Extremely survivable and not really any risk to a Fiend. The Hel had three Ametats and two Templars. “Once I got to the last system I saw a Sabre and Hel on gate. I knew he still had aggro from the bubble so when he landed on the outgate I MJD’d him off with my Bifrost and continued moving.” I warped the Fiend to the gate and jumped through, because a Devoter is very unspooky, decloaked and burned away then bounced safes to go to next gate, as I was bouncing safes the Devoter bubbled down and warped to next outgate in the pipe. The Devoter jumped with me and bubbled up. saw the Devoter on gate and jumped through to check the other side. So once I popped the VNI, I warped my forward scouting Bifrost alt to the gate to see what was up. As I was killing said VNI I noticed a few supers undock, as well as a Devoter and Naglfar. So I took it into the INIT pocket looking for a few more killmarks yesterday, caught myself a VNI in a populated system with like 30 dudes in the Keepstar. “ It’s an incredibly strong solo ship with a huge engagement profile, and it survives well against fighters due to huge resists and damage mitigation from its AB speed bonus. When asked about the ship and the events that led up to the kill, Velsharoon said he flew the ship almost daily for two months hoping to reach 1337 kills on it, too: In one Reddit post, they claimed that they were hesitant to start flying AT ships because they would not know if they were able to stop, and it seems their prediction held true when they switched over to the Fiend after losing the Imp. Velsharoon is probably best known to the EVE community by achieving 1337 kills in an Imp (among them a carrier), and subsequently losing it on another character and is considered one of the best solo and small gang pilots currently in the game. It belonged to Casper24, who has until recently flew under the flag of Alliance Tournament contender Hydra Reloaded. The Fiend was piloted by Velsharoon of CODE.’s ‘New Order Outreach Division’, the newest iteration of a group of experienced small-gang PVP pilots. If Velsharoon’s ship had not been damaged in a previous engagement, this raises the question “what happened?”, since the base hitpoints of the ship that he was flying exceeded the damage that volleyed him off the field. – Annnnnd blap, dead.”Īnd blap, dead it was, indeed zKillboard reports the ship took around 7,000 damage before it was destroyed. burned a towards apply scram, and before he instapops my Sabre I told her to hit him with everything. Assuming he’s just baiting me off the gate for the other dude to get out, burned back to the gate only to find mid-way the Fiend uncloaking about 10k off of me (bad luck for him). Bifrost came first, tried to burn to him but he pulled off rather quickly. decided to just go ahead and plug the hole, told my sister to jump their Hel to 49, took the ancil gate, she dropped fighters and warped to a and I stood guard on the gate. “ Simply put, the dude was around in the pocket, assumed he would try to get out before anything was prepared. INN has contacted Tsuil, long-term member of The Initiative corporation STK Scientific for his view of events. It’s likely that the value of this particular kill veers more toward half a trillion ISK. Killmails also fail to calculate the value of Abyssal items, which according to Velsharoon were about 50 billion for this particular fit. While zKillboard estimates the total price of the hull to be around 150 billion ISK, this is probably off the mark.Ī recent auction of a Fiend blueprint copy attracted offers of 360 billion ISK, with some claiming the worth to be 500 billion ISK. This is the fourth Fiend to ever be destroyed, and the first to meet its fate in null security space. The Fiend is an Alliance Tournament XIII prize ship, one of only 50 can ever be in the game, and is a heavy interdiction cruiser based on the Phantasm’s hull. Velsharoon had been roaming in the dead end pocket of XLL-Z7 where The Initiative holds some systems with heavy ratting activity. The kill last week of an Alliance Tournament ship produced volumes of interest around the Eve Universe, and a bit of controversy as the pilot and his corpmates suggested game mechanics might have failed at a critical time.Īt 15:14 Eve time on December 27, a Fiend piloted by Velsharoon was volleyed off the N-M1A3 gate in the system of 49-U6U.
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