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Oblom
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Posted - 2005.10.16 08:35:00 -
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This is my first lvl 2 kill mission. While lvl 1 missions were very easy, this one I can't figure out.
I supposed to destroy space object Brothel and rescue someone. However this Brothel is guarded by the stationary drone and mobile mercs that are shooting at me from 80km, making about 30% damage to shields and then to armor per hit.
I am flying Punisher as this is all I can use at my skill level. I have Artillery weapon and Laser with 12km range that did just fine in all lvl 1 missions.
It's obvious that lvl 2 missions should be harder, but this is beyond anything I could expect.
Is there some trick to this? I've been trying to approach from the side opposite to defending drone and lure the mercs away. And they follow me. Howerver when they loose the lock on me, they are returning back. And I can't warp there because some "Natural Fenomena is desrupting the warp".
Any suggestions?
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Oblom
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Posted - 2005.10.16 10:18:00 -
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Edited by: Oblom on 16/10/2005 10:19:02
I am 3+ days away from Cruiser skills and who know how many more for required weapons and upgrades. It looks like main hurdle here is skill learning time. 
...And I can't stand doing lvl 1 missions anymore.
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Oblom
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Posted - 2005.10.16 11:56:00 -
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 Originally by: Hellraiza666
i use punisher for lvl 2's
i use 3 dual light pulse and a small nos
afterburner and webber
small rep, 2 passive hardeners and a 100mm plate
trick is to orbit with afterburner on at abt 2500m from enemy, they cant hit u, but u can hit them 
I just lost my Punisher to my second lvl 2 mission.  Did you read my 1st post here? They are shooting from 80km away and doing heavy damage! There must be some trick to it.
On my second mission I had to go through couple of gates to get to the objective. I killed whole bunch of drones at 1st gate that was just a little more difficult then in level 1 missions, but after second gate I was greeted by whole bunch of mercs who ganged up on me when I approched them to about 25km and they killed me before I was able to push the panic button. It took me 2 trips in rookie ship afterwards (I was killed again one more time from the same distance of 25km) to salvage whatever equipement wasn't destroyed on my Punisher.
So it's not 2500m. It's 25-80 Km! Way out of my targeting and weapon range.
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Oblom
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Posted - 2005.10.16 22:12:00 -
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Estat,
Tnaks for your reply. These are exactly the missions I was talking about. If they are hardest, I am curious why I was offered them as my very first 2 lvl 2 missions. But it doesn't matter. I didn't cancel them yet, as I was hoping to find a work around them. But it looks like I am not going to have the skills required to complete them before they expire.
Now I have just a couple of more practical questions.
Should I ask for more lvl 2 missions and hope for something easier, or should I go back to lvl 1 before I get some advanced skills?
Can I really do them in Panisher as others said, and focus on my weapons/defence skills, or should I get my Cruiser first?
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Oblom
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Posted - 2005.10.17 19:38:00 -
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And what's about getting destroyer for lvl 2 missions? I can get Coercer right now. Cruiser is still 3 days away on skills and I want to get up the level with my other skills too, learning first to save time later. Will it be easier in Coercer instead or Punisher? It's 925k ISK though. It's slower, but has better defence, firepower and other parameters.
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Oblom
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Posted - 2005.10.20 03:59:00 -
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At this moment I have only 185k skill points evenly distributed in different areas, so no advanced stuff and I can't use many items that people are suggesting here. Guess I will just sit, learn and run a lvl 1 mission or 2 untill hearing "warp drive active" again and again will make me sick. 1 day left to cruiser and 4 to the end of trail period. The more I play, the less I like this game.
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Oblom
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Posted - 2005.10.20 10:56:00 -
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Thank you all. After reading all suggestions several times, I figured it out  . Don't have exact setup in front of me, but I beefed up armor and shields on my Punisher a little bit from whatever I could and whatever would fit (tech lvl 1). Installed armor repairer, afterburner and it was just enough to run circles around bad guys and keep shooting and repairing at sustained rate. Had to back out just a couple of times for recharge/rapair, when there were more then 3 of them in a group. And after a couple of missions it became easy.
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