Ya my easiest run was on one of my sci toons that rolls with tykens actually. that skill does amazing things to the entity, like weaken the hell out of it
I tossed together a KDF sci in a Varanus for this event. Put on Tykens, Grav Well, and Tachyon Beam. Then for good measure I filled it with "cheese consoles", repair platform (to keep everyone alive and stealth my ship), subspace rupture (because why the heck not), and barrier field (so I don't have to move when the Entity does it AOE shockwave). I just sit there and shoot my CRF plasmas and heal my team; the CE dies very quick.
My Romulan Liberated Borg character made it to Level 30 and beat the (old) Defense of New Romulus with the skill point bug.
I tossed together a KDF sci in a Varanus for this event. Put on Tykens, Grav Well, and Tachyon Beam. Then for good measure I filled it with "cheese consoles", repair platform (to keep everyone alive and stealth my ship), subspace rupture (because why the heck not), and barrier field (so I don't have to move when the Entity does it AOE shockwave). I just sit there and shoot my CRF plasmas and heal my team; the CE dies very quick.
This guy right here is a power gamer, awesome strategy of being a team player. Kudos
Just ran it with my maxed out recluse my elite weavers didnt even get a chance to fire before they were nuked into oblivion, the entity was over 40 ly away and we just couldnt get anywhere near it they just kept pushing us back till they were more or less spawn camping us.
While yes, the MU ships do spawn quite prolifically I've had no problem running and completing this on five characters.
The only problem run popped up when the team decided that the final wave of MU ships was more important than beating the last 15% health out of the CE.
Bailed on that, got into a new run and swept it.
Ignore the MU ships. Wail on the CE. at 66% it will force despawn the MU ships.
at 33% they'll be back but if you focus the CE is pretty much already dead.
In my Aux2Batt Scimitar with all MkXII Elite gear, I don't have any problems with the MU overspawn. But even having said that, it is prohibitively overpowered. My guess is that someone put a 1 instead of a 0. Otherwise, I'm not sure how something like this could get past beta.
Ran it 5 times with 5 from our fleet the rest pugs, no problems, really enjoyed it, some had more mirrors than others, was more of a challenge but we all thought it was great and it didn't take much longer than before. No need for a change from what we saw to be honest.
Mirroring this sentiment. Harden up, Princesses.
Or else, get on eSTF and FleetEvent people. There are organized premades for STFs and now CCE, and I organize one whenever I'm off cooldown for an alt. The 2-3 veterans I grab are competent enough to put out 11k dps in BFAW spam which is enough to clear out that few groups which spawn at the front of the CE. After that, the other 6 of you can park there and the whole fleet can just dps with relative impunity.
But even vets can't survive players being stupid. The rule of CCE: DO NOT CIRCLE STRAFE THE CE IN A MU PHASE!!
There will be enough CCE premades running for everyone to get lucky. So come on down to eSTF and FleetEvent, right click on your chat box to join up!
"Last Engage! Magical Girl Origami-san" is in print! Now with three times more rainbows.
Well the CE event has started and the Elite version spawns so many mirror ships that you can't even reach the thing to shoot it.
The standard was doing this as well. It appears to have been corrected or is somewhat random. I had it happen several times just after the CE relaunched, but haven't seen it happen in the last 3 days or so.
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I tossed together a KDF sci in a Varanus for this event. Put on Tykens, Grav Well, and Tachyon Beam. Then for good measure I filled it with "cheese consoles", repair platform (to keep everyone alive and stealth my ship), subspace rupture (because why the heck not), and barrier field (so I don't have to move when the Entity does it AOE shockwave). I just sit there and shoot my CRF plasmas and heal my team; the CE dies very quick.
This guy right here is a power gamer, awesome strategy of being a team player. Kudos
My PvE/PvP hybrid skill tree
The only problem run popped up when the team decided that the final wave of MU ships was more important than beating the last 15% health out of the CE.
Bailed on that, got into a new run and swept it.
Ignore the MU ships. Wail on the CE. at 66% it will force despawn the MU ships.
at 33% they'll be back but if you focus the CE is pretty much already dead.
Mirroring this sentiment. Harden up, Princesses.
Or else, get on eSTF and FleetEvent people. There are organized premades for STFs and now CCE, and I organize one whenever I'm off cooldown for an alt. The 2-3 veterans I grab are competent enough to put out 11k dps in BFAW spam which is enough to clear out that few groups which spawn at the front of the CE. After that, the other 6 of you can park there and the whole fleet can just dps with relative impunity.
But even vets can't survive players being stupid. The rule of CCE: DO NOT CIRCLE STRAFE THE CE IN A MU PHASE!!
There will be enough CCE premades running for everyone to get lucky. So come on down to eSTF and FleetEvent, right click on your chat box to join up!
"Last Engage! Magical Girl Origami-san" is in print! Now with three times more rainbows.
Support the "Armored Unicorn" vehicle initiative today!
Thanks for Harajuku. Now let's get a real "Magical Girl" costume!
The standard was doing this as well. It appears to have been corrected or is somewhat random. I had it happen several times just after the CE relaunched, but haven't seen it happen in the last 3 days or so.