Hello,
I completed the event just before Xmas. I used a Sleipnir with relative ease, in HS and Null, never dropping below 80% shields, even with 10 npc frigs and cruisers.
I wanted to improve the dps, so added 2xHAM’s and went to try it out in HS today.
Warped into a site, with repper on. Standard, I was webbed and pointed, but i was soon into armour before i even killed the first cruiser!?
Aligned to a station and started on the frigs that had me pointed, dropped my drones so they would take the aggro, that worked, warped out in structure, where only a week or so ago, I could sit still and kill all with realtive ease.
TLDR:
When you haven’t done PVE for over 8 years, make sure you don’t use Polarised HAM’s!