Operation Wyrmsbane, Level 5
Last edited by DesmontMcCallock
Sat, 14 Jul 2012 07:17 UTC
Sat, 14 Jul 2012 07:17 UTC
Faction: Serpentis
Mission type: Encounter
Space type: Deadspace, No gate
Damage dealt: Kin/Therm
Extras: Dampener (Coreli Guardian Watchman)
Web/Scramble: Web & Scram - Coreli Guardian (Protector, Safeguard, Guard, Spy, Watchman)
Recommended damage dealing: Kinetic/Thermal
Recommended ships: CNR, Golem, Carrier
Ship types and the specific number of rats will vary from time to time in each spawn, so please keep in mind that this is just an example.
Missile Batteries and Towers are fixed.
Note: Spawns 2 and 3 are at 4 minute intervals.
Warp-In
When you warp in, there is a single mixed group. Aggro is automatic.Initial Group:
8x Serpentis Heavy Missile Battery2x Serpentis Stasis Tower (Web)
6x Battleships (Core Grand Admiral/Core Lord Admiral)
5x Elite Frigates (Coreli Guardian Guard/Safeguard) (Web/Scramble)
6x Cruisers (Corelum Chief Sentinel)
8x Battlecruisers (Corelatis Captain/Wing Leader)
Spawn 1:
5x Frigates (Coreli Protector/Guard/Defender)5x Elite Frigates (Coreli Guardian Spy/Watchman/Protector) (Web/Scramble) (Dampening [Watchman])
4x Elite Cruisers (Corelum Guardian Chief Safeguard/Infantry)
Spawn 2:
2x Serpentis Stasis Tower (Web)10x Serpentis Cruise Missile Battery
Spawn 3:
Triggered by Hacking Info ShardSpawns at a distance of 2,000 - 2,500 m from Shard
This whole spawn must be eliminated to be able to access the can after it is hacked successfully.
4x Battleships (Core Lord Admiral)
6x Cruisers (Corelum Chief Sentinel)
Spawn 4:
Triggered when the Serpentis Stronghold is at about 5-10% ArmorSpawn starts within 20 km of Stronghold
3x Battleships (Core Grand Admiral)
4x Battlecruisers (Corelatis Captain)
3x Cruisers (Corelum Chief Sentinel)
3x Destroyers (Corelior Infantry)
Structure Loot:
- Cruise Missles from the Bunkers
- Serpentis Info Shard will drop regular radar site loot (e.g. datacore, decryptors or decryptor parts)
- Serpentis Stronghold drops nothing of interest
Tips:
- It is strongly suggested that you use Logistics support to keep your tank alive.
- Remember to have a hacking module (Codebreaker) in case there is a Serpentis Info Shard (does not appear every time).
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The spawn that appears when attacking the stronghold mostly aggroed me (mission owner), but the frigs and a couple of cruisers aggroed the nearby drones.
-I did this in a tanked/railed mega: 3kin/2thr hardeners, logistics was a Raven with 4t2 cruise, 4 large solace RRs and a compliment of 75m3 t2 repair drones. This was JUST enough for me to tank the mission, as in the beginning my armor would slowly decline until I had wiped out a few ships and it began to climb back up.
-while this mission has no neut towers, I consider this mission to be very difficult due to the staggering amount of dps.
-much like Sansha on the Horizon, you have the option to warp in at different distances, but you CANNOT warp in beyond 100km from the beacon.
-target dampening is an issue, but it's actually not as bad as the likes of lev4 Blockade.
-I chose to first focus on Grand Admirals to lower incoming dps, but I imagine a concentrated effort to take down the cruise batteries would be just as effective.
-There was no info shard in my mission.
-total bounties came in around 18 mil, salvage was laughable (this result was on par with Sansha on the Horizon...strange).
-There is no shame in rewarping to re-establish aggro on the intended tank.
Good luck to those of you out there who want to attempt it. Just be sure you can rep like a mofo. ;o
But if u spawn it by warping pod - do not leave grid, becose it can disapear.
Spawns for me were different. Killing the battlecruisers triggered both the first and second spawn and the amounts were different as well. Though with this setup it's easily tankable, even with rewarps included. I didn't even need to kill the towers.
Will drop 1 x Engagement Plan used in Invention
was suprised at the incoming dps i had to run 4 large remote reps to cover dps
had to warp in out 3 times before info shard appeared and i destroyed teh magnetic strutures round it to get to it
got some low end research items
nice fun mission
I SUSPECT the current blitz is to warp tank in + RR after, then focus all firepower on the Stronghold.