Intercept The Saboteurs, level 4
Faction: Guristas
Mission type: Encounter
Space type: Deadspace w/gate
Damage dealt: Kin, Therm
Web/scramble: Dire Pithi
Extras: Jamming from Annihilator/Nullifiers
Recommended damage dealing: Kin
Recommended ships: CNR, Drake, Abaddon, Raven, Maelstrom
It's unclear from what ship the mission loot is dropping. It's definitely not the last destroyed ship in the pocket, nor the last destroyed transport ship. Maybe the last ship from a specific group.
Spawns may vary, this is just an example.
Warp-In
3x Frigates (Pithi Destructor/Demolisher)2x Destroyers (Pithior Guerilla)
Single Pocket
Attacking might aggro all.Attacking groups 1 or 3 will usually aggro that group and group 2.
Drones might be aggroed by neutral groups.
Attacking an elite frigate in group 2 will only aggro a few extra frigates, which can be sniped at leisure.
Picture to make it clear where which group is located
Group 1 (51 - 82km)
2x Destroyers (Pithior Guerilla)3x Cruisers (Pithum Annihilator) (Jamming)
3x Battlecruisers (Pithatis Assaulter/Assassin)
1x Battleship (Pith Eradicator)
Group 2 (55 - 75km)
3x Guristas Transport Ship11x Frigates (Pithi Demolisher/Destructor/Guerilla)
6x Elite Frigates (Dire Pithi Imputor/Arrogator/Invader/Infiltrator) (Web/Scramble)
3x Cruisers (Pithum Mortifier/Inferno)
2x Battlecruisers (Pithatis Assaulter/Enforcer)
1x Battleship (Pith Extinguisher)
Group 3 (45 - 65km)
2x Destroyers (Pithior Terrorist/Guerilla)3x Cruisers (Pithum Annihilator/Nullifier) (Jamming)
2x Battlecruisers (Pithatis Enforcer)
1x Battleship (Pith Obliterator/Eradicator)
Armory may drop T1 Ammo
Habitation Modules may drop Trade Goods
Mining
Nothing hereBounties
3,245,442 ISKStanding hits
Killing one of the transports incurs a 2.4% standing penalty.CategoryLevel4
Shot at the dire pithi frigs first, only agrroed some other frigs
Shot at cruisers on right side, agrroed, middle and right groups
Drones aggroed left group
Shooting at structures aggros left group, structures drop loot
After killing BS Pithi Obliterator from second group it has been dropped.
Then the other ships formed two groups also, each with about half the ships, and each agro'd independently of the other.
Transports were part of my first frigate group [toward the center as you warp in].
Blitz is now possible -- just shoot the center group of frigates and the transports.
[In case I'm wrong about this ... do it from 75km out like I did with my T1 Raven.]
Target 6x scramble frigs and kill them , you will get aggro of couple more frigs not others ( drones will get aggro of group 2 , so don't use drones)
attacking group 3 will aggro group 2 but not group 1
attacking Group 2 will aggro all groups
start with 6x Elite Frigates (Dire Pithi 1-Imputor/2-Arrogator/3-Invader/4-Infiltrator) (Web/Scramble)..in that order some other friggs will also aggro and you can just kill them all like you want the order is not that important only when you start.....like i said it worked for me and would also like someone to comfirm this.. cheers
Fortunately these guys do not overwhelm you with missiles like other gurista encounters you may know.
1) Verified that you can shoot the scrambler Dire Pithis and only couple of more frigs are aggroing you.
2) Verified that the BS with largest bounty drops the viral agent and not the transports.
3) Verified that attacking group 2 aggroes all three groups BUT after warpout group 3 disengaged (or at least for me).
4) Pithum Annihhilator/Nullifier did not jam me but the Pithum Eliminator (is named Extinguisher in this page - the BS with the largest bounty) did jam me occasionally.
5) Loot and salvage was really crap.
Cruiser Raven with Large Booster II and 3x BCS. Drone Link Aug and Tractor. Lt and Med T2 Drones.
Did this mission yesterday and just now again. Same both times.
