Worlds Collide, Level 4


Last edited by DeathPerfect:
Added Paladin to ships done in
Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:35 EST

Faction: Gurista Pirates & Serpentis (Gurista Pirates present in the last pocket)
Mission type: Encounter
Space type: Deadspace, with guards at the first gates.
Damage dealt: Kin, Therm
Web/scramblers: Guardian Veteran, Guristas Spies, Dire Pithy Infiltrators and Angel Vipers
Recommended damage dealing: Kinetic
Recommended ships: CNR, Drake, Paladin

Choose one of two groups, kill them (you only need to kill the battleships) and go deeper using appropriate warpgate into second pocket (Serpentis base or gurista base). From both second pockets route is directly to third pocket which is always same (Research outpost).

Warp in "Warzone stage"


You can blitz this by using Zbikoki's Hacker Card. (Obtained from Zor in other missions). It will be consumed upon unlocking the gate.

Serpentis group

4x Battleships (Core High Admiral/Admiral)
4x Battlecruisers (Corelatis High Capitan/Captain Sentry)
4x Interceptors (Guardian Veterans) (Web/Scramble)

Guristas group

3x Battleships (Pith Extinguisher/Dismantler)
4x Battlecruisers (Pithatis Revolter/Death Dealer)

Drones Note:
Drones steal aggro sometimes. Probably due to range.

Logistical Note:
non-ganged logistical ships seem to not get aggro. Cloak outside of the clouds between the 2 groups to be safe.

Tip: if you go from the clouds of Guristas group to the Serpentis group and stop 74k ish from the gate of the Serpentis group only the BS will shoot you. all the rest will be out of range and never get close enough due to some kinda mission setting to stop them going too far from the gate.

Tip2: Both groups have a bunker in the middle of the clouds that they are tied to at around 40km. If they reach that mark they turn back and burn it to the bunker.

Serpentis Base


For missile spammers: I usualy start from killing BS in aggroing group, because its faster (Serpentis BS have a lot of defenders, from small distance they can't pop your missiles). Drones aggro.

First group, aggro

3x Battleships (Core Admiral)
3x Battlecruisers (Corelatis Platoon Leader)
3x Interceptors (Guardian Veteran) (Web/scramble)
2x Interceptors (Angel Spy) (trigger aggro from the entire pocket except Overseer)

Second group, under you

3x Battleships (Core Lord Admiral/Grand Admiral)
3x Battlecruisers (Corelatis Platoon Leader)
3x Interceptors (Guardian Veteran) (Web/Scramble)

Third group, behind station:

1x Core High Admiral
2x Core Admiral
3x Corelatis Platoon Leader
3x Guardian Veteran

Fourth, behind station, under group 3

1x Battleship (Serpentis Overseer) (Random spawn. Might drop faction loot. See the Serpentis/Gurista version for more info)

Drones/Gang Members Note:
If you move towards the groups of ships or your drones move close to them you get aggro from them by proximity.

Logistical Note:
non-ganged logistical ships seem to not get aggro. Up is a good direction to go.


Blitz
Gate is unlocked, just kill the Guardian Veterans webbing you, then warp to The Research Outpost.
Alternative Blitz: warp in tanked decoy alt first, so you will not be webbed when warping in your main. This requires two Zbikoki's cards, if combined with the blitz for stage 1, but saves you another minute or so taking down the Guardian Veterans.

War installation drops what looks like random junk T1 loot.
(2009-02-02)

Gurista Base


Guristas Spy (25k and 30k frigates) webbing, drones can aggro, i usualy launch them after killing first group.

First group, aggro

3x Battleships (Pith Obliterator)
3x Heavy Assault Cruisers (Dire Pithum Abolisher/Eraser)
2x Interceptors (Guristas Spies)

Second group

3x Battleships (Pith Dismantler/Extinguisher)
2x Heavy Assault Cruisers (Dire Pithum Abolisher)
3x Interceptors (Dire Pithi Infiltrators) (Web/Scramble)

Third group:

4x Heavy Assault Cruisers (Dire Pithum Eraser/Abolisher)
4x Interceptors (Dire Pithi Infiltrator) (Web/Scramble)

Fourth:

1x Interceptor (Guristas Kyoukan) (Web/scramble)

Fifth:

1x Battleship (Guristas Overseer) (BS, spawns very occasionally, can drop faction loot)

Both war stations drops what looks like random T1 junk loot.
(2009-02-02)
Blitz
Gate is unlocked, just kill the Frigates webbing you, then warp to The Research Outpost.
Alternative Blitz: warp in tanked decoy alt first, so you will not be webbed when warping in your main. This requires two Zbikoki's cards, if combined with the blitz for stage 1, but saves you another minute or so taking down the Frigates.

Logistical Note:
non-ganged logistical ships seem to not get aggro. Up is a good direction to go.

Salvagers Note: ( Items in Italics needs to be confirmed )
Reports of a random BS spawn. Be advised when solo salvaging. The ship is the Overseer. It has about a 50% chance of physically being in the room in the beggining and another 50% chance of not coming in until a un-determined amount of time.

