Zan Shiro
Alternative Enterprises
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Posted - 2012.09.23 09:36:00 -
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Mike Voidstar wrote:Some missoins will be fine, but the bigger ones like Blockade have eaten them a couple of times with current aggro mechanics. That was kind of funny though, he was in a destroyer when a wave of Battlecruisers warped in right on top of him. He didn't have time to say 'oh crap'. But I digress..
blockade had a counter in place....it was called faster ship hauling ass to targets under the sensor damp effect and killing ships. Blockade in point of fact is a mission that caters to hac/t3 usage, they eat it up. I got record times in tengu and even cerb on this mission over a rattler/cnr. Key is to when you see this, and not an hml tengu/cerb, spec for SR and prop mod the ship. SR because you will be damped to SR ranges regardless, why have LR weapons with tracking issues and/or less dps as tradeoff for the "sniping" you can't do anyway.
Dessie got popped becasue it was not moving. I do lv's 3 in AF''s when bored and want a thrill. Jags and wolves in fact, no drones. AC spec as well, I like up close and personal. The secret I will share for free is real simple.....never eva stop moving. Unless I missed it, there is no combat skill boost with this. Means rats will still not hit speed/sig tanking ships any better post change. Speed is life....the tl;dr.
Second piece of advice....avoid autoorbit in blockade. What also could have happened to your friend is he hit autorobit and the lovely AI had him do a complete 180 to basically slam the brakes. that gets you popped too. Manual orbit, and the pilot chooses just how he flies after last target dies.
Bringing noobs to power grind lp and isk, they will need to bring their A game with them. Why this AI is going into affect. For years the min/maxers have been stacking the deck with the aggro getting tanky "bait" ships then roll in anothter account or friend drops in with the dps monster spec (read no tank) ship. this change has been asked for for years bro, we are getting it finally. And CCP is not giving any reprieves from it.
Well, train HML based t3 (loki and lego do it as well, not saying you have to go tengu) avoids the issue and technically a reprieve. But hml is getting a damage nerf so pick your poison here. |