EVE Epic Mission Arc Guide – Part 10

• Memory Dancer
  Just completed it in a Thrasher. No Problem in the end...though all the comments made me nervous:) Dis it without tanking. Thought I would just brute it out.
  
  Low:
  
  Emergency Damage Control I
  Gyrostabalizer II
  
  Medium:
  
  Mono-Propellant Afterburner
  Small Shield Extender II
  Small Shield Extender II
  
  High:
  
  200mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I
  200mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I
  200mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I
  200mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I
  200mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I
  200mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I
  Small Nosferatu I
  
  Loaded each of my cannons with a different ammo-type and used AB to get Close. Orbited at 1000m while I tried each gun in turn and found that Fusion was best. Loaded them all up and thrashed him for about 3 Mins. Once through his shield it was like a hot knife through butter. Has the Nos going as well, so I could keep my AB on.
  
  The min shield he got me to was about 60% at one point,
  
  Good fun though :)
• Kingsgate
  In case this helps some1: I used a caldari Cormorant (destroyer) to take out Dagan in mission 49.
  My choice for mission 48 was Gallente, they gave out the biggest bonus.
  Big thanks to all who posted their experience with this dude, helped me a lot to get the right outfit.
  Im on a 14 day trial having around 3 days left. The outfit is all T1 and the total cost without the ship would be around 1.5M.
  
  Ship outfit:
  TE-2100 missile launcher with bloodclayw missiles (doing some 20 dmg per hit)
  5 x limited light ion blasters with AM s rounds
  E5 prototype Energy Vampire (nos)
  Heat dissipitation amplifier (anti thermal resistance to shield)
  Cold-Gas 1 Arc Jet Thrusters (afterburner)
  Alumel wired 1 sensor (sensor boost)
  Small clarity ward booster 1 (shield booster)
  Mark 1 generator refitting : diagnostic system (helps to recharge shield&cap faster)
  
  Overall misisons 47-49 were quite easy with this outfit, in 47 i had to repair the ship 2 times at the station but in 49 i had 0 problems after wasting the escort (warped out twice after takin out a couple of escorts each time, didn have to but just to be safe). Dogan himself was quite easy, took maybe 10min to cut through him. AB and sensor booster can be on all the time and shield booster when shields drop to about 1/4 of total. had to reload all guns + missili launcher 2 times, so dont forget the ammo. I used orbit at 1000m which resulted in the actual orbit of 1600m for me, guns did quite bad damage.
  
  In addition i had 1 "salvage 1" module in Offline mode, to check the wrecks after im done, I had around 560k SP at the time, having quite a lot of skills on level 3 (mostly the basic ones) Basic certificates in Core, defence, electronic warfare, gunnery, missiles and navigation.
  Hope some1 finds this info useful :) thanks again!
• reaper8654
  NOOB Player, been playing game for maybe 1 1/2 weeks <500k skill points just did this whole story line with a Catalyst. Dagan is VERY tough and took about 4 hours till I got the loadout right then another 25 mins of flying around him at >1000m fireing everything i got into him till he popped.
  
  Battle with Dagen:
  
  Catalyst:
  High:
  4x Light Neutron Blaster I - Antimatter Charge
  2x Light Electron Blaster I - Antimatter Charge
  1x Small Nosferatu I
  1x Salvager I
  
  Medium:
  Small Capacitor Booster I - Brought 11x 200 Boosters used 8
  Small Sheild Booster II
  
  Low:
  Cap Power Relay I
  Small Armor Repair II
  Damage Control I
  
  Tactics: Take out all the Escorts first. Then get in as close as you can to Dagen set orbit 500m you'll end up around 800-900m away, then just let loose with all the Blasters, Sheild Booster was running almost constantly as was Nosferatu, when Capacitor went below 40% or so I used a 200 Boost, if Sheilds hit full (or almost) I turned off Sheild Boost and let the Capacitor build back up a little, when guns started to get low on ammo I'd stop one and reload then start it again before stopping and reloading the next so only 1 gun down at a time. Took about 20-25 mins to kill him as he keeps shield boosting, but his shots miss probably 50-60% of the time cause you are so close and you will hit almost every time.
• ticoneva
  Took down Dagan today with the same fitting. Dagan's weapons were ineffective even at 15km so I was able to tackle him with three drones plus the most damaging ammo I have--antimatter, gamma and fusion respectively--without taking much damage myself. As this guide suggests, Dagan have very strong EM and THERM resistances, and as such fusion ammo seems to work better than EMP.
• ticoneva
  Just finished Mission 47. Took quite a few tries and I barely manage to get the bonus.
  
