Whoop Whoop.
Love these my new fav mob. Went out in Vigi 6a's thinking robots right - wrong died - vigi 6a offers no electric protection. After actually reading up realised the best protection from these is the OMG no MU (L) Thunderbird. So I went out in Ghost 5b which had some protection and second mob out global with a thunderbird harness, this is MA's way of getting you hooked. So now I can do gen 1 and gen 2 without fapping during shooting and lose about half my health each time. I prefer to araneatrox as there is less swarming. I will stay on these as a top end grinding mob until i loot some of the other thunderbird pieces
I have 3k/10k left to do as of last night and I can't wait to be done, I'm so burnt out on them, but I really want that HG reward, and I have this OC problem with unfinished item counts
As for armor, with 34 evade/172 hp, I can actually do gen1,2 naked, that is, as long as I'm not on the damage interval where they hit me every time, but I wouldn't suggest doing that because your armor savings will be eaten up by fap expense and it will slow you down A LOT, unless you have an uber fap then knock yourself out. I used to do it when I had my imp fap and it was great. Gen1 hits max reg hit around 40 naked, Crits are like 30 to 90. If I want to go real fast, I'll wear my Gemlin + 6B, that's the only UL armor I have and its not too bad, I don't to fap much after each one, sometimes not at all. I currently go naked because I have a friend leveling bioregen who follows me around keeping me in the pink, so that kind of works out, unless she gets focus fired, then she dies because she's a noob lol. If you had a full set of tbird it would be a cake walk, apparently its close to TT food so it might be worth getting a L set of tbird for the whole grind. I can do a couple hundred a night if I focus. Also, like other mobs, they often spawn on top of you, its common to get two or three or more on you very quickly, especially when others are on the radar.
I've been very lucky in the uber department, but I think that was payback for the last 7 years of depos and shitty loot, so I'm not expecting that to be a trend, for me anyway, but it is possible looking at the tracker, so go for it! Some nights I cover my expenses, some nights I can kill a couple hundred and not even see a single global or item and be in a deep hole, this has happened a lot more lately, its interesting that it corresponds to the events going on, but I see other people looting, I never expect to cover my expenses, I always expect I'll have to depo to do anything, so whatever. I see other people pop out there and global several times and I get none, or, I get some and they get none, or I get some, they get some. Some people seem to never get anything, others seem to get it all the time, I don't know why. I just keep grinding, every night no matter what.
For items loot, I've only seen two tbird harness and two tbird thighs in that time. A few peices of Jag L (I can't remember the pieces, didn't sell, ended up TTing it so I don't remember what it was), I got my first Emik Enigma L3 (L) last night off a gen2. I have had a number of those 16 ped attack chips, a couple Bicak Kex (L), a couple Katsuichi Glory Retro L, a couple of those interesting 1 ped Isis LC-35 RX Edition (L), a couple Isis Project Zero-Three (L), lots of Rapper Snapper L and Boom CCC L amps, they seem to be the most common drop.
A few years ago, they used to drop output amplifier components, martial armor L, and some other L weapons like HL6, LR32, etc. but I haven't seen of those older loots on them since I've been back, I think that stuff has been turned off.
Afaik, the only real interesting things to date off these low maturity while I was out there and didn't get was
colonelbuckshot's UL item and just last night Black Caesar Hyperion looted an
UL Emik Enigma L4, lucky sobs
I don't know what drops off the higher maturities, including "The Eviscerator"! I've heard some say the MU is better on the higher maturities, but I don't personally know, the people that hunt the big ones don't tend to disclose that info to the proletariat, it must be good though since some top hunters kill them regularly.
Hope that info helps others, good luck out there!
