So: Donata. We had an Escort in our team who was obviously flying with much higher AUX than weapons, and insisted on using TBR to puch Donata as far away as he could from us.
Hmmmm. An Escort with TBR. That is one of the things this thread has been pointing out. People don't know how to set their ships up.
To find out one of the many reasons you don't use TBR on an escort in STF, here's the thread.
So I'm doing ISE last night with my sci toon. Pop the cube within 10 seconds, I'm thinking "Well damn, this is going to be easy". Then it takes 2 minutes to kill the spheres...uh ok, odd but whatever.
Move on to the left side, everyone is asked if they know the 10% rule, only one answers yes. Ok, not uncommon to not get responses. Start plowing away at generators. I watch the defiant escort shred one to bits using CRF/TS2 or 3 and just kept jamming the generator while it was getting low on health. I say "Back off of the generator, only get it to 10%" then POP.
Sigh
Ok well whatever, being in a sci ship I rush to the gate to grav well the incoming spheres and do my crowd control as the others are popped. Well too many in ISE for one sci ship to handle all at once and there goes the optional.
I can deal with the loss of the optional, at least you can't lose the STF like KASE and Cure. So I just start plugging away at the spheres...and watch as my team melts against the spheres. At least 5 deaths against this small group of spheres. Now I'm thinking to myself, wtf did I get myself into? But even that is not totally uncommon.
Move on to the right side, I explain again about the 10% rule. Escort pops the generator early again...seriously? Rush down the gate, grav well etc.
This time, the spheres overwhelmed this team, started killing them and I watched as 3 of them concentrated on 1 sphere and each one died to it. WTF? Ok, seriously screwed up builds here.
I then call out in Team and Zone "Kill the Nanite spheres, then kill the transformer. Ignore the regular spheres" and...wait for it...back onto a regular sphere they go again, and for each one they kill since they took so long to do so, the regular spheres kept respawning and decimating this team.
It's been a long time since I left an ISE because you just can't fail it. But that group, was completely made of fail.
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This time, the spheres overwhelmed this team, started killing them and I watched as 3 of them concentrated on 1 sphere and each one died to it. WTF? Ok, seriously screwed up builds here.
Three of them couldn't take down a sphere? Can't most people solo those things? I mean, I can in my squishy escort, and I don't even have MKXII gear on it yet.
Three of them couldn't take down a sphere? Can't most people solo those things? I mean, I can in my squishy escort, and I don't even have MKXII gear on it yet.
I think it's more about forgetting to use or not having defensive skills.
I wonder what that guy was trying to do with TBR.... maybe he thought he could actually kill her with it?
I think it's more about forgetting to use or not having defensive skills.
I wonder what that guy was trying to do with TBR.... maybe he thought he could actually kill her with it?
Eh, I guess that makes sense. If I forget to use engineering team, I go boom pretty fast, lol.
The TBR guy... I don't know. That baffles me. I don't even keep the regular tractor beam on my escort (swapped it out for Tyken's rift), and I've never used TBR. Doesn't it just push without even disabling anything?
I have Photonic Shockwave on my science ship, but I don't use it in group events unless 1) we're being endlessly mobbed and people need a chance to heal and regroup, 2) I'm fighting a mob by myself, or 3) I'm in a tractor hold by two or more ships that are close enough to be hit by it. It turns their tractor beam off.
Three of them couldn't take down a sphere? Can't most people solo those things? I mean, I can in my squishy escort, and I don't even have MKXII gear on it yet.
That's too funny. I've seen ship builds that couldn't take out a defenseless satellite beacon. In fact, a defenseless satellite beacon could probably take them out!
This might be long, because (I kid you not) these were 3 consecutive STFs...
so first KASE, one guy (whom I ignored earlier, I did not know the reason though until it happened again) went afk. he ofc needed on stuff that came up from time to time. ofc we failed the optional due to time, and then came Donatra. now she is annoyance with 5 ppl, but with 4, we just got killed quickly (the others more, because I have learned not to aggro too much her). after 10 minutes (40 minutes total) one guy left. another 5 minutes, our AFKer decided, he wants to do something else, or feared that we would not finish, so he joined in. too bad for him, because I left a parting message (which was only readable for the others in retrospect, so they might have thought I was a griefer instead of the AFKer, and meant my words to them :S). still, I did not get a penalty.