  Unlike most others here I soloed the Battlecruiser at >30km the whole time--purely due to personality. I don't imply it is superior tactic. My Throax is armed with
  2x 250mm railgun
  1x heavy medium laser
  1x 720mm artillery cannon
  1x cap recharger
  1x 10mn afterburner
  1x 400mm armor
  
  Kritsan's weapons are quite inaccurate beyond 30km so I simply outlasted him. My armor was down to 50% when he blown.
• Jerry
  The guide is great, only wish I would have found it sooner. After loosing four Catalyst's during Burning Down The Hive I realized it was time to seek advice and your guides saw me through to the finish, which I completed yesterday.
  
  I started the epic right out of university with around 300k SP in my newly awarded Catalyst (which I later learned was not needed at all until the final battle).
  
  Following suggestions in EVElopedia the skills focus was on learning. Clearly not good advice for trying to make it through this arc. After getting all those ships flamed I quit for four days and switched training skills from learning to more relevant skills. Finding EVEMon was a great help for designing a SP path focused on ship management; little things like core, weapons, tanking.
  
  After acquiring around 575k SP I was able to burn down the hive, but this time in a Tristan.
  
  Mission 47 was a tough nut for the Fat Boy (I'm now around 650k SP) Tristan but I made it through with the following:
  
  2x Light Ion Blaster I with antimatter s
  1x Standard Missile Launcher with Sabertooth (couldn't fit 2x and keep stable cap)
  2x Cap Recharger I
  1x 1MN AB 1
  1x Damage Control I
  1x Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane I
  1x 100mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
  
  This setup maxed my CPU and Powergrid at Stable Cap. I was in tight at 687m from target taking a lot of damage but eventually took the BC down.
  
  Mission 49 is a different story all together. The fat boy was unable to deliver enough damage despite my efforts. Every conceivable weapon/fighting distance combination was attempted but I could never get his shield damage above 50%. Once a weapon needed reloading his shield would regenerate. The whole time I'm barely getting scratched but after thousands of rounds and hundreds of missiles I gave up on Tristan.
  
  Out comes the Catalyst again. At this point I began too believe it was going to be days, or weeks, spent building SP before Dagan would go down. He was cutting my shield in three hits and tearing away at armor before I hit 75% through his shield and fractional armor damage. Time to re-think this one with my last ditch setup:
  
  8x Light Ion Blaster I with antimatter
  1x Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane I
  1x 200mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
  1x Damage Control I
  1x Hobgoblin Drone I
  
  There was no way of keeping core stable using any mid slots (AB or Shield Booster) so I went without. For those that don't know the Catalyst is not very swift. Trying to outmaneuver Dagan with a slug ship was out of the realm of possibility. I made a direct flight into him and set orbit at 500k. By the time I was orbiting my shield was already half gone but I hung in there.
  
  I finally penetrated his shield and ate away at armor too about 35% before warping out with 85% of my own armor eaten. After repairs straight back in with the same tactic. This time he only damaged a small amount of armor while I was building on the previous encounter. Once getting trough the shield and most of his armor I could tell it was over for him. I was at 50% armor damage and starting in on the hull, which went quickly. When Dagan exploded I had no shield and 25% armor remaining, SP at sub 800k
  
  Anyone with proper skills and training in a well fitted ship would be bored with this arc. For a greenhorn like me it was very difficult. However the lessons learned were worth the 4 million ISK I lost in ships/modules, well maybe not but you get the idea.
  
  But not for finding this guide I'm not sure I would have made it. Thanks for taking the time to put it together.
  
  I am left with a lost feeling though. Don't know where to go or what to do next. No clue where to find the next agent, nothing. Just sitting here acquiring SP.
• Mandrill
  It happens to us all, that lost feeling, even me from time to time.
  
  The thing to do is figure out what you want to do now in general terms: Do you want to PvP? Are you of an industrial bent? Do you want to mine? Another thing you could think about is signing up with EVE University (http://eve-ivy.com) a well known and respected player run corporation which specialises in running classes for new players as well as graduate classes for okd hand like me who want to try something new. They'll give you a well rounded look at all the opportunities available in EVE and you can make an informed choice.
  
