Ritualist Raids – This is a Level 4 Mission

Here is my experience of running this mission

Objective
Destroy the Blood Raider Cathedral and the hostile vessels guarding it.

Ships and Fitout:

I ran this with a pal.

My ship: Harbinger

2 x Armor EM Hardener II
2 x Armor Thermic Hardener II
6 x Focused Medium Beam Laser II – Loaded with Multi-frequency M
3 x Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I Rig
2 x Medium Armor Repairer II
3 x Cap Recharger II
1 x 10MN Afterburner I

Drones: 4 x Warrior 1

Pals Ship: Myrmidon

Fitout to follow

Comments:

Try not to do what I did and forget to blow up the Cathedral. Went back to station and ‘completed mission’ only to be told ‘one or more of the mission objectives has not been completed…. Doh! Had to undock and go way back the mission location – through two warp gates – blow up the Cathedral – back to station and eventually complete the mission…

We concentrated on the sentry guns and missile batteries first. I had to warp out once to recharge but the EM and Thermic Hardeners did their job well and I was pretty much stable most of the time. Only had trouble when the Corpus Monsignor/Harbinger NOS’ed me. My pal in his Myrmidon was ok all the way through but he warped along with me so as not to be left fighting alone.

All in all I would say this a medium difficulty Level 4 mission and so long as I had the backup, I would repeat this one until the cows came home…

Rewards
ISK: 549000 + 481000 in bonus if completed in 3 hours and 32 minutes

I Completed this in 1 hour 45 minutes

LP:   868

Loot:
I don’t know what they were up to in that Cathedral but destroying it gave up 2 Slavers, 21 Slaves and 4 Slaver Hounds plus some Electronics, Enriched Uranium and Frozen Food

The general salvage loot was quite good and provided a whole bunch of  ‘Salvaged Materials’, ‘Armour Plating’ , various ‘Cap Boosters’, and ‘Laser Weapons’. Well worth doing and netted me an additional couple of million ISK.  Also bounty prizes of 6 million ISK.

Mining: None

Details (provided by EVE-Survival)

Faction: Blood Raiders
Mission Type: Deadspace
Damage Dealt: EM/Therm
Web/Scramble: None
Extras: Tracking Disruptor, NOS (Corpus Harbinger – 25km range)
Recommended damage dealing: EM (best), Therm (secondary)

Pocket 1

No aggro at warp-in.

Proximity aggro range for the Blood Cruise Missile Batteries is about 30km.
The warp gate is locked until all hostile ships have been eliminated.

Single Group: (30-35km)

2x Blood Cruise Missile Battery
3x Frigates (Corpii Collector/Seeker) Tracking Disruptor
9x Destroyers (Corpior Cleric/Devoter/Friar/Templar)
4x Battlecruisers (Corpatis Bishop/Shade/Fanatic Seer)
2x Battleships (Corpus Monsignor/Harbinger) NOS

Tip

• Eliminate the battlecruisers, destroyers and cruise missile batteries first, to reduce incoming DPS.

Pocket 2

At warp-in, you will get proximity aggroed from the sentry guns and missile batteries that sits within 30km range.
No NPC ships will aggro UNTIL you start your attack.

Single Group: (20-35km)

6x Blood Raider Sentry Gun
6x Blood Raider Heavy Missile Battery
3x Frigates (Corpii Engraver/Reaver)
6x Destroyers (Corpior Devoter/Cleric/Friar)
9x Battlecruisers (Corpatis Bishop/Seer/Shade)
2x Battleships (Corpus Patriarch/Pope)

Tip

• The sentry guns/missile batteries, each have an aggro & shooting range of 30km. Before starting your attack, move away > 30km to remove them as a threat.
• Eliminate the battlecruisers and destroyers first, to reduce incoming DPS.
• Mission is flagged completed once you have destroyed the Blood Raiders Cathedral and eliminated all defending 2x battleships and 6x destroyers.

Blitz

• None.

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