Covering Your Tracks, Level 4
Last edited by MithorKarez
Wed, 09 Feb 2011 06:02 EST
Wed, 09 Feb 2011 06:02 EST
Faction: Mercenaries
Mission type: Encounter
Space type: Normal
Damage dealt: All types (See below)
Web/scramble: Mercenary Wingman
Extras: NA
Recommended damage dealing: Thermal, Kin
Recommended ships: Raven, CNR, Dominix, Drake, Typhoon.
Single Pocket
Auto aggro at warp-in. All ships & sentry guns are within 20km.
Single Group:
3x Elite Frigates (Mercenary Wingman) Web/Scramble Piranha Light Missile3x Cruisers (Mercenary Commander) Scourge Heavy Missile
2x Battleships (Mercenary Overlord) Scourge Heavy Missile
2x Sentry Gun (Description reads "Caldari 425mm Railgun Sentry")
1x Battleship (Ratah Niaga/Tauron/Taisu Magdesh)
Damage Dealt:
Ratah Niaga (Paradise Precision Cruise Missile - every 8 seconds)
* Group DPS excluding sentry guns: 200 Therm, 162 EM, 91 Kin, 36 Exp
Tauron (Paradise Cruise Missile - every 10 seconds)
* Group DPS excluding sentry guns: 292 Therm, 159 EM, 103 Kin, 36 Exp
Taisu Magdesh (Devastator Cruise Missile - every 15 seconds)
* Group DPS excluding sentry guns: 180 Therm, 149 EM, 101 Exp, 95 Kin
Structures
Abandoned Stargate - Drops Metal Scraps (50)Tip
- Ratah Niaga has a very high resistance to thermal damage, use kinetic damage to kill him.
- Ratah Niaga has a speed of 145 m/s and will try to orbit at a distance of 250km. You may kill him first before he gets away OR refit to include an MWD ifkilling him last.
- Ratah Niaga can be easily killed last, if you fit a fast ship with cloak and jettison something next to him to warp to. Then change to your damage ship, warp to him and kill the bastard.
- All the named battleship bosses have a small chance to drop faction loot.
- Mission is *not* flagged complete after you kill the named battleship boss. You must eliminate all ships.
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The best way to deal with this mission is to be able to take all the aggro right away and take out Ratah Niaga, if you don't he will run as indicated. If you can't handle all that DPS the alternative is to warp in at 70km (you will be outside of Niaga's precision cruise range) and pick off the support ships.
Then, either warp out and back in to the beacon where you are closer to him or get a friend with a webber to slow him down. He has a tough shield tank and is weakest to Kinetic, you're going to need a lot of DPS to take him down though -- solo with a 'Phoon you'll need Wasps and 1200mm Arties, Wrath Furies could help if you have skills to use them. Otherwise you'll need to warp out and go with torps (webber friend required).
Warped out and back in at 100 km though (warp-in trick works), piece of cake. Didn't need any MWD or AB as I got Tauron as named BS.
Setup as follows - Hyperion: 8 x Neutron Blaster Cannon II (Antimatter), 4 x CAP Recharger II, 1 x AFB, 1 x Large Rep II, 1 x Kin Hardener, 4 x Energized Adaptive Hardener II (RIGS: 2 x CCC, 1 x ANP)
No nice loot... :(
Dual Pithi A-type Vargur with 1x SBAII 2x invuln IIs got to 50% shields in the 5 km it took to kill the named BS, but otherwise a 5 minute mission
Used a 6-slot tank (XLSBII, SBAI, ThermIIx2, EMII, InvulnII) with 6 cap flux II in the lows and 800mm auto IIs in the highs. Tank nearly stable with initial aggro (Tauron), totally stable after sentries died.
Time to completion: ~ 10 minutes while my drones mopped up the frigates and my alt salvaged.
Warped in at 100km. Insta aggro from mercs. Killed wingmen with Warrior II's.
Kited away until beyond sentry range. Slowed and killed BC's and BS's with Proton L, Cataclysm Cruise and ValkyrieII at range. Now only Ratah Niaga and sentries remain at warp distance. Warped to sentry (boss at 50km) and AB'd towards him while pummelling with Wrath Cruise/Proton/Valks. No faction loot.
Dropped a taisu magdesh's insigna.
Nighthawk, full active tank, Gist B-Type Large shield booster, CN Boost amp, 2x T2 Invulns, T2 EM hardener, T2 DCU, 3 BCS, 6 CN heavy launchers.
Anyone that has trouble with this mission need to take a closer look at their tank.
loadout 8x mega modulated beams, 1x em hardener II, 1x thermic hardener II, repper, pdu and 3xheatsink II the rest was cap related modules
Warped in at 70, killed named BS, my hobgoblinII's took care of the frigates, wasted everything else - all in all, was done within 5/6 mins
I wasn't well hardened against Thermal, so initial DPS was very high. I lost 20000 shields in 75 seconds and warped/wimped out. But I came right back with the same fit at 100km and wasted them effortlessly.
Widowmaker heavy missiles did 3x more damage than Scourge. Lousy loot.
Tauron webbed me down to something like 18m/s.
- Warp in
- *Don't lock* but go towards the boss
- Kill the sentries to reduce kin damage
- Send drones on frigates
- Now lock and kill the boss
Important bits are to kill the sentries and webbing frigates fast (use T2 drones) and to have a good shield.
- you send drones at the same time while killing the sentries of corse
- I did not need to use any AB or MWD because the boss did not make in time to get away, so it's possible to drop it and place a kin hardener for a much easier mission. The initial DPS is indeed somewhat scary, expecially if you let the webs slow you down to a crawl.
Completed in Drake. Let Ratah go. Killed Webbers with Drones. Killed Sentry Guns. Picked off others used therm missiles. Docked 100 mwd, salvager. Caught Ratah used Kinetic and drones.