The Blockade, Level 4

Last edited by AkKuky:
Extra info on the Dark Blood spawn, fixed typos.
Wed, 24 Sep 2014 16:58 UTC

Faction: Blood Raiders
Mission type: Encounter
Space type: Normal space
Damage dealt: EM/Therm
Web/scramble: Elite Frigates
Extras: Heavy NOS (Corpus Harbinger |Corpum Priest/Sage | Dark Corpum Priest/Sage | Elder Corpum Priest/Revenant/Arch Templar), Tracking disruption
Recommended damage dealing: EM (best), Therm (secondary); Max orbit 50km
Recommended ships: Abaddon, Apocalypse, Dominix.

Note: The number of ships in a reinforcement wave will vary randomly. This variance will be indicated in the ship numbers.

Single Pocket

Auto-aggro from Initial Group at warp-in. No aggro on drones.

Reinforcement waves are triggered, generally by killing the highest bounty battleship.
Exceptions to this are :

A whole reinforcement wave (typically Reinforcement Wave 1) may spawn a group of battleships with the same name. It will be almost impossible to determine which is the trigger.
There will be occasions where a group contains 3-4 high bounty battleships with the same name and 1 low bounty battleship with a different name. The low bounty battleship will be the trigger.

Group spawn locations for the reinforcement waves are Front, Back, Left and Bottom with respect to the (Minmatar) Merchant Gate in the center.
(if you look at the Minmatar gate, the gate's front entrance = Front and the gate's back end = Back)

Warning

The NOS ships will drain your ship capacitors heavily. Kill ALL the NOS cruisers/elite cruisers first. You can ignore the Corpus Harbinger battleship's NOS since its draining effect is fairly minimal.
It is recommended that you fit Heavy Capacitor Boosters with Cap Booster 800 if you are unfamiliar with your ship's capabilities to handle this mission.

Initial Group (Auto-aggro): (26-28km)

3-4x Destroyers (Corpior Friar/Devoter)
4-5x Battleships (Corpus Apostle/Oracle/Monsignor/Harbinger) Trigger (Corpus Monsignor/Harbinger) note: last Oracle of 3 was trigger
1x Starbase Stasis Tower

Reinforcement Wave 1:

Back Group (80-83km)
3-4x Elite Cruisers (Elder Corpum Priest/Sage/Arch Templar) NOS
4-5x Battleships (Corpus Apostle/Oracle/Harbinger/Monsignor) NOS Trigger (Corpus Harbinger/Monsignor)
Bottom Group (75-78km)
2-3x Destroyers (Corpior Friar/Visionary/Devoter)
2-3x Elite Cruisers (Elder Corpum Dark Priest/Shadow Sage)
Front Group (45-47km)
2-3x Elite Frigates (Elder Corpii Diviner/Raider/Reaver)
2-3x Battlecruisers (Corpior Shade/Fanatic)

Reinforcement Wave 2:

Back Group (86-89km)
3-4x Elite Frigates (Elder Corpii Seeker/Collector) Tracking Disruptor
4-5x Battleships (Corpus Cardinal/Harbinger/Monsignor) NOS Trigger (Corpus Harbinger/Monsignor)
Front Group (52-54km)
1-3x Destroyer (Corpior Friar/Devoter/Visionary)
1-2x Battleships (Corpus Apostle/Oracle)

Reinforcement Wave 3:

Back Group (68-70km)
2-3x Destroyers (Corpior Friar/Visionary/Cleric/Converter)
2-3x Elite Cruisers (Elder Corpum Revenant/Arch Templar) NOS/Tracking Disruptor
1x Battleship (Corpus Harbinger/Monsignor) NOS Trigger (Corpus Harbinger/Monsignor)
Bottom Group (85-89km)
3-4x Battlecruisers (Corpior Bishop/Shade/Seer/Fanatic/Phantom)
3-4x Battleships (Corpus Cardinal/Monsignor)

Reinforcement Wave 4:

Left Group (50-53km)
3-4x Elite Frigates (Elder Corpii Follower/Worshiper/Herald/Upholder) (Web/Scram)
3-4x Battleships (Corpus Cardinal/Monsignor)
1x Battleship (Corpus Pope) Trigger (Mission completion)

Tip

In 'Reinforcement Wave 1', if you see only Corpus Oracles BS the next wave will spawn when the last Oracle has killed.
In 'Reinforcement Wave 2', if you see only Corpus Monsignor BS the next wave will spawn when the first Monsignor has killed.
If you stay in the center, all spawns from the reinforcement waves will converge towards the center. Try to eliminate the closest groups as fast as possible before they all converge.
To warp into this pocket at any distance : Warp to mission location, quickly cancel it and then select warp your preferred distance. Keep in mind, it may put you closer to a spawn location.
You can also snipe by creating sniping bookmarks > 150km apart. Drop a cargo container at each location. Warp from container to container as needed.
A very rare Dark Blood battleship spawn may appear with the final wave 125km below the warp-in, near a Starbase Ship-Maintenance Array. The chance is random. The structure drops random commodities, and will appear even if the battleship doesn't spawn.
Mission is flagged completed after you have killed the final Corpus Pope battleship.

Blitz

Kill all the trigger battleships. You will need to snipe as the waves spawned will put out an incredible amount of DPS.
Kill the final Corpus Pope battleship. Warp out.