I could run KASE again, but I queued for ISE too, and ISE came up first. I join, only one guy says hi back to me. later this guy notices, how big is his Odyssey, while shooting at a generator, instead of the cube. still, not a threat, no DPS as usual with the ody (no offense to the good captains, but we have declared what an insta admiral is, in this topic). we kill the transformer just before the nanites arrive to it. start the sphere killing. one guy goes for the cube. no prob, have seen such thing, usually they take out the cube, while we take out the spheres. BUT some other decides to go there too, now the balance is gone.
and now the best part. after our ody hero said he did not like his ship (he used DBBs, which on an ody is a no go, I tried it, and if it is a no go for me, it probably is a no go for the 90% of the players) he went there too. now I have enough DPS to kill spheres and survive them, but they had more DPS over there, and our Ody hero attacked a gen that was 10% (yeah, some escort started to kill those, instead of helping), so now we have MORE spheres incoming.
I have never seen such stupidity. not even in this thread. I noted them that, and our Ody captain asked, what? fortunately we had enough DPS to kill them, and destroy the transformers (though I had to destroy the rest of the generators, first because noone thinks like that, and everyone else fought the blody spheres).
after that it was pretty nice, no aggro on the cube, no blowing up from the gate being too close.
I exit with my bad loot, and line for KASE and CSN. CSN it is I get in. three Odysseys (yeah, I thought "damnit, that might make a good post in my favourite topic on sto forums" )
this was not horrible, apart from the fact that basically me and a BoP did most of the job in the game. one Ody went to defend the Kang (ofc I kept my eyes on him). he started to circle around the Kang. in an Odyssey. so yeah, by the time he did a full circle, all of the BoPs were at the Kang. so I go there, destroy three BoPs, and see he got the other surviving one to 50% (I suspect out of that 50, 40 dmg was from my AoEs). so I leave him be, go back destroy the cube to see him with the BoP at 10%.
now I go for my usual trip to the left, while everyone goes top (it is easier, no defender needed, I kill the nanites and the Raptors. I see the guy starting a circle, and by the time he turned towards me, he realized what I was doing, so came towards me (by that time only one bottom nanite was standing. I kill the raptors and the bottom, and start working on separate probes, just for the lulz. while I destroyed two, he got one probe to 70%.
at this point I see the other Ody struggling with his raptors, so I go help him, while the second cube blows. I destroy the Raptors for him, go for the neghvars, and by the time I get back I see the BoP and the others shooting, while our hero got the nanite to 10%. I literally laughed out loud, it was so funny.
after that, everything went well. ofc only one side of the carrier was down, where me and my BoP friend attacked it, while the Ody captains were trying to find their grasp on the situation, and where to shoot.
for the lulz, I started a 4th game, a KASE, just to see if anything comes out of it, but nothing. the game went flawlessly. in the end two players got proto deflector (ofc not me, who needs it, and went through all this suffering ), and ofc me I got the usual bad loot (at least it was a shield, which sells for something in a store
Three of them couldn't take down a sphere? Can't most people solo those things? I mean, I can in my squishy escort, and I don't even have MKXII gear on it yet.
Heck, my klingon sci voquv could probably take 3 spheres :P
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Heck, my klingon sci voquv could probably take 3 spheres :P
Pssh. Carrier. You don't even have to try. :P
I can usually handle two on my own, sometimes three if my timing with heals and buffs is just right. Usually though I'll get two and the third will kill me. It is, after all, a glass cannon I'm flying around. :P
I can usually handle two on my own, sometimes three if my timing with heals and buffs is just right. Usually though I'll get two and the third will kill me. It is, after all, a glass cannon I'm flying around. :P
eh, i still have to be indestructable so my slavers can send them spheres a double birdie
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Queued up an STF whilst in a patrol, started counting down from 10 to start the STF, started taking out the flagship and her group, started to warp out, got blown up.
That is pretty funny to be fair - must've come across like the Borg can now destroy ships with little more than a stern glare!
Had another stinker during my brief daily lunchtime play - queued for CSE, and was quite looking forward to it since have been griding for fleet marks and little else lately.
Anyway, long story short, myself and a player in a well-kitted out Odyssey busted a gut trying to protect the Kang - the other three losers we were burdened with did their own thing (one was even shooting at one of the Borg cubes and ignoring the generators). Furthermore they exploded frequently and ignored team chat.
