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Epic Arc Overview
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Added Mission 5 - History In The Making
Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:51 UTC
Added Mission 5 - History In The Making
Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:51 UTC
Chapter agent: Nilf Abruskur
Agent corporation: Republic Security Services
Agent location: Aldrat, RSS Liaison Headquarters
Important notes :
* Your standings is only checked by the starter agent. Once you are on the epic arc, subsequent agents will no longer make standings checks.
* This means, within this epic arc, you can choose to run missions for ANY faction regardless of your standings with them.
Back to Wildfire4p1 chapter 1.
Chapter 2, Songs of the Past
Mission 1 - Dead End Intercept
Faction: Minmatar RepublicMission type: Encounter
Space type: Normal space
Recommended damage dealing: Exp
Initial Spawn
1x Elite Battleship ( Lomar Vujik's Tempest )Mission 2 - Surfacing
Faction: MercenariesMission type: Encounter
Location: Jark (Derelik)
Space type: Normal space
Damage dealt: All
Web/Scramble: Wingman, Spider Drone
Fly 11 jumps to Jark in Derelik to pick up an item (Encrypted Transmission, 0.1m3).
This is actually an encounter. Non-deadspace, no acceleration gate. Warps in at 40k from target (Tili's Brothel). When you pull the item from Tili's Brothel a number of Mercenary NPCs will spawn around 20 KM, doing quite a bit of mixed-type damage. Recommend short range heavy weapons for the BSs and longer range light weapons and drones for the cruisers and frigates.
Initial Group (5 - 20km)
2x Frigate ( Mercenary Wingman ) Web/Scramble4x Cruiser ( Mercenary Commander ) Deal EM
5x Battleship ( Mercenary Overlord ) Scourge Heavy Missile Trigger
Trigger is probably last Overlord.
Wave 2 (5-20km)
2x Frigate ( Mercenary Wingman ) Web/Scramble6x Cruiser ( Mercenary Commander ) Deal EM
4x Battleship ( Mercenary Overlord ) trigger
Trigger is probably last Overlord.
Wave 3 (5-20km)
4x Frigate ( Mercenary Elite Fighter )2x Elite Frigate ( Mercenary Wingman ) Web/Scramble
3x Spider Drone I Up to 50Km Web
3x Battleship ( Mercenary Overlord )
You will need to kill the NPCs to complete the mission; just tanking them, picking up the Encrypted Transmission and returning to the agent is not sufficient.
Mission 3 - Who Art in Heaven
Faction: AngelMission type: Encounter
Space type: Normal space
Damage dealt: Explosive (62%)
Web/Scramble: didn't let any frigates get close enough to find out
Note
The mission info says they are sending you to Arzad (which is Amarr low-sec) but will usually be 1 jump from Aldrat (RSS Liaison Headquarters, agent home base).
Initial Spawn
Entire room aggros.Group 1 (20-40K)
7x Frigate (Arch Gistii Hunter, Arch Gistii Impaler)4x Cruiser (Arch Gistum Breaker, Arch Gistum Defeater)
7x Battleship (Gist Cherubim, Gist Seraphim, Gist Throne)
Group 2 (70-90K)
8x Frigate (Gistii Hunter, Gistii Impaler)3x Elite Frigate (Arch Gistii Hunter) Web/Scramble
3x Battlecruiser (Gistatis Praefectus)
-Group despawns when you approach within 20k of the outpost.
Blitz: approach within 20k of the outpost to trigger its destruction.
Mission 4 - Playing All Their Cards
Faction: AngelMission type: Encounter
Space Type: normal
Recommended damage dealing : Explosive/kinetic
Requires: Hacking III (minimum) and Codebreaker
Initial Spawn (100km)
11x Frigate (Arch Gistii Hijacker, Arch Gistii Hunter, Arch Gistii Impaler, Arch Gistii Rogue, Arch Gistii Thug)6x Destroyer (Gistor Seizor, Trasher)
4x Cruiser (Arch Gistum Phalanx, Arch Gistum Defeater, Arch Gistum Centurion)
10x Battleship (1 Gist Cherubim, 5 Gist Seraphim, 4 Gist Throne)
Note
- Codebreaker and Hacking leveled to III are required to open the can.
- Spawn occurs when within 5 km of can.
- Only the EDF-285 Drive Cluster Item is required to complete the mission.
- The Angel Battlestation takes forever to kill and drops no loot.
Mission 5 - History In The Making
Travel to next agent - Hiva SheshaOn to Wildfire4p3 chapter 3, Revelation.
If your setup is longrange & not short, trigger the spawn with a shuttle then warp out & get your mission boat, warp in at distance to finish em off - worked for me
Spawn triggers when iten removed from can, not by range
Warp into the pocket with asteroids, the can containing the mission objective, the Angel Battlestation and no npc's. Approach the can to trigger the spawn. There is no need at that point to have the codebreaker equipped, as proximity is enough to get them to appear. As I approached the entire spawn appears and all aggro. Straightforward kite and kill. I also only had hacking 2 and got the same message as noted above that the hack was too complex. I thought that my Echelon hacking ship that was handed out a while ago would help but it didn't. Need hacking 3 as Erg0not stated...
Mission 3 - Who Art in Heaven
No room aggro.
I warped in, moved into position and targeted NPC group 2. Group 2 despawned, journal flashed, pop up message from agent saying mission is scrubbed, return to base. I stayed and collected the bounty on Group 1 even though mission was flagged completed.
Note:
There should be a 5th mission added to this page - History In The Making
Basic travel and report to next agent - Hiva Shesha
And I agree with HarshWords - spawn trigger is removing object from can, not range now. Each spawn triggered by last ship in previous spawn dying.
If you warp in from the right direction, you will trigger the explosion and death of the second group upon warp-in and be able to blitz the mission.
Mission 4 - Playing All the Cards
You can hack the box containing the mission item with Hacking 2 + 2 hacking rigs. This gave me a 14.4% access chance, which was enough for the mission. Took several minutes to complete the hack, but I didn't have to wait to train hacking III to continue.
DPS for this mission is a mix of mostly Explosive and EM. Make sure to prioritize the destroyers (seizers/trashers) and when they catch up to you as they put out decent DPS considering their being frigates.
I thought I'd leave an AF near Erstur/Aldrat for the next time I'd run this since I didn't want to fly a BS all the way up and back, so I built a 185dps Jag AF, I could not break the tank of Lomar Vujik's Tempest.
I refitted with 285dps of Hail S and it still took too long to kill him. I took nearly no shield damage w/o a MWD or A/B running, just base speed, so next time I run this I'll DPS it up a bit more by dropping the shield rigs and trying it with projectile rigs.