increased the bounties on the rats, because I calculated I collected at least 6M in bounties for this mission. However, the mission reward itself was still a laughable 800k.

You shot all triggers?

For Golem to work in missions without drones you have to have marauders 5 and all target painting skills to 5.

Excellent. Now the missions will still remain challenging without giving you heart attack every time you warp to the mission location.

What are your mids like ? I've been itching to put a web on it for a while but never "really" needed it because stuff died before it got close.