Pirate Invasion, Level 4

For me this was Heavy Thermal and EM damage from all, and using EM did the most damage.

YMMV, but for me drone-aggro is not automatic : I routinely release my drones in this mission, and they only draw aggro if they get too close from an un-aggroed Sansha ship (inside 20 kms IIRC). As long as you watch them closely, they should be safe to use.

Sava Lords don't deal any Kinetic damage anymore.

The room can be full agroed, in an abaddon Two Em hardeners t2, Two Thermic hardeners T2 , one EANM t2 and a faction Large armor repairer, but only if your DPS is sufficient to kill all rats before they come to their optimal. according to me, the full agro DPS is more or less 1500dps with about 60% Em and 40% Thermal.

Abaddon (8x MPL II, 1x AB II, 3x CR II, 2x LAR II, 2x CPR II, 1x EANM II, 1x EM AH II, 1x TH AH II, 3x CCC I)
-- I just blasted the crap out of the battleships with multis and scorch till they were all dead, then started shooting at the ones that weren't aggro yet. My drones worked their way through all the non-BSs while I was killing the BS's. I actually popped the last battleship right as they popped the last cruiser. Was kinda cool!
-- I kept both LARs running the whole time, but my armor never did more than wiggle, and I popped the BS's really fast. Takes the BS's a long time to get into their optimal, it's a pretty easy tank if your DPS is on the big damage dealers.

Drake with passive tank
HIGHS: 7 x HML II
MIDS: 2 x Large Shield Extender II, 2 x MSA II's, 2 X HDA II's
LOWS: 4 x SPR II's
RIGS: 3 x Core Defense Purger I's
DRONES: 5 x Hobgoblin I

Could not have done this without the guide.

Followed advice on initial warp in and did not move. Engaged Savage Lord with Thunderbolt HM and somehow pulled aggro from another two groups. True to the scouting report I was soon scrammed and webbed but 5 x hobgoblin I's made quick work of the two Centi Loyal ships doing the webbing. Brought the drones back in and knocked off some smaller ships before having to warp out due to having three groups aggro'd which was too much for my passive tank.

Upon return, only group 1 was aggro'd and was soon dispatched.

Next engaged groups 2 and 3 and again deployed 5 x Hobgoblin I's to dispatch the frigates. After that I just knocked off ship after ship using Thunderbolt HM''s until last of these groups were dead.

Next I fired up the drive and headed towards group 4 to get in range and engaged using missiles and drones. CONTRARY TO REPORT Group 5 did not aggro me when I attacked group 4 but only after I attacked Centus Savage Lord (when only three ships remained from the original group 4.)

The remnants of 4 and the whole of 5 were easily tanked and dispatched as fast as my DPS would allow.

12 of 35 wrecks were empty (mostly smaller ships) but salvage as a whole was only average in value with 28 armor plates being the highlight. The total salvage took up 2,240 M3 of space.

Several smallish Veld asteroids in the 70,000 M3 range were spotted but none were clustered close enough to make post mission mining viable.

Approx 7.5 million in bounties

Yes it took awhile due to low DPS of my Drake, but that gave me time to type this.

25 Veldspar Roids - 1,657,024 Units

Afterburners are a must for mining this out

I completed this in a Golem, T2 EM/Thermal hards, T2 Siege Launchers with Navy XL Shield Booster and Dread Guristas Shield Boost Amp.

Used Navy Mjolnir for the under 30km BSes, Mjolnir Javelin to pick off Group 5 and others as they hit Javelin range. Piece of cake, just be wary of scrammers and you're fine if you follow the guide.

Made about 25mil ISK total between a friend and myself through bounty, loot & salvage. This mission is worth doing. Completed in a Raven w/ Cruise Missiles (tanking) and a Rokh (dps).

Completed Stabber Fleet Issue. Great fun. Would be a good mission for a group of Attack Frigates. I take out scrambers/webbers simply by charging straight at them, kicking in guns at falloff; they die quickly. I'm conservative with my drones (3 med/2 sm) and use them primarily for battleship dps. Suggest you keep your log open to check for optimal orbit/speed/track distances and damage sources. Approach groups at a tangent if dps starts to climb. Be aware that you will find orbit obstacles near some ships.

