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Durzel
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.02.04 12:18:00 -
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Reading the mission guide on eve-survival.org it does sound pretty brutal. Thanks for the heads up on this one, I think I'll get my drone skills higher before taking this one on.
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Durzel
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.02.05 04:57:00 -
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I just ran the 2nd part of this mission and those neut towers are insane! Even with just 2 of them I was down to half cap in less than a minute.
Luckily my Drake doesn't really need cap except for active hardeners, but even so. The 5th part apparently has 4-5 heavy neut towers with 110km range if eve-survival.org is anything to go by, 
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Durzel
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.02.06 09:54:00 -
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Did up to part 6 of this mission last night and to echo what the OP has said I think this is too hard for a level 3 mission, but that's just me.
I don't have a build that's specifically designed to maintain cap because my ship is passively shield tanked so doesn't really need it, that being said I was on zero cap in part 5 of this mission in less than a minute from warp-in. The 5 heavy neut towers must've been taking about 1/6th of my cap on every activation cycle.
Added to which the damage from the ridiculous number of drones had me running on 50% shield for most of the mission. Bear in mind this is on a ship which is well specced (3 x purger rigged Drake with 3 LSE IIs) which has little problem running level 4 missions as a co-pilot (haven't tried it solo yet).
The other mistake I made was going with EM damage missiles. Whilst they seem to be better than kinetic (despite the Drake battlecruiser bonus) they did hardly any damage to the armour of the neut towers. I ended up having to warp out on zero cap, refill it by docking, and warping back into the mission zone by which time of course the drones that form part of the mission had spawned.
A pretty brutal mission and probably the hardest level 3 mission (I've run Angel Extravaganza level 3 too), I wouldn't recommend it to any player who isn't 100% confident of their skills, and particularly not to an active tanked setup.
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Durzel
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.02.06 11:34:00 -
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What missiles were you using in the Drake out of interest?
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Durzel
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.02.06 14:38:00 -
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It does feel like a level 4 mission to be honest. There's only 1 BS in the mission but there's enough drones to make up for it - I took more damage running this mission than any other level 3 I've done, not to mention that I was running on near zero cap for much of it (I did primary the neut towers but 5 of them all sapping constantly still meant I had no cap by the time they were all down).
Then you've got the several webbing/scramming drones as well, it's not like you can even escape from the carnage.
There isn't anything wrong with the mission persay, only that it feels like it should be a level 4 mission - not a level 3 one.
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Durzel
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.02.16 15:21:00 -
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 Originally by: Kalfu Arcturus
Wow you got to Stage 5.
Stage 4 in a freeking Raven, getting >250 Damage per second from drones - I get absolutely nowhere. Fitted two large EM smart bombs, firing full time to keep the swarm of unending drones at bay I still can't get to the BS fast enough to wreck it. I get it down to structure, and my shield is buggered - and there is no chance in hell I'm sticking around for my armour to get beat up.
3*T2 SPR, 2*T2 LSE, and 4 T1 resist fields. Guess I need 2 ravens to do this. On an L3?! Maybe a Drake would have more luck, but overall the damage is too varied to tank effectively in any direction from what I can make out..
(Yes, I should be fitting siege missiles or something but they aren't generally useful on L3s - except this one I suppose...)
I ran this part quite comfortably in a passively-tanked Drake, although I was using 4 drones (not T2). Did you try using drones yourself?
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Durzel
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.02.18 17:02:00 -
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Originally by: Kalfu Arcturus
Active tank, with resist fields.
Using Infiltrator drones (not T2), gone through about 7 of them now :(
Just managed to finish it, the waves of drones just seem so ludicrous. There are literally hundreds. Getting assist for 5, no chance I'm soloing it.
Hit me up in game and I'll give you a hand on 5/7 if you want (I'm in Caldari space though).
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