William Murphy here is some data from my Bralkir Warship hunt, to show you why I dont think this mission (or the Darnos drons mission witch is very simular to this) is imposible to do



Kills needed ?
start Non-Player Kills 245.429
end Non-Player Kills 249.353
= 3924 kills to find and kill 30 Bralkir Warship

Time to get the task done ?
the mission started late in the evening, so had to miss the first 16 to 18 hours to sleep and Work, and theire was 43 hours left on the timer when I killed the last Bralkir warship
72 - 43 - 18 = less then 11 hours, and the real number is proberly closer to 6 hours spendt on killing NPC's

the task took me 3.5 ranks to compleet on this run

energy spend ?
well that is a tricky one. For me 3.5 ranks = 3.5 * 20K = 70K energy + 3K from regain during the time the mission was up
but also dumped 1-2K energy into base donation, The Tejiar Reformation or TC lab at each rank up to make sure I used all energy (so lats say - 4K energy spendt that way)
and used a few abilityes as well

the bedst estimate I can give you is it cost me somewere around 60K to 65K energy to do this one

but the main reason energy cost is a bit pointless, is I found and locked these boss/elites during the run, and proberly loked 3 times that number of shared NPC

special
1 Bralkir Vicar

ex - rare NPC's (21)
1 Grivv Prime
1 Attiroth, Lazuli Carrier
0 Pevreon, Dark Specialist
0 Kelethor, Crimson Hauler
0 Silthion Hybrid Cluster
1 XRP Warp Station
4 Dark Command Nexus
1 Sha'din Hypergrid
1 Sha'din Hyperport
4 Silthion Queen
3 Telarys Carrier
4 Rethion, Lazuli Superhauler
1 Rogue Experimenter

rare NPC's (47)
9 Lazuli Fabrication Plant
4 T.O. Troop Carrier
6 Sha'din Envoy
12 Dark Arms Carrier
9 Crimson Scythe
7 Rogue LabPod

443 uncommon
(all I have acces to are Blade Harvester, Mylarai Extractor, RSL Confinement, Lazuli Harrower, Dark Trafficker Sha'din Penetrator, Stryll Trapper , Dark Eluder, Sha'din Shockfighter, RSL Siege Cannon and Sabre Gunship)

I know from drops I got 22 Blade Harvester, 18 Mylarai Extractor, 17 RSL Confinement
that would make the 30 Bralkir warship around 50% more common then those 3 uncommon NPC's - BUT it's only it's only 4K kills so wouldnt trust that estimate to mutch

Common NPC's, well 3924 kills - 1(special) - 21 (ex-rare) - 47(rare) - 443 (uncommon) = 3412 kills
+- a few, depending on who got credit for killing the elites shared during the run

only have 5 common left (Dark Runner, Rogue Tech Collector, Crimson Flamehawk, Sha'din Charger, Stryll Assassin)
so that would make somewere around it 3412/5 = 682 of each, witch looks accurate when I look at how many Dark Badges I picked up


so if you
1 are rank 900+
2. have enougth energy to autorank (max energy/ rank = 14+)
3 are able to kill 4K NPC during the 3 days the mission runs
4. have gotten rid of ALL mission NPC (Dark Iso-Runner, Crimson Cutlass, Drannik Archivist, Rogue Data Analyzer, Litheor Deepspike etc.)
5. are a member in an activ legion that will help you kill your shared boss/elite NPC so you dont get blocked in

these 2 Tasks are not all that hard to do, they just take a lot of clicks

2706 NPCs killed today to find 30 Darmos Drones
That is 1 in 90 spawn rate.

It is likely the spawn rate is somewhere between 1 in 90 and 1 in 100

The Darmos Drone hunt is just crap! They hit too hard and they take too many hits to kill! At least Dan should RAISE the rank to increase the cap!

Hell, I could do this easily at rank 790...

13330 energy
65k npc attack (I can spare 30 dranniks )

My ship isn't even remotely close of being the best in my rank range out there, so why complain?

Raise your arti/hour ffs

presisly
13.330 energy/ rank 790 = a 16.9 energy / rank ratio (more then you need to autorank on NPC kills)
and
65K NPC attack is enougth to hit dammage cap on most standart NPC that isn't rank m

with that setup, it only a matter of how many ranks you need gain to get it done

I would still like a power attack option (a 10 attacks run at the cost 50 energy) option to reduce the number of clicks you need to do from 250/300 pr kill to 25/30 clicks
but have no problem with the energy cost pr kill