Said other three losers bailed as soon as the optional failed (gee, wonder how that happened), Idiots.
That sounds like one of my runs on Infected last night where the guy taking the probes/spheres failed to kill a single one and let them all through while shooting at the gate while the transformers were still up. *facepalm* Also everyone just ran over and blew up generators instead of doing the 10% rule.
So I run over and manage to destroy the first barrage of probes and sphere's he lets through before they can heal the Generator and then ask him if he wants to switch positions and let me take the probes. Of course he says no, he's "got this easy." So as we go to the second Transformer I keep an eye on him and of course he lets about 3 go by him w/o even firing a shot and is firing at the gate....I mean can these people not see that the hull % on the target isn't decreasing? Anyways, this time we fail the optional because no one followed the 10% rule and we've got Nanite sphere's everywhere and I happen to be the only person trying to destroy them despite multiple messages sent in chat. I look over and every one on the team is firing at the Transformer while it stays at 100%...I couldn't believe it. So I finally get the sphere's cleaned up and we take down the Transformer, but it was honestly one of the worst runs I've had in recent memory.
we get in, I see one Advanced Escort, a star cruiser, an oddy, and myself in a glass cannon. a fifth is loading, but they do not wait for him. so we start. a fifth joined with a sovvie. yay, right?! I had my hopes at least in the advanced escort, until it turned out, that it farted skittles from the back, and phasers from the front (phaser single beams!). the oddy used phased antiproton weapons (phaser plus antiproton beams) and the rest used tetryon (at least they had the same weapons in all slots).
now my mood was bad right after the advanced escort started shooting, and the fact, that I could only hold the aggro against the tactical cube for 96% percent (4% left), when I died, also saddened me.
after I die, the cube makes a last attempt to kill the star cruiser (full tetryon). at this point, the guy writes in, if anyone has crit components, because he has 12(!) critical injuries on his ship (we finished with him having only 17). ofc I only reply, that they are in my bank.
and now comes the struggle. critical component guy says, he has the left. ody goes in the middle, and helps critical guy. the rest go right, I go left so to have my cube. I see, that the ody barely handles the probes, so the moment the cube spawns I have to go and kill the probes. I advise them to get closer to the gate. this makes the ody to start circling around the time gate, in big rounds, so he is closer to both gates.
critical component guy takes this too, and goes to the right gate, around 2km far, so he gets one more critical injury.
meanwhile some probes go through, that forces the two guys who are killed constantly by the right side cube, to join the defense. yes, four probe defense. alright, I guess thats gonna be fine (at this point, I did not want to defend, because I knew, if I go for the probes, noone will kill the gates, at least not today).
left cubes all dead by my hands, critical guy insists someone take the probes, because they are hard to kill, and he is lot better at killing transformers. goes to a transformer, seeing how 3 other defend (remember, the ody guy only circles the time gate, so he is has no effect on anything whatsoever). he brings in the cube, and gets another injury, plus brings the cube right to the middle, so except the ody, everyone dies. I take out the cube and the probes (here the cube managed to kill me with a "heavy plasma torpedo deals 69493(94412) kinetic damage"). still, no probes went through at this time.
I start to take out the transformers, the increased number of probes does not help, and the sovvie starts to follow me around, when every transformer is down, instead of doing some damage on the other gates.
this meant that only 3 defended the probes. critical guy, started to announce every wave of probes, like it was of interest.
until now 7 probes went through, and I saw no way, we will finish this, so I decided, to kill a gate, and see what happens with the spheres. sadly they were better, and failed to defend the probes long enough for me, to kill a gate (4%, I was so close to entertainment )
after the game, critical component guy writes on me, for some advice. sadly this made me realise, that I would hesitate to let him in normal stfs, not elites, though I tried to give him some advice, so people playing with him will not have such a bad game (though this was by far not only his fault, at least he was communicating, and knew where the chat was)
Just came out of Infected Space STF. Aside from being yelled at that i should learn to tank (Sure..as soon as i get into a team which doesnt consists of 4 tac officers in escorts and or cruisers, and no science vessel or support skills). After apologizing profusely for being blown up by the Tactical Cube, the warp gate and several spheres after all my cooldowns ran out, we cleared the STF with little trouble, altough i died in the last second again. Meh..
