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Great change of pace, lots of fun
..not too much hate
I think people should be harder to kill. Ya sure, cross healing can do wonders...but so can 5 players focus firing. Alpha striking looks rather ridiculous, decloak shoot you load and then be a sitting duck(or chicken with head cut off).
My current build is to constantly fire off alpha strikes
...lots of burst at a consistent rate of fire...in some cases, it doesn't matter if your paying attention...your hoping a buddy has your back. Too much damage delivered too quickly, not all too much skill involved on the non cloaker's end. General survival needs a pick me up
Pug only pvp should be a thing, cross healing and focus fire is too broken for the average pug to enjoy. Teamwork should give an advantage, but it's a bit out whack as to where it should be.
I say. Give it a shot, but use a build created by someone that understands how to ship build...i think this is the main reason why people don't enjoy pvp. They are unprepared...
..not too much hate
I think people should be harder to kill. Ya sure, cross healing can do wonders...but so can 5 players focus firing. Alpha striking looks rather ridiculous, decloak shoot you load and then be a sitting duck(or chicken with head cut off).
My current build is to constantly fire off alpha strikes
...lots of burst at a consistent rate of fire...in some cases, it doesn't matter if your paying attention...your hoping a buddy has your back. Too much damage delivered too quickly, not all too much skill involved on the non cloaker's end. General survival needs a pick me up
Pug only pvp should be a thing, cross healing and focus fire is too broken for the average pug to enjoy. Teamwork should give an advantage, but it's a bit out whack as to where it should be.
I say. Give it a shot, but use a build created by someone that understands how to ship build...i think this is the main reason why people don't enjoy pvp. They are unprepared...
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Hear! Daughters too.
The blood of battle washes clean.
The Warrior brave and true.
We fight, we love, and then we kill...
It is through repetition that we learn our weakness.
A master with a stone is better than a novice with a sword.
Has damage got out of control?
This is the last thing I will post.
I don't follow? 25k with cannons is decent and all but I wouldn't say it's high compared to others
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We can't really help that, Dahm.
Cryptic releases a new DOFF pack or lockbox, what's good will get expensive, what isn't will stay cheaper.
That's a player-driven market thing, not really PvP.
But ya, cryptic won't be changing those doffs
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and for 15k in pvp.
you tell me.
have fun kill bad guys
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We already have to much stuff that needs Dilihtium. It deters new players imo. It means for new people the only way to get crazy amounts of Dilihtium to gear up when they hit 50 is to drop $. (honestly the old players with 10+ toons each can farm out a ton of dilihitum in a day) By having more stuff open to being traded and sold... they allow new players to grind in game and or get help from friends. I will not drop 80k in dilihtium to help someone out... but I don't mind dropping 10-20 million ec.
I know you would say well allow both forms of picking up doffs dilhitum and ec... but to be honest that just destroys the market... which means people are less likely to help new players out at all. I was honestly more helpful a year ago when I was able to make 100 million ec in a night. lol
Another problem is new players have trouble making even 1 mil and are also limited to 10 mil ec on their characters. 20mil might not seem a lot to you, an old player with a lot of shinys, knowledge and experience but it's a huge amount for newbies too.
Having them in fleet doff packs as rare drops (which attack pattern doffs are though super rare) is good as if you really want to, getting fleet credits can be extremely easy.
Still some people find it super easy to get a mountain of dilithium, others ec, others fleet credits, think the market just needs opening up a tad and maybe a little (a lot) less price fixing going on might be an idea.
It's funny though, new player complains about the cost of certain doffs, weapons, traits etc. Vet player who is fixing the prices says it's super easy and they make 50 mil a day. This isn't an accusation at Antonio, I don't think he fixes prices just invests well, I mean I'm sure more than a few of us invested in cell ships lol.
It is through repetition that we learn our weakness.
A master with a stone is better than a novice with a sword.
Has damage got out of control?
This is the last thing I will post.
To your point yes I guess F2P players would have EC caps... really though I won't go there. Crytpic F2P is the best no doubt of all the converted F2P games. There EC limit is easily unlocked... it effects all toons... and its inexpensive. Really if there are F2P people that seriously play STO that still have a cap on there account that is there issue... as Cryptic makes it really really easy to unlock it. I give Cryptic a hard time on lots of stuff, there F2P model though is fantastic, and something other Developers should look to. STO allows you to completely unlock your currency cheap... and they don't limit Exchange Sales slots, like so many other "free" games do. They make it very easy for people that have never paid a dime, or only paid 20-30 bucks participate in the player economy as fully as someone who has been here since day one.
The first thing I do in any MMO I play is check out the market and see whats shaking. I don't know how anyone can stand playing any game where they are poor in game. If the developer has put artificial barriers to my making in game currency I honestly don't stick around long. I went back to TOR recently to check out the space... and after a year away was making 1mil credits a day in that game... however all the barriers on there junk system for Free players means the second I cancel my sub (which will be shortly) I will be gone.
people can be harder to kill, much depend on your build (dps or resistance or someway balanced), how you use your abilities (ex. TT is useless if you use it when you do not need it and it's on CD when you need it...) but the most important is your team and it's overral build.
the worst in sto PVO (IMHO) is that it's limited to a challenge (usually5 vs 5)... I'd like to have real wars fed vs kdf... many vs many.
Playing STO spamming FAW is like playing chess using always the computer's suggested moves
Sorry, didn't mean to sound like I was complaining. It just feels like some doffs are essential. And I wouldn't want to be without them (i do have them)
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People can get their critical chance to like 20-30% maybe on their weapons. With the consoles, plus several set bonuses, plus romulan boffs, plus 2x ctrh weapons plus APA, plus whatever else I am missing. You can crit so many shots in one barrage that's why opening alpha strikes from someone built that way can hurt.
And they don't have to give up too much survivability to do it. APA gives them a 5% boost, but still the crit chance can be very high without it.
Criticals aren't something that should happen so often, and since it is based on luck, two different escorts with the same crit chance could do very different things when they deliver the alpha strike.
So that chance factor is what is throwing things off.