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Chapel Bloodfire
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Posted - 2006.03.06 21:14:00 -
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Hey does anyone have any info on what to expect in the bonus levels of angels/guristas lvl 4? Im a mission runner using a raven and i want to know if these levels are soloable or would i need back up. Please post setups if you have soloed either one. Thanks.
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MachZERO
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Posted - 2006.03.06 22:25:00 -
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It's not advisable to solo these without very good gear and high skills... (unless ccp has changed them recently)
The 4 to 6 arch angel frigs in that bonus level will scramble you and then it's a relatively quick death from all the Angel sentry II's and III's afterwards.
It's not impossible tho. Just gather up some friends and give it a go. First in should be super tanked against all damage types. Second in should have remote repers to help the tank. Everyone else focuses on taking down rats.
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Arakasai
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Posted - 2006.03.06 22:27:00 -
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Take 2x WCS ... until you get the feel for it.
I can solo the Gurista without warp out (barely), the Angel I cannot. All the frigates tackle and Warp Jam, some with 2 strength, some with 1.
Angel has 3 Cruise Missile Launcher that do Thermal Damage, the ships do Exp/Kin/EM so you need to shield against everything. Which is ultimately why I currently cannot defeat it solo without warp outs. It is close, if I use WCS then I could prob do it in 2 - 3 runs and a refit.
Gurista you can get away with shielding Kin/Kin/Therm.
My setup:
High ---- 6x Arb Cruise 2x Heavy Dim Nos
Medium ------ 3x NPC Specific Tech II Hardener 2x Shield Amp 1x Dominion XL Shield Booster (Lost this on the Angel bonus last week, looking to replace with Gist X Large)
Low --- 3x BCU II 2x PDU II
Gurista is tight for me without warping out, if I loaded WCS for it, I would have to warp out once.
Hope it helps.
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Chapel Bloodfire
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Posted - 2006.03.06 22:46:00 -
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Yeah thanks it helps alot, I have pretty much same setup but with a gist b type booster. I get 813 boost for 172 energy. I can solo all missions except enemies abound 5/5. I wanted to give bonus levels a shot because I heard there was good loot there. Can anyone comment are the bonus levels worth it?
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Arakasai
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Posted - 2006.03.06 23:47:00 -
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Oh and shooting at anything activates everything. Including the turrets that start firing at you upon zone in.
As for the loot, do not talk about it or it will get nerfed. The nerf mobile is near, I can hear it.
Nothing to see here, nothing to see.
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Lebowske
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Posted - 2006.03.07 00:25:00 -
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There's a trick to handle this bonus level - but you still require a good setup and good skills. Sorry that I cannot provide a Raven setup for you, I use an Apoc myself. But it's hardened to hell and back - everything goes into passive tanking - plus SPEED. Use one 100 MN AB II.
What I use to do when I warp in is to start getting distance to the main group asap - target all the closest frigs and pop them as soon as they get closer. When you start popping the first frigs the rest of the stage will agro you. Keep running at full AB (if you can afford this setup in a Raven that is) - away.
If you are lucky you should be able to keep 430-450 m/s depending on your skills / implants / setup. Eventually you'll end up 130 km away from the turrets/batteries.
The NPC will now reach the end of their chain - and start turning back. You can sit there and pop anyone passing into your optimal/range. When the remaining NPC are returning you can start heading back and kicking off a new round of agro. Rinse and repeat.
However - if you fail to kill some of the frigates - or move to slowly out of the range of the turrets & batteries - you will collect the insurance of your Raven ;) Been there done that :p
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Chapel Bloodfire
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Posted - 2006.03.07 10:40:00 -
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Ok just soloed Angels here was my setup
High 6 Arbalest Siege 2 Heavy Diminishing Power Drains
Med 2 Shield Boost Amps 1 Gist B-Type XL shield Booster 1 Invul Field 2 1 Explosive 2 1 Kinetic 2
Low 5 PDUs
Mission took a while, I tried this setup for whole thing rather then refit for end. Bonus level wasnt hard just tanked damage and let drones take out frigs. I also had one battleship who I nossed to help with shield regen.
Loot
Not too great for the amount of time it took, I thought they were fixing battlestations so you didnt have to pop them anymore?
Anyway it was good challenge and will have to give guristas a go next. Thanks for everyones help.
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ecam's Hunter
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Posted - 2006.03.07 10:41:00 -
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Want a tip to doing the bonus round with ease,
Here it is.
Jusp in and tank the 2 Sentrie guns, do not shoot anything.
Move to the storage structure tanking the guns and not shooting a single thing!
When next to the structure, destroy it and collect a nice dread guristas module if your lucky, then you can either warp home and complete the mission or move to max range from the rats and start killing, simpley, fire 3 volleys into the sentries then kill cruzors, wile still at range, then drone the frigs and shoot if needed then boom the BS, all this is done from relative range aligned at full speed.
It so simple to do, I have an awsom tank so I can handle the damage up close but the range thing makes is so much easer and cruzors are dead b4 they can hit you, only worry is if you get webbed so sort the frigs out ASAP. ----> Insert something funny here <----
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ecam's Hunter
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Posted - 2006.03.07 10:43:00 -
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I am talking about Guristas there BTW ----> Insert something funny here <----
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Lord WarATron
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Posted - 2006.03.07 12:26:00 -
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You can instapop those frigs with modified smartbombs, but those angels BS's get up close and personal rather quickly :) --- Slot 10 Akemons Modified 'Noble'Zet 5000 implant +8% Armour FREE |
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Amiren
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Posted - 2006.03.07 17:46:00 -
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any experiences of the guristas bonuslevel in a cerberus ?
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