Not neccesarily easier for missile users but you do have to think about your fit and resists, I have not tried Autocannons yet. I have to say that Alpha’s warping to zero will find it very difficult if they have not thought it out! The webs will catch a lot out!
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In military terms “tis a blap”.
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I should be fine then… LOL
Armour or shield tank, resist profile of your primary tank?
I’m taking a bet you were very weak to it’s damage type. The fact it doesn’t display the weapon it’s using to engage you makes it a bit tricky to analyse the combat logs easily, but so far standard angels Kin/Exp seems roughly accurate for the sites.
An Alpha specifically tanked for the site should be able to run them, it’ll be rough, 2 alpha’s working together should have a much easier time as some of the spawns seem time based.
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Yeah,
My tank was pretty weak, tbh. But, I really wasn’t expecting all that much considering the last several events.
Going to make a fit with much more tank / dps, and less mobility. It was a 100mn Vexor, that just got wrecked by the webs, and they NPCs target drones pretty hard, so I wasn’t really able to kill them fast enough.
Next thing I knew… BS spawn, I started aligning out… 1 shot. GG. All good, I enjoy the challenge, but I worry it won’t be fun for some lower-skilled pilots. Going to be a lot of tears on these! haha!
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The sites have been getting harder event by event, and you get warning with the initial spawns having bite also. I think not too many people will explode with no warning, I’m surprised you hadn’t warped out given what sort of hits you must have been taking from the rest of them.
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I was stabilized pretty well against what was there around 90% armor with a single repper running. But, the BS took me from 95% armor to dead. Not much I could have anticipated there. None of the other NPCs hit even close to as hard as that, and until that point, the BS didn’t really hit me for anything over 300dmg. I’m now wondering if they have some sort of special attack or something. Also, I didn’t take significant damage until I was close range to the BS 26KM. I was going to try and orbit close, but that obviously wasn’t a good call.
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I’d guess you were taking just glancing hits. Given an armour tank and probably low resists the 6000 sounds about the right damage, I took up to 1k hits against good Kin/Exp resists. So 4-5k base per volley possibly, which sounds legit for an artillery volley
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Autocannons work very well; the problem is the rats keep doing microwarps away
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When you say “Good” kin/exp resists, do you mean… 75%ish or closer to 90%?
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Nope. I think nope.
It’s not possible to speed or/and Sig tank all that damage. None Shield Booster or Armor Repairer can sustain that. Moreover, having on your frigate like 4-5 T-Painters a cruiser or BC can 1 shot it.
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Kin was nearly 90%, Exp was high 70’s I believe. I’ve changed fit since as I’m not sure if they all use the same damage type so gone for a more omni fit which is more high 70’s vs all but EM.
I was still taking 500 glancing shots that I saw, which is 50% or so damage, wrecking goes up to *3 damage I believe?
So that maths says basic volley is around 4k I think, with a wrecking up to 12k base damage before resists.
Edit: Logs seem to say 9s cycle roughly on the BS. So it’s about 500 DPS but with arty.
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Yeah, that motherf*cker Barachael was close to blow up my Gila before I optimized it - BOOM 70% EHP.
The Tactic:
- shoot frigates firstly, as fast as possible. Don’t let 'em to Web and Paint your ship;
- don’t allow more than 3 Cruiser on the grid before BC or BS will be summoned;
- dps BC or BS without frigates on the grid.
The point is, as I noticed, the BC and BS using Artillery weapons, which works perfectly with applied Web and buffed Signature of the target. GG CCP! 
Here is a none T3 fit, which will smash all these Gala guys in Hi-Sec as fast as possible:
[Gila, Mamba]
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Sentient Omnidirectional Tracking Enhancer
Large Shield Extender II
Kinetic Deflection Field II
Large Shield Extender II
Explosive Deflection Field II
Large Shield Extender II
10MN Afterburner II
Arbalest Compact Light Missile Launcher
Core Probe Launcher I
Arbalest Compact Light Missile Launcher
Drone Link Augmentor I
Arbalest Compact Light Missile Launcher
Medium Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer II
Medium Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer II
Medium Core Defense Field Extender II
Valkyrie II x5
Sisters Core Scanner Probe x16
Scourge Light Missile x1101
Inferno Light Missile x1369
The standard passive Gila fit will suck a bit, due to low drone tracking and overall dps.
The Valkyrie II x5 and Sentient Omnidirectional Tracking Enhancer is required!
One Large Shield Extender II can be replaced with a Explosive Deflection Field II.
Anti explosive and kinetic rigs will be ok for Low-Sec sites.[Updated]: … and orbit the BC or BS at 10-15 km with AB on of course.
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i love these events! CONTENT BEACONS, CONTENT BEACONS EVERYWHERE!
watches CCP load EMP ammo into the Barch in response to specific tanking
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I just can confirm that Valkyries II and scourge missiles will blow up every of those frigates in like 3 - 4 seconds, which is very important to keep the grid clear. For example, pure missile fits can fail this purpose.
Not true regarding pure missile fits TBH, My Tengu was fine and I found Scourge javelin better than rage in applying damage.
At one point I had 7 webs on me and had no problem tanking the BS’s yes two on grid.
Watch the frigates carefully as they will warp out and in needing you to reapply targetting!
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You have to retarget a lot so in that respect and the overall Guardians Gala event is a far better event than the previous one’s!
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The T3 Cruisers are overkill for these sites and many other sites with decent dps, and both buffer tank and active tank at the same time.
Just that Gila fit is available to Alpha pilots. Sure, with decent SP.
For example, I did one site in a Maelstrom BS with high tracking AC + Fusion ammo by ignoring all frigates initially. So, for Alpha pilots a turret or missile BS is the most available option.
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No argument from me regarding that! I hope they also have the resist skills to go with it!
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