A new video of me solo-ing an Outpost Frontier Stronghold class 3 anomoly in my Legion. Unfortunately a few hours after I made this video, my salvage alt in a tengu got ganked, by a well setup trap 
Most of the loot I had been gathering in the week before got lost. I did manage to get my legion out safe though.
Our wormhole has a static exit to a class 5 wormhole. Because of this, we get to do quite a few class 5 sleeper sites. Every now and then we get an opening to a class 6 wormhole. Yesterday we happened to run into a nice class 6 wormhole a few jumps away from our home.
Probing showed it had 2 magnetometric and 2 radar sites. These are known to be the hardest sleeper sites in eve. That evening we assembled a gang of 10 battleships, a damnation, an oneiros and a few hackers/analyzers/salvagers. Off we went to this class 6 wormhole. On the way we passed a few wormholes with posses.
Entering the class 6 wormhole
We started off in a magnetometric site “Forgotten Core Assembly Hall”. This site had 4 waves with quite a few battleships. Nothing we couldn’t handle though. We finished the site without too much problems and off we went to the second magnetometric site “Forgotten Core Circuitry Disassembler”. This is one of the hardest sleeper sites in game. The first wave had a huge blob of frigates. This was kind of annoying, because they are a bit hard to hit with the battleship guns, and they kill of drones fairly fast. But we managed to kill them all. The second wave wasn’t too hard, mostly cruisers and a few frigs. Some people in gang started asking: ‘This is the hardest site? The previous one was harder.” But they didn’t know about the 3rd and 4th wave yet 
Wave 3 had 10 advanced battleships with a few smaller ships, wave 4 had 9 advanced battleships and a few support. Let me tell you those battleships deal a lot of damage! You really have to start repping the targetted ship fast. The alpha-strike of those 10 bs takes a standard fit remote rep battleship into half armor. It has to be repped up before the second strike. We managed to kill them off get all the loot without losses.
Since these sites take quite some time to clear, it was getting a bit later. Some people wanted to go back to go to bed. We decided to do one more site, then call it a night. Two of our pilots did have to go back. One of them left his abaddon behind so one of the salvagers could take his place. The other one went back in his battleship. So 9 bs for the next site.
This site was a radar site “Unsecured Core Emergence”. This site had the same spawns as the last magnetometric site. We we’re going at it just fine. About halfway through the site we spotted some combat probes on scanner. Since the sleepers scramble there was no way to get out. Not too much of a problem, since they couldn’t drop a huge gang on us, because of mass limitations in the wormhole. Maximum amount they could get in, was about the same gang size we had (since we calculated what could go through the wormhole 2-ways). So we continued working on the site. One of our salvagers sat cloaked near the entrance wormhole. Then the most annoying thing they could do happened. A fenrir class freighter jumped in…. Immediately after it had jumped in, it jumped back to their pos system. And yes…. this caused the wormhole to collapse. So we were trapped since that was our way home.
We finished the site, and started looking for a way out. We went into a neighbouring class 5 wormhole. This had a 0.0 exit to catch, where it was really busy, so we decided to keep looking. This wormhole also had 2 wormholes to class 5 systems. Unfortunately those were both at end-of-life while we where still salvaging the last radar site and had both collapsed before we got there.
The only wormhole left was to a class 3. This was a 1 billion kg wormhole, so it could barely fit our gang, if it was fresh. We had previously probed this wormhole, and it had an exit to 0.0 in tenal, a long way from empire, and a wormhole to a class 1 system. This last one couldn’t fit battleships, so this was no go as well.
Being a bit out of options we decided to try collapsing this class 3 wormhole, since it appeared to be the static wormhole for this system. Luckily this went well and a fresh class 3 wormhole appeared. After probing it out this didn’t have a suitable exit. So back to the collapse game.
The new class 3 system seemed to be an untouched class 3 system: 20+ anomolies and 20+ signatures. We started probing this system and found an exit to A-ELE2 in delve. We knew this region well, since we have lived a few jumps away from there (in 319-3D). A-ELE2 is only a few jumps away from low-sec (aridia) and it seemed to be pretty quiet there at the moment. We decided to go for it. And made our way to Zinkon, the nearest hi-sec. We didn’t meet any resistance, and everybody made it safe and sound to hi-sec. Now it was really late so everybody rushed to bed. The only thing left to do is find our way back to our wormhole. No problem, since there are enough people still in there.
