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Guristas Forlorn Hub

Guristas Pirates Tier 8 family: BaseHiddenForsakenForlorn

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.

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Quick answers

Where is the Guristas Forlorn Hub in EVE Online?

The Guristas Forlorn Hub spawns in low-sec and null-sec. How you find it: combat anomaly (on-board scanner, no probing).

What spawns in the Guristas Forlorn Hub?

The Guristas Forlorn Hub has 4 waves and about 53 NPCs: 19 battleships, 18 battlecruisers, 8 cruisers and 8 frigates. Killing the trigger ship spawns the next wave; the triggers are Pithatis Death Dealer/Executor/Revolter, Pithum Abolisher and Pith Eliminator/Extinguisher/Massacrer.

What should I tank and shoot in the Guristas Forlorn Hub?

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

Does the Guristas Forlorn Hub escalate?

Completing the Guristas Forlorn Hub can escalate to Dread Guristas Fleet Staging Point.

What does the Guristas Forlorn Hub 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 defenders 4 ships
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4 Dire Pithi Arrogator F
4 Pithum Abolisher/Eraser C
6 Pithatis Death Dealer/Executor/Revolter TRIGGER BC
3 Pith Ursurper BS
Wave 1 3 ships
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2 Pithum Abolisher TRIGGER C
8 Pithatis Death Dealer/Executor/Revolter BC
3 Pith Ursurper BS
Wave 2 3 ships
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2 Dire Pithi Demolisher F
4 Pithatis Enforcer BC
7 Pith Eliminator/Extinguisher/Massacrer TRIGGER BS
Wave 3 3 ships
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2 Dire Pithum Abolisher/Eraser C
2 Dire Pithi Infiltrator F
6 Pith Usurper BS

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 Forsaken Hub (Tier 8 · Forsaken) Guristas Hidden Hub (Tier 8 · Hidden) Guristas Hub (Tier 8)

Escalations

  • Dread Guristas Fleet Staging Point — Chance to escalate to Dread Guristas Fleet Staging Point (DED 9/10) on FULL completion — community-estimated low single digits to ~8%, never published by CCP; see the Escalations & Expeditions page C Single-source / unverified

Sources

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