4 : Guristas Extravaganza (Guristas Pirates)

[BarmaLINI]

Mission Name : Guristas Extravaganza
Agent Level : 4
Enemy : Guristas Pirates
Mission Type : DeadSpace

Link : http://eveinfo.com/missions/257

Briefing :
We've been gathering information from our numerous agents within the Guristas to prepare ourselves for a possible attack on our assets. So far we've found out that they are planning a major offensive against a target within *** today. The target still remains unknown to us, but we have managed to discover the meeting point of some of their forces. I want you to gather all the help you can muster and fly out to the meeting points and deliver a devastating blow to their fleet. That should deter them from any attack inside Hageken, and send them a message they won't forget.

Just don't forget what you're up against. We have no idea how many ships are out there, all we know is where 5 of their rendezvous points are. Destroy any and all targets you can find there, then report back to me. If there's too many of em out there, then get some help, I'm sure some of our other agents in the vicinity would be willing to give you a hand.


Please post your impressions about this mission. Also you can post (share) your views, hints, tips, tactics and etc..
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[Pabs(Sco)]

This is slightly different from whats posted.

Instead of cruisers theres ferox's and instead of frigs theres Destroyers.

I managed the first 4 stages fine, just agro'ed each bloack of pirates one at a time. But the 5 stage the whole room agro'ed me and could not complete it, at this point, took me 3 hours to get to the 5th stage them DT came

Guess I have to do it all over again

[Alexander Knott]

You probably attacked one of the two Guristas Heavy Missile Batteries. In some missions, attacking missile batteries or other structures will cause the entire stage to aggro on you, this is one of those missions. In the last stage, you need to tank those two batteries while you take out the other spawns. Since you should be tanked for kinetic damage, this turns out to not be a big deal at all so long as you know that you need to do it.

You can safely attack the Amarr missile batteries in stage 4 and only aggro one of the spawns. A good thing too, because those missile batteries hurt if you aren't tanked for EM, which of course you probably aren't for this mission.

[diatom]

I ran into an NPC named Arika Tosch flying a Raven for 881,250 ISK bounty on the 2nd level. I should mention that he's a seperate spawn.
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[Alexander Knott]

I've gotten that NPC both times I've run this mission as well. Doesn't seem to be tied to any particular pocket, but if you shoot at her, the remaining pockets will aggro you. I just save her for last and then take her 1v1.

[Daka]

Since the latest patches i have not got any Faction loot in the Bonus stage can anyone else comfirm this?


Dak.

[Audioprophet]

Did the Bonus 3 times this week. No faction loot...

Audio

[Red Ultra]

did the mission twice last week, also got faction loot twice
but maybe im just a lucky bastard...

[Red Ultra]

did the mission again today, no faction loot this time
guess i better keep my mouth shut next time....

[Eric]

Did bonus stage tonight, didnt need Diamon Tag, i had it in my cargo but after gate activation it didnt disapear..
Was around 6BSs, 6 BCs and bunch of frigs/destroyers. No Dread, just usual BSs so boo-hoo here.
When u warp in 2 Sentries attack u doing EM damage, if u shoot back whole spawn aggroes.
Did it in a Dominix+Tempest with logistic drones, just shot down all the BCs with tempest and killed frigs with Domi drones. Had no faction/t2 fitted and i dont think u even need it there.

p.s. loot in strucures was crap ;<

[Red Ultra]

you do need the tag, but activating the gate does not consume your tag, so you can use it again and again. unlike the ANGEL extravaganza, this mission DOES consume your tag so you need multiple of them (if you have to warp out that is).

[Eric]

soo, anyone got any decent loot from bonus stage lately? i keep getting same stuff, ballistic control, railgun and some other stuff, just normal named stuff or t1.

[csatti]

[Andochas]

I've had mixed results on the faction loot in stage 6. I think I might have found a link of when I destroyed the Guristas War Installation before starting the 6th stage and when I got faction loot. The last 3 times I did stage 6 before destroying the Guristas War Installation, I didn't get faction loot (muon coil BC was the best non-faction).

So warp back, get your 6 siege launchers and 3x BCS II loaded, and bring about 800 torps (1000 if you didn't equip guns) and 5 medium drones. Grab a beer and be ready to reload about 4 times. Wait for the explosion, then get your big cap booster and refit to solo stage 6. If you're not using tech II equipment, you'd better have a friend along to repair your ship in stage 6.

My favorite faction loot - Dread Guristas Invulnerability Field! That'll give you extra staying power in Angel missions

Your Guristas Diamond Tag is never consumed. Just don't dump it in the corp hangar with the rest of the junk or someone else will snag it and you'll never see it again (speaking from experience).

[RedACE]