  As to finding the next agent. pick an NPC corporation (any will do but for combat missions, my speciality, one of the faction navies is probably where you want to be) These are Federation Nay (Gallente), Caldari Navy (obvious), Imperial Navy (Amarr), and Republic Fleet (Minmatar). If you search for any of these under corporations in your People and Places window and click the littl info icon in the dialogue which appears. you'll get info about that navy. There will be a tab in that window labelled 'Agents'. Under that tab will be listed all of that corporation/navy's agents under their different divisions and marked as to whether you can use them or not. Pick one, right-click and set destination, that'll give you an idea of how far you have to travel to go talk to them and start getting agents from them.
  
  You can find more information about agents and divisions here: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Agents
  
  hope this helps, feel free to send Rokkit Kween a mail in game.
• Jerry
  Thanks Mandrill, those are both great suggestions for finding what to do next. I appreciate it.
• Kah'Namar
  Dagan - In a Coercer armed with seven Dual Afocal Pulse Maser I, a Nosferatu, an Afterburner, a Small Armor Repairer, a Capacitor Power Relay II, and some armor plating, I set orbit at 500m and constantly fired away. I had a friend orbiting at 10K with a Thrasher firing Titanium Sabot rounds at him. Occasionally I had to drop to 4 guns firing instead of 7, just to have the energy to repair my armor. Eventually we got him down. Took about 5-8 minutes. I'd been fitting and refitting my Coercer for almost two weeks off and on trying to complete this mission solo with the skills I have. I think the point of this mission is to teach people that they don't always have to solo it.
• Kre Hakeri
  Thrasher ftw. 7x 150mm Gallium guns, OE-5200 Rocket launcher, V-M15 invul field, medium FS-9 regolith extender, cold-gas arcjets. damagecontrol and powerdiag in the lows. I was able to solo all missions in it. Mission 47 made me warp out a few times, tho.
  
  Thanks for the guide! Good recon is invaluable!
• jaronstirling
  Yaaaahoooo! :)
  
  Yup, 6x Ion blasters with AntiMatter charges s, 1 Nosforatu (I salvaged it earlier in the day, I figured "What the heck, try it), a Small shield booster and small cap booster, and Overdrive.
  
  Fly in under 1000m, and just sit, fire away, watching my shields, boosting them a wee tad every so often.
  
  Took awhile, yup. But, came out uninjured this time.
  
  Thanks for the suggestions.
  
  Now, lett the gutting of the wrecks begin. My favorite part. :)
• jaronstirling
  Mission 47: Earlier in the day, I first tried taking on the BC using my Catalyst, normal load of Rail guns: 2x150mm, 2x125mm, and 3x75mm, with a Small Cap Booster, an Overdrive, and Tracking aid for the Rail guns.
  
  I'd already looked at your guide, so I knew I had to get in close.
  
  I failed, of course. So, I took out the 150s and tried the lasers you mentioned. I made SOME leeway, but kept failing in the end. I was getting in close to 5000m, but obviously, that wasn't doing it.
  
  After finally becoming toast, I went away for a few hours in disgust.
  
  Which was, in fact, a good thing.
  
  The final result: Catalyst. New load: Autocannons. 2x200mm, 3x150mm, 3x125mm. Small Cap Booser II, 1mm Afterburner, Overdrive, Gauss Field Balancer I. Ammo: EMP for the 200mm, Phased Plasma for the 150mm, and Fusion for the 125mm.
  
  Depending on where you come out of warp, you may or may not take damage before you get in close.
  Set Orbit at 1000m. Hit Afterburn and watch your distance. When you hit about 4000m, disengage Afterburner. Momentum will carry you closer. Set all guns to firing. Then, watch your distance and micromanage your Afterburner. Optimal is 2500m. Watch your distance. As it starts to rise, be ready. When it hits 3000m, hit the Afterburner. Watch for distance start to close in. Disengage Afterburner around 2700m. Momentum is still your friend. You'll get a feel for this. Keep watching distance and micromanage your Afterburner use. Doing this just right, the BC barely nicked my shields.
  
  Mission completed. Garbage for salvage. :( And missed the Bonus time. :(
  But it was DONE.
  
  Sounds like I MIGHT be able to do the same with Dagan. Going to try.
• Mandrill
  Thats some awesome advice, thanks for commenting.
  
