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Burner mission guide
Update 07.04.2017
Full Burner mission guide with more details and alternative layouts
If you find any mistakes, misspellings or unclear advice let me know and send me an EVEmail.
If you like to have your layout added, i need of course the layout in EFT format a how to use it and the time to kill.

Advice and fair warning
– Don't blame anyone when your ship pops it's usually your fault. Basic Rules tl:dr don't get cocky when dealing with Burner. Burner missions are not your usual LvL 4 missions they are far more challenging. You’ll need rather good skills, sometimes pimped layouts and over-heating. Running them for the first time you may try them on the testserver first to avoid unnecessary losses.
– Many of you won’t have all V skills then stick with the more expansive pimped layouts until you know what you do

Special thanks to Ploing and Chainsaw Plankton for their help and Anize Oramara for her vids and guide.


Pirate Burner
Burner Dramiel Angel Agent – Daredevil (Unified Daredevil)
Burner Succubus Sansha Agent – Daredevil (Unified Daredevil)
Burner Worm Gurista Agent – Daredevil
Burner Cruor Blood Agent – Wolf
Burner Daredevil Serpentis Agent – Hawk
Alternative layouts
Burner Dramiel Angel Agent – Daredevil Cheap
Burner Succubus Sansha Agent – Daredevil Cheap
Burner Worm Gurista Agent – Daredevil Cheap


Team Burner
All Team Burner – Garmur
Alternative brawling layouts
Burner Hawk Caldari Agent – Daredevil (Unified Daredevil)
Burner Vengeance Amarrian Agent – Daredevil (Unified Daredevil)
Burner Enyo Gallente Agent – Enyo
Burner Jaguar Matari Agent – Retribution

Base Burner
Burner Ashimmu Blood Base – Gila
Burner Talos Serpentis Base – Vagabond
Burner Escort Dramiel Angel Base – Vigilant
Alternative layouts
Burner Ashimmu Blood Base – Cerberus
Burner Talos Serpentis Base – Deimos cheap
Burner Escort Dramiel Angel Base – Vigilant cheap


Important Links
– EFT
– NPC stats: All Burner
– To get an idea Burner Video Playlist by Anize Oramara and Anize Oramara guide
– Old data but still useful Rudimentary guide how to blitz LvL 4 missions More information
– Cap stable layouts by Zarek Kree and Zekir Shardani

General Notes
– All layouts were made with EFT and an all V character designed for fastest possible finishing the missions. No Implants are needed, no booster or drugs were used.
– To optimize your kill speed or in case you can’t match the minimum tank use drugs to boost your tank and DPS
– Don't ask for Drone ship layouts, the AI likes Drones very much and on top of that is more or less erratic.

Downgrading modules
– Be aware that most pimped layouts increase your margin of error a lot and allow for some minor mistakes. Downgrading layouts work most of the time but you also reduce your margin of error. Downgrading is useful in lowsec and nullsec and might be necessary in the face of ganking.
– In pimped layouts with expansive damage mods/rigs you can always switch for cheaper ones. Sometimes you need to fix your CPU then via Implantat or CPU mod/rig.
– This is only for professionals who know exactly how to use EFT:
In pimped layouts with expansive armor tank modules you can most times switch for cheaper ones but in addition you have to replace damage mods with extra tank mods.
In pimped layouts with expansive shield tank mods you can very rarely switch to cheap ones.
Make sure after you switched modules that your tank is sufficient and you still have enough DPS to break the Burner tank. Use EFT to compare the layouts.




Old links with outdated layouts

nice work

Out of historical reason and to save all the links i put them here. The orginal answer is at the end.

Update 30.05.2015:
Rudimentary guide how to blitz LvL 4 with Burner missions and make ridiculous amounts of LP and ISK. More information
Patch Carnyx: Frequency of Burner Missions offered by level 4 Security agents has been lowered.
If you post a setup, please add Time to kill so we can compare it's usefulness to other setups.

Base Burner
Main post Base Burner ships recommended fittings and advise.
NPC stats: All Burner

Burner Ashimmu - Gila Time to kill avrg. 3:06
Burner Talos - Vagabond Time to kill avrg. 5:22min(includes looting)
Burner Escort Dramiel - Vigilant Time to kill ~2:35
Alternatives:
Check Main post Base Burner

Update 25.01.2015:
Basic Rules tl:dr don't get cocky when dealing with Burner

Update 15.01.2015:
WARNING: CCP changed the Pirate Burner Daredevil, they upped the tank a lot and the recommended Enyo does not work anymore. It barely works with ALL V stats.
Alternative Hawk tested it and it works fine
Garmur Update final version, recent patches nerfed the RoF for LML.

