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Guristas Hidden Hideaway

Guristas Pirates Tier 1 family: BaseHidden ForsakenForlorn

Guristas Hidden Hideaway is a combat anomaly found in Guristas infested regions. It is level 2 variant of Guristas Hideaway.

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Quick answers

Where is the Guristas Hidden Hideaway in EVE Online?

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

What spawns in the Guristas Hidden Hideaway?

The Guristas Hidden Hideaway has 5 waves and about 23 NPCs: 4 cruisers, 3 destroyers, 15 frigates and 1 sentry tower. Killing the trigger ship spawns the next wave; the triggers are Guristas Sentry Gun, Pithi Infiltrator/Invader, Pithum Ascriber/Silencer and Pithior Guerilla/Renegade.

What should I tank and shoot in the Guristas Hidden Hideaway?

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

What does the Guristas Hidden Hideaway 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 3 ships
QtyNPCHull
1 Guristas Sentry Gun TRIGGER Sentry
6 Pithi Infiltrator/Invader TRIGGER F
2 Pithum Ascriber/Silencer C
Extra Spawn 1 ship
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2-3 Pithior Guerilla/Renegade D
Spawn #2 2 ships
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3-4 Pithi Arrogator/Imputor F
1-2 Pithum Ascriber/Silencer TRIGGER C
Spawn #3 2 ships
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3 Pithi Arrogator/Imputor F
1-3 Pithior Guerilla/Renegade TRIGGER D
Spawn #4 2 ships
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3-4 Pithi Arrogator/Imputor F
1-2 Pithum Ascriber/Silencer C

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 Hideaway (Tier 1)

Escalations

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

Sources

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