After i respawned the rest of the guys were already gone, and i flew towards the loot..which wasnt there anymore..180 seconds of frantic searching ensued, after which the instance closed, and i had nothing more for my 30 minutes the a ****ton of used up consumeables. MAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!
Just came out of Infected Space STF. Aside from being yelled at that i should learn to tank (Sure..as soon as i get into a team which doesnt consists of 4 tac officers in escorts and or cruisers, and no science vessel or support skills). After apologizing profusely for being blown up by the Tactical Cube, the warp gate and several spheres after all my cooldowns ran out, we cleared the STF with little trouble, altough i died in the last second again. Meh..
After i respawned the rest of the guys were already gone, and i flew towards the loot..which wasnt there anymore..180 seconds of frantic searching ensued, after which the instance closed, and i had nothing more for my 30 minutes the a ****ton of used up consumeables. MAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!
I bet you got blown up a lot because the rest were doing TRIBBLE all damage and you were consequently the only player generating threat.
How do you get 17 critical injuries simultaneiusly???? O_O!
It sounds tome like he started the que with 12 and received the rest while playing. Considering most players don't know how to use their heals, it doesn't surprise me.
Infected Ground suuuuuuuuucks. I did a normal run with an "experienced" team, and we did fine. Until we got to the last room and people started falling into plasma and getting killed by the drones there. But once we got the hang of it, we were okay again. Until we got to the end boss, who killed each of us with one shot. Several times. We ended up giving up after we'd been running the same STF for over two hours. And these were people who had supposedly beaten it on elite before.
I've read about the ISE horror stories here, but I never imagined I'd be in one myself.
I used EliteSTF channel to make an ISE game with my friend. So I got three people, went over the stratgey to make sure everyone knew the 10% rule, and we started. I entered to find I was the only escort (I use a defiant retro)! So we did manage to destroy the first transformer without losing the optional. But then it took forever to destroy all the spheres that came through the gate, and then someone left. Now I was the only person in the game that realized the team dps was too low, and I tried to convince the others of that. But one person kept saying we could do it, so I briefed them on how we were going to do this. So once they were clear on the plan, we popped the generators, went for the transformer, and the spheres came and healed it. It was exactly what I thought would happen...
He was in an ISE, and apparently the only one doing anything. He said he had to do all the work on destroying the gate while the other players yelled at him for not helping. He came out to tell me about it and said in total (is this a game record?)
63 ship injuries, most of which were critical.
At the longest point his respawn timer was 10 minutes.
I think he completed it eventually, after doing everything on his own.
There are some really funny stories in here... for the heck of it I'm going to go PUG some elite spaces to bring back some good stories for you guys to read
ISE is a totally nuub mission to end with 60 injuries?
i love nuubs in missions!!!
today KASE me +4 fed nuubs all taktiks,
we reach afther timelimt the boss.
they shoot 10 min on him 5% hp down 30 min later still ~60% hp her shild near the complete fight on ~80% so this 4 man tak team was not able to bring the shild down on any way but break him with the dmg what pene the shild.
so why i love this for other players drama?
i put simple my slaver pets out they collect in this fight what goes for ~50min? ~30 contrabands, so i get a freaky show to watch and rofl + make nice amount of EC.:D
ISE is a totally nuub mission to end with 60 injuries?
Considering he said he had a 10 minute respawn, which is impossible (respawn timer caps at 180 seconds or 3 minutes), I'd imagine vaporak was exaggerating for the purposes of humour and satire. Or vaporak's friend was exaggerating and he didn't pick up on it.
Considering he said he had a 10 minute respawn, which is impossible (respawn timer caps at 180 seconds or 3 minutes), I'd imagine vaporak was exaggerating for the purposes of humour and satire. Or vaporak's friend was exaggerating and he didn't pick up on it.
The second one is probably the right answer, that's what he said. But I'm not kidding, he had tons of injuries on him because he basically did teh boss fight himself.
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Hmmmm. An Escort with TBR. That is one of the things this thread has been pointing out. People don't know how to set their ships up.
To find out one of the many reasons you don't use TBR on an escort in STF, here's the thread.
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=244532
Move on to the left side, everyone is asked if they know the 10% rule, only one answers yes. Ok, not uncommon to not get responses. Start plowing away at generators. I watch the defiant escort shred one to bits using CRF/TS2 or 3 and just kept jamming the generator while it was getting low on health. I say "Back off of the generator, only get it to 10%" then POP.
