Silence The Informant, Level 4
Last edited by Demal:
Updated loot total and bounty total.
Mon, 28 Nov 2022 08:55 UTC
Updated loot total and bounty total.
Mon, 28 Nov 2022 08:55 UTC
Faction: Drones, Mercenaries
Mission type: Encounter
Space type: Deadspace with Acceleration Gate
Damage dealt: Thermal (45%)/ Kinetic (28%)
Web/ Scramble: Mercenary Wingman, Spider Drone
Recommended damage dealing: Thermal/ Kinetic (Mercs), Em (Drones)
Recommended ships: Raven, Golem, Drake, Dominix, Sleipnir
Video: Tengu, Raven, Raven Navy Issue
The mission is flagged complete once you've killed the named Ex-Elite Secret Agent.
No Hostiles at Initial Gate.
1st Pocket (Drones)
Auto-aggro from the Sentry Towers, attacking them will aggro the entire pocket (use to draw 3rd group closer).Recommended order of elimination: 2nd, 4th, 3rd and 1st group.
Aggressive drones may attack the 1st group and cause unwanted aggro. Watch out for drone aggro.
1st Group (50- 90km)
2x Tower Sentry Drone II2nd Group (50km)
2x Battleship (Elite Drone Parasite)3rd Group (75- 90km)
6x Cruiser/ Battlecruiser (Disintegrator Alvum/ Enforcer/ Striker Alvatis)4th Group (50- 60km)
3x Battleship (Elite Drone Parasite)Acceleration gate to next pocket is at 4km.
2nd Pocket (Mercenaries)
Auto aggro from the 1st group, eliminated safely without drawing aggro from the entire pocket.The 2nd and 3rd groups will show up several seconds later.
Recommended order of elimination: 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th group.
1st Group (50- 60km)
2x Spider Drone I Web3x Elite Frigate (Mercenary Wingman) Web/ Scramble
5x Cruiser (Mercenary Commander)
2nd Group (8- 10km, Acceleration Gate)
4x Elite Frigate (Mercenary Wingman) Web/ Scramble4x Cruiser (Mercenary Commander)
1x Battleship (Mercenary Overlord)
3rd Group (55- 60km, Asteroid Mining Post)
2x Spider Drone I Web2x Battleship (Mercenary Overlord, Jericho Tezmar/ Roranok Nesmyrthas)
4th Group (75- 80km, Ruined Stargate)
6x Cruiser (Mercenary Commander)1x Battleship (Mercenary Overlord, Yarl Uzbeki)
Acceleration gate to next pocket is at 6km.
3rd Pocket (Ex-Elite Secret Agent)
Auto aggro from the Sentries. Far Sentries (100km and more) will not aggro until you approach closer than 99km.Attacking any of the Sentries will aggro the lone cruiser.
1st Group (60- 100km)
3x Tower Sentry Drone II5x Tower Sentry Drone III
2nd Group (75km)
1x Cruiser (Ex-Elite Secret Agent - Kioran Jeraulek)Structure
Sentries may drop ammo.Roadhouse drops random T1 loot.
Blitz
You have to kill everything, but the Sentry Towers in Pocket 1 and 2 to get to Pocket 3.Snipe and kill the lone cruiser. Warp out.
Mining
2nd Pocket has 4 Veldspar asteroids of 1,200 units each (56- 90km).Loot and Bounty
The Elite Drone Parasite drops 5 Elite Drone AI.Loot + Salvage: ~15.2 mil.
Bounty: 6.4 mil.
Ship Detail
Pocket 1
| Qty | Name | Orbit (km) | Velocity Max (m/s) | Shield (hp) | Armor (hp) | Shield Resistance (%) | Armor Resistance (%) | DPS (hp/s) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EM | Exp | Kin | Th | EM | Exp | Kin | Th | EM | Exp | Kin | Th | ||||||
| 5x | Elite Drone Parasite | 40 | 250 | 3,000 | 5,500 | - | 60 | 40 | 20 | 80 | 50 | 60 | 65 | - | - | 80 | 112 |
| 6x | Disintegrator Alvum | 3 | 450 | 1,500 | 600 | 26 | 56 | 46 | 36 | 26 | 56 | 46 | 36 | - | 22 | 8 | - |
| 2x | Tower Sentry Drone II | - | - | 500 | 1,600 | - | 60 | 40 | 20 | 60 | 10 | 25 | 35 | - | 2 | 13 | 10 |
| 11 Ships Total | Average/ Total | 25,000 | 34,300 | 12 | 58 | 43 | 27 | 67 | 47 | 48 | 47 | - | 136 | 474 | 580 | ||
Pocket 2
| Qty | Name | Orbit (km) | Velocity Max (m/s) | Shield (hp) | Armor (hp) | Shield Resistance (%) | Armor Resistance (%) | DPS (hp/s) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EM | Exp | Kin | Th | EM | Exp | Kin | Th | EM | Exp | Kin | Th | ||||||
| 4x | Spider Drone | 7.5 | 3,000 | 450 | 250 | 13 | 62 | 32 | 32 | 60 | 10 | 25 | 25 | - | - | - | - |
| 7x | Mercenary Wingman | 8.5 | 900 | 325 | 325 | 15 | 50 | 45 | 30 | 70 | 10 | 25 | 25 | 10 | 8 | 4 | - |
| 15x | Mercenary Commander | 15 | 400 | 1,200 | 1,800 | - | 60 | 40 | 20 | 50 | 10 | 25 | 35 | 22 | - | 7 | 28 |
