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Guristas Pirates signature battleship: Rattlesnake

Guristas Burrow

Combat anomaly — appears on the on-board anomaly scanner, no probing needed. Higher tier = harder site; Hidden/Forsaken/Forlorn variants of a tier are progressively harder versions with better commander chances.

Quick answersAccessFaction threat profileNPC rosterPayoutGo deeperEscalationsSources

Quick answers

Where is the Guristas Burrow in EVE Online?

The Guristas Burrow spawns in high-sec. How you find it: combat anomaly (on-board scanner, no probing).

What spawns in the Guristas Burrow?

The Guristas Burrow has 6 waves and about 15 NPCs: 15 frigates.

What should I tank and shoot in the Guristas Burrow?

Guristas Pirates deal Kinetic (79%) / Thermal (18%) damage and are weakest to Kinetic / Thermal; they use ECM.

What does the Guristas Burrow drop?

Bounties plus a chance of a faction/commander spawn. No structured drop data banked yet — wave and loot detail is exactly what the verified-on-camera tier exists to fill.

Access C Single-source / unverified

Ship restrictions
Not recorded

Faction threat profile C Single-source / unverified

EWAR used
ECM

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.

Initial Defending Fleet 1 ship
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4 Pithii Arrogator/ Imputor F
1st Reinforcement Spawn 1 ship
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2 Pithii Infiltrator F
2nd Reinforcement Spawn 1 ship
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4 Pithii Arrogator/ Imputor F
3rd Reinforcement Spawn 1 ship
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2 Pithii Arrogator/ Imputor F
4th Reinforcement Spawn 1 ship
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2 Pithii Wrecker F
Bonus Spawn 1 ship
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1 Dread Guristas Arrogator Can drop Dread Guristas tags and ammo, may drop faction modules F

Payout C Single-source / unverified

Bounties plus a chance of a faction/commander spawn. No structured drop data banked yet — wave and loot detail is exactly what the verified-on-camera tier exists to fill.

Go deeper

Guristas Forlorn Hideaway (Tier 1 · Forlorn) Guristas Forsaken Hideaway (Tier 1 · Forsaken) Guristas Hidden Hideaway (Tier 1 · Hidden)

Escalations

No escalations currently mapped. That is a statement about the Atlas, not the site. Mapping escalation chains is ongoing original research.

Sources

Last reviewed 2026-08-19 · game version: Cradle of War (Jun 2026). Spot an error? Corrections land fastest via the channel.