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Posted - 2007.01.25 00:24:00 -
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I ran into this mission a few days ago. I still have nightmares.
I was working up the standings ladder for a caldari corporation, and had just gotten to level 3 combat agents. I traded in my vexor for a myrmidon, but figured that I really didn't need it. I had done level 3s before, they weren't that hard. A good cruiser can do them, a battlecruiser would be overkill. A Myrmidon should dominate with it's tanking bonuses and nice low slots.
Or so I thought.
My first mission was this blockade mission. Guristas. Within seconds of warping in my tank was melting. Okay, that was strange. I was able to passively shield tank (with no modules) the level 2 blockades, this shouldn't be that much harder should it? I try again, somehow convinced that it was a fluke, and nearly die from the lag when warping in.
I spend an hour flying around looking for more kinetic and thermal hardeners before I'm ready to try again. I fly in, and I am slowly able to kill a cruiser or two before I need to warp out to regain my cap (dual medium armor rep IIs, no cap rigs).
Slowly and painfully I clear out the cruisers and trigger the next spawns. Eventually I was able to break apart the groups and reinforcements so that they were over 200km from each other at most points so I didn't have to take the full assault, meaning I only had to run one armor rep continuously to survive. The dire cruisers took about 5-10 minutes each to kill, that's with a few nos on them to slow down their shield boosting. I need to warp out many, many times to regain my cap from the sheer amount of damage everything is putting out. I spent maybe 1/6 of the time target jammed.
All in all, it took around 5 hours for me to complete this mission. I had to travel around low sec to replenish my medium drones a few times when I wasn't able to draw them back in quick enough when a new spawn appeared. I probably spent around 10 million in order to complete the mission so I wouldn't have to take a standings hit from failing it.
Because I'm a glutton for punishment, I tried another level 3 mission from the same agent. I was able to passively shield tank it (again, with no shield modules at all) with no problem at all.
So this mission is very brutal. Especially vs Guristas. You would have to be careful even with a battleship, if you don't have the right resistances (over 80% in kinetic and thermal) I could see it going down very quickly.
Insane mission. I will never take it again hehe.
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