Ishtar

How to fly it?

• Much better guide than mine is available on Arak's EVE Nomad website - https://evenomad.com/t6-abyss-ishtar/ - I cannot even compete :)

• Three flights of drones:

  • Navy Berserkers - your main flight. Used against almost any spawn, can sustain a bit of incoming damage, and maybe one Deviant Automata Suppressor - treat them well, they'll return the favour :)

  • T2 Berserkers - big DPS. Send them against Battleships if there's no threat to them

  • Navy Wasps - big shields, a bit more DPS. Used against Tesseras (becasue Tesseras won't kill them) and Ephialtes spam wave - because they have a bit more DPS, and Ephis low resists. They also do not care about Deviant Automata Supressors, so if there's few of them - Wasps are correct choice.

• Turn off "Focus Fire" drone setting:

  • Whenever there are single threats you want to remove quickly - like Vedmaks for example - send drones manually

  • After you remove big threats, and only small stuff remains - you might want to spread out your drones, either manually or by just letting them attack what they want

• Make sure that your drones aren't attacking Deviant Automata Suppressors - they like to do it

• Make sure you manually assing drones to Logi ships - like Fieldweavers or Plateforgers. Since they do not agress you, drones will not auto-attack them

• Kiting is always good option, use it

• Guns are only add on - Tremor being your deafult ammo. Pop the cache, shoot anything (preferably bigger stuff that doesn't rep). Load Quake if you are shooting BS and you're in orbit around them

• ADC is your 'oh shit' button - three typical uses are

  • Your tank is breaking - you slap ADC to survive - but after 10 seconds you're back where you were, so it's limited in use that way

  • To regain some cap - with ADC active you don't need to rep, so your cap can recharge a bit - did become useful once or twice

  • When you get out of the Abyss and gankers are waiting for you - gives you 10 seconds if life more. Not guaranteed to save you though.

• Ideally you shouldn't need your ADC at all, and you could replace that with DCU - for more resists all the time, but no emergency button

Tessella

Threat Level: Low

Quick Tips:

• Annoying EWAR first

• Don't stay inside the swarm

• Blue Cloud is your friend, but not a dealbreaker to waste time

Notes: Nothing special. One of easiest spawns, can be quite annoying if you get webbed a lot. You can ignore Logi, they rep so low that it doesn't make sense to prioritize them - and they will stop when everything else is dead - just make sure you manually send your drones against them.

Tessera

Threat Level: Medium

Quick Tips:

• Stay more than 15km away

• If they get closer - pray? idk :P

• Send Wasps, prioritize Tessera that's yellowboxing you

Notes: Will hit you hard if you let them. Don't let them :) Remove all Snarecasters as soon as possible (if there are any), and keep in mind that Sparkgrip and Blastgrip target your resist hole. Blast is the fastest -> Spark -> Strike -> Ember is the slowest - prioritze faster ones first, as they will get closer. When you are yellowboxed - it means that Tessera is now shooting one of your drones. Send all of your drones + your guns on that specific Tessera. After it's dead - your drones will have a bit of time to recharge shields, and they shouldn't really die. Worst case - recall damaged one and keep in in bay for a while.

Overmind

Threat Level: Low

Quick Tips:

• Send T2 drones, more DPS is more good

• T5 variant has 15km Web, stay further out.

Notes: Slowest spawn, but not really dangerous. Approach with a bit of angular, collect biocache on the way, kill EWAR frigs before you start hitting Overmind. You can use your guns, but drones are very much enough to kill it - I do prefer myself to stay close to gate, just mind your Angular.

Kikimoras

Threat Level: Medium / High

Quick Tips:

• They spool up. Each Kiki can deal 210 DPS at max spool, which is a bit scary

• Good EWAR priorities are crucial - Neuts, Webs if there are any

• Pulling range to break the spool won't work reliably, try to kite from beginning

Notes: Surprisingly hard if you underestimate it. Don't let Kikis spool up, kill them fast. Neuts are priority, webs will be annoying too. Your drones can take few hits, but not too much - make sure you watch for enemies yellowboxing you.