| 4x | Mercenary Overlord | 3.5 | 400 | 3,975 | 3,500 | - | 60 | 40 | 20 | 60 | - | 25 | 35 | - | - | 24 | 96 |
| 30 Ships Total | Average/ Total | 25,800 | 44,300 | 5 | 58 | 40 | 24 | 57 | 9 | 25 | 31 | 400 | 56 | 229 | 804 | ||
Pocket 3
| Qty | Name | Orbit (km) | Velocity Max (m/s) | Shield (HP) | Armor (HP) | Shield Resistance (%) | Armor Resistance (%) | DPS (hp/s) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EM | Exp | Kin | Th | EM | Exp | Kin | Th | EM | Exp | Kin | Th | ||||||
| 3x | Tower Sentry Drone II | - | - | 500 | 1,600 | - | 60 | 40 | 20 | 60 | 10 | 25 | 35 | - | 2 | 13 | 10 |
| 5x | Tower Sentry Drone III | - | - | 1,000 | 3,200 | - | 60 | 40 | 20 | 60 | 10 | 25 | 35 | - | 3 | 22 | 16 |
| 1x | Ex-Elite Service Agent | 5 | 400 | 2,250 | 2,000 | 10 | 60 | 50 | 30 | 60 | 25 | 60 | 30 | 120 | 70 | - | - |
| 1 Ship Total | Average/ Total | 8,750 | 22,800 | 1 | 60 | 41 | 21 | 60 | 12 | 29 | 34 | 120 | 91 | 149 | 110 | ||
CategoryMissions
CategoryLevel4
The Mercenary Wingmen are all using webs and have high shield regen, while the Mercenary commanders have a slightly higher DPS. I was able to complete this pocket in a Ferox by concentrating fire first on the commanders to reduce the total incoming damage to a manageable level and then following through in the wingmen.
Also I have noticed that the wingmen are able to switch their fire to your drones even if you are already aggroed, so be careful.
Despite from the Elite drone AIs in the wreck "cargo" section the elite drone wreck yields only metal scraps as salvage.
Since they disappear really fast (<15mins IMO), get as close as possible before opening fire and loot as soon as you've made the kill.
Elite Drone Parasites have low tracking. orbiting at 350ms at 35km prevents more than 60% of damage. They also have 2 defender lauchers.
Pocket 2
battleships do heavy damage at close range, but die pretty fast. Should be killed at appropriate time.
Mission is doable with ~200hp/s effictive tank with appropriate resists. Had to warpout after clearing pocket 1 to switch resists.
Has anyone else encountered this?
(Pocket 1 group 4 )they are just flying away from me seems you now need to fit an Afterburner. anyone else had this happen?
Group 3.1:
2x Frigates (Spider Drone I) Web
1x Battleship (Mercenary Overlord - Jericho Tezmar)
1x Battleship (Mercenary Overlord - Roranok Nesmyrthas)
Group 3.2:
6x Cruisers (Mercenary Commander)
1x Battleship (Mercenary Overlord - Yarl Uzbeki)
Doing mission ATM (DOminix, active armor tanking) - found it by atacking Spider Drone, had Agro from group 3.1 only. After destroing it, atacket Yari Uzbeki and had agro from group 3.2
2) in pocket two wait until the autoaggro group has started shooting you and then only shoot them back to clear this group - I accidentally shot a frig from other group and pulled the aggro of two groups.
As long as you manage the group aggros separately it should not be a problem even for a low SP character (like me) - but I had to learn it the hard way.
With 3x torp launchers you can volley ~1800ish DPS / 9 sec with medium-ish torp skills. With torps, this damage comes in all four flavors.
I would warn that attacking Group 1 before auto-aggro spider drones have arrived pulls all the groups in and gets you killed because of warp scrams.
So wait for the spider drones 1st, if there are any. They move like 1+ km/s.
Pocket 2: Monkey read monkey do. Done in a T2 fitted Rokh. (Normal/be careful though) Alot of web.
Pocket 3: Very very easy
Bounty:
Mission: 2,2 mill
Loot and salvage: 10,9 mill
Total: 13,1 mill
The first 2 Battleships from pocket 1 can do some damage, everything else from this packet is fine.
Initial group of pocket 2 is the hardest part of this mission. You will be webbed in a few seconds by the drones, then by the Frigates. Wait until you are attacked, so you don't aggro another group. Make sure you are attacking the correct ships (there are about 30), engage the Cruisers with your guns, and have your light drones pick the webfier drones, then the Frigates. Next time I'll try fitting a webfier to help my drones destroy the attacking drones and frigates.