NPCs detail (max):

		Orbit	Max. Velocity	Shield (HP)	Armor (HP)	Shield Resistances (%)				Armor Resistances (%)				DPS (HP/s)
		Orbit	Max. Velocity	Shield (HP)	Armor (HP)	EM	EXP	KIN	TM	EM	EXP	KIN	TM	EM	EXP	KIN	TM
1x	Stasis Tower	-	-	250	800	-	60	40	20	60	10	25	35	-	-	-	-
3x	Elder Corpii Raider	8,000m	360m/s	325	850	64	85	79	72	64	85	79	72	12	-	-	12
4x	Elder Corpii Seeker	9,500m	440m/s	325	850	42	70	62	52	42	70	62	52	8	-	-	6
4x	Elder Corpii Upholder	4,375m	720m/s	325	850	19	55	44	32	19	55	44	32	10	-	-	10
9x	Corpior Visionary	8,000m	400m/s	250	300	10	40	30	20	10	40	30	20	9	-	-	8
7x	Elder Corpum Arch Templar	7,250m	320m/s	1,200	1,800	74	85	81	78	74	85	81	78	16	-	-	16
3x	Elder Corpum Dark Priest	32,000m	320m/s	1,200	1,800	72	90	85	79	72	90	85	79	29	-	-	24
7x	Corpior Fanatic	22,000m	320m/s	1,200	1,800	30	60	50	40	30	60	50	40	27	-	-	27
8x	Corpus Apostle	38,000m	280m/s	4,750	6,750	43	73	63	53	43	73	63	53	48	-	-	48
13x	Corpus Cardinal	49,000m	280m/s	4,750	6,750	47	77	67	57	47	77	67	57	58	-	-	58
1x	Corpus Pope	49,000m	280m/s	4,750	6,750	49	79	69	59	49	79	69	59	72	-	-	60
59 total ships		Averages/Totals		130,900	201,900	42	69	60	51	42	69	60	51	1786	-	-	1742

Mission walkthrough and salvaging - Sentry Domi : http://youtu.be/XLFJjQ4mqXk

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Pulled it off in a Nighthawk; tank was fine, damage output wasn't stellar.

-- MrMike (2008-06-24 23:58:28)

the trigger isn't always the lone BS, i had a spawn with a few Monsignors and 1 Apostle and one of the monsignors was the trigger

-- DarkiShi (2008-07-06 10:25:44)

Blitz: Kill trigger in every spawn (complete mission objectives asking you to "Kill their high-ranking officers")
IDK if it ever doable in L4, but I think it not worth trying. Bounty+loot+salvage worth way more than mission reward.

-- TontoAuri (2008-07-31 18:01:32)

Full spawn tank doable with kronos, as long as nos it killed from each spawn.
officer fit, 2 core b type EM hardners, 2 core b type thermal, DC2, Enam, corpum a type armor rep, 2 aux nano pump.
lvl 3 marauders skill. lvl 4 could swap out enam for cap power relay and nos wont be a problem.

-- ScatManworlds (2009-01-23 11:14:16)

Did it in a Drake. 1 Photon, 1 Heat, 1 Invuln, 3 LSE, 2 SPR, 3 CDFP. Took a while but never had to warp out. Just make sure you kill the Priests before they get close and cap you out. Also, the Harbinger Battleships will NOS as well and can be a real pain if they're the trigger at the same time. I'd suggest just keeping range at about 65km. Nothing will hit you and they'll all die eventually. Also, Thunderbolts are much better than Scourge, even with the 25% bonus from BC V.

-- OneShot (2009-03-17 23:25:41)

did it in an amarr navy faction fitted zealot with afterburner, just kill the cruisers with scorch ammo from range, after this you dont have to bother about nos as the battleships wont hit you at all.. no repair needed ;)

-- RhenAyase (2009-04-03 02:40:57)

Can also confirm blits works, but you miss a lot of bounties

-- ScatManworlds (2009-04-29 08:29:02)

ca. 1t 15min + clean up. Big mission.
Pocket 1: Flew away from them in my T2 fitted Rokh. Read the guide and follow it!!! (normal difficulty, because of the distance i get). Good to loot.

-- MrT (2009-09-18 16:31:37)

Can anyone tell me what agent you got this from?

-- InfiniteZer0 (2011-01-15 16:18:19)

You get it from any level 4 Amarr agent (Not 100% sure on Caldari agents) in Kador or any region where Blood Raiders are the native rats.

The same applies to Angel, Serpentis, Sansha. There's no level 4 Guristas Blockade. Or if there is, CCP has never seeded it long enough for info to surface.

Sidenote, Nightmare/Paladin = easy mode for this. Usually completes in 30 minutes. Just make a habit of primarying the HACs first.

-- ForteEXE (2011-01-18 02:30:18)

ok, cool.

Guess I was missioning in the wrong region, getting all those Sanshas. :)

-- InfiniteZer0 (2011-01-20 22:25:58)

I'd like to point out that the first tip is not correct. I assume the second one isn't either.

-- Sp4rt4nII70 (2011-05-05 15:48:28)

Is this really true? The table (filled with values from the elfarto database) says the battleships deal each 300 dps kinetic, ie much more kin than em/therm?

-- DrRoic (2011-06-02 13:30:18)

Problem resolved, used an erroneous database (elfarto). No kin damage dealt.

-- DrRoic (2011-06-03 09:36:45)

The tips about the Oracle and Monsignor BS are definately wrong.

There will always be one single BS, that trigers the next wave.
Most of the time, this trigger-BS will spawn in another group than the other BS of the same class. If it doesn't: good luck at guessing!

So for the Blitz: aim for the single BS, for a full run: aim for the groups first unless you can tank 2-3waves simultaneously.

-- QianzingYanshu (2011-09-09 03:53:20)

Trigger is always located in location from where the first spawn comes from (far left side). Trigger is always BS, usually the lone one, and if there still a choice: the one doing neutralizing. In my experience. Blood mission can be found in khanid kingdom too (with surprisingly repetivity).

-- LastIdaho (2012-04-27 22:04:36)

Clean up all pockets + reward give 23kk isk total

-- HrodGard (2012-05-18 03:20:51)

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