2026 Crimson Harvest Alpha guide: Praxis Power!

For the Alpha pilots (not new players) that wanna participate on the harvest events but have no access to legit, dedicated builds for it, Introducing: The Mietieee Praxis!

The first fit is a safe one, decent tank and you're damn near impossible to neut by the site's rats alone. Note that, in my case, i'd need to implant a Zainou 'Gypsy' CPU Management EE-602 for an extra 2% CPU to fly this ship.
If you need even more CPU i'd start by changing the mid/low modules to compact variants, just be mindful of the effect of your changes, and don't change the shield booster, you need that one if you wanna be on the safe side. If you don't mind paying a premium for a bigger CPU implant you can still fly this fit as an alpha pilot.
Ammo is up to you. I choose Mjolnir for both sites as i'm not optimizing the shit outta this.

2026 Crimson Harvest Event Hisek safe Alpha Praxis.

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This fit below is a less tanky version but still good enough for the sites, and cap stable enough to clear the rats without risking the ship, the difference is now you rock a target painter to increase the accuracy of your missiles and drones.

[Praxis, Velator]

Capacitor Flux Coil II

Drone Damage Amplifier II

Dread Guristas X-Large Shield Booster

Copasetic Compact Shield Boost Amplifier

Phased Scoped Target Painter

Large Cap Battery II

Copasetic Compact Shield Boost Amplifier

Multispectrum Shield Hardener II

Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II

[Empty High slot]

Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II

Large Processor Overclocking Unit I

Large Capacitor Control Circuit II

Large Capacitor Control Circuit I

Republic Fleet Warrior x5

Acolyte II x5

Imperial Navy Praetor x4

Caldari Navy Mjolnir Heavy Missile x3000

Mjolnir Precision Heavy Missile x10000

Mjolnir Fury Heavy Missile x5000

Mobile Tractor Unit x1

With a price tag of around 500 Mill ISK, depending on the markets, this Mama Jamas are capable of clearing both Crimson Gauntlet and Tetrimon event combat anomalies. Details below:

With enough cap stability to survive the AI bubble burst, and enough tank to sustain your government's policies to contain inflation, or lack thereof, this babies can clear Gauntlet sites with little effort, including the dreaded third wave with boss on top. Now, be warned my ninja, this is with the numbers shown above, if you alter the fit or your skills are so low that your numbers look significantly different from mine, then you're on your own. "But wait", you would ask..."what about Tetrimon sites?" Well, you technically can clear them all the same, however, there's a key difference we'll talk about in the strategy section.

Gameplay:
This fit is pretty straightforward, you tank everything and anything the site throws at you, including cap neuters, pull out the drones and start breaking shit left, right and center. With my drone skills and alpha limitations, yes i'm alpha (represeeeent!), i use only heavy drones in Gauntlet sites, and i mean ONLY, i don't use any other drones, they got enough damage and tracking to clean house, and i support them with the launchers, i usually don't shoot at frigates but if you're in a hurry be my guest, you'll still hurt them.
Tank mods always active and direct your drones to your current desired target. Don't forget to get them back in the limo before warping to the next level. Use the MTU to loot the last room, IMExperience its not worth looting anything but the boss and the satellite in the last room. And the random spawns of triglavian, drifters and drones coming from random wormhole.
Warrior drones are there just as a defensive squad against ganking frigates but, this fit is not made for pvp, so they're almost decorative, its better than nothing. You can D-scan every now an then and if you detect a fleet of destroyers in the site, you have reasons to be afraid.
If, for whatever reason your cap is getting neuted out and your shield is at a stable 100%, carefully turn the booster on and off. Both fits have over 100 cap regen with the booster off.

Strategy:
The 2 sites where we're going to Praxis are the crimson gauntlet and tetrimon base, i've done both with a far Cap weaker fit, hence why i ended up making this one, cos i died Y_Y.
Don't try to do sites near trade hubs, just don't.

The first thing to do once you enter a site/room is to head towards your next gate, since we have no props we are slow and on top of that webbed by rats, this will reduce travel time while we chop rats. On the last room you can stand still or just orbit your MTU, i noticed no difference TBH. Remember to just approach gates, only warp once its active and your drones are back in the boat.

Ammo/targets:
Mjolnir ammo and precision type are best IME, i only swap to Fury if the boss is about to spawn in order to focus all fire on him as only the pilot with the most damage on him gets the kill for the event (event, not loot, idk if last hit still gets the loot rights). Faction ammo is there for extra range, mostly for the random spawns below battleship in category size flying beyond your precision missiles' range. I don't swap ammo for boss if he already spawned and i got more than 1 round of missiles loaded, and load fury once i reach 1 ammo left to prevent auto-reload of precision ammo again.
If you cant use T2 ammo use Caldari navy mjolnir heavy only, if you can afford it.

Main targets are the neuters first and missile debuffers second, but i'm in Hisek, if you play in Low/Nullsek your priorities are different. This a Hisek guide. If you get the last wave+boss spawn you have two choices, if you know you can tank all the incoming Neut+Damage, you can straight start killing the boss first with whatever ammo you got loaded, the satellite, and then kill the wave, or just kill the scramblers and warp once you're done looting, i rather clean house.

Tetrimon site, it is a bitch of a site to do and i hope you chose the right faction, cos AFAIK tetrimon ships don't give bounties, crimson ships do, since they're pirates, Yarrrr!
Its not way harder, but they love to target drones, which means you'll be micromanaging them in order to keep them alive, my advice is to not use drones until there's only 1 target left, 2 at most if you still got some ammo loaded. Remember to repair your drones.
If you're just gonna do tetrimon sites or just wanna clear all sites, you have 2 options, use the same fit, or swap the drone damage amplifiers for Ballistic Control System and maybe 1 or 2 Missile Guidance Enhancer, If you wanna use a Heavy Stasis Grappler or any other mid slot module instead of the lows for accuracy, then exchange a mid slot capacitor module for a new lower one. But remember, your cap might be more vulnerable now.
Accuracy is important in tetrimon sites since they spawn rats that reduce it and you wont have your drones available to kill small rats.

Crimson Gauntlet, yeah boi! This is the superior site for our Praxis, since we're half drone boat, half explosive diarrhea, they completely ignore your drones so all you gotta do is focus the priority targets.

Tetrimon Base Shortcut Keypass
Crimson Gauntlet Shortcut Keypass

If you got an excess of sites and/or competition in system, its worth using the shortcut keys, otherwise, just clear them normally unless you're in a hurry and wanna clear fast. But if the competition is in site, its not worth fighting over it:

If you stay and are good on tank and cap, just wait til he gets bored and leaves, as you're not clearing the site for him and he still risks losing the DPS race on boss if he clears the waves, for which we would have pre-loaded fury missiles and overheated our launchers without burning them+drone smacking.
You may win, you may lose but that's your choice. Don't loot yellow or shoot at anyone who steals your loot since that's most likely their plan, they came here to take the loot and your wreck, you're not prepared for this fight, and that's why the roaches do it. I personally wouldn't bother doing sites in a system with a marauder that's actively clearing them unless i warped to his site first and confirm that he just started, then i would warp to the farthest site and use shortcut key, otherwise he would just come in when i'm about to finish and steal my boss kill/satellite.

Thats all folks! if i remember something else i'll update the guide. There's a chance for escalation on satellite break, i have not tried it yet as i'm unwilling to risk my Praxis at this moment but i suspect this fits are capable of completing this site, at least the defensive one. Upload a youtube video if you do it in a T1/navy battleship pls. 0/

P.S: We know ninjas can do the content with marauders (golf claps), who cares? not this dude.

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