The Hunt (2022)

The Hunt is an in-game Easter event that runs from April 7th to April 19th. It is similar with last year, it keeps the egg hunt, the site NPCs, and the pod implant drops. However as of April 7 the pods drop expired keys.

Note that activating the gate will consume a key regardless whether you manage to jump or not. The gate can be activated multiple times consuming multiple keys and the gate does not stay unlocked.

Combat sites

Guristas Hunt Outpost

This is the combat site that appears throughout New Eden including Wormholes with the event.

It is pretty similar with last year's event, but with a new boss.

The site appears as a Combat anomaly in the Probe Scanner window. Once warp to the site is initiated the site will also appear as a Beacon in the overview, revealing to everyone in the system that someone has warped to it.

Only T1, T2, and Faction Frigates and Destroyers can enter the site.

The site consists of two deadspace pockets, both behind Acceleration Gates.

The first room has five waves of frigates, destroyers and occasional cruisers. Once all waves are dead, the acceleration gate to the last room becomes active. Sometimes the acceleration gate becomes active before the last wave.

Accessing the final room requires a Hunt Acceleration Gate Key. The gate does not stay open for other people for 10 seconds after activation like other locked gates do. So everyone who wants to enter the final room needs their own key.

The final room has a single Hunt Jackdaw, supported by a couple towers. This NPC and the other boss in room 1 drops the valuable loot.

The site can be completed in a destroyer tanked against kinetic/thermal damage.

But take care, most frigates warp disrupt/scramble, web and neut, as well as the Automated Drone and the Jackdaw. In the first room, there are NPCs that deal damage aside from kinetic and thermal. Hunt Griffin deals Explosive damage and ECM, Hunt Kestrel deals EM damages, Hunt Blackbird deals massive explosive damage and ECM, Hunt Caracal deals massive EM damage. Additionally it is said they the NPCs like to agress Drones, so using a Drone Boat might be suboptimal.

The 'Hunt' rats have rather poor loot tables so don't bother looting.

The rats are weakest against EM and thermal damage. Kinetic damage is almost as good but explosive damage is not very good against them.

Loot

Known loot drops for standard event Combat sites are: Common:

• 7th to 12th Tier Overseer´s Personal Effects, which can be sold to CONCORD NPC buy orders,
• Fireworks (Naughty People variant),
• Abyssal Filaments,
• Guristas Pirate Faction clothing ('Fatal Elite', etc.)
• Volatile (time limited) Event Boosters as well as regular Boosters

Rare:

• Ship SKINS (Hunters Quiver, Guristas)
• Guristas Pirate Faction Modules
• Black Market 'Valdimar' Drone Durability DD-1001, DD-1003 and DD-1005
• Black Market 'Valdimar' Repair Drone Operation DR-901, DR-903 and DR-905
• Black Market 'Valdimar' Drone Sharpshooting DS-801, DS-803 and DS-905
• Black Market 'Valdimar' Drone Navigation DN-701, DN-703 and DN-705

First pocket

Wave x5 (can vary)

		WD	EWAR	L
	0-3 x Frigate Hunt Condor
	0-3 x Frigate Hunt Kestrel
	0-2 x Frigate Hunt Worm
	0-2 x Frigate Hunt Griffin
	0-3 x Destroyer Hunt Cormorant
	0-3 x Destroyer Hunt Corax
	0-1 x Cruiser Hunt Blackbird
	0-1 x Cruiser Hunt Caracal
Final Wave
	1 x Commander Frigate Guristas Automated VHF-08/VHF-21

Second pocket

You face a single boss rat in this room and some sentries.

Boss rat

		WD	EWAR	L
	1 x Commander Destroyer Hunt Jackdaw
	4 x Sentry Hunt EM/Explosive/Thermal/Kinetic Missile Battery
	1 x Sentry Hunt Stasis Webifier Tower
	1 x Sentry Hunt Energy Neutralizer Tower

Data sites

These are the Data sites, Hunt Data Relay, that appear throughout New Eden with the event.

A special advanced version, Huntmaster Data Relay, appears solely in Caldari Lowsec and in the Nullsec region of Venal.

The site appears as a signature in the probe scanner window that must be scanned down before being warpable.

The standard event site is a Level III Data site called Hunt Data Relay and consists of an initial warp-in area with 4 cans of green difficulty and an Acceleration Gate with requires a Key to activate it. This Key will then be consumed.

Hacking all four cans in the first room will despawn the whole site from the Probe window.

The second room contains another 5 cans of yellow difficulty and slightly better loot than the warp-in area. Both rooms - warp-in and second room - count as individual Hunt Data Relay site in regards to The Agencies campaign task, so fully resolving a single Event Data site will net up to 30 Points on the reward line.