  I would say though that you might have been better off had you not mixed your guns. If you'd fitted your ship with guns which were all the same (exactly, same type and module name) you probably wouldn't have had to manage your range quite as agressively. Personally I would have gone for blasters and not rails, filled them with AM ammo and orbited at around 1000m. That is of course if I was restricted to a destroyer. I cheated slightly and did the arc in an assault ship (tech 2 damage frigate with tech 2 guns).
• jaronstirling
  With Dagan, I'm running into the same problem others have had with his shields. I can sit a long time between 7500m and 10 km and lob AntiMatter at him with my normal load, but his shields stay strong. Closing in with the load I used on the BS wasn't much better and I actually took more hits, even under 1000m. I tried varying ammo, but it didn't make much difference.
  
  I may try the suggestions others have made, but my financial situation is very tight right now. And I'm trying to build back up to about 5mil ISK to buy the Eidetic Memory skillbook. So Dagan may just have to wait awhile.
• zhilia
  I have to admit I just did the arc in an almost max-skilled Worm (yeah, that's cheating in a huge way). Not bad, but the ending does indeed need something climactic.
• Mandrill
  Well, to be fair, I did it in an Assault frigate. So I cheated as well :)
• Cadence
  Awesome guide, thank you very much for providing it and thanks to everyone who commented here - it helped a LOT in the last two big combat missions (47/49).
  
  As for me, I did both 47 and 49 solo in my rifter. I have a good number of skills, though, so I'm sure that made a difference.
  
  In both encoutners I stayed VERY close and blasted away. Both were tough but eventually I got them down.
  
  Mission: 47: Against Kritsan I kept getting drained and had to use my shields a LOT but my launchers and turrets did fine over the long term against her - it got a lot easier when I got close.
  
  Learning from that, and from advice of the posts above, I adjusted my tactics for Dugan.
  
  Mission: 49: I experimented with amo types and found Explosive and Kinetic to be the best - particularly Explosive. The other key was fitting a Nosferatu. That kept my cap up and (hopefully) slowed him from recharging his shields. Outfitted with Fussion and Pirranah and orbiting just below 1000m did the trick. I missed a lot but he missed more. Once I was in orbit I worked hard pulsing my shields until I had his escorts done then it was just he and I. A stalemate at first but eventually once I got my modules in a good rhythm and with the right amo it was just a matter of time and he was done. In the end the battle took about 20 minutes. =D
  
  Again, thanks for all the advice here!
  
  -- Cadence
• Otto TheRed
  FIrst off, thanks for this excellent site.
  
  With respect to 47 Chasing Shadows: I tried three time with a sniper Catalyst (railguns at 23km), and my tank was just eaten up like nothing - it wasn't going to happen. So I went back and fit an Atron with blasters (only 2 high slots on the Atron) & antimatter and went straight in with afterburners and orbited at 500 meters. Unbelievably, I took zero damage (!) - at 500 meters he can't touch you!. The problem is, the 2 blaster slots available to the Atron simply can't deliver enough damage to overcome his armor repper + the cap drainer. But what I realized was this: up close, all I needed was a little more firepower and I would prevail easily. Based on this new knowledge, I went back and fitted a Tristan with 2 blasters & 2 missile launchers. Again, I ABed in (taking zero damage ), meanwhile, I was able to slowly but steadily eat into his shield, armor and hull until he popped.
  
  So, the bottom line is, this should be an easy kill if you fit a frigate with at least high slots like a Tristan, Rifter, or Incursus, and fight up close at 500 meters. BTW, it is very scary -at 500 meters his lasers make a huge noise even when they miss 100% of the time, combined with your Drone's autocannon, it sounds like a total battlefield.
• Shanidar
  I soloed it successfully first time with a low skill Caldari Cormorant. I destroyed the frigates, warped out and back in again and Parthus didn't agro me until after a few seconds when I was orbiting him at 1200m. The blasters did most of the work and destroyed him within minutes. The sensor booster negates Parthus's target disruption and improves dps.
  
