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This is an old revision of RogueSpy5 made by JohnnyNeumonnic on 2008-12-27 07:16:20.
Rouge Spy, Level 5
Part 1 of 3
Faction: Rogue Drones
Mission type: Encounter
Space type: Deadspace with acceleration gates
Damage dealt: Exp/Kin/Therm
Extras: Neutralizer towers
Web/scramble: Elite drone frigs (Strain Render Alvi)
Recommended damage dealing: EM, Therm
Recommended ships: Nightmare, Raven, Vargur.
Pocket 1
When you arrive the pocket will be empty with only the drone structure at 100km. Drones will spawn when you close to 50km of the structure. Everything agros.
Note: groups spawn in a different order than noted here.
Tower sentries
x8 Cruise batteries (Cataclysm Cruise Missile) two groups at 50-60km to left and rightx3 Energy Neutralizer Sentry II one each left right and above at 40km
x1 Energy Neutralizer Sentry III 40km below
Group 1 (on top of hive)
x3 Battleships (Alvus Queen)x2 Elite Cruisers (Strain Disintegrator Alvum)
Group 2 (40km below)
x4 Battleships (Alvus Ruler)Group 3 (40km right)
x4 Battleships (Avlus Queen)Group 4 (40km behind)
x3 Battleships (Alvus Creator)x3 Interceptors (Strain Render Alvi)
Group 5 (on the right cruise battery group)
x3 Assault Frigates (Strain Raider Alvi)Group 6 (spawns after one of the Alvus Queen groups is dead)
x3 Elite Cruisers (Strain Disintegrator Alvum)Group 7 (spawns after another Alvus Queen group is destroyed)
x4 Battlecruisers (Exterminator Alvatis)Mission is marked complete after all the drones have been destroyed.
Upon turning in the mission, you are automatically offered Part 2 of the series RogueHunt5 Rogue Hunt (Part 2 of 3)
The thermal cruise missile batteries make things interesting, as the typical rogue drone tank (heavy explosive with a bit of kinetic and dashes of thermal and EM) is modified with the mass amounts of extra thermal damage. Recommend primary'ing the cruise missile batteries if not tanked against thermal.
After completing the mission, for giggles I let my drones attack the drone structure in the room whilst I salvaged. When the drone structure popped, 4x Battleships (Alvus Queen, iirc) and 4x Battlecruisers spawned. They dropped an addition 1km3 worth of drone poop, so it's definitely worth taking out the structure.
Drone structures in parts 2 and 3 of this mission series did not drop any items or cause any additional spawns.
The Energy neuts were tagging us at 90km or so. The Neut III battery is tougher than the others. They targeted only one ship and drained the cap almost instantly.
Patriarchs orbit around 8k, but my HH2s and my logistic Hob2s made easy work of them while I killed everything else.
I found that i never got trigger spawns until i killed the last cruise batt , then killing them spawns trigger the next.
Confirming killing drone struture spawned 4 bc and 4 bs
Got 3k of drone goo about 65mil at dodixie min prices.
I warped out once at the beginning to de-aggro Group 2.
I targeted in the order of:
Cruise Missile Batteries (while moving toward them I shot the Patriarch Alvus)
Patriarch Alvus
all but one frig (shooting the last one is the trigger)
all cruisers
Matriarch Alvus's
Completed in 1 hour 15min, most related skills at level 3 or 4.
Total loot/salvage/reward was worth 43mil isk in Jita.