A couple of days ago I encountered the first serious attempt to gank my shiny legion. I was happilly flying around killing sleepers in a class 3 wormhole close to where we live. This wormhole had one exit to another wormhole which lead the way back home. It also had two wormholes leading into low-sec. Because of this I paid extra attention to my directional scanner. This turned out to be a good thing.
After a couple of hours of killing sleepers I noticed a cheetah. I asked on ventrilo and in alliance chat if it was one of ours, since I didn’t recognize the ship name. Noone responded so I assumed it was a hostile. A few minutes later combat scanner probes popped up on my scanner. Ok this was definately a hostile. I was still working on the sleeper site and decided to continue doing that for now. However the paranoia level was raised to level 5, so I made scans every few seconds to see if more poeple showed up.
About 30-45 minutes later suddenly quite a few ships popped up on my scanner, a t3 cruiser, absolution, zealot, arazu and a couple more. Click warp, I’m outta here! Made a funny comment in local about me leaving Turns out they knew me a bit from my blog. So shout-out to you guys (can’t remember the corp name, sorry). It was a good attempt, lucky for me my paranoia saved me this time.
Yesterday the tables were turned. On ventrilo an alliance mate said he had scanned an abaddon and tengu in a class 2 wormhole close by. There were no posses on scan, so they were in space somewhere. We quickly assembled a few pilots and decided we’d try to gank them. I logged in my prober alt and jumped in the class 2 wormhole in a covert ops. They were still here. I launched the combat probes and cloaked up. A few minutes of probing and I found the abaddon. Meanwhile the rest of our gang was waiting in the wormhole next door at the entrance. I warped to the abaddon at 10km. When I arrived I was in the middle of nowhere and the abaddon was gone. A quick check on the scanner reveiled they where still in the system. And now they had drones out. So they were running some site.
Back to the probing then a couple of minutes later I found the abaddon again. This time I warped to him at 100km, because he was almost certainly in a sleeper site. When I warped I got a message of a Perimeter Hangar anomoly, so definately in a sleeper site. I came out of warp and saw both the abaddon and tengu busy working on the sleepers. I bookmarked a closeby wreck, warped to a planet and back to the bookmark at 10km. I ordered the rest of the fleet to jump in and stay cloaked. I landed about 12km of the tengu and ordered the gang to warp to me at 0. When everyone was in warp the covert ops warped out to a safespot.
Our fleet arrived on top of both the abaddon and tengu. Quickly a heavy interdictor bubble was put up. Points went on the tengu, while the abaddon got primaried. This ship melted in a few seconds. Then we started on the tengu. This went down nicely too. After they went down we still had a couple of sleepers in the site. So we finished the site as well. The loot we got wasn’t great, but still a nice Caldari Navy Large Shield Booster and a Caldari Navy Explosion Dampening Field.
So now you know: paranoia is good, mmmkay?
Just a short update from our wormhome. All things are going pretty well. The dutch alliance I’ve been talking about before is getting in shape. At the moment two dutch corporotions are in our alliance. A third one is also living with us in our wormhole, but they haven’t joined the alliance just yet.
With more people living in the wormhole it’s easier to start all sorts of gangs, since most of the time enough people are active. Our gangs are getting bigger. Training sessions are being held to instruct the newer players how to take on the sleepers. We’ve done a few of the toughest class 6 radar sites in-game, with success.
To finish off I’ll post a few screenshots for a nice impression of what we’ve been doing.
Today we had a good fight with a few people in a wormhole next to us. One of our blues (Horad) wrote a nice report on it in Dutch. I’ve translated it to English. The original Dutch report is on the bottom of this post as well. The killboard report can be found here.
A quiet night for the CEO, so loggin in for a bit to see how al my members are moving stuff around. Meanwhile, being a good boy, loggin into ventrillo. And then…
I entered the lobby and was about to settle in, when the call to join a quick roaming fleet came up. Unfortunately I didn’t hav e a good available yet, but Foxx helped me out with a manticore. After a quick chec (all mods online, ammo) I got an invite and left the lobby behind (to the ops channel). Everything went smooth, like I was in Black-Sun myself.
I warped to Foxx who probably wanted to take a last look at his beloved manticore. And there I was with Foxx and RiotRick on a wormhole. On the other side of the wormhole was Gemina with his ceptor fleet actively trying to overrun the enemies. We noticed pretty soon there were quite a few battleships on the radar. The more that showed up, the more the ‘yarr’ started popping up. Luckily Gemina (FC ceptor fleet) and RiotRick (FC of the rest of the fleet) kept everyone under control. The fleet was an example of discipline and passing on information. The scanner suddenly showed some fighters as well, so we had to watch out for a carrier as well. The intel kept coming in while our gang was patiently waiting at the worhole.