  The cormorant setup:
  
  5 x Light Ion Blasters I with Antimatter
  1 x Small Nos I
  1 x Rocket Launcher with Navy Gremlins (though normal Gremlins would do)
  1 x Afterburner
  1 x Sensor Booster I
  1 x Power Diagnostic System I
  
  Thanks for the mission guides.
• Epigene
  I just soloed it - using a loaded Vexor with 3 Light Ion blasters. Gallente apparently don't care too much about shields so I was armor tanking with Damage Control on and a Medium Armor Repair module. Had a Nosferatu running all the time but also need a Capacitor booster. Oh, yes, 3 Hammerheads (1 got killed by one of the adds before the Dagan fight started properly)
  
  The real challenge is to get and stay close. His targeting is lousy below 1000m and that is where you want to be. This means, come in fast and straight, orbit at 500m and I used a Stasis Webifier to keep him in place. Use an afterburner at least in your approach - you need to cover the distance quickly where he can target and shoot you. If you come in too slow, he will eat through your shield and armor. It took a long time and a lot of ammo - I used antimatter which isn't smart - it uses too much capacitor - but in the end it worked reasonably well.
• Tom
  hi - I just finished the Kirstan BC today. With a 1.5 SP character I was not really successful with my normal (unsubtle approach) with a Vexor and 4 drones. Each time I was sent away warping with generally the BC only minus a shield and a small piece of armor and my ship in tatters. It seems to heal Armor fairly quickly.
  
  In the end I removed my 4 x 200MM railguns (with AM) and put in 2 x 250MM scout railguns loaded with Tungsten (not enough powergrid for more). Sitting at 33-35km kiting away I was able to tank him with a shield booster and armor repairer while the tungsten loaded rails (and drones) chipped away until he died after 80 rounds of Tungsten. At that range you aren't targeted with ECM or Nos.
  
  Kiting the BC was fairly non-stressful as I was able to make cupcakes with my daughter at the same time.
• An Arious
  Hey There.
  Thanks so much for the guide.
  After 12 attemps attrying to kill Kirstan (and several ships) I finally called in some help and toyed with her for a while prior to my Corp CEO blowing the ship to pieces, (Cheers Will !). I was however, determined to Beat Dagan myself and after a few different fits and 6 attemps finally found the right mix: My Caldari Comrmorant fitted with 6 small Ion Blasters and a missile launcher with Faction Foxfires.
  Apart from the shielding and capacator fits that are now fairly standard for me, I also equiped a Tech 2 NOS to counteract my rapidly draining cap. I hammered him at just over 1 click with Anti matter and then swapped out to plutonium (at 1.4 clicks orbit) after his shield was gone. Once I was into his armour his structure was quick to go.....
  Couldn't have done it with out your help, and alll those who posted here as well. Thanks to you all
• alexgreen
  Took me 2 days to finally get the skills/equipment right to do mission 47. Flying Coercer with 8 250mm Light Artillery Cannon I loaded with EMP S took Kristun down after 17 shots from each cannon while orbiting at ~4000m. Neut (which appears to have a range of between 20 and 25km) made it impossible to use any capacitor based weaponry that dealt more damage that Kurstin could tank. At the end of the fight I had half my armor left. Having put most of my noob skills into learning did not help much...
• L Hall
  Kritsun Parthus
  I used a Cald Destroyer- Full auto cannons use Emp ammo to cut through shields then switch to Proton and Titanium Sabot as Proton will keep shields down and Titanium will burn through armor and hull. Set orbit at 1500 and Use Cap Boosters,Shield Boosters to shield tank, After Burners to keep speed up, make sure to save her for last. She never got my shield below 50% after I tried this
• Apocaknight
  Hi just wondering if anyone can help me with this as i am stuck on " A strangers Face"
  And dont know where to go to get the mission !! its just there in my journal and i cant find the person im meant to get the mission off or it might be the next mission, it says " you planted faulse records to substitute a spy" and i dont know where to go then :(
• chack
  Kritsun Parthus neuts as well as TDs. Also is weakest to EM.
• James
  I tried Dagan last night and failed, but I do have a couple points of interest.
  
  First, for pricing the Caldari agent was offering 121k as the highest. The Minmatar was offering 42, so there was some variability there.
  
  I took the Minmatar branch just for faction building reasons. The Dagan I fought was vulnerable to explosive damage, with piranha missiles doing roughly 2x the damage as the others. Problem was that damage was 30dam per missile for piranha and 15-20 for the others. Way to little to wear down the shield.
  
  Wild speculation, as there are four Dagans to kill, one for each faction. The Dagan for each faction is weak to the damage that faction is strong with. Other people would need to hit the other Dagans to confirm.
  