The Research Outpost


First group (aggroing):

3x Battleships (Pith Extinguisher/Dismantler)
3x Battlecruisers (Pithatis Death Dealer/Revolter)

Killing this group will unlock the Heron cargohold

Second group:

3x Battleships (Pith Extinguisher/Eliminator [Jamming])

Third group:

2x Battleships (Pith Obliterator)
2-3x Cruisers (Pithum Murderer [Jamming]/Killer)

Mining

In the Research Outpost are 32 Roids 703,056 Units Veldspar

Bounties

27,888,626.61 ISK



CategoryLevel4
CategoryCleanup
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Rezerwowy Pies about Overseer's:

From my expirience (i ran WC more than 100 times), i get Overseer spawn in 1 of 6 missions (Serpentis or Guristas). Even if i get it, most of the cases its a standard BS (under 1m isk, far from it :) with no faction loot. Anyway they can spawn directly when you fly into pocket, or after few hours, or never :-).
-- ChepeNolon (2008-05-31 20:21:20)
In Guristas and Serps base there's heavy drone aggro and webbing. Beware if you speed tank like in an Ishtar.

In last room there's no drone aggro at all.
-- PincoPez (2008-06-17 04:16:16)
In the Warzone, I like to hit them with cruise from 120-140 km out. Damage to shields is minimal and one does not have to pay attention to groups.
-- ChevyPrefect (2008-06-25 13:27:06)
Took a recharge Myrmidon from one end to the other. ended up tanking for my friend with a poorly fitted drake. I've run this solo as well. Hit up the serpentis gate first, kill everything, Kill the serpentis pocket and run through and slaughter the final room, rescue the pilots. Then return for the Guristas room and run through the serp room again for the overseer. Takes a bit alone, but drone DPS gets it done. Shield tank holds up well with just 2 hardeners.
-- DeimosBarret (2008-08-06 05:41:18)
This mission is no match for a NH fitted with 1 Inv. T2, 1 Balistic T2 , 1 Dread gurista heat amp ( cause of CPU trouble) I used a T2 medium cap inj. just in case, but never fired it in WC. I like to take out the jammers first, then the BS. And agree on the faction loot. It is not often it drops. 1/6 sounds right.
-- SoggaTha (2008-10-21 15:24:13)
When you warp in, the two groups are 120-130km off, so if you want, you can bring a sniper ship to that room to easily clear the gates. I personally like an ishtar, one sensor booster, 2 drone link aug, 1 omni tracking link, and 5 wardens. (and of course, tank of some kind, I'm in passive one.)

Then bring your usual ship to the serp gate (try to avoid drone ships unless you can aggro the entire room, kill everything, loop back, go through second gate, kill everything, go through to rescue prisoners, loop back through the serp gate to check for overseer, done. Takes awhile to do just because the flying time, usually.
-- KismetEer (2009-02-15 03:12:07)
In the "The Research Outpost" room, there's 32 Veldspar asteroids, all within 15 kms of the warp-in point, with random amounts (from 5K to 44K) totalling ~740K of Veldspar.
-- KeryNysell (2009-03-22 13:34:59)
Serpes base=masive dmg on start. So be ready to use all fields on start. Take down bs firsts.
-- Bountyhunt0r (2009-04-16 04:36:31)
One week ago I hit the jackpot and found a DG Overseer which dropped a DG Invul. And just now I found one with a Crystal Gamma Implant.
-- VaLTrantor (2009-07-07 16:42:42)
For me (solo), the Gurista's second room was about 650 dps initially, I was scrammed, and intermittently jammed. I used a web and 4 small artillery cannons and that was sufficient to kill the frigates. Wouldn't recommend this side if you only want to do one side.

The Serpendis side was trivially easy in comparison.
-- HomeFries (2009-09-04 23:06:57)
blitzed through first and second pockets, first gate consumed a hacker card, but second did not
-- StrykeZor (2009-11-13 13:26:31)
Serpentis Overseer showed up after using a Cormorant with an AB to salvage all rooms, then flying through Gurista side, then through Serpentis side again. Overseer was in the 2nd Serpentis room. 4.8 mil bounty, went down fast, not a particularly hard bs, just high bounty. Loot was 1000 Shadow Tungsten, Shadow Serpentis Crystal Tag, Quad LiF Fueled Booster Rocket, Shadow Serpentis Magnetic Plating, named tracking computer, named tracking link, and a Snake Epsilon cyberimplant, 15 Logic circuits, 1 Lorentz fluid.
-- AdemaroImre (2010-02-04 15:01:57)
I did the entire Guristas section quite easily in my Raven - mostly tech I fitted. Not too much trouble. I went round again, but I had to warp out in the first Serpentis room. For some reason the DPS was considerably higher than the guristas room. It's quite a large mission and I was tired so I just salvaged and handed it in. Be aware that it's best to carry thermal missiles for the serpentis section, I only had Wrath kinetic cruise missiles and my DPS suffered as a result. Also, it would seem Serpentis must have been dealing a larger proportion of thermal damage since they ripped through my shields with ease. Possibly another thermal hardner instead of a boost amp for next time.

