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Gearing up for Crystalline Catastrophe

nixie50nixie50 Member Posts: 1,268 Arc User
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whats the best (Easiest) to survive and contribute ship? Crusier? Escort? sci? reading walkthroughs seem to indicate torpedo bombers?
what about a carrier? I saw one suggestion to bring a carrier, set the pets to intercept. if so, bring frigates or fighters?
and dos and don't for a noob in this mission?
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    leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,345 Arc User
    To survive - Reverse Shield Polarity, Hazard Emitters and Bio-Shield Generator power (From Undine Rep), and don't forget your armour consoles. Other than that, pack what you want, but Kinects do most damage to Crystal. Grav Well, Subspace Vortex and Torp Spreads are ideal.
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    vetteguy904vetteguy904 Member Posts: 3,857 Arc User
    Kim, Don't sweat it. I just did it with a GW torp boat (Dauntless) got first on my first time in. just hover around 10K dump HYT and TS, Heal others if you see the opportunity (I didnt)
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    mephizton2092mephizton2092 Member Posts: 110 Arc User
    Sturdy ships and some kinetic damage. Offcourse if your about to die just fly in the snowflake for more damage.
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    daqheghdaqhegh Member Posts: 1,490 Arc User
    CC is sickeningly easy now even on elite. It used to be THE hardest mission because it demanded teamwork, communication, and several failures before success. Not anymore, You don't have to have a strategy and shoot the pieces before they return. They scaled down its size too. The crystal entity used to be MUCH bigger. I dunno. If you can't kill it now maybe you need to respec.
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    burstorionburstorion Member Posts: 1,750 Arc User
    edited June 2018
    Torpedo, non energy type, kinetic science such as grav well, tbr, photonic shockwave - spread is best. Energy works but carrying an aceton beam helps to limit the recrystallisation count (day one cca was painful as every jemmie went full cannonscort)

    For score, healing others can pay dividends while doing damage and teaches you how to heal others in a pinch as a bonus. If you have the lukari protomatter console, simply fly into a clump of allies under fire and light it up - or any other healing aoe power (the varanus repair drones are an oldie but a goodie, while if you are in a vangaurd ship, using its heal modes (either paired or sending one to heal while the other stays near you) is faily competive due to its spammability (every 20s, works for 15s))
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    antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
    Gravity well is very useful for keeping the shards from causing trouble. Torpedo spread in combination is kind of ridiculous. If you've got the ships, a tachyon beamed buffed with the healing effects from the science command cruiser is really useful, since it heals teammates and strips the entity's buffs.
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    gradiigradii Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    CC doesnt have elite. it has normal and advanced.
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    avoozuulavoozuul Member Posts: 3,196 Arc User
    edited June 2018
    In a sense the Crystalline Cataclysm event version of Crystalline Catastrophe is like an Elite version since it has extra hazards but it's not really that much harder overall.
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    evilmark444evilmark444 Member Posts: 6,950 Arc User
    Just full impulse and mash spacebar, it'll die super fast regardless of what you do so just focus on dealing enough damage to avoid the AFK check.
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    rattler2rattler2 Member Posts: 58,020 Community Moderator
    A Torp Spread with the Dyson Rep's Gravimetric Photon Torpedo does nicely.

    Remember that the CE is resistant to energy weapons, but vulnerable to Kinetic. So torpedos are better for damage output. HOWEVER... if you're shooting for 1st place... there is more than one way to get it as they actually DO give points for damage HEALED as well. So if it doesn't get vaped before the first nova, a healboat with AoE heals aiding allies may actually land you in first if you just can't DPS your way out of a paper bag in CE.
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    darkknightucfdarkknightucf Member Posts: 1,546 Media Corps
    rattler2 wrote: »
    A Torp Spread with the Dyson Rep's Gravimetric Photon Torpedo does nicely.

    Remember that the CE is resistant to energy weapons, but vulnerable to Kinetic. So torpedos are better for damage output. HOWEVER... if you're shooting for 1st place... there is more than one way to get it as they actually DO give points for damage HEALED as well. So if it doesn't get vaped before the first nova, a healboat with AoE heals aiding allies may actually land you in first if you just can't DPS your way out of a paper bag in CE.

    The Entity is resistant to both, but has a much higher resistance against energy weapons than kinetic weapons.

    If you're looking for a quick kill and not a DPS parse, forego waiting for a GWell th snag the Tholians to the Entity. Get some really beefy torpedoes loaded up, buff your torps en route to the Entity, and fire HYx's constantly at the Entity and kill it in 15 seconds or less. 5M hp goes down real quick.
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    daqheghdaqhegh Member Posts: 1,490 Arc User
    gradii wrote: »
    CC doesnt have elite. it has normal and advanced.

    Advanced, whatever. Point is it is NOT the mission I remember it being. It's just another pug mission now.

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    vetteguy904vetteguy904 Member Posts: 3,857 Arc User
    hmmm a torpedo boat that pops the lukari protomatter heal should d nicely
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    darkknightucfdarkknightucf Member Posts: 1,546 Media Corps
    vetteguy904 wrote: »
    hmmm a torpedo boat that pops the lukari protomatter heal should d nicely

    It would, IF the Entity lasted longer than 30 seconds...
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