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Evilishah
Hammer Holding Moon Warriors
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Posted - 2014.01.28 02:30:00 -
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What ships can run these solo?
I know the first ones based on what they'll allow (I assume they can be solo'd at this point).
1/10 Frigate 2/10 Destroyer 3/10 Cruiser 4/10 Battlecruiser 5/10 Battleship
But what about higher 6/10 ? 7/10 ? 8/10 ? 9/10 ? 10/10 ?
Also, any advice for solo minnie ships for 6/10 or higher? |

Tauranon
Weeesearch Greater Western Co-Prosperity Sphere
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Posted - 2014.01.28 02:34:00 -
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6/10+ battleship.
The 9/10 loot is in the staging post, which is a guaranteed escalating unrated rather than the expected single location multipocket plex, and the last escalation can be completed with a capital.
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dexington
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
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Posted - 2014.01.28 06:11:00 -
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1/10 Assault Ships - (Frigate) 2/10 Assault Ships - (Destroyer / Frigate) 3/10 Assault Ships - (Cruiser) 4/10 Heavy Assault Ships - (Faction Cruiser / Battlecruiser / Cruiser) 5/10 Strategic Cruiser - (Battlecruiser) 6-10/10 Strategic Cruiser / Heavy Assault Ships / Battleships
I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous. |

Evilishah
Hammer Holding Moon Warriors
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Posted - 2014.01.28 07:29:00 -
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Thanks for responding.
A BS can solo 10/10?
How hard is 6/10 up to 10/10 relative to a level 4 mission? |

Tauranon
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Posted - 2014.01.28 07:51:00 -
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Evilishah wrote:Thanks for responding.
A BS can solo 10/10?
How hard is 6/10 up to 10/10 relative to a level 4 mission?
The blood 10/10 is a lot harder than the gurista 10/10, and the gurista 10/10 is hard, but kinda cheesable by tengu proteus or ishtar small signature and resists. The only battleship I would ever try the maze solo in would be a rattlesnake.
Showtime, a mission from the gallente epic arc would be harder (have more difficult to avoid damage), except for the fact that you can just warp out of the thing. Where as the maze you must tank the end pocket whilst scrammed, therefore your setup must be right.
Most people keep and do their maze escalations, but there is a lot of trading of blood 10/10s from people that can't to people that can from what I can see.
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Laiannah Sahireen
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.01.28 12:14:00 -
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Tauranon wrote:6/10+ battleship.
There are plenty of cruisers/hacs that can do 6/10s just fine. Stratios, Gila, Ishtar, Muninn etc. all work great for the 6/10s I've encountered and may be preferable if you're trying to run the site in hostile space.
In general, DED sites don't warp scramble you (although many web and apply other EWAR), so you can experiment with relatively low risk provided you err on the side of caution and align out whenever you're not completely comfortable with your ability to tank a pocket. |

Tauranon
Weeesearch Greater Western Co-Prosperity Sphere
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Posted - 2014.01.28 12:22:00 -
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Laiannah Sahireen wrote:Tauranon wrote:6/10+ battleship.
There are plenty of cruisers/hacs that can do 6/10s just fine. Stratios, Gila, Ishtar, Muninn etc. all work great for the 6/10s I've encountered and may be preferable if you're trying to run the site in hostile space. In general, DED sites don't warp scramble you (although many web and apply other EWAR), so you can experiment with relatively low risk provided you err on the side of caution and align out whenever you're not completely comfortable with your ability to tank a pocket.
That answer was filling in the entry limits. |

Laiannah Sahireen
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.01.28 12:29:00 -
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Tauranon wrote:Laiannah Sahireen wrote:Tauranon wrote:6/10+ battleship.
There are plenty of cruisers/hacs that can do 6/10s just fine. Stratios, Gila, Ishtar, Muninn etc. all work great for the 6/10s I've encountered and may be preferable if you're trying to run the site in hostile space. In general, DED sites don't warp scramble you (although many web and apply other EWAR), so you can experiment with relatively low risk provided you err on the side of caution and align out whenever you're not completely comfortable with your ability to tank a pocket. That answer was filling in the entry limits.
My answer was responding to the actual question asked by the OP. What's your point? |

