Adventures in Mission Running

Sankkasen system The Citadel region

Received the Angel Extravaganza mission again. Decided to try it with this time around. I used a similar tank to the one I used with Happy Face the first time around and it worked great. The damage to the armour was soaked up and repaired before I even had time to notice. A tough nut indeed. As an aside, I switched back to my clone with +5 implants and a couple of 5% Noble implants a while back. They help the armour tanking a wee bit.

Here are some dramatic and exciting screenshots from my latest adventure

Target rich environment

Getting shot at

Bouncer

berserker making friend

I learned this evening that I really don’t need energy turret skills to fly a Curse-class recon ship effectively. My wallet may not like this enlightenement.

Sankkasen system The Citadel region

It seems someone heard my comment about this agent giving out only Guristas kill missions because the very next mission was Angel Extravaganza against the Angel Cartel. Unlike the Guristas, who like to use mainly Kin/Therm damage and sensor jamming, the Cartel likes to hit you with a little of everything and a target painter occasionally to make it hurt more.

I open the fitting screen and pore over Happy Face’s current setup, I decide to swap out the Kinetic hardener for an explosive one.  Result is slightly evened out resists with a needed boost to explosive resists.  I decide to give it a try. if things  go pear shaped, I’ll try something else.

The new tank works great. I barely see any red at all in the armour during the mission. I take advantage of the situation to grab a couples of screenshots of the action…

Happy Face vs Angel Cartel battleship

Happy Face vs Angel Cartel battleship

Everything else didn’t go as smoothly as the mission tonight. Noticing some banter in local, I pasted my current fit of my Eos. A rascal who shall remain nameless deemed it to be a fail fit.  Curious as to see how well this admittedly PvE fit would fare, I proposed a 1:1 against the rascal. Earlier today I had read this most interesting plog post of Mynxee of the Hellcats about 1:1 and honour and rules and such. Link is here so you can read it. With this post still in my memory, I had planned to invite this guy into a fleet, where we would warp off to a random planet and have this duel. All aboveboard and honourable. Except guy’s already in a fleet and wants me to join his fleet. And that’s when it gets entertaining for the rest of the system reading local as he starts getting rude when I decline this offer and subsequently block him. Then he logs into his alt and tries to get me to duel this guy, offering to act as a neutral observer. As far as I was concerned, the chances of this duel ended when I blocked him. Then he did his ta da! and revealed himself as the rascal I had blocked.  There was some smack talking and talks of war deccing each other’s corps (which amused one of my corpies later on when I told him the tale later on). Eventually I grew tired of this banter and added a couple more names to my blocked list.

Can’t wait to see what happens tomorrow night!