Capital Escalation Information and Guides

Capital Escalations are a new class of escalation that came with the Equinox expansion. They escalate from high-level nullsec combat anomalies (Sanctums and Havens), and as the name implies are designed to be run exclusively by capital ships.

There are currently two primary variants of Capital Escalation: Capital Stagings and Shielded Starbases. Both require capital ships to run, but the Shielded Starbases are generally considered to be more dangerous due to the higher amount of DPS on field and presence of high-level damage and EWAR sentries mimicking POS guns.

The two existing sites each have their own reward mechanism. Capital Stagings mainly reward the bounties from the three NPC Dreadnoughts (totaling 180,000,000 ISK), but you can roughly double that by finishing off the subcapitals, along with looting and salvaging the capital wrecks. Shielded Starbases reward a mix of a 75,000,000 ISK bounty, and a 23rd Tier OPE worth around 130,000,000 ISK.

If you're not comfortable running these sites, you can also sell them for a decent amount if ISK. Note that with Capital Escalations you should advertise a general area rather than a specific system. Here's a video guide:

Below are guides for the escalations in various areas of space. Unlike with DEDs the format of these sites do not significantly change faction-to-faction, however the weapons, resistances, and EWAR types of the NPCs will.

For Editors: Clicking a Red Link on any of the sites below will bring you to the page that you can create a full guide on. The templates for full guides can be found here for Capital Stagings and here for Shielded Starbases.

At the moment, dreadnoughts are the only ship class commonly used to run these escalations. A group of 3 - 5 carrier pilots may also be viable (though needs testing), as well as both types of supercapital (though with risk to a very expensive ship). These fits double as viable NPC Dreadnought/Supercarrier/Titan killers for their respective factions.