Question, did you OH your MWD? I did that the first time. Basically what happened was I was going so fast that none of the missile volleys could hit me until I stopped.

Then all of them hit me at once and I dieded.

Also yes, OH both armor hardners and activate them and rep as soon as you land. Don't OH the MWD. stop OH the sansha hardner after you get hit the first time so you don't burn out anything important. This is definately one of the most skill dependant ones, as in the timing in when you deactivate the MWD and activate the scram so you match his speed and not over shoot but don't end up 8km from him having to 'slowboat' over to him.

I still find the Daredevil, using a hawk, the hardest (the cruor is the most annoying) but that;s mostly because I don't have all V skills (AF, rocket spec, warhead, rapid launch). I usually manage the Daredevil in EXACTLY 50 volleys heh.

Maybe he was trying to keep the cost down

Is there a standard alt ship for dual boxing the base burners? Such as a drone based ship that can kite the burner while the main ship does it's job?

I didn't feel like I needed more tank, just more overwhelming DPS that reduces the need for blingy fits.

Many of the burners are limited to frigates so they generally require max skills and/or some bling. You can do a search on the unified daredevil and polarized garmur. One person responded that he used a worm as a second character for most missions to add DPS.

Done a couple Angel base burners lately. Does anyone else have issues with one of the Dramiel's bugging out and orbiting about 30km away? Think it may have something to do with drones but I typically have to sit and wait a couple minutes for it to come back into range.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=6068439#post6068439

a bit outdated but gives you an imagination.

the link by Ploing is my solution to the guristas base, here are my notes if you want to read more: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=447834&find=unread

The only thing I'd change is putting the therm hardener on one side and the rep on the other for better heat distribution, I think my initial thought was to spread out the hardeners and heat both of them as hardeners generate a lot less heat than reps, but you don't really need to heat the exp hardener so might as well move the rep over to be able to heat it.

the incoming damage isn't too bad and is mostly thermal from the dragonflies. and the bombers do EM which is mostly mitigated by moving. Assuming your logi is an onerios it should be pretty easy to tank with the high base therm resists and small sig. Plus you can use all the slots on the logi for tank, so it should be able to out do the vigilant tank no problem.

the guristas base isn't that bad, it is just a bit slow and long compared to the other burners and the payout is lower. Also it took a really long time for the mission payout/lp reward to hit max values.