  My Rifter, which got me through the last fight, was still not enough to get me through this one solo. I got him down to about 1/3 left on shield and he would bounce back up to over half. No-one else was in system working on him so that was it for the night.
  
  Going to have to put this off till I get some better skills/equipment
  
  -j
• James
  Did the Kritsan Battlecruiser mission last night. My testing indicated that the key vulnerability to that fight is EM.
  
  My stats, I am a completely new character, of my 1.6mil SP 1.1mil are learning skills. I have level 4 Min Frig, and level 2 missile skills.
  
  Up until this point I did all these missions in my breacher (WOOT! Flying junkyard) Missile damage appeared per hit as below:
  Pirahna (Exp Dam) 43.6
  Sabretooth (EM Dam) 69 dam 74 with added BCS
  BloodClaw (kinetic dam) 46 dam
  Flameburst (thermal) 64 dam
  
  Orbiting at 25km out the BC did minimal damage and I just healed up by pulsing my shield booster. Problem was, with only 3 launchers the breacher would get the ship to half armor and it work rep up.
  
  I then swapped ships to a rifter. Outfitted with three 200mm ACs with EMP-S and a standard launcher with sabretooth missiles I took the BC down in around 10 minutes orbiting 500m out. I didnt really pay attention to the damage done per hit since I had already determined the most valid damage type. Only thing I noticed was, orbiting at that range I wasnt so much shot at, but neuted down to nothing. Since I wasnt running anything that needed cap it was pretty much a non even, but might impact other people.
  
  Im going to do Dagan tonight and will see if I can do that with no skills and no money :-)
  
  For the record all modules used were T1 unless something even cheaper was available on the market, since I am still trying to save up for all the skill books I need.
  
  -j
• Athena Olympia
  Wanted to give you a correction update to the Faction break off. The Caldari Commander gives a bonus of $87,000 ISK - the highest.
  
  Gallente Commander = $59,000 ISK
  Minmatar Commander = $42,000 ISK
  Caldari Commander = $87,000 ISK
  Amarr Commander = $26,000 ISK
• mandrill
  hmm. They've either changed them since I did it or the amounts are different every time. I'll look into it.
• teds
  just about to do the dagan mission, but have done every single previous mission in the same condor, with 2 rocket launchers and a 75mm gatling rail, do i win a prize? :P
• mandrill
  I wouldn't bet on being able to kill Dagan with a Condor, but if you manage it let us know how you did it :)
• pringtef
  After changing all my weapons to blasters (5x), and using two scout drones, i was finally able to defeat Dagan.
  
  A key factor was was orbiting him at the blasters optimal range to ensure maximum damage. Not certain if it made a difference, but also changed it so that the guns reloaded at different times so that there was always at least one gun firing on Dagan.
• dog
  excellent walk through mandrill. thanks a ton for the effort.
  
  phil, i feel your pain. i did the same thing the first time i went, then got help after 4 lost ships. i started a new character and took him to the same battle with a destroyer, circling at close range, all 8 slots with 200mm autocannons [not the basic ones either] - and i swapped out ammo as it ran down. it took about 15 minutes. personally, i liked the fight overall - a good challenge. it is cool that you can upgrade ships and win - which seems to be a theme of this game - constant refits. lots of depth and breadth.
• Phil
  Well it's my last day of my trial and I just spend the better part of the last 3 days trying to kill Dagan in my Destroyer Catalyst with 6m isk spent on weapons and various new skills for the weapons I'm broke and Dagan is laughing as he won, GM's you made his ship too hard everything I threw at him wouldn't burn his shields below 33% and when I was hitting him with my drone and weapons. I had to use 5 weapons to see any real damage in his shields but after 10k of ammo he still lives, it's rediculous how hard he is to kill. I was thinking/considering paying to keep playing but after this I may just walk away.
• New noobie
  I had trouble with the battlecruiser, I'm using a normal Gallente destroyer. Using a trial account, so using anything bigger than a cruiser is out of a question for me. And to use a cruiser take too much time to learn the skills.
  Anyone got any idea what kind of dmg, the battlecruiser deal?
  But I did pop that battlecrusier with a cruiser once which was months ago, can't remember how I did it.
  By the OSGOD, if you wan challenge, try killing them with tech1 cruiser. That's a challenge.
• OsGod is Gay
  Admin: Trolling gets your email address published. You get one warning. This is it. Be nice
• OSGOD
  just finished last miss was a waste of time and energy ,might be bit of challenge 4 noobs but was boring 4 me ,then again again i solo`d level 4 galle epic arc ,thought this might be challenge my mistake
• DerRiegel
  So here's what I did (with another person helping for dmg):
  
