The Damsel In Distress, Level 4

Last edited by WayneVazLam:
Emphasizing the AOE explosion.
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:32 UTC

Faction: Mercenaries
Mission type: Encounter
Space type: Normal space
Damage dealt: All types. Heavy Kin/Therm, Exp, EM
Web/scramble: Spider Drone
Extras: NA
Recommended damage dealing: Therm (best all round), Kin (secondary)
Recommended ship: Raven, CNR, Dominix, Typhoon, Maelstrom, Abaddon

Note: Great mission for looting/salvaging if you sit still and tank the mostly close orbit NPC ships.

Single Pocket

Auto-aggro from Initial Group at warp-in.

It is recommended that you set your drones to passive to avoid hitting the trigger ship (Kruul) accidentally.
All spawns will appear near the Kruul's Pleasure Garden structures. They may target drones/fleets members.

Warning

Spawn 1 is triggered when Kruul is attacked. Make sure you save him for last. (Be careful if you have uber skills, if you insta-pop him you don't get the spawn. Use only a target painter without guns so you cause the spawn but don't damage him.)

Spawn 2 is triggered when Kruul's Pleasure Garden is damaged to ~25% armor remaining.

Spawn 3 is triggered when Kruul's Pleasure Garden is damaged to ~40% hull remaining.

The Damsel is in Kruul's Pleasure Garden which sits the farthest away from the warp in Beacon.
Be careful when you blow it up. It deals 3000 Exp AOE damage (at 0% Exp resistance) with a blast radius of between 30-40km.

Don't waste your time on Kruul's Pleasure Garden closest to the warp-in Beacon. There is nothing in it.

Initial Group (Auto-aggro): (25-35km)

2x Frigates (Kruul's Henchmen)
4x Cruisers (Pleasure Hub Guardian - Mercenary Commmander/Corporal) Scourge Heavy Missile
3x Battleships (Pleasure Hub Sentinel - Mercenary Overlord) Scourge Heavy Missile
1x Cruiser (Kruul) Trigger Havoc Heavy Missile

Spawn 1 (Auto-aggro):

6x Battleships (Pleasure Hub Sentinel - Mercenary Overlord) Scourge Heavy Missile

Spawn 2 (Auto-aggro):

(this is actually 2 spawn that are triggered often at the same time due to uber skills)
2x Spider Drone I Web
4x Cruisers (Pleasure Hub Guardian - Mercenary Corporal) Scourge Heavy Missile
4x Battleships (Pleasure Hub Sentinel - Mercenary Overlord) Scourge Heavy Missile

Spawn 3 (Auto-aggro):

5x Frigates (Seven Death Dealer)
3x Cruisers (Seven Assassin) Havoc Heavy Missile
1x Battleship (Zor) Cataclysm Cruise Missile (always drops a junk implant but there is a chance for a second high end implant dropping.)

Tip

Spawn 1 can be prevented from appearing if you destroy Kruul's Casino before you begin your attack on Kruul.

Killing Kruul in one volley prevents him calling for help.

Mission is flagged completed after you have destroyed Kruul's Pleasure Garden that holds the Damsel.

Structures

Kruul's Casino drops NPC trade goods/passengers.

Blitz

Kill/ignore the cruisers/battleships from the initial group.

Destroy Kruul's Casino to prevent Spawn 1 from appearing. After this, you can either kill/ignore Kruul.

Destroy (the correct) Kruul's Pleasure Garden and pickup the Damsel. Kill/ignore the remaining spawns as they appear.

EVE-Survival : DamselInDistress4

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