Sigh
Ok well whatever, being in a sci ship I rush to the gate to grav well the incoming spheres and do my crowd control as the others are popped. Well too many in ISE for one sci ship to handle all at once and there goes the optional.
I can deal with the loss of the optional, at least you can't lose the STF like KASE and Cure. So I just start plugging away at the spheres...and watch as my team melts against the spheres. At least 5 deaths against this small group of spheres. Now I'm thinking to myself, wtf did I get myself into? But even that is not totally uncommon.
Move on to the right side, I explain again about the 10% rule. Escort pops the generator early again...seriously? Rush down the gate, grav well etc.
This time, the spheres overwhelmed this team, started killing them and I watched as 3 of them concentrated on 1 sphere and each one died to it. WTF? Ok, seriously screwed up builds here.
I then call out in Team and Zone "Kill the Nanite spheres, then kill the transformer. Ignore the regular spheres" and...wait for it...back onto a regular sphere they go again, and for each one they kill since they took so long to do so, the regular spheres kept respawning and decimating this team.
It's been a long time since I left an ISE because you just can't fail it. But that group, was completely made of fail.
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Three of them couldn't take down a sphere? Can't most people solo those things? I mean, I can in my squishy escort, and I don't even have MKXII gear on it yet.
I wonder what that guy was trying to do with TBR.... maybe he thought he could actually kill her with it?
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Eh, I guess that makes sense. If I forget to use engineering team, I go boom pretty fast, lol.
The TBR guy... I don't know. That baffles me. I don't even keep the regular tractor beam on my escort (swapped it out for Tyken's rift), and I've never used TBR. Doesn't it just push without even disabling anything?
I have Photonic Shockwave on my science ship, but I don't use it in group events unless 1) we're being endlessly mobbed and people need a chance to heal and regroup, 2) I'm fighting a mob by myself, or 3) I'm in a tractor hold by two or more ships that are close enough to be hit by it. It turns their tractor beam off.
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Ah, okay. Thanks.
That's too funny. I've seen ship builds that couldn't take out a defenseless satellite beacon. In fact, a defenseless satellite beacon could probably take them out!
I love this thread.
so first KASE, one guy (whom I ignored earlier, I did not know the reason though until it happened again) went afk. he ofc needed on stuff that came up from time to time. ofc we failed the optional due to time, and then came Donatra. now she is annoyance with 5 ppl, but with 4, we just got killed quickly (the others more, because I have learned not to aggro too much her). after 10 minutes (40 minutes total) one guy left. another 5 minutes, our AFKer decided, he wants to do something else, or feared that we would not finish, so he joined in. too bad for him, because I left a parting message (which was only readable for the others in retrospect, so they might have thought I was a griefer instead of the AFKer, and meant my words to them :S). still, I did not get a penalty.
I could run KASE again, but I queued for ISE too, and ISE came up first. I join, only one guy says hi back to me. later this guy notices, how big is his Odyssey, while shooting at a generator, instead of the cube. still, not a threat, no DPS as usual with the ody (no offense to the good captains, but we have declared what an insta admiral is, in this topic). we kill the transformer just before the nanites arrive to it. start the sphere killing. one guy goes for the cube. no prob, have seen such thing, usually they take out the cube, while we take out the spheres. BUT some other decides to go there too, now the balance is gone.
and now the best part. after our ody hero said he did not like his ship (he used DBBs, which on an ody is a no go, I tried it, and if it is a no go for me, it probably is a no go for the 90% of the players) he went there too. now I have enough DPS to kill spheres and survive them, but they had more DPS over there, and our Ody hero attacked a gen that was 10% (yeah, some escort started to kill those, instead of helping), so now we have MORE spheres incoming.
I have never seen such stupidity. not even in this thread. I noted them that, and our Ody captain asked, what? fortunately we had enough DPS to kill them, and destroy the transformers (though I had to destroy the rest of the generators, first because noone thinks like that, and everyone else fought the blody spheres).
after that it was pretty nice, no aggro on the cube, no blowing up from the gate being too close.