Vedmaks

Threat Level: Medium / High

Quick Tips:

• Best Neuters in Abyss. Absolute priority

• Focus fire on them, don't let your drones spread out. Removing 1 Vedmak is much better than damaging 5 by 20%

• EWAR priority stays as usual

Notes: Each Starving drains 18 GJ, which means that two of them are enough to quickly remove all your cap. Try to remove them fast, and keep ADC as your Cap saver - while ADC is active you don't need to use Shield Booster, so you might as well switch it off and let cap recharge a bit

Vila

Threat Level: Low

Quick Tips:

• Ignore Swarmers completely

• Priority is less important as enemies don't deal that much DPS

• Vedmaks are big DPS, they get priority

Notes: Not dangerous. Start with Vedmaks (they are the only ship that has any DPS in the room), then let the drones roam. warmers may switch aggro to them, pay attention if they aren't dying - they shouldn't, but still.

Leshaks

Threat Level: Low / Medium

Quick Tips:

• Kite, if you are in drone/locking range. Keep transveral up, approaching straight is bad

• Renewing -> Starving -> Striking -> Tangling

Notes: Usually quite easy room, if you do not mess up your approach :) Send your drones in, kill Starvings first (you can even split drones), you should be fine. Don't be greedy, you can approach the cache when most Leshaks are dead. They have 63km range, so if you get further away than that - you'll break spool.

Lucid Sleepers / Ephialtes Sleepers / Scylla Drifters

Threat Level: Medium

Quick Tips:

• Scyllas do have the same name, you need to watch "Type" column in your overview

• Not very dangerous rooms - remove EWAR in standard order, shouldn't be an issue

• Tend to be a bit long, but besides shooting - not much you can do about it :)

Notes: Reasonably easy room, besides lost time shouldn't casue you an issue. Firewatcher and Sentinel are Neuts with not obvious names, so pay attention to that. Webs can be annoying, so I usually remove them next.

Deepwatchers

Threat Level: Low

Quick Tips:

• They will stay close to conduit, so orbiting it usually works well

• Send T2 drones, shoot your gun, wait till they die

Notes: Should cause too much trouble

Karybdis Tyrannos

Threat Level: Medium

Quick Tips:

• Spiral in, don't hit wall, watch out for Wrecking shots

• Don't approach straight, but collect biocache on the way

• Leave small stuff for the end, unless it's bad EWAR

Notes: Karen, nothing to add.

Thunderchild

Threat Level: Medium

Quick Tips:

• If you see a lot of EDENCOMs - send Wasps

Notes: Not very exciting room, just shoot stuff. In rooms mixed with Concord I tend to leave Edencom stuff till the end - as they will also damage other enemy ships.

Marshal

Threat Level: Medium / High

Quick Tips:

• Transversal doesn't matter, move fast - Marshals have about 70km range, so you can kite them, but not always and it's not great

• Remove Webbers, as the slower you go - the more damage you get

• Next priority would be Markers - more sig = more incoming DPS

Notes: If there's too many Marshals - consider heating your hardener, at least until you remove few of them. They tend to hit all at the same time, so Alpha will be considerable.

Sansha

Threat Level: Medium

Quick Tips:

• Hunters will follow Knights, and Knights stay far - kite everything

• While kiting, EWAR frigates will follow you - take them out first

• ADC is your friend, you might need to use it

Notes: Not very hard room, but they are targeting your resist hole. Drones might get aggro, but Navy Berserks should be fine. Kite, shoot EWAR, shoot DPS - that usually does it. Don't get close to Knights if you don't have to, as they will Web and Neut you which is kinda bad.

Angels

Threat Level: Medium / High

Quick Tips:

• Fury on the approach, then Cynabal -> Elite Cynabal -> Dramiel -> Elite Dramiel

• Can be a bit scary, especially with plenty of Cynabals - heat early if you have to, and try to conserve your cap

Notes: Do not underestimate this room. Angels are faster than you, and they will control the range - most of the time they will sit on top of you, and you'll just have to remove them faster than your shields break ;)