Advanced Huntmaster Data Relay sites follow the same structure as standard sites but are more difficult, especially the second room, whose cans are of red 120(?) difficulty.

These cans, however, contain significantly more loot than their standard Event site brothers, in one case loot of up to a 15th Tier Overseer´s Personal effects is confirmed.

Loot

Known loot drops for standard event Data sites are:

• 5th-7th Tier Overseer´s Personal Effects, which can be sold to CONCORD NPC buy orders; the second room also drops 8th Tier Effects as well
• Fireworks (Ace of Podhunters variant)
• Abyssal Filaments
• Various standard Data site industry stuff of little value, often related to the Guristas Pirate faction
• Rarely, volatile (time limited) Event Boosters
• Very rarely, Ship SKINS and Guristas Apparel (Hunters Quiver, Guristas, 'Fatal Elite')

Overall, the value of the individual cans in the warp-in area rarely exceeds 1 million ISK and is often about half of that sum, and varies in the second room between 1 and 2 million ISK, tending towards the lower end.

Additionally, the main part of a cans´ loot value is oftentimes taken up by the Overseer´s Personal Effects which can quickly bring an exploration ships´ cargohold to its limits.

Hunt Data Relay

Warp-in /First Room

		WD	EWAR	L
	4 x Hunt Communication Tower

Second Room

		WD	EWAR	L
	5 x Hunt Communication Mainframe

Agency campaign

Task Name	Description	Reward
Egg Hunt
Crack the Capsule	Locate and destroy a mysterious capsule.	5 points
Crack the Capsule repeatable	Locate and destroy 5 mysterious capsules.	10 points
Combat Challenges
Hop on the Hunt Combat 1/3	Enter a Guristas Hunt Outpost site in high-security, low-security or null-security space.	5 points
Hop on the Hunt Combat 2/3	Destroy 5 non-capsuleer enemies while in Guristas Hunt Outpost site.	10 points
Hop on the Hunt Combat 3/3 repeatable	Destroy the Guristas Jackdaw when it arrives in the second room of a Guristas Hunt Outpost site.	15 points
Exploration Challenges
Sniff out the Secrets Exploration 1/2 repeatable	Scan down and enter a Hunt Data Relay site. You will need a data analyzer module and a probe scanner for the task ahead.	5 points
Sniff out the Secrets Exploration 2/2 repeatable	Hack into a Hunt or Huntmasters Communications Tower or Mainframe and discover what secrets it hides.(4x)	10 points

Points	Icon	Reward
50	32px	Hunt Probing Booster II
100		Pontifex Hunter's Quiver SKIN
150	32px	Hunt Rapid Repair Booster II
200		Bifrost Hunter's Quiver SKIN
250	32px	Hunt Drone Precision Booster II
300		Stork Hunter's Quiver SKIN
350	32px	Hunt Missile Damage Booster II
400		Magus Hunter's Quiver SKIN
450	32px	Hunt Pursuit Booster II
500		Scythe Fleet Issue Hunter's Quiver SKIN
550	32px	Hunt Resistance Booster II
600		Vexor Navy Issue Hunter's Quiver SKIN
650	32px	Hunt Missile Velocity Booster II
700		Omen Navy Issue Hunter's Quiver SKIN
750	32px	Hunt Drone Damage Booster II
800		Stabber Fleet Issue Hunter's Quiver SKIN
850		Hunt Booster Crate
900		Gila Hunter's Quiver SKIN
950		2x Hunt Booster Crate

Login campaign

The Hunt Daily Gifts is a login campaign that ran alongside The Hunt. The campaign rewards SKINs, Boosters, and 40,000 Skill Points for Alpha clones with 80,000 more Skill Points for Omega clones.

Day	For Alpha Accounts	Additional for Omega
1	5,000 Skill Points	Hunt YC124 Acceleration Gate Key
2	Moa Hunter's Quiver SKIN	10,000 Skill Points
3	32px Hunt Probing Booster I	Worm Versus Redforce SKIN
4	Scythe Hunter's Quiver SKIN	32px Hunt Rapid Repair Booster I
5	10,000 Skill Points	20,000 Skill Points
6	Omen Hunter's Quiver SKIN	Gila Versus Blueforce SKIN
7	32px Hunt Pursuit Booster I	32px Hunt Drone Precision Booster I
8	Vexor Hunter's Quiver SKIN	32px Hunt Missile Velocity Booster I
9	32px Hunt Resistance Booster I	Rattlesnake Versus Redforce SKIN
10	25,000 Skill Points	50,000 Skill Points

External Links

• Announcement of the Hunt
• The Hunts Returns