Tauranon
Weeesearch Greater Western Co-Prosperity Sphere
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Posted - 2014.01.28 12:33:00 -
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Laiannah Sahireen wrote:Tauranon wrote:Laiannah Sahireen wrote:Tauranon wrote:6/10+ battleship.
There are plenty of cruisers/hacs that can do 6/10s just fine. Stratios, Gila, Ishtar, Muninn etc. all work great for the 6/10s I've encountered and may be preferable if you're trying to run the site in hostile space. In general, DED sites don't warp scramble you (although many web and apply other EWAR), so you can experiment with relatively low risk provided you err on the side of caution and align out whenever you're not completely comfortable with your ability to tank a pocket. That answer was filling in the entry limits. My answer was responding to the actual question asked by the OP. What's your point?
Then you should quote the question you were answering.
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Batelle
Komm susser Tod
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Posted - 2014.01.28 15:22:00 -
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Evilishah wrote:What ships can run these solo?
I know the first ones based on what they'll allow (I assume they can be solo'd at this point).
Your first question has very little to do with your last question.
4/10 - cruiser, HAC, faction cruiser, battlecruiser 5/10 - hac, faction cruiser, battlecruiser, battleship, command ship, strategic cruiser 6/10+ gila/ishtar/tengu/MJD-BS/command-ship and other strategic cruisers or HACs on a case by case basis (sorry, not clearer way to put this). 9/10 dread, mothership, lolz
I would also say MJD battleships should be able to do most stuff solo. There are also several individual plexes in which solo players might have issues. Neutralizer Sentry III's + serpentis damps + tackling frigs are a rough combination for a single ship, as tackled means death and sniping the towers is difficult. There's also some self-repping structures that can be cheesed in various ways, but a few require creative use of abandoning drones or a second account to defeat without overwhelming dps. "CCP is changing policy, and has asked that we discontinue the bonus credit program after November 7th. So until then, enjoy a super-bonus of 1B Blink Credit for each 60-day GTC you buy!"
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Abdul 'aleem
Sumiko Yoshida Corporation
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Posted - 2014.01.29 02:48:00 -
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Evilishah wrote:
Also, any advice for solo minnie ships for 6/10 or higher?
Just watch out for other players while you are running sites. There is a suggestion in Forums & Ideas that will make it harder for griefers to grief missioners. Unique Mission Item Theft Rebalance
Be sure to "like" the original post if you support it. |

Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
2019
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Posted - 2014.01.29 03:52:00 -
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Abdul 'aleem wrote:Evilishah wrote:
Also, any advice for solo minnie ships for 6/10 or higher?
Just watch out for other players while you are running sites.
Obviously. You're going to be in low or null. If you're not watching your back bad things can and will happen.
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Evilishah
Hammer Holding Moon Warriors
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Posted - 2014.01.29 19:45:00 -
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Yeah, I know generally how to protect myself in low and null.
I was just curious what to expect if I decide to run a Complex. I scan a few down fairly regularly when I explore, and was just curious about how they scaled.
I like the Muninn idea for 6/10's. |

Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
2020
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Posted - 2014.01.29 21:12:00 -
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Evilishah wrote:I like the Muninn idea for 6/10's.
I really don't. I very much doubt you can push out enough damage from a Muninn to kill the BR or Sansha overseers. And I very much doubt it would even get to the overseer in the Serp 6 and if it did it probably wouldn't kill him either. |

Evilishah
Hammer Holding Moon Warriors
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Posted - 2014.01.30 02:30:00 -
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Zhilia Mann wrote:Evilishah wrote:I like the Muninn idea for 6/10's. I really don't. I very much doubt you can push out enough damage from a Muninn to kill the BR or Sansha overseers. And I very much doubt it would even get to the overseer in the Serp 6 and if it did it probably wouldn't kill him either.
Is there a BS alternative for < 200 million?
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Trooper au
Talocan Mining And Industrial
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Posted - 2014.01.30 04:20:00 -
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I'll never understand why they let us take Command ships into 4/10 but not Strategic Cruisers. seems a little backwards to me. |

Jeanne-Luise Argenau
Brutor Tribe Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.01.30 06:55:00 -
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Trooper au wrote:I'll never understand why they let us take Command ships into 4/10 but not Strategic Cruisers. seems a little backwards to me.
first i did alot of 4/10 and 3/10 in a strategic cruiser before they got banned. They have the dps of a cs, better tank thx to lower sig and move alot faster. Basically they banned them because they wanted to give newer players a chance (but buffed the ishtar )
EDIT: btw op i did some 5/10 and some 6/10 in a mwd ishtar with no trouble before they nerfed the omnis. |