Impossible for beginners without other players helping. You can safely kill group 1 (drop group 5 aggro!). As soon as you try to kill group 5 (or 2) you will automatically aggro group 4 (3 respective). The first match will be OK since they are not in turret optimal range. Maybe you'll be able to kill like 2 battleships and the 2 BC before your cap runs out. Now comes the problem... since this is a deadspace mission you can only warp in to the same place everytime and now that you are back group 4 and 5 (2 and 3 respective) will be VERY near and immediately do incredibly high damage to you, no matter how well your tank is. Remember there are still like 7 battleships and several other nasties in these groups. No way to deal with them, damage taken will be enough to make you flee before a single ship is destroyed.
I wonder how anyone around 2.2 mio SP is supposed to finish this mission solo.

edit: A possible solution (I will test it soon) is to fit two large NOS on your battleship, metalevel 4 ones will give you 10cap/sec, so two of them will significantly lower your cap drain. If using this tactic do NOT fit target painter(s) or afterburner but instead use 2 more shield hardeners. Since enemy ships will be near you soon enough (as mentioned above and due to the fact that this is a deadspace mission) you can activate your NOS without problems, just keep one small enemy ship alive to use it as a cap bitch. Afaik NOS will not lower its cap (it does that only in PvP) so happy cap-draining ^^


edit2: it works... somehow. However, nosferatus DO drain NPC-ships. After 1 drain with both modules no frigate or cruiser will give any more cap. The only way to maintain cap is to let a battleship come near. Nasty mission as a beginner :|

Up is a great direction, use it. As with many missions, your experience of it will depend hugely on tactics. I've enjoyed it (see above comment) playing aggressively with a Stabber Fleet--once the web/scram frigates are out of the way, you're unstoppable. In a Pulse Apoc with Scorch, decent AB, and a tracking computer with range script, if you start by heading straight up with your AB on, then staying at sniping range, you'll take so little damage you could get by with a small armor repper and no drones (one-shotted frigates with mega pulses at adequate range). So? Have fun. Play around.

The Beast/Plague Lords use Tracking Disruptors, although not very often. Confirmed in 3 run throughs.

Standard Armageddon:

HIGHS: 7 x Pulse laser II w/ Scorch and Multi
MIDS: 3 x Cap Rechargers II
LOWS: 1 x LAR II, 4 Hardeners II (2 Kin + 2 Therm), 2 HS II, 1 CPR
RIGS: 3 x CCC

Small and medium T2 drones. Not much trouble. A somewhat easy mission with the right tools.

Last fit was with 2 EM Hardeners instead of Kin, of course ;)

done in t2 paladin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doZ6XXNcLaE

done in a raven, DPS is very heavy if multiple BS's are within 25km. keeping some range and using drones to assist with DPS is key

Read the guide. Flew a T2 fitted Rokh.
Pocket 1: Normal if u manage the agro.

done in a passive tanked rattlesnake (2x invuls) using senty drones.
not a good ship for the job due to low natural EM resist.
not dangerous but probably should not aggro the whole pocket at once.

warp in. sit still. kill the scramblers with light drones. then use sentries to take out group 5. other groups did not aggro.

also done in a HAM tengu (be careful not to get stuck on any of the objects when going after group 5)

Done in a Megathron navy issue..
Highs: 7 425 prototype's, Antimatter charge L
Medium: 4 Cap recharger II's
Low's: 1 amarr navy LAR, 4 mission specific hardners, 2 Mag field stabilisers, and 1 capacitor power relay
Drones: 5 Garde I's and 5 Hammerhead II's...
Got to 20%armor hp(agroed group 1,4,5), but then started rising.. Did mostly thermal and kinetic damage(rails), not a hard mission, a quick one. Had no need to kill the scramblers, just focused on the battleships.
Im a fairly new pilot with 3.5m skillpoints

Completed in a Drake. I have screenies to prove it

This was a tough mission, I had to warp out twice in my Raven. Bought a Navy Raven and went back to finish it. I didn't aggro any groups other than the ones that automatically shot at me. The following fit is what I used on both ships, except the Navy Raven has another Cruise Missile Launcher. Also, I checked various combinations of the shield hardeners in EFT with the Sansha profile and 2 EM and 2 Therm was the best.

