The Mantis

The Mantis

The Mantis is a ship which debuffs other ships. This means you can use it to give yourself an advantage in any combat situation you find yourself in. It will decrease the crit chance, crit damage, and shots per round of the ship it targets. In addition, it will also delay the weapon fire by one round and trap the ship in the system its in, as it will not be able to warp.

You need Actian Venom, which you farm off of hostiles. To get the the Actian systems to farm the hostiles to get the venom, you will need Ancient Beacons. These will be collectible daily in the Mantis section of the refinery.

Farming Actian Hostiles

When you enter an action system, you will see Actian Chrysalises and Actian Apex. Before you kill anything else, in a best situation you will kill one each of the three that give you buffs. These last for five minutes after you kill something, and are automatically applied to your ship after the kill. The one circled by green gives you 100% extra shots, by orange increases your crit by 100%, and by yellow increases crit damage by 50%.

Once you have these buffs, you can hunt any other Actian in the system, but the Apex have significantly more Actian Venom, and should become your focus. The only problem with this is they are both stronger and interceptors, so you’re going against the combat triangle by fighting them.

As far as crews go, you can use a normal hostile crew, or go with a crew that will increase loot like Beverly(c)/Five of Eleven/(Stonn/Four of Eleven). Your goal should be to fill your cargo before blowing up.

The rewards from these are used in the Mantis Refinery (see below).

Daily Task

The Mantis gives you a new daily you do to get hull fragments (which are used to recruit SNW officers). This is done by using the ship’s debuff ability. If you use it twice, you will complete the first task and four times, the second task. Therefore, since you don’t get enough venom to do this four times every day, it makes sense to the dailies every other day and get to the higher rewarding Slayer Venom daily.

Ops	1k Hunter Venom	2k Slayer Venom
33	680	2000
34	714	2100
35	748	2200
36-37	782	2300
38	816	2400
39	850	2500
40	884	2600
41-42	918	2700
43-44	952	2800
45-46	986	2900
47-48	1020	3000
49-60	1224	3600

Debuff

Tier	Crit Chance	Crit Damage	Duration	Cooldown
1	-50%	-50%	60s	120s
2	-51%	-51%	90s	115s
3	-52%	-52%	120s	110s
4	-53%	-53%	150s	105s
5	-54%	-54%	180s	100s
6	-55%	-55%	210s	95s
7	-56%	-56%	240s	90s
8	-57%	-57%	270s	85s
9	-58%	-58%	300s	80s
10	-59%	-59%	330s	75s
11	-60%	-60%	360s	60s
12	-70%	-70%	420s	30s

Mantis Refinery

Tier	Synthetic Nitrium Chest Cost 1/2	Nitrium	Synthetic Ion Chest Cost 1/2	Ions	Syndicate Xp Chest Cost 1/2	XP	Hull Fragments Chest Cost	Fragments
1	3k/15k	150	6k/30k	200	6k/30k	1510	6k	1k
2	4k/20k	300	7k/35k	400	7k/34k	1575	7k	1,050
3	6.5k/32.5k	750	11k/55k	1k	11k/55k	1650	11k	1100
4	9k/45k	1500	15k/75k	2k	15k/75k	1750	15k	1150
5	13k/65k	3000	21k/105k	4k	21k/105k	1900	21k	1200
6	17k/85k	4500	27k/135k	6k	27k/135k	2075	27k	1250
7	25k/125k	6000	40k/200k	8k	40k/200k	2250	40k	1300
8	33k/165k	10500	50k/250k	14k	50k/250k	2475	50k	1350
9	49k/245k	15000	70k/250k	20k	70k/350k	2700	70k	1400
10	67k/335k	25000	90k/450k	35k	90k/450k	3000	90k	1450
11	110k/550k	40000	130k/650k	55k	130k/650k	3300	130k	1500
12	200k/1M	70000	230k/1.15m	95k	230k/1.15m	3750	230k	1800

Mantis Research

Name	Ability	Increase
Mantis Weaponry	Increase damage against Actian hostiles	17,500-350k%
Mantis Hull Plating	Increase Mantis Hull Health	50-600%
Mantis Cargo	Increase cargo	60-500%
Mantis Impulse Speed	Increase impulse speed.	10-40
Mantis Shield Power	Increase shield health.	100-600%
Mantis Protected Cargo	Increase protected Cargo	55-300%
Prime Actian Harvester	Increase how much you get off Actian hostile	100%