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Outgrowth Rogue Drone Hive (10/10)

Outgrowth Rogue Drone Hive is a DED 10/10 rated combat site that is found in null security space. This site can be found by scanning cosmic signatures or as an escalation from Drone Squad, Drone Patrol, or Drone Horde. Note that the DED 5/10 Rogue Drone site found in low is also called Outgrowth Rogue Drone Hive. See Outgrowth Rogue Drone Hive (5/10) for details on that. The two sites are very similar.

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Quick answers

Where is the Outgrowth Rogue Drone Hive (10/10) in EVE Online?

The Outgrowth Rogue Drone Hive (10/10) spawns in null-sec. How you find it: cosmic signature (combat scanning) or escalation from a combat anomaly.

What spawns in the Outgrowth Rogue Drone Hive (10/10)?

The Outgrowth Rogue Drone Hive (10/10) has 8 waves and about 76 NPCs: 16 battleships, 10 battlecruisers and 11 sentry towers.

What should I tank and shoot in the Outgrowth Rogue Drone Hive (10/10)?

Rogue Drones deal Varies by site — low-tier lean EM/Thermal, high-tier lean Explosive/Kinetic damage and are weakest to EM / Thermal.

Which ships can enter the Outgrowth Rogue Drone Hive (10/10)?

Ship restrictions for the Outgrowth Rogue Drone Hive (10/10): Battleship class and T3 Cruiser.

Does the Outgrowth Rogue Drone Hive (10/10) escalate?

The Outgrowth Rogue Drone Hive (10/10) is itself an escalation from Drone Squad, Drone Patrol and Drone Horde.

What does the Outgrowth Rogue Drone Hive (10/10) drop?

Faction/deadspace module drops from the final commander. No structured drop-rate data banked yet.

Access B Community-corroborated

Ship restrictions
Battleship class and T3 Cruiser

Faction threat profile C Single-source / unverified

EWAR used
None

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.

First Pocket — Structures 2 ships
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1 Ancient Acceleration Gate
1 Deserted Starbase Storage Facility 9th Overseer's Personal Effects and bunch of mineral alloys
Second Pocket — 6 ships
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10 Striker Alvatis BC
9 Alvus Queen/Matriarch Alvus/Patriarch Alvus BS
6 Elite Drone Parasite BS
1 Infested Kuavi Overseer BS
8 Drone Wall Sentry Gun Sentry
3 Drone Point Defense Battery Sentry
Second Pocket — Structures 4 ships
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1 Ancient Acceleration Gate
1 Surging Acceleration Gate
3 Rogue Drone Mineral Storage
3 Abandoned Container
Third Pocket (Ancient Acceleration Gate) — Structures 2 ships
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1 Acceleration Gate
1 Industrial Derelict 11th Tier Overseer's Personal Effects and bunch of mineral alloys.
Third Pocket (Surging Acceleration Gate) — Structures 2 ships
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1 Acceleration Gate
10 Drone Collected Flotsam
Fourth Pocket — Structures 5 ships
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1 Acceleration Gate
3 Abandoned Container
3 Rogue Drone Container
1 Old Supply Stockpile
2 Cache Container
Fifth Pocket — Structures 1 ship
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1 Acceleration Gate
Sixth Pocket — Structures 2 ships
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1 Acceleration Gate
4 Rogue Drone Container

Payout C Single-source / unverified

Faction/deadspace module drops from the final commander. No structured drop-rate data banked yet.

Go deeper

Outgrowth Rogue Drone Hive (5/10) (DED 5/10) Drone Infested Mine (DED 4/10) Rogue Drone Asteroid Infestation (DED 3/10)

Escalations

Escalates from: Drone Squad · Drone Patrol · Drone Horde

Sources

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