Laiannah Sahireen
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.01.30 06:59:00 -
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Zhilia Mann wrote:Evilishah wrote:I like the Muninn idea for 6/10's. I really don't. I very much doubt you can push out enough damage from a Muninn to kill the BR or Sansha overseers. And I very much doubt it would even get to the overseer in the Serp 6 and if it did it probably wouldn't kill him either.
Muninn is perfectly capable of all of this - my corpmate does it on a regular basis. |

polly papercut
Royal Amarr Institute Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2014.01.30 13:27:00 -
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[quote=Evilishah]What ships can run these solo?
I know the first ones based on what they'll allow (I assume they can be solo'd at this point).
1/10 Frigate 2/10 Destroyer 3/10 Cruiser 4/10 Battlecruiser 5/10 Battleship
But what about higher 6/10 ? 7/10 ? 8/10 ? 9/10 ? 10/10 I use tengu or ishtar |

Tauranon
Weeesearch Greater Western Co-Prosperity Sphere
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Posted - 2014.01.30 13:35:00 -
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Trooper au wrote:I'll never understand why they let us take Command ships into 4/10 but not Strategic Cruisers. seems a little backwards to me.
because they have never been able to go into ded 3s, and have long trains so in practice, few people choose them as exploration boats for highsec.
to say that tengus were in plague proportions in the last months of the great ded 4 tengufest would be remarkable understatement.
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Corraidhin Farsaidh
Hello-There
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Posted - 2014.01.30 13:57:00 -
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3/10 are easy enough in an algos with reasonable drone skills, 4/10 is fine with any cruiser really, not gone any higher yet... |

Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
2021
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Posted - 2014.01.30 16:59:00 -
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Laiannah Sahireen wrote:Zhilia Mann wrote:Evilishah wrote:I like the Muninn idea for 6/10's. I really don't. I very much doubt you can push out enough damage from a Muninn to kill the BR or Sansha overseers. And I very much doubt it would even get to the overseer in the Serp 6 and if it did it probably wouldn't kill him either. Muninn is perfectly capable of all of this - my corpmate does it on a regular basis.
Forgive me, but you're misinformed. You might just break the Crimson Lord in a Munnin. You will not break Skomener Effotber, who requires 500 DPS pure EM just to even out with his armor tank; a three RF gyro Munnin with 425s and faction EMP only pushes 515 total, 75% of which is EM damage. That simply isn't enough to crack him. Firing Mjolnir Rage HAMs from your utility high will probably help a bit, but I still very much doubt that fight would end before downtime.
As for Serpentis Logistical Outpost, you could break Uehiro Katsen with that much damage but I still contend a Munnin would never get to him.
This is all assuming solo. If your friend is bringing alts along for the ride these things become more likely.
As for a cheap battleship... I suspect just about any BS can run them (standard Scorpion exclusion applies). The issue there becomes moving through low sec with a battleship. |

Evilishah
Hammer Holding Moon Warriors
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Posted - 2014.01.31 01:44:00 -
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Zhilia Mann wrote: As for a cheap battleship... I suspect just about any BS can run them (standard Scorpion exclusion applies). The issue there becomes moving through low sec with a battleship.
A BS would be fine. I was just hoping for something with a better align time, but it is insane for me to fly a billion dollar ship in low/null until I can comfortably afford to eat that as a loss.
From this thread, it seems BS might be the preferred price to performance ship than.
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Jeanne-Luise Argenau
Brutor Tribe Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.01.31 12:23:00 -
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Evilishah wrote:Zhilia Mann wrote: As for a cheap battleship... I suspect just about any BS can run them (standard Scorpion exclusion applies). The issue there becomes moving through low sec with a battleship.
A BS would be fine. I was just hoping for something with a better align time, but it is insane for me to fly a billion dollar ship in low/null until I can comfortably afford to eat that as a loss. From this thread, it seems BS might be the preferred price to performance ship than.
maybe fit a blop to run those plexxes and directly jump to them, by using a covert cyno alt |

Treborr MintingtonJr
Quantum Reality R n D Spaceship Samurai
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Posted - 2014.01.31 13:39:00 -
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@Zhilia Mann
What about Antimatter Channeler |

