Worlds Collide (Blood Raiders & Angel Cartel) (Level 4)

Mission Details

Level	4
Type	Encounter
Factions	Blood RaidersAngel Cartel
Best damage to deal	EM Th Ex Kin
Damage to resist	EM Th Ex Kin
Warp disruption	Elite Frigates, Blood Spy
EWAR	NOS (Priest/Dark Priest)
Ship suggestion	Apocalypse, Dominix, Maelstrom, Sacrilege, Nighthawk
Extra	I recommend going with Blood Raider specific defenses, since most part of the pockets can be done with this defense, first, if you want, and third pocket are from Blood Raiders, so fighting with Angel Cartel defenses can be a bit tricky for your resistances

First Pocket (Warzone)

You arrive in the middle of two large groups (135km to the nearest rat) and two gates (40km to each gate approx). One for your primary enemy, and one for the faction mentioned in the mission briefing (in this case, Blood Raiders and Angels). They start far away from you behind their own gate. The gates are locked until you kill the last ship of that faction.

Blitz: You can blitz this by using Zbikoki's Hacker Card. (Obtained from Zor in other missions). It will be consumed upon unlocking the gate.

		WD	EWAR	L
Blood Raiders Side
	3 x Elite Frigate Elder Corpii Follower / Corpii Herald / Corpii Worshiper / Dark Corpii Upholder
	2 x Elite Cruiser Elder Corpum Dark Priest / Corpum Shadow Sage
	3 x Battleship Corpus Prophet / Oracle
Angel Cartel Side
	3 x Elite Frigate Arch Gistii Thug / Outlaw
	3 x Elite Cruiser Gistum Domination Crusher / Smasher
	4 x Battleship Gist Malakim / Throne

Blood Raider Pocket

		WD	EWAR	L
Group 1 7km
	2 x Frigate Blood Spy
	3 x Battleship Corpus Apostle / Corpus Oracle
Group 2: 23 km
	2 x Battlecruiser Corpatis Fanatic
	2 x Battleship Corpus Apostle / Corpus Oracle
Group 3: 24km
	5 x Destroyer Corpior Friar
	5 x Battleship Corpus Apostle / Corpus Oracle
Group 4: 7km
	1 x Battleship Blood Rider Supervisor
	1 x Battleship Random chance: Blood Overseer

Warning: if you do it all wrong and aggro all of them --

• • • Full-aggro is 1100-1200dps (EM 50%/TH 50%) with the occasional kinetic cruise missile from the BS's.**

Tips:

- Shooting the Spies with your own guns/missiles will not aggro anything else. Drones and anyone else will.
- Drones can be safely used to kill the auto-aggro group. Just make sure they don't shoot Spies.
- One can slowboat to the next gate. No additional aggro. You will be at around 5 km to the gate when the gate group aggros you.
- Wait for the 1st group to target you, and take them all out. Fire on another ship, it's group will target you, and take that group out. Feel free to take out the Blood Spy's, once the 2nd group is gone, to trigger the last group.
- you might find a collidable structure in your way (or even hit it) as you enter.

Angel Cartel Pocket

Tank: Exp / Kin
Aggro at warp in: Yes (might web too)

Four apparent groups as of April 2011.

Group 1: 7km:

Aggro at warp in 2x Frigates (Angel Spy) (Web/Scramble)
3x Battleships (Apostle/Oracle)

Group 2: 20km:

4x Frigates (Gist Viper) (Web)
2x Cruiser (Gist Primus)
3x Battleships (Gist Saint)

Group 3: 35km:

3x Elite Frigates (Arch Gist Hunter/Impaler)
1x Elite Battlecruiser (Arch Gist Centurion)
4x Battleships (Saint/Warlord)

Group 4: 50km:

5x Battleships (Gist Throne/Cherubim)

Tips:

- Using drones on the Spies causes the whole room to aggro.
- The Saints throw Bane torpedoes and can hit at 55km or more.
- Arch Gistum Centurion is fast and will close the range to under 20km, so kill before the Saints.
- Cherubim throw Havoc cruise missiles to at least 80km. Thrones are shorter range.
- Chance of spawning a Gist Overlord [543k battleship] as well. Chance increases with every ship that enters the room. Overlord waits to be attacked, and attacking it caused the remainder of the room to aggro.

//Untested: A second ship (gangmate) present may cause entire room to aggro immediately.//
Original player leaving to get more ammo and returning does not cause remaining groups to aggro.

3rd Pocket (Blood Raiders)

• • • VIP: Killing all the ships in the 3rd pocket trips the "mission completed" flag even IF you do NOT pick up the stranded crew. ***
      

{Ie: If you kill them all, and fail to pick up the crew, you will have to quit the mission with loss of standings from agent, corp, and faction.}

The pocket looks like a single group, but it's actually 3. Use the same technique suggested for the Blood Raider pocket.

Group 1: 5km:

Aggro at warp in 3x Elite Battlecruisers (Elder Corpum Dark Priest / Elder Corpum Shadow Sage)
2x Battleships (Corpus Apostle / Corpus Oracle / Coprus Prophet)
They won't move very fast, so you can get some range on them if you can find a direction to go that doesn't come close to other groups.

Group 2: 10km:

4x Elite Frigates (Elder Corpii Herald / Dark Corpii Upholder) (Web/Scramble)
2x Battleship (Coprus Apostle / Coprus Oracle)
can be attacked seperately

Group 3: 10km:

3x Battlecruiser (Corpatis Fanatic / Corpatis Phantom)
2x Battleship (Coprus Apostle / Coprus Oracle / Coprus Prophet)

Again, if you do everything wrong [use drones, etc.]

• • • Full-aggro is 900-950dps (EM 51%/TH 49%) with the occasional kinetic cruise missile from the BS's.**

Tip:

- Only need to blow up the auto-aggro group to get the ship crew.
- Keep drones on Passive to prevent any unwanted aggro
- On occasion, you might - even without drones or partners - aggro all of the groups (some of which can warp scramble). I suggest you put some distance fast between u and the groups you haven't yet aggroed.