Current status: Watching Voyager S3E25 'Distant Origin' in preparation for the release of Season 8.
[06/16 11:51] [Combat (Self)] Your Advanced Dual Heavy Radiant Antiproton Cannons - Hypercharge deals 237970 (113626) Antiproton Damage(Critical) to Tactical Cube.
AHAHAHA! Eat it Borg!
[09/15 11:01] [Combat (Self)] You lose 12187085 Cold Damage from Death.
Death is OP, please nerf. I BLAME KURLAND FOR THIS!
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch." "We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Passion and Serenity are one.
I gain power by understanding both.
In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
I am a shadow, darkness born from light.
The Force is united within me.
Holy guacamole! I thought it would be live in December. Wow! I shall patch Tribble in anticipation...
i would've thought so, too, but once again cryptic decides to rush a half finished project out the door, even while new stuff is still being added - buggy new stuff at that
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch." "We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Passion and Serenity are one.
I gain power by understanding both.
In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
I am a shadow, darkness born from light.
The Force is united within me.
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch." "We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Passion and Serenity are one.
I gain power by understanding both.
In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
I am a shadow, darkness born from light.
The Force is united within me.
Voporak is the cause of Braxton's Temporal Psychosis.
[06/16 11:51] [Combat (Self)] Your Advanced Dual Heavy Radiant Antiproton Cannons - Hypercharge deals 237970 (113626) Antiproton Damage(Critical) to Tactical Cube.
AHAHAHA! Eat it Borg!
[09/15 11:01] [Combat (Self)] You lose 12187085 Cold Damage from Death.
Death is OP, please nerf. I BLAME KURLAND FOR THIS!
Well, I played around a bit in the Dyson Sphere Battlezone. Wow, just wow! It's like it's built for medics. I wanna go over the Viriosaurus rex a little bit though, since it's untankable and an amazing mob.
Bio-engineered Viriosaurus rex: I was lucky to find one relatively quickly, these are very rare. A Viriosaurus rex will only appear only on the final stage of capturing an area (not point, the entire area) and as you might imagine they're the final boss. They're that big cyber Tyrannosaur you saw in the blogs, except larger. These are untankable by a Sci so don't try to solo.
The V-rex (as it's called in the mission objective) is powerful. Apart from being the largest ground mob to date (they're larger than the landed Romulan shuttle in New Romulus: Staging Area) they have an impressive arsenal of abilities. First things first, they have a little over 30k HP (like Fek'lhr for those who have played the Fek'ihri series) so even if you could solo them it would take a while. They can do a massive "RAWR!" that summons other Bio-engineered dinosaurs so that adds to their difficulty a bit. They have those Dual Beam Banks on their heads that do deal damage but are not insanely powerful. Every now and then they will "bow" and start firing...something (didn't notice what it was, it's like a Mortar though) that deals 180-200+ kinetic damage per hit and they fire a lot of those so, since HP is in short supply for a player, they can pretty much kill everyone who doesn't get out of the circles
For the unfortunate soul that grabs the V-rex's attention the V-rex will move toward them, firing their DBBs in the process and when they get into melee range (the V-rex is so massive that they can reach it pretty quick) they will knock them down (like a Mugato does) and while you're struggling they may (or may not, it happened to me but it may be just rotten luck) start firing their Mortars and pulverize them. So if the V-rex eyes you just run around so he doesn't get into melee range.
The one I fought was with two others and our boffs (3 people, 6 boffs, you can take two boffs with you, though not sure if that will change) and they were both Feds so we couldn't team up (one would think that since it's a joint operation we could but no). The V-rex is the guardian of the Voth that you need to kill for the final objective. While the other two were fighting the V-rex I went and killed the Voth when they beamed in, so that's a strategy you can use to keep REDACTED from depleting. But two people and six boffs (I sent mine to attack the V-rex) are hardly enough to beat that behemoth so we ended up failing. I'm sure it will be better when S8 goes live though, but the more the merrier in any case.
Overall it's not extremely hard if you bring a lot of people (think Tholian Project Leader) but the V-rex is more overwhelming, mainly because of the insane size and arsenal.
