My Loot, Your Tears

After losing two Vigils this weekend, I was feeling that I needed to blow something up. And I got that opportunity today.

I was doing the usual salvage work in Dodixie, when I stumbled across a mission with four battlecruisers: A Ferox, a Myrmidon, and two Drakes. The odds weren't looking good for me, so I refrained from looting and cleared the field of wrecks. The runners noticed - the Myrm locked me - but otherwise left me alone. When they proceeded to the next room, I noted the location for later checking and went off to find other hits.

20 minutes later I drop in again, and the directional scanner tells me that the two drakes are gone and the Ferox and Myrmidon remain. The second room had plenty of wrecks but mostly small, so I proceeded to room three. The Ferox and Myrm were slowly looting the remaining large wrecks.

Feeling a little adventurous, I grabbed a nice large blaster out of a wreck and aligned toward a celestial. Sure enough, the Myrm locks me and opens fire. I changed direction and warped off to the Orca being used as the base of operations. In the mean time, my alt in a Covops ship is sitting outside the mission gate.

Back at the Orca, I switch out to my Harbringer, and make a call in Corp and Alliance for help/RR support. Unfortunately it looks like a fleet in another system has ongoing pew of their own and can not assist. I check with my cloaked alt at the mission and see that a few other Ninjas have arrived and are working on the wreck field. Also a Fleet Stabber had warped in and proceeded on; but the Myrmidon is gone, leaving just the Ferox.

What the hell - I warp the Harbringer to the mission. Maybe I can get some pew with the Ferox. I warp to room one... Ninjas picking the field apart. I warp to room two, and by force of habit, hit the dscanner - the Myrmidon is back! He must be behind me. I know he'll fall right on top of me if I don't move from the warp in point in room two.

Sure enough, 20 seconds later the Myrmidon pilot warps in right on top of me. I scram and web him, release the drones, engage the lasers and the neut, and hope like hell his fleet buddies can't arrive in time. He launches drones and starts firing at me.

I'm getting excellent hits, 600-800 damage per volley from my Medium Lasers. His shield melts in a few seconds. Armor damage is less, and he's actively tanking, but I am slowly breaking his tank. As he gets down to the end of his armor, I overheat the lasers to try and seal the deal. He's barely gotten through my shields at this point; I've taken a few % armor damage. He goes into structure and then it's all over:

http://tears.evekb.co.uk/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=882389

I collect his drops - some decent T2 mods, T2 drones, and some expensive meta4 guns - and go on my way. I convo him and offer a "good fight" to which he responds apparently as best he can - he's german.

He later sends me an email titled "i am a noob" with text "congrats on the kill I am not good pvp".

Good times. Sometimes you take the extra risk and it pays off. If I played it safe, I wouldn't have gotten that kill.

This entry was posted on September 27, 2009 at 7:35 PM by khalia and is filed under Combat.