Epic Arc Overview

Last edited by CailFortestan:
added Standings gain for Retraction
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:30 EDT

Chapter agent: Hiva Shesheva
Agent location: Tanoo
Agent corporation: Krusual Tribe

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 chapter 2, Songs of the Past.

Mission 1 - Church of the Obsidian

Faction: Ammatar
Mission Type: Encounter
Space Type: Normal Space ( MWD )
Requires: Archeology I (for using Analyzer I)
Web/Scramble: Ammatar Navy Delta I, Ammatar Navy Gamma II

At Gate (25-50km, no aggro until within 15km of gate)

7x Frigate (Ammatar Navy Delta I, Ammatar Navy Gamma II, Ammatar Navy Soldier) Web/scramble
3x Battleship (Ammatar Navy Armageddon, Ammatar Navy Apocolypse)

Pocket 1 (30-40K)

5x Frigate (Ammatar Navy Soldier)
5x Cruiser (Ammatar Navy Maller)
10x Battleship (Ammatar Navy Armageddon, Ammatar Navy Apocolypse)

Tips:

The Apocolypse NPCs like to get in close (under about 6k), so you can kill everything else with long range weapons then refit for short range and murder them.
Mission is completed when Blood Obsidian Orb is pulled from can.
2,461,000 units of veld, within a radius of 15km

Notes:

You do not loose Ammatar standing from killing these ships. Two ships (1x Armageddon and 1x Apocolypse) caused Amarr standings loss.

Mission 2 - Heresiology

Faction: Ammatar
Mission Type: Encounter
Space Type: Normal space
Requires: Archeology I (for using Analyzer I)

Initial Spawn (55-75K)

10x Frigate (Ammatar Navy Delta 1 Support Frigate, Ammatar Navy Detective, Ammatar Navy Gamma II Support Frigate) Web
5x Cruiser (Ammatar Navy Maller)
4x Battleship (Ammatar Navy Armageddon, Ammatar Navy Apocolypse)

Tips:

There are three original relics, each of which needs to be hacked with an Analyzer
Hacking each of the three originals creates more; each of them leads to three more, for a total of 12 relics (three groups of 4)
It can be difficult to track which relics you have checked; tackle them in groups and make sure you have opened all 4 of each group.
Many of the relics contain ancient documents.
The Blood Obsidian spawns in a can after the last relic opened.

Notes:

Only one ship (the Ammatar Navy Detective) caused a standing loss to Ammatar.

Mission 3 - Wildfire

Faction: Angel Cartel
Mission Type: Encounter
Space Type: Normal space
Web/Scram: Frigates

No spawn on warp in. Dropping the datacore into the chapel container triggers the spawn.

Spawn 1 (15-40K)

6x Frigate (Gistii Hunter, Impaler )
10x Elite Frigate (Arch Gistii Hijacker, Hunter, Outlaw, Rogue, Thug, ) Web/Scramble
3x Battleship (Gist Throne, Cherubim )

Tips:

You don't need to kill the NPCs to complete the mission, so kill any scramming frigates and warp off
29 Veldspar roids within 15km of each other, total of 1505000 units.

Mission 4 - Stillwater

Faction: Angel Cartel
Mission Type: Encounter

Initial Spawn

Angel Energy Neutralizer Sentry II 100km+ Range
8x Elite Frigate (Arch Gistii Hijacker, Hunter, Impaler)
3x Elite Cruiser (Arch Gistum Centurian, Phalanx)
5x Battleship (Gist Cherubim, Seraphim, Throne)
1x Elite Battleship (Karkoti Rend) ( Sleeper AI )

Tips:

Karkoti Rend has a 10 million isk bounty, and will aggro up to 200km away.
Killing Karkoti Rend will cause any remaining rats to dissapear.
Battlestation drops t1 loot.

Arc Choice

You now get a choice: Retraction or Revelation.

Mission 5a - Revelation

Mission Type: Encounter / Drop off
Faction: Gallente

Dropped the book in the container and the mission is completed.

Reward 25 Million Isk + Standings

Mission 5b - Retractation

Mission Type: Encounter / Drop off
Faction: Defiants (Minmatar)

Dropped the book in the container and the mission is completed.

Reward Of 10 RSS Core Scanner Probe + Standings ~6.25% Minmatar

End Of Arc

Comments [Hide comments/form]

In mission 4, the angel hijackers did scram me.

-- BlazieB (2010-03-07 11:39:11)

Church of the Obsidian can be speed tanked. I did it in a Dramiel with an invuln fitted. Quickly eliminate webbing frigs and keep the afterburner running. Analyze the can and warp out.

-- IrnBruback (2010-07-21 06:29:40)

The standings reward is always going to be 6.25% (unless CCP changes things), but keep in mind that this 6.25% is going to vary in *effectiveness* according to your present standing...in my case, I selected Mission 5b and my Minmatar went from 5.68 to 5.95. But my standings log does say that that is 6.25%.

-- JaTon (2010-12-04 19:54:44)

I avoided killing the ships that are mentioned as giving the negative standings hits, but I got Amarr and Ammatar hits anyways from killing different ships. So is probably no way to kill the ships without a corresponding standings loss. In my case, the loss was very small...-0.018% to Amarr.

-- JaTon (2011-01-09 17:42:36)

For players who are going for the standings rewards: According to the info I am getting, the completion of 5A will give 11.5% Minmatar faction (not Gallente as the path-name implies). Completion of 5B gives 6.25% Minmatar, as previously stated. (Some players are saying they got 12% or 12.5% for 5A. I don't know whats going on. Sliding scale perhaps?)

-- JaTon (2011-01-09 18:23:54)

For Mission 3 - Wildfire
If you dont like the idea of getting jumped because you use a long range setup instead of close, deliver the datacore with a shuttle & then come back in with your mission boat - worked for me.

-- XeirinToroche (2011-01-20 17:57:21)

EVE-Survival - Mirror Partial Update February 2011 : Wildfire4p3

Epic Arc Overview

Mission 1 - Church of the Obsidian

At Gate (25-50km, no aggro until within 15km of gate)

Pocket 1 (30-40K)

Tips:

Notes:

Mission 2 - Heresiology

Initial Spawn (55-75K)

Tips:

Notes:

Mission 3 - Wildfire

Spawn 1 (15-40K)

Tips:

Mission 4 - Stillwater

Initial Spawn

Tips:

Arc Choice

Mission 5a - Revelation

Mission 5b - Retractation

End Of Arc