I exit with my bad loot, and line for KASE and CSN. CSN it is I get in. three Odysseys (yeah, I thought "damnit, that might make a good post in my favourite topic on sto forums"
this was not horrible, apart from the fact that basically me and a BoP did most of the job in the game. one Ody went to defend the Kang (ofc I kept my eyes on him). he started to circle around the Kang. in an Odyssey. so yeah, by the time he did a full circle, all of the BoPs were at the Kang. so I go there, destroy three BoPs, and see he got the other surviving one to 50% (I suspect out of that 50, 40 dmg was from my AoEs). so I leave him be, go back destroy the cube to see him with the BoP at 10%.
now I go for my usual trip to the left, while everyone goes top (it is easier, no defender needed, I kill the nanites and the Raptors. I see the guy starting a circle, and by the time he turned towards me, he realized what I was doing, so came towards me (by that time only one bottom nanite was standing. I kill the raptors and the bottom, and start working on separate probes, just for the lulz. while I destroyed two, he got one probe to 70%.
at this point I see the other Ody struggling with his raptors, so I go help him, while the second cube blows. I destroy the Raptors for him, go for the neghvars, and by the time I get back I see the BoP and the others shooting, while our hero got the nanite to 10%. I literally laughed out loud, it was so funny.
after that, everything went well. ofc only one side of the carrier was down, where me and my BoP friend attacked it, while the Ody captains were trying to find their grasp on the situation, and where to shoot.
for the lulz, I started a 4th game, a KASE, just to see if anything comes out of it, but nothing. the game went flawlessly. in the end two players got proto deflector (ofc not me, who needs it, and went through all this suffering
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Heck, my klingon sci voquv could probably take 3 spheres :P
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Pssh. Carrier. You don't even have to try. :P
I can usually handle two on my own, sometimes three if my timing with heals and buffs is just right. Usually though I'll get two and the third will kill me. It is, after all, a glass cannon I'm flying around. :P
eh, i still have to be indestructable so my slavers can send them spheres a double birdie
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Queued up an STF whilst in a patrol, started counting down from 10 to start the STF, started taking out the flagship and her group, started to warp out, got blown up.
Arrived in STF as a ball of fire.
Got some laughs, though.
That sounds like one of my runs on Infected last night where the guy taking the probes/spheres failed to kill a single one and let them all through while shooting at the gate while the transformers were still up. *facepalm* Also everyone just ran over and blew up generators instead of doing the 10% rule.
So I run over and manage to destroy the first barrage of probes and sphere's he lets through before they can heal the Generator and then ask him if he wants to switch positions and let me take the probes. Of course he says no, he's "got this easy." So as we go to the second Transformer I keep an eye on him and of course he lets about 3 go by him w/o even firing a shot and is firing at the gate....I mean can these people not see that the hull % on the target isn't decreasing? Anyways, this time we fail the optional because no one followed the 10% rule and we've got Nanite sphere's everywhere and I happen to be the only person trying to destroy them despite multiple messages sent in chat. I look over and every one on the team is firing at the Transformer while it stays at 100%...I couldn't believe it. So I finally get the sphere's cleaned up and we take down the Transformer, but it was honestly one of the worst runs I've had in recent memory.
we get in, I see one Advanced Escort, a star cruiser, an oddy, and myself in a glass cannon. a fifth is loading, but they do not wait for him. so we start. a fifth joined with a sovvie. yay, right?! I had my hopes at least in the advanced escort, until it turned out, that it farted skittles from the back, and phasers from the front (phaser single beams!). the oddy used phased antiproton weapons (phaser plus antiproton beams) and the rest used tetryon (at least they had the same weapons in all slots).
now my mood was bad right after the advanced escort started shooting, and the fact, that I could only hold the aggro against the tactical cube for 96% percent (4% left), when I died, also saddened me.
after I die, the cube makes a last attempt to kill the star cruiser (full tetryon). at this point, the guy writes in, if anyone has crit components, because he has 12(!) critical injuries on his ship (we finished with him having only 17). ofc I only reply, that they are in my bank.
and now comes the struggle. critical component guy says, he has the left. ody goes in the middle, and helps critical guy. the rest go right, I go left so to have my cube. I see, that the ody barely handles the probes, so the moment the cube spawns I have to go and kill the probes. I advise them to get closer to the gate. this makes the ody to start circling around the time gate, in big rounds, so he is closer to both gates.
critical component guy takes this too, and goes to the right gate, around 2km far, so he gets one more critical injury.