Update 30.09.2014:
Main post Team Burner ships recommended fittings and advise.
Team Burner Stats Made by jackudza, thank him
How to defeat Team Burner Vids Made by jackudza, thank him

Update 13.09.2014:
Pirate Burner Stats Made by jackudza, thank him
Update on AF
How to defeat Pirate Burner Vids Made by jackudza, thank him



Team Burner Ships used:
Main post Team Burner ships recommended fittings and advise.
Burner Enyo - Garmur
Burner Jaguar - Garmur
Burner Hawk - Daredevil (Unified Daredevil)
Burner Vengeance - Daredevil (Unified Daredevil)

Primary kiting setup Used Ship: Garmur
Primary brawling setups Used Ships: Worm, Daredevil (Unified Versions)
Alternative brawling setups Used Alternatives: Enyo, Retribution, Worm
Alternative kiting setups Used Alternatives: Harpy, Retribution


Pirate Burner Ships used:
Main post Pirate Burner ships recommended fittings and advise.
Burner Dramiel – Daredevil (Unified Daredevil)
Burner Succubus – Daredevil (Unified Daredevil)
Burner Worm – Daredevil
Burner Cruor - Wolf
Burner Daredevil - Enyo Alternative: Hawk

Alternatives:
Burner Cruor - Wolf v1 and Wolf v2
Burner Daredevil - Enyo, Hawk v1 and Hawk v2


Orginal answer

Hm, thats weird, I used vengeance against angel guy and had absolutely no issues tanking him with single t2 sar and got him down really fast, like under 1 min - and with faction nova rockets...

Yes, the tweak changed the angel burner quite a bit .. way less tanking but more damage. Before the tweak, i had no problems tanking him for ever with one SAR.

You can defeat them all with Assaults Frigs (even before Blood Raider nerf). Solo, no faction/deadspace modules, no links, no implants. Hawk can do the job against the Serpentis Daredevil, Wolf for the Blood Raider, and Enyo for the Guristas Worm. It needs overheat most of the time but with cheap faction + cheap implants, it will be a breeze, really ^^

i didn't have the time to test it, but I think a Retribution can kill the Dramiel and some have already stated that Wolf deafeat easily the Sansha

Yes, different Assault Frigs work but only barely and in comparsion to the Daredevil they are bad, really bad. It is simple you can't beat the 90% web and the resulting DPS with any Assault frig.

- Hawk vs Burner Daredevil, your Faction Scourge Rocket volleys are 111 with TP+1x web, so it is 111/365, yeah 30% of your DPS get through. The Ishkur is way better.
- Wolf vs Burner Cruor, you are kidding me, Arti Wolf with AB+web can't hold the range at all, you will be neuted at 10km like hell. AC Wolf with 2x ASB and no web.... What works is an 2x ASB + web, AC Jaguar but barely.
- Enyo works vs the Burner Worm but you have to fit so many speed mods/rigs, not funny. It is inferior to the Daredevil because the base speed of the Daredevil is better.
- Retribution won't work vs the Burner Dramiel, you need triple web or dual 90% on the Burner Dramiel
- Wolf vs Burner Succubus, you need either AB+1x 90% web to get in range, so no AC Wolf. Arti Wolf with 2x webs work but you have like 200 DPS.


So, still none work really

Faction scourge + 2 Webs OH + rigors rig destroy it fast enough (before your web burnt).Try it.



220mm AC Wolf works pretty well.



Correct. But you can still it do it whith a cheap Enyo ^^ Although, you only need that mwd to put a scram on the worm. Enyo's tank is better and DPS is even.



Will test it tonight. Retribution with 2 webs should be enough. I'll come back wiht report.



It works fine, and with the kind of fits you posted for the Daredevil, it does equal or better game for less isk ^^ Note that I didn't say it was the best ships to go for but just that it works very well unlike what you said.

Do the burner's drop anything good? or just isk/lp rewards?

@Lugalzagezi666, nice Enyo better than my Ishkur.

Hawk works nicely on the Daredevil Burner, question is triple faction web or dual faction web+TP both setups should use rigor rigs. I'm not sure if the tank is enough with those setups, i used one med slot for a kinetic ampli and it was barely enough.
Time to kill: 1:38min on the Hawk

Anyway i run out of faction webs on Sisis, so i can't test them anymore.


I did some final testing with Assault frigs, only Burner Cruor and Burner Daredevil need some more testing. The Daredevil still works best on this ones:
Burner Dramiel – Daredevil
Burner Succubus – Daredevil
Burner Worm – Daredevil

Burner Cruor
Hawk > Time to kill: 8:05min
Jaguar > Time to kill: 5:03min, 220mm AC+dual ASB+web
Wolf > Time to kill: 3:47min, 220mm AC+SAAR+400Plate+web+cap booster

Wolf is tricky read this
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4953434#post4953434
but use 400Navy Booster instead, because with 400er you will get 4xSAAR cycles through while with 200er only 2 at a time. Some math about heat and reload for cap booster and 400er are better even if you waste 40cap per charge.



Burner Daredevil
Enyo > Time to kill : 1m17s, check this https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4954137#post4954137
Hawk > Time to kill: 1:38min