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Dark Blood Fleet Staging Point

Unrated · difficulty rank 13Null SecurityBlood Raiders

The Dark Blood Fleet Staging Point is an unrated cosmic signature site that can be scanned using Core Probes in Blood Raider infested regions of Null Sec space. It may also be received as an escalation from Blood Forsaken Hub and Blood Forlorn Hub anomalies. The site itself escallates twice, involving travel. If both escallations go in the same direction, you could end up in hostile space for part 3. This can be run in a single Ishtar. The site appears to not aggro on Ishtar drones, so reset the aggro if that happens. The most critical part of running this is to deal with the neut batteries. Primary them but run away while you do because incoming damage will be heavy and you won't have cap.

Quick answersAccessFaction threat profileNPC rosterPayoutGo deeperEscalationsSources

Quick answers

Where is the Dark Blood Fleet Staging Point in EVE Online?

The Dark Blood Fleet Staging Point spawns in null-sec. How you find it: cosmic signature (combat scanning).

What spawns in the Dark Blood Fleet Staging Point?

The Dark Blood Fleet Staging Point has 6 waves and about 54 NPCs: 21 battleships, 12 battlecruisers, 12 destroyers and 8 sentry towers. Killing the trigger ship spawns the next wave; the trigger is Corpus Pope/....

What should I tank and shoot in the Dark Blood Fleet Staging Point?

Blood Raiders deal EM (50%) / Thermal (48%) damage and are weakest to EM / Thermal; they use Energy Neutralizers, Tracking Disruptors.

Does the Dark Blood Fleet Staging Point escalate?

Completing the Dark Blood Fleet Staging Point can escalate to Dark Blood Fleet Staging Point 2 and 3.

What does the Dark Blood Fleet Staging Point drop?

Commander spawns can drop faction modules; may escalate to an expedition. No structured drop data banked yet.

Access C Single-source / unverified

Ship restrictions
Not recorded

Faction threat profile C Single-source / unverified

EWAR used
Energy Neutralizers, Tracking Disruptors

Faction-level profile, not site-specific. Tank their damage, shoot their weakness.

NPC roster C Single-source / unverified

Community-maintained wave list from the site's own wiki page — counts and triggers vary between spawns; treat as the shape, not gospel.

1st Pocket — Structures 1 ship
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1 Acceleration Gate
1st Pocket — Initial Defenders 3 ships
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3 Corpior Devoter/Friar/... D
3 Corpatis Fanatic/... BC
4 Corpus Pope/... TRIGGER BS
1st Pocket — Reinforcement Spawn 3 ships
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3 Corpior Friar/Devoter/... D
3 Corpatis Fanatic/... BC
6 Corpus Pope/Patriarch/... BS
2nd Pocket — Initial Defenders 6 ships
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2 Corpior Devoter/Friar/... D
2 Corpatis Phantom/... BC
4 Corpus Patriarch/... BS
2 Blood Energy Neutralizer Sentry II Sentry
2 Blood Point Defense Battery Sentry
4 Blood Cruise Missile Battery Sentry
2nd Pocket — 1st Reinforcement Spawn 3 ships
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2 Corpior Friar/Devoter/... D
2 Corpatis Fanatic/Phantom/... BC
4 Corpus Patriarch/... BS
2nd Pocket — 2nd Reinforcement Spawn 3 ships
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2 Corpior Friar/Devoter/... D
2 Corpatis Fanatic/... BC
3 Corpus Pope/Patriarch/... BS

Payout C Single-source / unverified

Commander spawns can drop faction modules; may escalate to an expedition. No structured drop data banked yet.

Go deeper

Blood Provincial HQ (Unrated · difficulty rank 12) Blood Military Complex (Unrated · difficulty rank 11) Blood Raider Fortress (Unrated · difficulty rank 10)

Escalations

  • Dark Blood Fleet Staging Point 2 and 3 — ~5% chance on completion to open the Dark Blood Fleet Staging Point 2 and 3 expedition (multi-part chain via The Agency) C Single-source / unverified

Sources

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