4 : Guristas Extravaganza (Guristas Pirates)

[Pigasus]

The last 4 times that I run the mission I always destroyed the war installation but I never had faction loot in bonus stage.

One tricky part in the 5th stage is, if you have drones that can go up to 60km distance you need to be extra care when you release them because they always go for the 2 Heavy Missile Batteries. So every time they blow up an enemy, give them a new target otherwise… full agro…

[RedACE]

Has anyone gotten faction loot from the bonus area since Revelations?

If the bonus area isn't dropping faction loot, then this mission probably isn't worth doing. You can do 3-5 other missions in the time it takes to do this one and get much more LP as well as more ISK.

[Dagrin]

Haven't seen faction loot the last 4 times I tried this one...grrr...

[diatom]

I just completed this L4 Mission yesterday. I took out the War Facility (4 loads of my Cerb) the loot was ok. Did the 6th level and I did get a Faction "Dread Guristas Heat Dissipation Field" shield hardener. Did the mission in Oichiya .... keep the faith
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[XennDC]

Ok, first time doing the mission, got faction loot, check this out:

- Dread Gurista 425mm Railgun
- Dread Gurista Ballistic Control System
- Dread Gurista X-L Shield Booster

With a chance for drops like this, I am definitely doing this mission again

[Izz]

Did the mission the other night solo in a Scorpion full of T2 mods, no faction gear, but capacitor oriented rigs. Did everything including the bonus without having to warp out (but kept aligned to a gate just in case).

Destroyed the War Installation and found a 75mm dread gurista railgun. Not sure if that's good loot or not, it's my first faction item though.

Probably took me about 5hrs to do it all though (including checking all wrecks for loot, never know where those "arbie" launchers might be hidding )

Fairly good challenge for a medium equiped, and skill point type L4 mission runner.

[Pigasus]

[GhostNULL]

I just noticed there is a Pithi Usurper (1.2M bounty) in the last part.

[Tao Min]

Hey folks,

I just did GE again and found faction loot in the bonus stage without hitting the War Installation first.

Fly safe,
Tao

[Hitomi Kanzakis]

Just did GE solo in a drake with full aggro on each step and bonus, no faction loot Maybe next time.
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[SarrianCalda]

Guys, be warned. The latest Rev 1.4.2 patch have changed L4 GE. Now it's quite deadly for soloists. My gang of 4 took some time to clear out 2nd room due to the new surprises. Now you won't see as many enemies at once, but if you hit the wrong ship, a new batch of reinforcements will spawn and each spawn contain at least 2-3 BS, a few cruisers and a couple frigates. Each spawn is about 7-10 ships. And the new spawn will also have a ship that will call in reinforcements UPON BEING ATTACKED. So guys, watch what you hit. For those trying to gather data on the new GE, get into a gang before trying it, just in case the first guy hit the wrong thing in a continous streak and ended up with a room full of BSes. There's more BS now, but that means it's more deadly until you figure out which one not to hit.

Yes it sounds similar to The Blockade or the Pirate Invasion, where an unique rat will spawn more rats. New GE4, however, does not abide by this rule. The rats that me and my gang thought that was the trigger, wasn't it at all. GE4 spawn triggers are not unique rats. Take note.

Bonus room stays the same.

[Horatio Nately]

Above confirmed. The Triggers are the Frigates, so ignore them unless you need to warp away or you will get swarmed. DO NOT USE DRONES UNLESS YOU HAVE TO. Once your drones even aggro the frigs, they cause the next spawn to appear. Just watch your fire and pick off the BS first, then cruisers. once you want the next spawn to appear, start popping shots at frigs to trigger the next spawn. On the plus side, the last room is a LOT less laggy and they have improved the drop from the station. I did not have time to do the last room

[Dannte]

Yeah, just encountered the same. Any sort of attack even NOS triggers next spawn. In process of completing solo so don't know how the drop is in the last room.

Also why BS's first then BC's? rooms are alot easier when the BC's are dead =0) They don;t hit for much but its fast. They go down quick might as well send 4 volleys their way and have them dissapear instead of tanking them through a BS.

Just my thoughts. Same goes for every MMo out there tanking multi spawns.

[Tao Min]

Hey folks,

actually I think CCP made the mission easier the way it is now.

Pocket 1 has no triggered respawn.
Pocket 2, 3 and 5 have three triggered spawns.
Pocket 4 has two triggered spawns.

Trigger is as stated above *always* one of the maximum two frigates (Guristas Webifier or Guristas Kyoukan), so not that many problems controlling the amount of opponets you have to face at the same time. Each respawn is about the same size with 5-7 ships.

Bounty total is 28.9m in pockets 1-5 and an additional 5.3m in pocket 6 aka Bonusstage.

The Bonusstage itself didn´t change at all and still drops faction loot for the lucky missionrunner, at least it did for me yesterday. And by the way I did not blow up the Battlestation in pocket 5 to address that funny urban legend that you have to blow the Battlestation in order to have a chance to get faction loot.

Fly safe,
Tao

[Mad Jock]

Just completed this one last night but went back to do the War Installation after doing the bonus mission. Might have guessed, NO faction loot. Next time it'll be done the other way as posted above.

p.s. It's now different with Webbifying Frigs triggering a new spawn to warp in. It's not that hard but it took me ages to do in my Drake. So only kill 1 at a time unless you're awesome.
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