Hermeticas
Secutor Corporation Per Flamma Exorior
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Posted - 2014.02.02 18:32:00 -
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I've repetitively flown 10/10 in a Manticore.
Which I think is excellent in so far as the ammount of isk you are risking in the ship vs. the potential rewards.
Frigates, fit/flown well, can sig/speed tank most of the content in complexes like that. You however need to fly well and understand that you can't actually absorb even a small percentage of the ammount of damage that the NPCs are attempting to send your way. Your flying must constantly be manual and maintaining a high radial velocity to everything in the room, or you will die in one or two volleys by the time you even notice you aren't properly avoiding their attacks. If you can do that, and it isn't so very difficult, the next trouble is in breaking the tank on your targets. Very occasionally in my Manticore I'll run into an Officer or some such that is difficult to kill solo due to active tank/repair rates. Or the same thing on a stronghold/structure. But nothing a little overheating can't fix. More of a problem most of the time with the Elite Frigates. Javelin Torpedos and target painters however can work wonders. I semi-frequently one-shot frigates with a volley of those torpedos + double painters. If a new spawn has a collection of frigates in the spawn, immediately point yourself outwards from the room and go for range, until they are down. I head out and then make slow turns around the room, keeping my radial velocity high to the ships/etc. still in the center of the room and letting the frigs chase me in a circle.
The biggest threats to you in a room/spawn are the Elite Frigs, Tower/Regular Sentry Turrets, and Stasis Towers. Proper flying and you kill all of them/the small stuff first on each spawn, switch to harder hitting torpedos and blast the crap out of the Battleships that are left.
You are however quite vulnerable to any surprise visit in 'your' complex.
Regular every day risk management however can keep you alive.
Watch local. Only fly when you are alone/only with friends. If you decide to take a risk and fly a signature/complex with other people in system... watch d-scan for probes and warp out the second you see them. But that isn't fool proof. They may already know where the sig is and not need probes to come find you so again, I advise only flying alone or with friends unless the reward is worth the risk.
YMMV: Caveat, I have perfect torpedo sklls, so perhaps my damage application is a bit better than average. However, I wouldn't imagine 'that' much better. |

Cheng Musana
Purple Space Ponys AAA Citizens
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Posted - 2014.02.02 19:58:00 -
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8/10 sites (sansha prison camp) are near impossible to complete solo. Even if you manage to clear all rooms the objective (a structure) has a insane active tank where you need like 1600DPS to get trough armor+shields. maybe a pure damage fittied kronos/vindicator could do it solo. All 4 rooms i would advise to snipe with a MJD+railguns. And after you are done killing everything in the 4th room get close to the structure and use a mobile depot to fit T2 blasters with max damage focus. |

Hermeticas
Secutor Corporation Per Flamma Exorior
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Posted - 2014.02.02 21:15:00 -
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Cheng Musana wrote:8/10 sites (sansha prison camp) are near impossible to complete solo. Even if you manage to clear all rooms the objective (a structure) has a insane active tank where you need like 1600DPS to get trough armor+shields. maybe a pure damage fittied kronos/vindicator could do it solo. All 4 rooms i would advise to snipe with a MJD+railguns. And after you are done killing everything in the 4th room get close to the structure and use a mobile depot to fit T2 blasters with max damage focus.
Many of those structures only actively repair if you are within a given range of them. For example in Serpentis Fleet Shipyard, that range is 60k for the objective stronghold at the end. So while the needed DPS to kill it within that range is considerably larger, orbiting at even 61k and hitting it with something of longer range is much easier. I do this with Javelin Torpedos, for example. I have tested and come to the very fast conclusion I had no chance of breaking the tank of the structure with Rage Torpedos at closer range, but did so pretty easily at greater range w/ less damage, with the active tank... inactive. |

The Renner
Canadian Operations Yulai Federation
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Posted - 2014.02.03 02:03:00 -
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All of the sansha DEDs are soloable at least, assuming the proper ship of course. |

