Dread Pirate Scarlet, Level 4

Last edited by MaurriK
Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:38 UTC

Faction: Angel / Blood Raider / Gurista / Serpentis
Mission type: Encounter
Space type: Deadspace
Damage Dealt: All kinds
Recommended damage dealing: Explosive for the first pocket, Kinetic for the rest. Thermal & EM do minimal damage.

Recommended ship: Drake, Battleship, Rattlesnake (Due to ease of omni tank, possible ECM, and minimal drone aggro)
Video: Blitz / Full Clear done in Machariel

Pocket 1

Acceleration gate is locked and 20 KM away from warp-in.
You may also select warp-to distance for snip setup in pocket 1.

Note: Warping out may cause a new Angel or Serpentis spawn with the same number of cruisers/battleships.

Group (Auto-aggro): (55 KM)

4 x Cruiser (Angel: Liquidator/Marauder) / (Serpentis)
5 x Battleship (Angel: Malakim/Nephilim/Warlord/) (Target Painter) / (Serpentis)

Last battleship killed drops the key to unlock the gate. Key will not be consumed on use. The key is labeled "Gate Key".

OR

5 x Battlecruser (Serpentis: Corelatis Squad Leader/ Corelum Cheif Guard) (Damp)
4 x Battleship (Serpentis: Core Admiral/Core High Admiral)

Pocket 2

Acceleration gate is not locked and 29 KM away from warp-in.

Group (Auto-aggro): (45-60 KM)

1 x Named Battlecruiser (Anire Scarlet) Heavy EM/Thermal She warps out almost immediately
5 x Battlecruiser (Blood Raider) / (Gurista: /Executor/)
4 x Battleship (Blood Raider) / (Gurista: /Exterminator/) (Heavy Jamming) Jam range 100km+

The Gurista battleships will do a heavy amount of jamming. Anire Scarlet is flying an Absolution and does heavy EM/Thermal damage. She will run into the next pocket if attacked or ignored for 10 minutes.

Pocket 3

Acceleration gate is not locked and 19 KM away from warp-in.

Group 1 (Auto-aggro): (27 KM)

1 x Named Battlecruiser (Anire Scarlet) Heavy EM/Thermal

Again, Anire Scarlet does high EM/Thermal damage and runs away to the next pocket.

Group 2 (Auto-aggro): (31-33 KM)

3 x Frigate (Serpentis)
4 x Battleship (Gurista- Pith Conquistador)
OR
5 x Cruiser (Gurista: Pithum Silencer)
6 x Battleship (Serpentis: Core Port Admiral/Core Rear Admiral)

Last ship or battleship killed spawns final group. Note: Spawn group may aggro drones, pull your drones in before triggering it.

Spawn 1 (Auto-aggro): (35 KM)

4 x Battleship (Gurista)
OR
3 Battleship (Serpentis: Core Flotilla Admiral/Core Vice Admiral) (Heavy Sensor Dampening)

If you have a friend warp into the room after the 1st spawn appears, the spawn will disappear and a new spawn of 6 BS and 6 cruisers will appear.

Pocket 4

Group 1 (Auto-aggro): (55 KM)

2 x Elite Frigate (Gurista: /Dire Pithi Imputor/) (Web)
3 x Elite Cruiser (Gurista: /Dire Pithum Abolisher/Dire Pithum Annihilator/) (Jamming)
4 x Battlecruiser (Gurista: Enforcer/Executor)

Group 2 (Auto-aggro): (70-80 KM)

1 x Named Battlecruiser (Anire Scarlet) Heavy EM/Thermal
1 x Angel Heavy Missile Battery
1 x Blood Heavy Missile Battery
1 x Guristas Cruise Missile Batteries [sic] Heavy Kinetic
1 x Serpentis Cruise Missile Battery Heavy Thermal

Group 3 (Auto-aggro): (100 KM)

4 x Battlecruiser (Serpentis: Corelatis Squad Leader/Corelatis Wing Leader)
4 x Battleship (Serpentis: Core Baron/Core Commodore)

Despite Anire Scarlet's 5 million ISK bounty and being mission completion trigger, she is no better tanked than any battlecruiser and is very easy to kill. 0-2 T1 modules in her wreck, nothing special. Last ship killed spawns next group.

Again, spawns may target drones. Keep close watch on them; they trend to go after the sentry turrets if left on auto.

Spawn 1

4 x Battleship (Serpentis: Core Port Admiral/Core Rear Admiral)

Last ship killed spawns next group.

Spawn 2

5 x Battleship (Serpentis: Core Grand Admiral/Core High Admiral)

Scarlet's Station is extremely well-tanked (~500,000 HP) and drops nothing.
If you can kill Scarlet before she warps off to the next gate and before reaching the final room, she will drop an implant.

Final notes: It appears there is either two or more specific versions of the race combinations for this mission. One person reports a primary mixture of Blood Raider/Gurista while I mostly encountered Serpentis/Gurista (never saw a Blood Raider). While I tried to add his non-detailed findings to this page, most of this applies to the version I received. While this mission can be done solo in a Drake (this is what I used) or a Scorpion Navy Issue (used by Roper), be prepared to omni tank and bring along omni damage if you can; you will be fighting a mixture of Angel, Blood Raider, Gurista, and Serpentis.

Blitz

It is possible to one-shot/alpha Anire in room 3 (I also did that in room 2 but nothing special happened) and the mission will complete (also a container with a +3 implant dropped for me).

Mining

Unknown

Bounty

Mission Reward + Bonus ~ 3.4 Mil
Bounty ~ 29 Mil

Note: This mission provides a fantastic farming opportunity due to the respawns. A marauder can clear a room, warp out, come back, and repeat, and vastly increase the bounties, salvage, and number of Gate Keys on this mission.

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