Then the intel came that a dominix warped in at 30km from our wormhole. The fc gave the order to point the domi and ordered the fleet to jump in. A few seconds later the interceptors had their ‘mission accomplished’ and the domi turned into a sitting duck. When a quarter of his armor was gone the domi got support from a second domi and a raven. They tried to remote rep the domi, but the dps from our fleet was cruising in. Down went domi number 1. At that moment a secondary target was already called long before: the raven. It’s shield failed pretty fast, but it’s armor and hull went even faster. Soon the second domi got primaried. Meanwhile our unfortunate reds got some help from a scorpion and abaddon. But it only slowed down the domis downfall for a little bit. The scorpion was the next target, but it was a bit too far off for most of the fleet (80km), so we took the abaddon as a sideorder first. The interceptors did manage to scramble the scorpion, so we didn’t want to was this kill. While we were approaching the scorpion, a megathron arrived on the field, but it managed to warp off in time somehow.Later we noticed he had logged off.
After the scorpion went down it was time to scoop the loot and salvage the wrecks. While we were busy emptying the wrecks, the megathron pilot logged back on. This time he wouldn’t escape us. In no time at all we pointed him and my manticore could shoot at it in full glory. 30 seconds later another wreck appeared on the field and I got my first ‘final blow’ with BS. Again we could gather the loot. The worthless stuff was destroyed. All in all the fighted lasted only about ten minutes, but the damage we had dealt was more than significant. We lost only 1 falcon, but that was nothing compared to the kills. Half an hour later we were comfortably back in the lobby with a well deserved drink.
Rustige avond voor de CEO en dus nog effe rustig inloggen om te kijken hoe al mijn mensen aan het sjouwen zijn met materiaal.
Ondertussen als een voorbeeldige jongen ook op ventrillo gelogd. En toen ….Ik kwam in de lobby en wou rustig nestelen maar ik werd prompt opgeroepen om een fast roaming fleet te joinen. Helaas had ik niet echt een geschikt schip voor de fleet maar FOXX hielp me uit de nood met een manticore. Na een korte check-up (alle mods online, ammo) kreeg ik mijn invite en liet ik de lobby achter mij (ops kanaal). Dat alles verliep zo vlot dat het leek alsof ik in B-S zelf zat.
Ik warpte in op FOXX die waarschijnlijk nog een laatste blik op z’n geliefkoosde manticore wou werpen. En daar hing ik met FOXX en Riotrick aan een wormgate. Aan de andere kant van het wormhole hing Gemina met zijn ‘ceptor fleet actief bezig alle vijandelijkheden aan het overlopen. We hadden al rap door dat we er heel wat battleships op de radar kwamen. Hoe langer het lijstje werd, hoe meer de zin en de ‘yarrr’ naar boven kwam.
Gelukkig hield Gemina (FC van de ‘ceptor fleet) en Riotrick (FC van de andere schepen) iedereen in bedwang. De fleet was een voorbeeld qua discipline en het doorspelen van info. Op scanner waren plots ook fighters te zien en dus moesten we rekening houden met een carrier. De intel bleef binnenkomen en onze gang bleef rustig hangen aan de wormgate in worm-home.Tot op het moment dat er info kwam dat een dominix op 30 km van onze wormgate kwam te liggen. De fleetcommander gaf direct het bevel om een point op de domi te zetten en onze fleet moest in het wormhole jumpen. Een paar seconden later hadden de interceptors al ‘mission accomplished’ en de domi was niet meer als een sitting duck. Toen er al een kwart armor weg was, kreeg de domi steun van een andere domi en een raven. Ze probeerden om de dominix nog te reppen maar de dps van onze fleet was toen op kruissnelheid en de domi nr1 ging neer.
