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Damian Swift
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Wildfire Missiles?

Post by Damian Swift » Wed, 16. Jun 10, 09:10

I love using wildfire missiles against pesky m4's and m5's ( still new and they are all i am running into during protect convoy missions) but seem to have no factories for them??

How can you get them (apart from loot drops)?

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Post by Kor'ah » Wed, 16. Jun 10, 09:20

I've found a crate with a small number of wildfires just sitting in the unknown sector 18:10, inside triplex range of the gate if I remember right. That's W-S starting from Gaian Star. Could be some other crates like that scattered around.

Other than that you need to beat them out of your enemies.
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Post by Berserkenstein » Wed, 16. Jun 10, 10:36

If you like wildfires you should really try hurricanes, they do 4 times as much damage. They are only a little bit slower at 471 m/s as compared to the fireflies 576 m/s but they are homing missiles. Its also funny watching them send ships spinning 8)
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Post by Alan Phipps » Wed, 16. Jun 10, 13:25

@ Beserkenstein: Wildfires are Free Fire missiles and can be launched whenever and wherever you want and then they look for and home on the enemy targets they find. In comparison Hurricanes can only be fired at a specific target you must first acquire yourself. You can also carry 3 times as many Wildfires as Hurricanes for the same volume.

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Post by Berserkenstein » Wed, 16. Jun 10, 14:04

Really? Whenever I tried to use them they only flew in a straight line and never hit anything. I guess I'll check them out again.
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Post by Alan Phipps » Wed, 16. Jun 10, 14:20

Not thinking of Firelance are you?

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Post by Master of the Blade » Wed, 16. Jun 10, 17:29

The best way to stockpile Wildfires is to do lots of Xenon invasion missions in Grand exchange/Getsu Fune - Xenon always drop either Wildfires or Banshees, and I think pirates in station defence missions do too. You can get about 30 missiles from a decent mission, sometimes. And that's really handy - I'm lugging around 100 wildfires in my frigate at the moment, in case of fighter swarms.
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Post by DiveBomberDave » Thu, 17. Jun 10, 03:33

In my main game even pirate M1's & M2's drop wildfires & banshees from side missions, once everything stops dropping E-cells, they will drop 1 of these 2 missiles, I stopped even bothering to get my cleanup crew to gather them i had so many...

But i'm the sort of guy who generally likes to shoot everything & just keep missiles for cap ships....

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