  If you kite him at a distance of 13k to 14k, he will not be able to fire at you, cause thats where his blind spot is. He does aprox. 280 M/s, so you need to be faster than that...
• PPSledge
  Mission 47: one additional thing about Kritsan's cruiser. If you get close, he'll hit you with an energy vampire and suck your capacitor dry. I finally upgraded to medium scout drones and he took them as enough of a threat to start leeching and fighting them instead of me. I was able to stay close and pop him in a few minutes with the lasers (as you advised).
• Halconnen
  Fulong Wang: Do note that Heatsinks are for Lasers, not Blasters.
• Fulong Wang
  I finally solo'd Dagan after upgrading to a Catalyst(I'm Gallente", buying a heat sink & five light ion blaster. It took forever but I also specced w/shield boost & increased capacitor, as well as inertial dampener and overdrive for defence.
  
  I orbited him at 500m and balsted away(w/drone). took about 30min to get his shield. You have to alternate your guns firing times, and make sure you never stop hammering him w/at least 4 at a time(manual reloads).
  
  I've been playing about 2 weeks and this is the second mission I couldn't complete the first time, and the only one I missed the time bonus on. This is way tough, now am at a loss as to what to do next...anyone know how to tell if a distant agent has a mission for you?
• Criswell
  Thank you for this. As to why this arc is considered "Epic", well, it's almost 50 missions long, and if you count the branches not taken, you get 55 missions. Not necessarily epic in quality, but definitely in quantity. Apochrypha 1.5 (yes, I know the current version is 1.3) promises new epic arcs. Hopefully, we'll see more branching choices. The hardest missions, I felt, were Burning Down The Hive, Kirsten, and Dagan. I had to get help for those three. The rest were solo'ed in a destroyer.
• Smnynb
  I'm on Mission 47 and I can't kill the mission objective at all. The Mercs with him are fine, but his weapons just fry my shields in about five shots. Sometimes I can get his shields down, but nothing else.
  
  I'm flying a destroyer (Cormorant). Should I change ships? What weapons / boosters should I be using to kill him? Any other advice?
• Seegs
  So about when should we acquire a cruiser class vessel? I have had a destroyer for a while and am starting the arc in Amarr space (Death Certificate). I am using a Thrasher spec'd for close range fighting. Is this the right approach to take?
• quantumboost
  Something I noticed while fighting him - my shields would go down for no reason on occasion, and the large shield regen mostly went away past 25km, which made it really easy to finish him off with long-range turrets + missiles. Maybe the NOS-like thing is an NPC only shield vampire module?
• hikage
  "im also in a destroyer but cant seem to take him down, what type of destroyer is effective"
  
  For destroyer use close guns max damage ammo and orbit close, have plenty of ammo I used 2.6k antimatter s with my low skill catalyst. It can be done takes awhile so help is still the better option if you can get it,much faster .
  
  Shame about the end it took such a while I would have hoped it finished with a "bang"
• L0RD V4D3R
  what i wanna know is how do we get to take on the nobhigger thing and all the battlecruisers with it if you can help
• Nox
  Just finished the last mission. Did it in a low fit Omen.. a bit dissapointing at the end.. but ok overall
  Ty for the great guide
• anon
  There was another gigantic rogue drone structure there... I don't know how you could have missed it! It warped/jumped/disappeared once I put Dagan in the cargo can.
• mandrill
  I must have been looking in the wrong direction.
• furstrated
  check caldari branch gives the most bonus, mine is 168k, im also in a destroyer but cant seem to take him down, what type of destroyer is effective and what fitting? i dont want to get a cruiser as of yet, frigate 4 is still on the way
• Rain6638
  I bought the velspar off the market, at the station for just under 24k ISK and just gave them that.
  
  The only bug i see is there is no "go see alitura" mission (and no free 250,000 isk lol) but i went back to Arnon on a hunch and she's there with mission 45 for me.
  
  my 2c.
• Domm
  Hi and thanks for your blog...
  
  Ok i need soeme help pls. Im stuck at having completed mission 44 a stranger's face, and logged off for the night. Now I can not seem to pick up the epic thread again. Ive no idea where to go for the next mission and there are no waiting mission in my Journal.
  
