2/8 you have to take a NOOB ship (Merlin) with ONLY 2 guns and defeat 5 (FIVE) Catalysts and 5 Frigates??? I lasted less than 10 seconds before my ship was destroyed!!! And this is the only ship that you can take in.
So any suggestions as to WHAT a NOOB can to when they are greatly overpowered in BOTH weapons and Armor
Leave Excretium as fast as your little warp drive will take you…
LOL, funny, and TRUE but NOT helpful at all.
Seriously, get out of 1.0 space and setup shop in high-sec. I’ll even send you 50m ISK to get started (send me a message in-game). o7.
Can you have a fleet?
did you do the career agents before attempting the epic arc??
That’s a good question.
You gain experience as you go.
The sites are overtuned atm, I would wait to do them until they are balanced right.
Yes, finished them all
The problem, as I see it, is that the nerfed merlin which the mission says to use can only use 2 guns and is very weak against the opposition that you will face.
People in chat have said that you can use a Caldari destroyer but, I havent tried it yet.
@Grot_Cavin-Guang you can use 3 guns, not two
fit from eve online for soldier of fortune
[Merlin, AIR Caldari Soldier of Fortune]
Micro Auxiliary Power Core I
Vortex Compact Magnetic Field Stabilizer
Damage Control I
5MN Quad LiF Restrained Microwarpdrive
Faint Epsilon Scoped Warp Scrambler
X5 Enduring Stasis Webifier
Medium Shield Extender I
Limited Light Electron Blaster I
Limited Light Electron Blaster I
Limited Light Electron Blaster I
Small Core Defense Field Extender I
Small Core Defense Field Extender I
Small Core Defense Field Extender I
Federation Navy Antimatter Charge S x1500
One high slot MUST be a shield repper and a mid slot for ECM
Please don’t recommend a fit if you haven’t done the content.
From what I am reading here and both read in game chat yesterday, the Epic Arc for this new area is not scaled properly for the average 30 day rookie ( alpha or omega ). I would normally play test the area myself, unfortunately all my accounts are well over 30 days old, some of them omega, and all have skills up to and beyond 5 million points. I really don’t feel like making another account just to find out what we already know.
I have been told – by the experts – that you need to either fast track your rookie or grind up to using a destroyer. Which is doable for many vets in just hours, but we are talking about people here that expect to learn the game first. To alpha rookies, with no experience in Eve Online, I simply tell them; Avoid the Epic Arc until you have done the following.
Skill train for any destroyer class ship. You will need skills in lasers and drones as well. For the love of God, DON’T buy the ship in this system, players are selling them at outlandish prices! Leave the system in your pod and set course to Jita 4.4 to get one there. Alternately give Mike Azariah a shout, he might have a decent ship for you. The man hangs in Rookie Chat and gifts 30 Day Rookies free ships. I am seeing over 2 million for a Cormorant in Exordium!
New players need to be told not to do this for several weeks, unless they plan to pay cash to get gud right away. Then you are looking at more than just $20 worth of omega, you will need ISK and/or PLEX for skill injectors and augments.
Update: I have also been informed by a new player, this is suppose to be a “simulated historic battle”? Excuse me, how does a simulator blow up your ship? I sure wouldn’t expect my ship to explode during a holographic simulation.
What has me confused is why they have us use the Merlin when the Kestrel lore is all about how it’s actually an old small freighter design that during the most desperate hours of the war was retooled into a small warship, at which it performed, and continues to perform, most admirably.
Show me a shield repper that fits into a high slot.
If you don’t know what you’re talking about.
LOL.
A newbie flying a merlin with 2 guns won’t have much need for a remote shield booster.
But you managed to make me laugh.
And yet the mission requires them to fit one.