This is what I was using
Hi Slots
6 x XT Cruise launchers with wrathcruise missiles.
1 x Drone link aug
Low Slots
2 x Ballistic control system II
3 x Capacitor Flux Coil II

Mid Slots
2 x Ditrigonal thermal barrier crystalization - shield hardner
2 x non-intertial ballistic deflection field - shield hardners
1 x CL5 X-Large shield booster
2 x Shield Boost Amplifier I

Rigs
3 x Large Cap Control Circuit
-- RentBoyUk (2010-04-07 05:30:35)
In the second pocket, I got aggro from the entire room on warp-in. Managed to kill 1 battleship before I had to warp-out.

When I went back to try again and only got aggro from the first group.
-- TheIntersect (2010-04-18 23:05:14)
Second pocket, Guristas Base, drone aggro and warp scramblers.
Scramblers waited till an inconvenient time.
-- SerenaLen (2010-06-06 06:57:15)
Completed in a faction/deadspace fitted Tengu.
The seperntis overseer had spawned when I came back to check but it was low bounty.

Incoming damage was not too bad, but I do have a low sig radius and high speed, killed webbers first so it was easy after that.
-- JohnSmith (2010-07-16 14:17:44)
Completed several times w/o warping out.
This mission can take some time, long enough to make wrecks despawn. I've been trying different approaches and this one seems to be the fastest.
I'm running the following setup:
Rattle, 1k dps Serpentis Tank, about 500 dps Guristas Tank, 550+dps therm/kin dmg, 2 fed navy trackers, (Hobos II, Warriors II, Garde II, Warden II, HHeads II, 4xScourge basic/fury)

1. Pocket - Warzone:
*Get guristas aggro - approach serpentis gate
*While approaching blast away guristas, get aggro on serpentis
*Stop at gate, get out the wardens, try to hold aggro (serpentis tend to loose it here) - give em hell

2. Pocket - Serpentis Base:
*Target those frigs first, hurl missiles in all general directions, get the whole stage aggro.
This seems like suicide but else they will web and shoot down your drones. I usually switch between Hobos (Veterans) and Warriors (Angel spies), this will reset drone aggro and helps bringing em down faster.
Some people may focus on the battleships first, but i like to play it safe.

*After frigs have been wiped out switch to garde, fury scourges and get rid of those 8-10km Megas asap. This is where my tank usually goes down to ~24% (1060dps!) and i wet myself.
*Switch to wardens, shoot down the 51km BS, approach the gate.
While approaching let your mobile drones handle the cruisers. Pocket clear.

3.Pocket - Outpost
*Easy after Serpentis pocket w/o warping. Moderate jamming.
*Loot - warp back to Warzone - jump to Guristas Base

2b. Pocket - Guristas Base
*Ships are quite close, so your Gardes should handle everything. Ignore the frigs, take down the BS first as they pack quite a punch.
Keep an eye on your drones as they loose focus all the time here. Sucks.

Given the dps and tank i mentioned the mission should be finished in about 35-40 minutes, imho quite solid for Worlds Collide.
-- KinDjal (2010-10-30 19:26:02)
I went in through Serpentis Gate with a Navy Scorpion (Faction launchers and Shield Booster). Since my character has only 2.7m SP I decided to bring *two* cap booster modules (800 and 400 charges) which was a wise move and let me finish this mission with only a single warp-out (to buy more cap boosters ^^).
Still, room 2 is nasty because of drone aggro. You cannot simply aggro the whole stage unless you feel a bit suicidical so I just let them out to kill a frig and called them back until nothing was left.
Room 1 and 3 are very easy by comparison.
Comparable in difficulty to Enemies Abound 5/5 although that really depends on how much target range and speed you have in EA 5/5.
-- EronaileDamod (2010-11-01 08:18:30)
flying a tengu u can run through the guristas side in less than 15min.
in the serpentis pocket killing the angels/frigs from the first two groups does highly affect the recived dps (w/o killing them i needed 2ballistic+1 thermal hardener to keep 100%, when killing them first u can easily go with 2 kin hardeners and the TP)
-- RasiCLoud (2010-12-09 13:54:02)
Got it twice in a single day, I feel so lucky. ^^

I usually put 2 SeBo's on my Domi for the first room and then refit for the rest of the rooms.
-- InfiniteZer0 (2011-01-15 21:52:31)
Ran in a T2/Faction/Deadspace (Imperial EANM, Dark Blood hardeners and Cropus a-type large armor rep) fitted Paladin. Very easy on the serp side and got the 4.8m Overseer =). Dropped a Serp Tracking comp and some faction ammo and the salvage gave me 15 micro circuits.
-- DeathPerfect (2011-02-02 09:34:38)
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