  Any help would be appreciated .
  
  thanks in advance
  Domm
• mandrill
  This is a known bug, and is mentioned in the addendum (link at top of post). All I can suggest is that you petition it and you should be able to pick up from where you left off.
• Duggi
  About mission 48:
  Actually, the caldari ones gives the most.
  Gallente bonus is 38k and 4 jumps away
  Minmatar is 20k and 3 jumps away
  Caldari is 41k and 5 jumps away
  Amarr is 16k and 2 jumps away
  
  I took the minmatar one, because I'm minmatar at heart, and I can tell you this:
  Same mission with Dagan, and he is a hard kill, honestly. I'm in a destroyer, but got through his shield after fitting a few dmg mods and faction ammo. After shields went down, he was quick to explode.
  
  So yeah, mission 49 and 50 are the same.
• Ira Melanox
  use piranha light missiles if you are Caldari, explosive damage ftw
• Ira Melanox
  Thanks a lot for info mate was very useful in the discussions with CCP GM, i had that bug after mission 44
• White Carnation
  Completed (with BS help).
  
  (Mostly) IC account now at caldariwhitecarnation.blogspot.com, if you care to visit. (look for "epicarc" tags)
• BunnyGirl
  Well i just completed the whole thing and well the ending was a bit umm rubbish.... No skill books or rewards just cash, just want to add thanks for the guide very helpful
• mandrill
  Yeah, quite a few people have said that they found it to be a bit anticlimactic. They are going to be opening the tools used to make the arc up to the players though, so we'll have to see what comes of that.
  
  I'm glad you found the guide helpful, I'll be publishing others in future so keep your eyes peeled.
• Fenix
  Having been a Gallente Federation citizen since late 2008, I had the skills necessary to do the missions in an Assault Frigate. I also recruited assistance for the battle with the 'carrier' fleet. That particular battle wasn't what we had anticipated. The carrier does nothing but NOS whoever it aggros first, and everyone else is in the clear. It doesn't launch anything. The battleships were somewhat tough, but nothing amazing. I suppose in a frigate with no skills, I would be afraid.
  The arc was good, though. And this guide is pretty good as well. Nice work.
• Mike
  Hehe, thanks.
  
  I just did the last battle, and... wow. I tried everything in my power, or my Merlin's power, to do it solo, and there was no way I could ever even get his shields down in any significant way. I thought at one point, when I switched to explosive projectiles and rockets, that I was making progress... then he healed to full strength as I kept hitting him. That's when I knew I either needed to get some help or I was going to have to skill up a lot and get some really good frigate gear to be able to take him down. So, I found a couple of people and we helped each other do our battles. MUCH easier and less expensive that way!
  
  But, I did the whole epic arc solo except for the last battle. Not bad for a noob. Now I'm in search of missions to do, I guess. Need to get my isk back up so I can buy a caracal at some point.
  
  Thanks for the guide! It was very helpful and was a great source to come to while doing the epic arc. Now, where's your guide on what all one can do from here? :)
• Mike
  Yeah I'm a noob. I obviously thought it was part of the arc. Oh well, at least I got an elite charisma implant. woot! Now everyone will love me. :)
• mandrill
  I wouldn't worry too much about it, we were all noobs once. I've made it my mission to give noobs in EVE a bit of guidance in what can be a very daunting game to the uninitiated. Welcome to the family :-D
• Mike
  I made a couple of screenshots of the eve-mailed mission stuff if you want. Just email me.
• Mike
  After mission 44, I got an email for another mission called Materials for War Preparation Objectives, that gives you a +1 charisma implant for delivering 100 cubic meters of veldspar.
• mandrill
  Yes, thats a storyline mission which you get as standard after every 16 missions for an npc corporation/faction. They're beyond the scope of this guide but Eve-survival.org has guides for mos of them.
• Boris Menace
  Mission 49: I suggest that you team up with someone with proper skills/at least a cruiser, because getting through Dagan's tank, especially his shield is pretty hard in a low skilled frigate.
• Boris Menace
  Mission 47: the BC neuts/nos you - not sure, which, I still have to learn the animations - instead of target disrupting, even if the EWAR display tells so. I could hit it every time, but it drained my Punisher's cap.
• Vencar
  The Amarr commander says basically the same thing, you go kill Dagan and his escort ships
• Tony
  Why do you have to wait 3 months?

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