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Guristas Forsaken Den

Guristas Pirates Tier 4 family: BaseHiddenForsaken Forlorn

Guristas Forsaken Den is an unrated combat site belonging to the Guristas Pirates pirate faction. It can be found via exploration as a cosmic anomaly within systems owned by the Caldari State or occupied by the Guristas Pirates. As an ungated complex, there are no limitations so up to Titans are allowed. Completing this complex may award the player with valuable Dread Guristas faction modules and ammunition. This combat site consists of a single ungated pocket of space containing a variety of Frigate-, Cruiser- and Battlecruiser-sized enemy ships. Destroying all hostile ships does not trigger an escalation. Three other variations of this combat anomaly exist: Guristas Den, Guristas Hidden De

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Quick answers

Where is the Guristas Forsaken Den in EVE Online?

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

What spawns in the Guristas Forsaken Den?

The Guristas Forsaken Den has 6 waves and about 28 NPCs: 13 battlecruisers, 10 cruisers and 5 frigates.

What should I tank and shoot in the Guristas Forsaken Den?

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

Does the Guristas Forsaken Den escalate?

Completing the Guristas Forsaken Den can escalate to Gurista Military Operations Complex.

What does the Guristas Forsaken Den drop?

Bounty: 5.000.000 ISK Loot: Dread Guristas faction modules (rare) and ammunition, implants

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 (Last kill triggers next spawn) 2 ships
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2-3 Dire Pithum Inferno/Mortifier C
2-3 Pithatis Revolter/Death Dealer BC
First spawn (Last kill triggers next spawn) 2 ships
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2-3 Dire Pithi Wrecker/Plunderer F
2-3 Dire Pithum Abolisher/Eraser C
Second spawn (Last kill triggers next spawn) 2 ships
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3-4 Dire Pithum Abolisher/Eraser C
3-4 Pithatis Revolter/Death Dealer BC
Third spawn (Last kill triggers next spawn) 1 ship
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3-4 Pithatis Revolter/Death Dealer BC
Fourth spawn (Last kill triggers next spawn) 2 ships
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3-4 Pithum Abolisher/Eraser/Inferno/Mortifier C
3-4 Pithatis Revolter/Death Dealer BC
Fifth spawn 3 ships
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3 Dire Pithi Arrogator/Imputor/Invader/Infiltrator F
2 Pithatis Death Dealer BC
0-1 Dread Guristas Inferno/Mortifier Possible commander; may drop Dread Guristas faction modules or an implant C

Payout C Single-source / unverified

Bounty: 5.000.000 ISK Loot: Dread Guristas faction modules (rare) and ammunition, implants

Go deeper

Guristas Den (Tier 4) Guristas Forlorn Den (Tier 4 · Forlorn) Guristas Hidden Den (Tier 4 · Hidden)

Escalations

  • Gurista Military Operations Complex — Chance to escalate to Gurista Military Operations Complex (DED 7/10) 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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