[06/16 11:51] [Combat (Self)] Your Advanced Dual Heavy Radiant Antiproton Cannons - Hypercharge deals 237970 (113626) Antiproton Damage(Critical) to Tactical Cube.
AHAHAHA! Eat it Borg!
[09/15 11:01] [Combat (Self)] You lose 12187085 Cold Damage from Death.
Death is OP, please nerf. I BLAME KURLAND FOR THIS!
Now you had to go and say it R'Mel. I like the VRex in the current state.
Ti.....WHY THE SIN ARE YOU COMMENTING HERE?!
[06/16 11:51] [Combat (Self)] Your Advanced Dual Heavy Radiant Antiproton Cannons - Hypercharge deals 237970 (113626) Antiproton Damage(Critical) to Tactical Cube.
AHAHAHA! Eat it Borg!
[09/15 11:01] [Combat (Self)] You lose 12187085 Cold Damage from Death.
Death is OP, please nerf. I BLAME KURLAND FOR THIS!
Well, I saw your handle pop up on the most recent post, and I decided to stop in and see what it was about.
You no haz Kitties! And you HATE THEM TOO!
[06/16 11:51] [Combat (Self)] Your Advanced Dual Heavy Radiant Antiproton Cannons - Hypercharge deals 237970 (113626) Antiproton Damage(Critical) to Tactical Cube.
AHAHAHA! Eat it Borg!
[09/15 11:01] [Combat (Self)] You lose 12187085 Cold Damage from Death.
Death is OP, please nerf. I BLAME KURLAND FOR THIS!
Very true, I don't have a cat and I probably never will. I don't hate all cats, just catians. The reason being their extra +10% dodge creates imbalanced in ground PvP.
Very true, I don't have a cat and I probably never will. I don't hate all cats, just catians. The reason being their extra +10% dodge creates imbalanced in ground PvP.
Sure pal. My one-shot tag powers are not OP at all compared to a cat.
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch." "We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Passion and Serenity are one.
I gain power by understanding both.
In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
I am a shadow, darkness born from light.
The Force is united within me.
Very true, I don't have a cat and I probably never will. I don't hate all cats, just catians. The reason being their extra +10% dodge creates imbalanced in ground PvP.
Buy the Caitian species for yourself. Then take one into Hive Ground or Cure Ground. When your entire team is dead, and you are surrounded by Drones who are set on killing you, and that dodge is the only thing that keeps you alive, you will be GLAD to have the ability.
Buy the Caitian species for yourself. Then take one into Hive Ground or Cure Ground. When your entire team is dead, and you are surrounded by Drones who are set on killing you, and that dodge is the only thing that keeps you alive, you will be GLAD to have the ability.
especially backed up by the omega ground set, which gives even more dodge...to your entire team, too
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch." "We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Passion and Serenity are one.
I gain power by understanding both.
In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
I am a shadow, darkness born from light.
The Force is united within me.
Sure pal. My one-shot tac powers are not OP at all compared to a cat.
While it is true tactical officers can oneshot NPCs quickly, they suffer from long ability cooldowns when Tactical initiative is offline. Against other classes in Ground PvP, a Fire Team or Operative tactical officer is quite balanced in spite of his high spike damage potential. You could try taking a five man tactical officer team into ground PvP against other experienced players, but it won't end well.
Buy the Caitian species for yourself. Then take one into Hive Ground or Cure Ground. When your entire team is dead, and you are surrounded by Drones who are set on killing you, and that dodge is the only thing that keeps you alive, you will be GLAD to have the ability.
Cure Ground isn't hard for any class or race in the game anymore after they obtain a STF set. Hive is difficult at the end fight due to the floor traps, but no amount of dodge chance will save you if that strikes.
Dodge should only be on specific set items and devices. The reason Ferasans don't have dodge is because Cryptic realized how serious their mistake was with Caitians. Unfortunately, I doubt they will ever do anything to resolve the problem. One can only hope.