meanwhile some probes go through, that forces the two guys who are killed constantly by the right side cube, to join the defense. yes, four probe defense. alright, I guess thats gonna be fine (at this point, I did not want to defend, because I knew, if I go for the probes, noone will kill the gates, at least not today).
left cubes all dead by my hands, critical guy insists someone take the probes, because they are hard to kill, and he is lot better at killing transformers. goes to a transformer, seeing how 3 other defend (remember, the ody guy only circles the time gate, so he is has no effect on anything whatsoever). he brings in the cube, and gets another injury, plus brings the cube right to the middle, so except the ody, everyone dies. I take out the cube and the probes (here the cube managed to kill me with a "heavy plasma torpedo deals 69493(94412) kinetic damage"). still, no probes went through at this time.
I start to take out the transformers, the increased number of probes does not help, and the sovvie starts to follow me around, when every transformer is down, instead of doing some damage on the other gates.
this meant that only 3 defended the probes. critical guy, started to announce every wave of probes, like it was of interest.
until now 7 probes went through, and I saw no way, we will finish this, so I decided, to kill a gate, and see what happens with the spheres. sadly they were better, and failed to defend the probes long enough for me, to kill a gate (4%, I was so close to entertainment
after the game, critical component guy writes on me, for some advice. sadly this made me realise, that I would hesitate to let him in normal stfs, not elites, though I tried to give him some advice, so people playing with him will not have such a bad game (though this was by far not only his fault, at least he was communicating, and knew where the chat was)
10k DPS Vesta threads: 1; 2
My character Tsin'xing
That's not even the worst that's been posted about. There's a guy a few pages back who had 30 to 40. How? I don't have a clue.
I've come out of one STF with multiple injuries on my escort (not that many though), but we don't talk about that. :P
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Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
After i respawned the rest of the guys were already gone, and i flew towards the loot..which wasnt there anymore..180 seconds of frantic searching ensued, after which the instance closed, and i had nothing more for my 30 minutes the a ****ton of used up consumeables. MAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!
I bet you got blown up a lot because the rest were doing TRIBBLE all damage and you were consequently the only player generating threat.
It sounds tome like he started the que with 12 and received the rest while playing. Considering most players don't know how to use their heals, it doesn't surprise me.
Infected Ground suuuuuuuuucks. I did a normal run with an "experienced" team, and we did fine. Until we got to the last room and people started falling into plasma and getting killed by the drones there. But once we got the hang of it, we were okay again. Until we got to the end boss, who killed each of us with one shot. Several times. We ended up giving up after we'd been running the same STF for over two hours. And these were people who had supposedly beaten it on elite before.
I used EliteSTF channel to make an ISE game with my friend. So I got three people, went over the stratgey to make sure everyone knew the 10% rule, and we started. I entered to find I was the only escort (I use a defiant retro)! So we did manage to destroy the first transformer without losing the optional. But then it took forever to destroy all the spheres that came through the gate, and then someone left. Now I was the only person in the game that realized the team dps was too low, and I tried to convince the others of that. But one person kept saying we could do it, so I briefed them on how we were going to do this. So once they were clear on the plan, we popped the generators, went for the transformer, and the spheres came and healed it. It was exactly what I thought would happen...
He was in an ISE, and apparently the only one doing anything. He said he had to do all the work on destroying the gate while the other players yelled at him for not helping. He came out to tell me about it and said in total (is this a game record?)
63 ship injuries, most of which were critical.
At the longest point his respawn timer was 10 minutes.
I think he completed it eventually, after doing everything on his own.
i love nuubs in missions!!!
today KASE me +4 fed nuubs all taktiks,
we reach afther timelimt the boss.
they shoot 10 min on him 5% hp down 30 min later still ~60% hp her shild near the complete fight on ~80% so this 4 man tak team was not able to bring the shild down on any way but break him with the dmg what pene the shild.
so why i love this for other players drama?
i put simple my slaver pets out they collect in this fight what goes for ~50min? ~30 contrabands, so i get a freaky show to watch and rofl + make nice amount of EC.:D
Considering he said he had a 10 minute respawn, which is impossible (respawn timer caps at 180 seconds or 3 minutes), I'd imagine vaporak was exaggerating for the purposes of humour and satire. Or vaporak's friend was exaggerating and he didn't pick up on it.
The second one is probably the right answer, that's what he said. But I'm not kidding, he had tons of injuries on him because he basically did teh boss fight himself.