7 x XT9000 Cruise Launchers with Paradise Cruise
1 x drone link aug

2 x Photon Scattering Field II
2 x Heat Dissipation II
1 x Caldari Navy X-Large shield booster
1 x Caldari Navy Shield boost amplifier

2 x Ballistic controll II
3 x Cap Flux coil II

5 Hammerhead and 5 Hobgoblin I

Completed in a active tanked tengu

1x invul
1x photon scattering t2 hardener
1x magnetic scttering t2 resist amp

Easy Peasy in a Sentry Dominix.

Completed in Abaddon, very easy mission with good salvage.

Completed in a active tanked Abaddon + 3ccc

High:6 Tachyon Anode Particle Stream 1,Drone link,small tractor beam
(or fit 8 Mega Anode works too)
Med:4 Cap Recharger II
Low:1 DC II/1 Large Repair(meta 3)
1 CPR II/2 EM hardener(meta 3)/2 Them hardener
Drones : 5 Hammerhead and 5 Hobgoblin I
Cap stable at 25.7%

Warp in,stay few sec,kill frigate first,then kill cruiser before they get too close
after kill BSs,if cruiser stay too close,DONT SEND DRONE attack it,or they will aggro group 4.i had warp out once because my drone aggro it.

Complete in 58 minute with a passive Drake.

1. Wait for all groups to spawn.
2. Defend from group 1 auto-aggro while waiting for Group 5 to auto-aggro.
3. Warp away to drop Group 5 aggro.
4. Return to destroy group 1.
5. Destroy group 2, then group 3, then group 5, then group 4.
Elapsed time: 57 minutes. Thunderbolt Heavy missiles launched: ~1800.

[Drake, Anti-Sansha]
Damage Control II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II

Large Shield Extender II
Large Shield Extender II
Ditrigonal Thermal Barrier Crystallization I
Ditrigonal Thermal Barrier Crystallization I
'Anointed' I EM Ward Reinforcement
'Anointed' I EM Ward Reinforcement

Heavy Missile Launcher I, Thunderbolt Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher I, Thunderbolt Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher I, Thunderbolt Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher I, Thunderbolt Heavy Missile
Advanced 'Limos' Heavy Missile Bay I, Thunderbolt Heavy Missile
Advanced 'Limos' Heavy Missile Bay I, Thunderbolt Heavy Missile
'Arbalest' Heavy Missile Launcher, Thunderbolt Heavy Missile
[empty high slot]

Medium Core Defence Field Extender I
Medium Core Defence Field Extender I
Medium Core Defence Field Extender I

Hobgoblin II x5

Very doable mission for properly fitted Drake. My drake has about 318DPS tank against sansha's and I still felt overtanked during this mission. Shield never dropped below ~65%. Most damage is received during the initial attack of group 1 and 5. I used AB to keep distance from group 5 while I killed group 1. Other groups can then be attacked independently.
Recommend fitting for maximum gank if you have the balls otherwise it will take a long time to kill all the BS. I used 3x CN BCS and 7x CN HML with standard thunderbolt missiles.

i managed to do this in my passive drake. with scourge haavys. didn't have a problem with tanking. little slow with the dps due to using kenitc. i managed to agro each group on at a time. i keep my drones in most of the time but used them on the smaller ships. easly doable in a properly fitted drake

9,442mil bounty

Group 4 did not aggro until I started to shoot the final Battleship in Group 5. I suspect this is a specific ship, unfortunately I didn't realise and check which one, because they aggro'd my drones and not me.

The Sanshas Plague Lord BS's Tracking Disrupt.

Submitted screenshot to identify which group is which.

[Ishtar]
Armor EM Hardener II
Armor Thermic Hardener II
Adaptive Nano Plating II
Damage Control II
Medium Armor Repairer II

10MN Afterburner II
Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II
Drone Navigation Computer I
Drone Navigation Computer I

Small Tractor Beam I
Small Tractor Beam I
Salvager II
Salvager II
250mm Prototype I Gauss Gun, Iron Charge M

Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I

Ogre II x5
Hammerhead II x5
Hobgoblin II x5
Bouncer I x2
Bouncer I x3

I just agro'd everything with the rail then set hobs on the little stuff. Once frigs are down ogres can clean up while you loot/salvage. Took me a little over half an hour.

Salvage: 24 armor plates, 10 Tripped approx 3 to 4 mil
Items: Nothing to write home about, skip