Upon warp in, Align yourself to a station or gate moving away from all groups. Target and fire on one of the frigs in group 3 and you will get aggro from both group 3 and group 2. The aggro will include the 3 Transport ships. (Do not target the Transports if your drones are set to aggressive). Kill all starting small and working your way up killing the 2 BS's (saving the 3 Transports for last). Mission objective drops from 3rd Transport killed.
There will be another spawn of Frigates in place of group 2 but they do not auto aggro. Group 1 does not auto aggro. Short and sweet.
Pocket 1: Flew away from them in my T2 fitted Rokh. Read the guide (normal difficulty). Take out the jammers first.
Relatively easy mission, no warp outs
Completed in raven with 1x Therm, 1x Kin, 1x Invuln
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyvI1OrM1Gk
With correct hardeners its easy mission, loot and salvage was crap :/
Started off immediately flying away from all three groups. Sniped frigates in Group3, Both Group3 and Group2 aggroed, took out jammers and elite frigates first. Used drones to take out the rest of the frigates and destroyers and missiles to work on Battleships down. I left transports for last, last transport dropped the agent.
Received no aggro from Group1 or Reinforcement Group (drones or otherwise)
Blitz (accidental): Aiming for the elites, drove straight past the Transports until inside their group's aggro sphere (about 25-35 km). Was attacked by part of Group 2, including the BS - but NOT the elites or any ships in groups 1 or 3. Flew away, followed by all the attackers including the transports (easily tanked). Last transport dropped the objective. Drones were aggroed heavily, so took out the frigs/destroyers with Precision missiles.
'Group 2' seemed to be 3 groups - the transport ships and their escorts, and L & R frigate groups (elites were split between these). Attacking the frigate groups didn't draw any aggro from the other groups.
Confirmed- Primary aggro to Dire frig = only 5 frig aggro you from Group 2
proceeded to aggro BC from group 3, picked up all of Group 2 as well as Group3
cleared all BC, aggro'd Group 1, cleared *everything* but one BS and transports.
destroyed 3 transports, and then BS, agent required Item dropped then.
Standing loss of 3% due to transport kill.
btw, Faction fit Tengu = Overkill
I warped in and remained stationary, then
- aggroed Dire Pithi Arrogator, got aggro from the other 2 plus 3 frigates
- aggroed Dire Pithi Invader, got aggro from the other 2 plus 3 frigates
Everything else remained silent in both cases.
- aggroed a Destroyer in group 3, got aggro from groups 2 and 3
- killed the 3 Transport Ships last, the required item dropped from the last one of them
So there might be 5 groups after all. And this looks more or less like a candidate for a (moderate) Blitz to me.
If it is repeatable, that is. Anyone?
Confirmed : 5 groupes : elite frigates aggroed with several other frigates. Other 3 groups easily tanked simultaneously, no web/scramble in those.
Shot @ group 3 and 2 aggroed as well... mission was flagged complete after killed the last ship from 2 and 3. (Didnt even lock anything in group 1). Last ship was a BS so had to slowboat 20k to get the loot.
This penalty was incurred for destroying Guristas Pirates's Guristas Transport Ship in Sankkasen
would seem that the penalty has changed to 3.0% ( for every pilot in the mission- at the time of the kill) instead of 2.4%
Grabbed agro from group 2 and 3 with one LAR and 3 Kin and 1 Therm Hard, let out sentrys to pop battlecruisers then destroy group and pop the rest. simple mish
1. the grouping in the description is wrong. There are more groups than we currently have in the description. I aggroed 3 of the elite frigs (the 3 closer ones), and only they and 3 regular frigs returned fire. Then I aggroed the closest pair of destroyers (in group 3), and got return fire from group 3 and the transports and a few other ships.
2. there appears to be a blitz after all: I killed only the ships that returned fire. Of these I killed the 3 transports last, and the last of them dopped the can. So far it is, of course, not clear whether killing the elite frigs is necessary at all. However, if this proves to be repeatable you can reduce the time required for running this mission by a substantial percentage even in this way.