Boltorano
Devious Chemicals
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Posted - 2014.02.03 08:45:00 -
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Zhilia Mann wrote:Forgive me, but you're misinformed. You might just break the Crimson Lord in a Munnin. You will not break Skomener Effotber, who requires 500 DPS pure EM just to even out with his armor tank; a three RF gyro Munnin with 425s and faction EMP only pushes 515 total, 75% of which is EM damage. That simply isn't enough to crack him. Firing Mjolnir Rage HAMs from your utility high will probably help a bit, but I still very much doubt that fight would end before downtime.
I'm not sure what ship could kill Effotber with only 500 DPS, maybe it's possible with a Legion or some other ship that doesn't have to reload. The only time I've ever managed to break his tank with less than 700 EM-heavy DPS was when I shot at him for 15+ minutes and he eventually gave up on life and stopped repping. |
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Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
2025
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Posted - 2014.02.03 17:04:00 -
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Hermeticas wrote:Cheng Musana wrote:8/10 sites (sansha prison camp) are near impossible to complete solo. Even if you manage to clear all rooms the objective (a structure) has a insane active tank where you need like 1600DPS to get trough armor+shields. maybe a pure damage fittied kronos/vindicator could do it solo. All 4 rooms i would advise to snipe with a MJD+railguns. And after you are done killing everything in the 4th room get close to the structure and use a mobile depot to fit T2 blasters with max damage focus. Many of those structures only actively repair if you are within a given range of them. For example in Serpentis Fleet Shipyard, that range is 60k for the objective stronghold at the end. So while the needed DPS to kill it within that range is considerably larger, orbiting at even 61k and hitting it with something of longer range is much easier. I do this with Javelin Torpedos, for example. I have tested and come to the very fast conclusion I had no chance of breaking the tank of the structure with Rage Torpedos at closer range, but did so pretty easily at greater range w/ less damage, with the active tank... inactive.
And people wonder why I insist that DPS at 60km is a valid metric for exploration ships.... |

Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
2025
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Posted - 2014.02.03 17:05:00 -
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Treborr MintingtonJr wrote:
A well-fit Munnin could break him but it would take a bit. You'd probably be stuck running a three slot tank which might make managing incoming damage a touch and go thing from time to time but that's what overheating is for, right? It can be done though. |

Tajic Kaundur
Brave Newbies Inc. Brave Collective
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Posted - 2014.02.05 01:30:00 -
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Personal experience speaking here:
Someone with around 12M SP, not really specializing in anything other than "combat skills", can solo 7/10s easily enough. It's definitely not fast, so it can be frustrating if nothing valuable drops, but it's possible.
What I personally use (keep in mind these are all Serpentis sites):
4/10: Harbinger Navy Issue (no doubt in my mind the "Navy Issue" part is unnessisary). This has a few issues in the final room, my tank can't hold forever, but you can easily kill the boss before you fall below 50% armor. 5/10: Dominix with medium guns 6/10: I don't think a Serpentis 6/10 exists. 7/10: Dominix with large railguns, MJD away, drop sentries, blow things up.
The same strategy would probably work in 8/10s, I never feel at danger in 7/10s (until local spikes). Just haven't stumbled across one in a while. Serpentis 9/10s don't exist, and from the few 10/10s I've done in fleets, I wouldn't try it. I know it doesn't have enough DPS to crack the final tower anyways.
My only problem is my DPS is really low, but that's kinda a given with Sentry Drones at 3 and Gallente Battleship at 3.
I'm considering swapping the Harby for a Stratios, though the Stratios costs more it seems like it'll both do better than the Harby and I can bring it into 3/10s (as though those aren't easy enough). |

Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
2027
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Posted - 2014.02.05 04:32:00 -
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Tajic Kaundur wrote:Personal experience speaking here:
Someone with around 12M SP, not really specializing in anything other than "combat skills", can solo 7/10s easily enough. It's definitely not fast, so it can be frustrating if nothing valuable drops, but it's possible.
What I personally use (keep in mind these are all Serpentis sites):
4/10: Harbinger Navy Issue (no doubt in my mind the "Navy Issue" part is unnessisary). This has a few issues in the final room, my tank can't hold forever, but you can easily kill the boss before you fall below 50% armor. 5/10: Dominix with medium guns 6/10: I don't think a Serpentis 6/10 exists. 7/10: Dominix with large railguns, MJD away, drop sentries, blow things up.
The same strategy would probably work in 8/10s, I never feel at danger in 7/10s (until local spikes). Just haven't stumbled across one in a while. Serpentis 9/10s don't exist, and from the few 10/10s I've done in fleets, I wouldn't try it. I know it doesn't have enough DPS to crack the final tower anyways.
My only problem is my DPS is really low, but that's kinda a given with Sentry Drones at 3 and Gallente Battleship at 3.
I'm considering swapping the Harby for a Stratios, though the Stratios costs more it seems like it'll both do better than the Harby and I can bring it into 3/10s (as though those aren't easy enough).
Serpentis are unusually easy, at least on the ones you name. The 6/10 is a pseudo-DED that very much exists and... isn't that easy. The 9/10 is also a psuedo-DED (as it is for all factions).
And yes, if you can apply decent damage at 60, you should be able to handle all of those sites (up through 8/10, really). 7/10 is a grind but it's workable. 5/10 is a breeze. |
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