In PvP, that extra +10% dodge is a significant advantage on top of their jump height advantage (allowing for jump flank shots). It's basically a flat rate 5% all shield/health damage reduction by itself, tossed in with Acute Senses and +75% Jump Height. With the Omega Force set and the Gambling Device, they have a flat 31.8% overall damage reduction, compared to a non-cat's 26.8% overall damage reduction with the same gear. This is before even having that damage applied to shield or armor resistances.
The trait merely artificially inflates a Tactical officer's overall survivability. This is mainly why I am not fond of seeing them in ground PvP. When speaking about other classes, for example Science officers, there are better race choices. Bajorans, Betazoids, and (Joined) Trill make better team healers or self tanks.
Fortunately Cryptic has yet to add the Avoidance stat to multiple items, it's worse than defense. I hope that day never comes, it's bad enough the Shattering Harmonics set uses Avoidance. As I understand it, that stat works like Defense in space, yet there is no equivalent "accuracy" mechanic to counter. Rolling on the ground has a +25% avoidance chance (at least the last time I checked anyway), which is why it's possible to avoid orbital strike or grenade damage at times when rolling. In the end, the whole thing may end up like Champions Online.
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[06/16 11:51] [Combat (Self)] Your Advanced Dual Heavy Radiant Antiproton Cannons - Hypercharge deals 237970 (113626) Antiproton Damage(Critical) to Tactical Cube.
AHAHAHA! Eat it Borg!
[09/15 11:01] [Combat (Self)] You lose 12187085 Cold Damage from Death.
Death is OP, please nerf. I BLAME KURLAND FOR THIS!
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
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Y'all know I would never do that, right? Right...?
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#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
[06/16 11:51] [Combat (Self)] Your Advanced Dual Heavy Radiant Antiproton Cannons - Hypercharge deals 237970 (113626) Antiproton Damage(Critical) to Tactical Cube.
AHAHAHA! Eat it Borg!
[09/15 11:01] [Combat (Self)] You lose 12187085 Cold Damage from Death.
Death is OP, please nerf. I BLAME KURLAND FOR THIS!
Bio-engineered Viriosaurus rex: I was lucky to find one relatively quickly, these are very rare. A Viriosaurus rex will only appear only on the final stage of capturing an area (not point, the entire area) and as you might imagine they're the final boss. They're that big cyber Tyrannosaur you saw in the blogs, except larger. These are untankable by a Sci so don't try to solo.
The V-rex (as it's called in the mission objective) is powerful. Apart from being the largest ground mob to date (they're larger than the landed Romulan shuttle in New Romulus: Staging Area) they have an impressive arsenal of abilities. First things first, they have a little over 30k HP (like Fek'lhr for those who have played the Fek'ihri series) so even if you could solo them it would take a while. They can do a massive "RAWR!" that summons other Bio-engineered dinosaurs so that adds to their difficulty a bit. They have those Dual Beam Banks on their heads that do deal damage but are not insanely powerful. Every now and then they will "bow" and start firing...something (didn't notice what it was, it's like a Mortar though) that deals 180-200+ kinetic damage per hit and they fire a lot of those so, since HP is in short supply for a player, they can pretty much kill everyone who doesn't get out of the circles
For the unfortunate soul that grabs the V-rex's attention the V-rex will move toward them, firing their DBBs in the process and when they get into melee range (the V-rex is so massive that they can reach it pretty quick) they will knock them down (like a Mugato does) and while you're struggling they may (or may not, it happened to me but it may be just rotten luck) start firing their Mortars and pulverize them. So if the V-rex eyes you just run around so he doesn't get into melee range.
The one I fought was with two others and our boffs (3 people, 6 boffs, you can take two boffs with you, though not sure if that will change) and they were both Feds so we couldn't team up (one would think that since it's a joint operation we could but no). The V-rex is the guardian of the Voth that you need to kill for the final objective. While the other two were fighting the V-rex I went and killed the Voth when they beamed in, so that's a strategy you can use to keep REDACTED from depleting. But two people and six boffs (I sent mine to attack the V-rex) are hardly enough to beat that behemoth so we ended up failing. I'm sure it will be better when S8 goes live though, but the more the merrier in any case.