Rest of pocket 2 was rather easy. Pocket 3 was also of no concern, engaged all towers and had my medium drones pick up the Cruiser once it was in range.
Took around 45m to complete the mission, 25m to salvage.
2.5M isk of rewards, 3M isk of bouties, 2200m3 of loot (including Alloys/Compounds from drones, very little and up to Zydrine), 5x Elite Drone AI, Salvage includes Circuit Boards/Melted Capacitors/Metal Scraps. Not an impressive isk/h mission.
Passive T2 shield tanked rokh with 425mm Scout cannons.
The three Elite Drone Parasites were able to keep me at 40-53 kilometers (I was flying 108 m/s at that time)
High slots:
7 x XT-9000 Cruise Missile Launchers loaded with Wrath Cruise Missiles
1 x Drone Link Aug
Mids:
2 x Invulnerability Field II
1 x Ballistic Defelection Field II
1 x Heat Dissipation Field II
1 x Caldari Navy X-Large Shield Booster
1 x Caldari Navy Shield Boost Amplifier
Lows:
2 x Ballistic Control System II
3 x Capacitor Flux Coil II
Rigs:
3 x Large Capacitor Control Circuit
From what is written on http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/ , I'd suggest Explosive damage against the BS because their armor has lots of hitpoints and lowest resistance there is Explosive. Shields have higher Exp resistance but low hitpoints so... obvious choice.
The cruiser/bcruiser class ones seem to be vulnerable to (surprise!) EM damage. Pure EM works best.
Since you'll normally do the tower drones last they don't really matter. To kill them fast use Thermal damage.
Let's hope you can change damage type quickly like with missile boats :)
Update: This mission is quite easy even with a mostly T1-fitted normal Raven. Those Drone BS die quickly, incoming damage from sentry drones isn't too bad and the mercenary groups are easy pickings as well if you do not let them come close, in which case their turret fire will do heavy damage, try to avoid that ;)
CNR 1 Invul II, 1 Photon, 1 Kinetic, 1 Thermal, XL booster, Sensor booster.
7x CN Cataclysm cruise missles
Stage 1: aggro the 2 Elite Drone Parasites between you and the cruisers. Kill them. Then aggro the Cruiser class drones. Launch your drones and let them handle the cruisers while you kill the remaining 3 Elite Drone Parasite BS's.
Stage 2: When you land, the group of cruisers/frigs behind you will aggro, Kill them when they spawn starting with the cruisers. DO NOT WORRY ABOUT THE FRIGS. Once the commanders are dead, kill the mercenary Overlord and commanders that are infront of you. Once you have aggrod this group, it is safe to launch drones and let them handle the frigs.
Once the commanders and overlord are done, kill the 2 named bs's directly above you.
Once they are dead, kill the remaining group of commanders and named BS.
Stage 3: when you land, just start popping sentries while you want on the informant to approach you. Very easy mission over all.
LP: 5540 x 1000 = 5.54M
Loot: 5.20M
Bounty: 3.19M
Reward: 3.19M
Salvage: 3.01M
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Sum (no salvage): 11.92M
Sum (excl. LP): 14.59M
Sum: 20.13M
Mission (undock - reward): 37 min
Salvage (undock - dock): 22.5 min
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Sum: 59.5 min (mission 3 jumps away)
Ship: Raven (T2 some faction)
Pilot: 17.35M skill points
ISK/h: 20.30M/h
ISK/h (no salvage): 19.33M/h
ISK/h (blitz): ?
Elite Drone Parasite EHP:
EM Expl Kin Therm
37,000 25,000 25,250 25,965
Disintegrator Alvum EHP:
EM Expl Kin Therm
3,388 5,323 4,439 3,832
Striker Alvatis EHP:
EM Expl Kin Therm
5,786 9,000 7,500 6,500
Enforcer Alvatis EHP:
EM Expl Kin Therm
4,629 7,200 6,000 5,200
If you're in a kinetic damage bonus ship (such as a Tengu) I recommend Kinetic missiles against the drones. I nine salvo the Elite Drone Parasites in an HML Tengu.
BTW, Kioran Jeraulek in last pocket is webbing, nasty issue as Sentries III have quite a DPS and hits always.
2x Arbalest Heavy
2x XR-3200 Heavy
1x Medium Regolith..
LOADS MORE :D
Hobgoblins took out all of the frigates pretty easily, and everything else died pretty quickly even to long range ammo. The incoming dps was pretty high in the second pocket, but a buffer fit was more than enough to finish everything off. I think megathron should be added to the suggested ships list.
Salvage/loot: 9,9 mil
It's more work and can be unnerving at first, but once you get the hang of it, speeds things up a bit.
I can confirm that none of them - some (Infested Station, Ruined Stargate etc.) had a fairly high amount
of hit points - dropped anything, the only exception being the Roadhouse, which dropped 5 Metal Scraps.
Pocket 1. Followed guide. Easy
Pocket 2. Followed guide. Easy. *I got no auto agro from any group*
Pocket 3. Followed guide. Easy
pocket 3 think ima leave that for now and farm mission for the AI chips