Op dat moment was allang het tweede target doorgegeven, de raven. Het shield van de raven was in een mum van tijd weg maar armor en hull gingen zowaar nog sneller neer. Algauw werd de tweede domi primary target. Ondertussen kreeg onze onfortuinlijke reds nog de hulp van een scorpion en een abaddon. Maar het vertraagde enkel de ondergang een beetje van de domi. De scorpion moest de volgende target zijn maar die hing te ver voor de meeste fleetmembers (op 80km) dus namen we de abaddon er nog als tussendoortje bij. De scorpion was ondertussen ook al gescrambled en dus gingen we een extra kill niet afslaan. Terwijl we op de scorpion aan het inhakken waren, kwam er nog een megathron ingewarped maar die kon op tijd weer uitwarpen. Achteraf bleek dat hij zich had uitgelogd.Na de scorpion was het tijd om de loot en de salvage bij elkaar te vegen. En terwijl we druk bezig waren met het legen van wrecks, logde de megathron weer in. Dit keer zou hij ons niet ontsnappen. In een mum van tijd hadden we een punt op hem en kon mijn manticore er vol op vuren. 30 seconden later was er een wreck bijgekomen en had ik mijn eerste ‘final blow’ bij B-S.
Opnieuw mochten we nog wat loot bij elkaar rapen en de overschot werd weggeknald. Al bij al duurde hooguit 10 minuutjes maar de damage die we hadden uitgedeeld, was meer als behoorlijk. Wij hebben slechts 1 falcon verloren maar dat kon de pret van deze avond niet drukken.
Een half uurtje later zaten we al terug rustig in de lobby met een drankje languit in de zetels.
I’ve recorded a class 3 anomoly in Legion. This anomoly was called ‘The Oruze Construct”. The wormhole I was in had a -24% “bonus” on armor repair. No combat boosters where used in this anomoly.
Unfortunately my fraps borked three times. So you will see black screen for a couple of seconds three times. I will record a new movie soon.
The movie is just uploaded. Usually it takes youtube an hour or so to be able to show the HD version. So if the quality is bad, just wait a bit.
Update 1: The youtube processing is finished. HD version is available now.
Update 2: Re-rendered the movie. It’s fixed now. Uploaded the new version to youtube.
Yesterday I did a second attempt at soloing a class 4 wormhole. I started off in a Frontier Barracks anomoly. The same one I attempted the last time.
I had refitted my legion a bit, swapping out the 800mm plate for a True Sansha Heat Sink. The first two waves were no problem like the last time. The third wave (2 bs, 4 cruisers, 3 frigates) was the one were all the ships remote rep each other. Again like list time killing the webbing/scrambling frigates was no problem. Then on to the cruisers…. Well basically the same problem as last time. I got them into low armor then they got repped back up to full armor.
So back to WormHome for a refit. I swapped out the damage control for a second True Sansha Heat Sink. I went back to the same anomoly, so I could continue on the third wave. Still I had trouble killing the cruiser. But this time every now and then I managed to put a bit of structure damage on one of the cruisers. After about 10 minutes it finally blew up! Now with one of the cruisers gone, I had enough damage to break the others tank fairly quick.
So the first class 4 anomoly finished solo \o/ Didn’t I read on the forums somewhere class 4+ was impossible to solo This anomoly dropped 66mil in sleeper tags and a bit of salvage (11 NIM’s among the salvage).
Next I tried another anomoly. Can’t exactly remember the name. I’ll look it up when I get home. In this anomoly the first wave was no problem. The second wave spawned 4 battleships: 3 defenders and 1 safeguard. This was the first time I had seen a safeguard, so I had no idea what exactly it did. I moved in a bit closer to be able to hit them. Then I got hit with 4 webbers. My tank was holding up at one moment, then at another moment when the sleepers got a few good hits my tank seemed unable to keep up with the damage. On top of the when I got a bit closer, the safeguard bs also scrambled me.
I popped in a Standard Exile Booster, because I really wasn’t going to lose my legion here. Even with the booster I couldn’t tank the 4 bs too long. So I tried moving away from them, aligning to a moon. When the safeguard dropped it’s scram for a moment I warped off. Not to so succesful at this one. I might be able to survive this anomoly with my full tank fit though. But I didn’t try that.
I tried a third type of anomoly. Also can’t remember the name, I’ll update this post when I get home. This anomoly had 4 argos sentries a few cruisers and a few frigates in the first wave. Lot’s of webbing and scrambling going on but not too much damage. I chewed through it fairly easy. The second wave again consisting of quite a few cruisers and frigs. Webbing / scrambling action a lot again. Also to remote rep cruisers where added to the mix. Again not much trouble in this wave. The last wave spawned a safeguard (web/scram) bs and 4 cruisers. The cruisers where quickly dealt with, then onto the safeguard. Man… these ships can tank Took me about 10 minutes to take it down. All in all this was a fairly easy anomoly. This also reflected in the loot: just 35,5 mil in sleeper tags and 3 NIM’s.