Overall it's not extremely hard if you bring a lot of people (think Tholian Project Leader) but the V-rex is more overwhelming, mainly because of the insane size and arsenal.
[06/16 11:51] [Combat (Self)] Your Advanced Dual Heavy Radiant Antiproton Cannons - Hypercharge deals 237970 (113626) Antiproton Damage(Critical) to Tactical Cube.
AHAHAHA! Eat it Borg!
[09/15 11:01] [Combat (Self)] You lose 12187085 Cold Damage from Death.
Death is OP, please nerf. I BLAME KURLAND FOR THIS!
And probably by PVPers.
"Omg I can't one-shot it with my cloak on my tac, nerf!"
Now you had to go and say it R'Mel. I like the VRex in the current state.
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Ti.....WHY THE SIN ARE YOU COMMENTING HERE?!
[06/16 11:51] [Combat (Self)] Your Advanced Dual Heavy Radiant Antiproton Cannons - Hypercharge deals 237970 (113626) Antiproton Damage(Critical) to Tactical Cube.
AHAHAHA! Eat it Borg!
[09/15 11:01] [Combat (Self)] You lose 12187085 Cold Damage from Death.
Death is OP, please nerf. I BLAME KURLAND FOR THIS!
Well, I saw your handle pop up on the most recent post, and I decided to stop in and see what it was about.
--->Ground Combat General Bugs Directory
Real join date: March 2012 / PvP Veteran since May 2012 (Ground and Space)
You no haz Kitties! And you HATE THEM TOO!
[06/16 11:51] [Combat (Self)] Your Advanced Dual Heavy Radiant Antiproton Cannons - Hypercharge deals 237970 (113626) Antiproton Damage(Critical) to Tactical Cube.
AHAHAHA! Eat it Borg!
[09/15 11:01] [Combat (Self)] You lose 12187085 Cold Damage from Death.
Death is OP, please nerf. I BLAME KURLAND FOR THIS!
Very true, I don't have a cat and I probably never will. I don't hate all cats, just catians. The reason being their extra +10% dodge creates imbalanced in ground PvP.
--->Ground Combat General Bugs Directory
Real join date: March 2012 / PvP Veteran since May 2012 (Ground and Space)
Sure pal. My one-shot tag powers are not OP at all compared to a cat.
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
In Nero's voice:
NERF EVERYTHING!!!!! :mad:
Carry on.
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#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Cure Ground isn't hard for any class or race in the game anymore after they obtain a STF set. Hive is difficult at the end fight due to the floor traps, but no amount of dodge chance will save you if that strikes.
Dodge should only be on specific set items and devices. The reason Ferasans don't have dodge is because Cryptic realized how serious their mistake was with Caitians. Unfortunately, I doubt they will ever do anything to resolve the problem. One can only hope.
In PvP, that extra +10% dodge is a significant advantage on top of their jump height advantage (allowing for jump flank shots). It's basically a flat rate 5% all shield/health damage reduction by itself, tossed in with Acute Senses and +75% Jump Height. With the Omega Force set and the Gambling Device, they have a flat 31.8% overall damage reduction, compared to a non-cat's 26.8% overall damage reduction with the same gear. This is before even having that damage applied to shield or armor resistances.
The trait merely artificially inflates a Tactical officer's overall survivability. This is mainly why I am not fond of seeing them in ground PvP. When speaking about other classes, for example Science officers, there are better race choices. Bajorans, Betazoids, and (Joined) Trill make better team healers or self tanks.
Fortunately Cryptic has yet to add the Avoidance stat to multiple items, it's worse than defense. I hope that day never comes, it's bad enough the Shattering Harmonics set uses Avoidance. As I understand it, that stat works like Defense in space, yet there is no equivalent "accuracy" mechanic to counter. Rolling on the ground has a +25% avoidance chance (at least the last time I checked anyway), which is why it's possible to avoid orbital strike or grenade damage at times when rolling. In the end, the whole thing may end up like Champions Online.
--->Ground Combat General Bugs Directory
Real join date: March 2012 / PvP Veteran since May 2012 (Ground and Space)