4 : Silence The Informant (Rogue Drones & Mercenaries)

[Scarab]

As above.....jesus these sob's hurt and at 1 point i was 4% structure and warp scrammed :-O......got out though lol.

[Kriba]

The 1. step is most critical. Specially Elite Drone Parasite, they have good resist and they really hurt. But mostly this mission is not so bad that I was thinking for others posts.
I do this with solo with Drake and I have no problems. Few times need to warp out, but that's it.

7x Heavy

2x Hardeners (specific)
1x Amplifier
1x AB
1x LSE

2x SPR
1x BCS
1x PDS

Note: no T2 gear.

[Silpher]

Did this with a cut and dry torp Raven set-up:

Highs
6x ZW-4100 Siege Missile Bay
Mjolnir Torps (First Room)
Inferno Torps (2nd and 3rd Rooms)

Mids
XL C5-L Emergency Shield Overload
Heavy Electrochemical Capictor Booster (800s)
Photon Scattering Field II
Ballistic Deflection Field II
Heat Dissipation Field II
Invulnerability Field II

Lows
2x Ballistic Control System II
3x Power Diagnostic Unit II

Rigs
Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer I
Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Anti-Kinetic Screen Reinforcer I


First Room

When you warp in you see the frigate size drones and 2 Sentry guns. The 2 sentries immediately aggro you. After a moment 2 Elite Drone Parasites spawn near the frigate drones, and a few moments more, 3 more elite drones spawn on the gate.

Let the sentries fire on you, but don't fire back as it aggros the frigates, and the DPS isn't bad anyways. Take out the first EDP spawn (the 2) and then the second (the 3). I had to warp out after killing the first of the second spawn.

Then take out the frigs and sentries. Unlike normal frigs, you're torps do acceptable DPS on these f*ckers. Sinse I use t1 drones atm, I do this to speed up the process, otherwise I would say only use drones as to not waste torps.

Second Room

With everything that spawns, this room seems intimidating at first. tbh, the damage is easily manageable.

Wait for the first spawn to aggro you. Use your drones to take down the frigs (spider drones first, as they scram) and your torps to take care of the ECs. Unlike some other missions, your drones won't aggro the spawns around you. The damage from the first spawn was small enough to not even worry about turning on my shield booster yet.

After you take out the first spawn, just work on the next spawns based on distance.

The second spawn is easy as pie. Damage is easily manageable, and they drop really quick.

When you aggro the 3rd spawn based on distance (2 machs and 2 Spider drones), you will aggro the rest of the ships. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to check to see if aggroing the EC and Mach spawn would aggro the spawn with Spiders and Machs.

In either case, the DPS isn't too harsh. Only had to salvo my Shield Booster a couple times, and wasted very few Cap charges. The ECs and Machs drop really quick. Just work it down, and you'll be fine. I only needed to reload 2 times in this room. Once by choice.

Third Room

When you warp in here, what you see is what you get. Nothing else spawns. 5 Sentry IIIs and 2 Sentry IIs with you're objective target.

The damage from the sentries isn't as bad as it first seems. Just take out your objective, and head out. You might need to salvo your booster a couple times to buy time to take out you're objective, but it isn't bad at all. Unless you like to kill everything and pop structures for possible loot, it is unnecissary to kill everything in the last room to complete the mission.

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Overall, the mission isn't difficult at all. I've had much more difficult missions, and there are much more difficult missions to be had. Warped out one time in the first room to restock on booster charges and regen my shields. Easy Peasy.

[Mistoffeles]

Why are you mixing active and passive tank on a Raven?

For that matter, why even bother with resist rigs on a Raven?