Since it was getting pretty late I decided to call it a day and went back to WormHome. I got quite a bit of insight in the class 4 wormholes. If you solo you’ll make more isk/time in a class 3 hole. But the class 4 anomolies are definately soloable. Which is good to know, since this will give me more oppurtunities to make isk solo during the slow times as class 3′s and class 4′s spawn near our WormHome.
Update 1: The tough anomoly was called “Sleeper Information Sanctum”
Update 2: Added some screenshots
Last friday we found a small gang trying to work through a class 5 anomoly. They had a raven, scorpion and two basilisks. They were going at for a looooong time, and didn’t seem to have the dps to chew through it. We kept an eye on them for a while.
Because they weren’t able to break the sleepers tank, they got some reinforcements: another raven and a drake. When we had assembled enough people ourselves, we decided to gank them. As for the results… well take a look below here.
Oh… we also finished the anomoly and took the sleeper loot 
Since I’ve had my legion, I’ve been very curious if it could handle class 4 wormholes solo. Today a corpmate probed out a class 4 hole close to our own wormhole. So this was the perfect oppurtunity to try it out.
Being a little bit scared about the damage output the sleepers would do in a class 4 hole, I deciced to put some extra tank on my ship. This is the setup I used:
[Legion, Class 4 Sleepers]
Centum A-Type Medium Armor Repairer
Damage Control II
Dark Blood Armor EM Hardener
Dark Blood Armor Thermic Hardener
Dark Blood Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane
Dark Blood Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane
800mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
Republic Fleet 10MN Afterburner
Gallente Navy Stasis Webifier
True Sansha Cap Recharger
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Amarr Navy Multifrequency M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Amarr Navy Multifrequency M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Amarr Navy Multifrequency M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Amarr Navy Multifrequency M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Amarr Navy Multifrequency M
Sisters Expanded Probe Launcher, Sisters Core Scanner Probe I
Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Nanobot Accelerator I
Legion Defensive – Nanobot Injector
Legion Electronics – Emergent Locus Analyzer
Legion Engineering – Capacitor Regeneration Matrix
Legion Offensive – Liquid Crystal Magnifiers
Legion Propulsion – Fuel Catalyst
On top of that I had some armor hardwirings, the ZET100, ZET200, ZET400, ZET500 and a 5% medium energy turret damage hardwiring. Just to be sure I also brought a Standard Exile Booster to give me another 20% extra tank, should I need it.
I tried a Frontier Barracks anomoly. The first wave spawned a preserver and upholder battleship. No problem, I knew my tank could handle that easily. Since the preservers are the remote reppers for the sleepers I killed the preserver battleship first.
Crap…. that was the trigger for the second wave. That wave spawned and additional 3 upholder battleships and 2 preserver cruiser.
So now I had to deal with 4 upholder battleships. They seemed to eat through my tank slowly. In with the booster. Unfortunately the booster gave me a cap penalty, which made the ship not cap stable any more. The 4 bs still were a little bit too much for my tank, so I warped away.
The wormhole had plenty of anomolies, so I tried another one. Now nowing what the trigger was, I killed the upholder bs first, then the preserver. No I only had to deal with 3 bs and 2 cruisers in the second wave. This proved to be easily tankable. Because of the full tank fit I had it took a little while to take them all down.
Then the third wave spawned. 2 bs, 4 cruisers, 3 frigs. All preservers. So not too much damage, but a whole lot of remote repping going on. The frigates, which webbed and scrambled me, were the first in range. They insta-popped to my lasers, so no trouble there. Then I started working on the cruisers. The first one exploded pretty fast. But when I got to the second one, all the other sleepers had their remote reps up & running. So I couldn’t kill it. I tried overloading my guns, which gave it some structure damage, but didn’t kill it yet, before I had to stop overloading. After 15 minutes or so I still couldn’t get it down, so I warped off.
Unfortunately the wormhole I entered it was reaching the end of it’s natural lifetime, so I didn’t have time to go back and refit. But all in all this was a nice test. Gave me some insight in the class 4 holes. Next time I’ll try to switch out the damage control for a heat sink. That should give just enough damage to kill off a preserver cruisers. And once one is down, the next one will be easier.
I didn’t record any fraps this time. But I did make some screenshots. I will fraps my second attempt.
My own personal goldmine
This is a class 3 wormhole. All these anomolies drop about 30mil isk in sleeper tags. They take me about 25 minutes solo.
