i am too poor to find all the upgrades, and my Klingon is my 3rd alt after playing original fed alt and my 2nd alt is romulan, both didnt have any problems.
but my klingon cant handle one specific cardassin ship, those Keldon class ships, few months ago before on haitus, i used to beat them, but then came back to level up because this klingon cant participate Mirror event due he not 50 lvl.
it got progressive become from bad to worse, and became very deadly.
first keldon ship i encountered, produced 2 photonic galors from previous mission before doing The Long Night, i barely survived and on pure luck.
then over 1 hour doing 3 stages of The Long Night struggling, then more than 45 mins after all other ships and turrets were eleiminated.
so, here my story, and i was surprised.
i have retrofit klingon 40 lvl ship, cloaked and not moving, almost 45 lvl to get new bridge officer.
that Keldon class seem to know where i was hidden, and just rammed into me and sudden fired on me, forcing me to move/run off until i am full 100%.
so i resume to attack, but that ship kept turning little faster and preventing me to "tail-shooting" because those ships got massive frontal weapons, so i adjust with speed forward and scaled back once i am in right spot to shoot.
but here the problem, my plan was to use "Nimbus Pirate Distress" calling card as soon it summoned photonic galors, it summoned 5 photonic galors, there was no way i would survive fighting 6 ships and outgunned, shredded my shield and hulls, and barely escape with my hyperspeed.
i had that Keldon ship down to 52% and i was 80%, but with those 5 phantom ships, took me surprise, and went to 24% when i hit hyperspeed to get away as soon i see them.
more than 20 minutes trying to figure out and wait for them to vanish, i assumed they vanished, but they stayed with keldon class, force me to abort that epidose and ask for fleetmate to help,
then we met 2 keldon class ships in the end, but my fleetmate shreadded them and finished whole The Long Night restart less than 10 mins.
fleetmate was playing romulan and flying destroyer that look like "Star Raven" from Silent Death: The Next Millenium tabletop miniature combat game, not the one from Dyson science destroyer.
after that mission finished, i leveled my klingon to 45th level.
but gosh, Keldon class ship are brutal and they seem to cheat even i was cloaked devs need to double check the codes with photonic ships. it is random and it get worse with 5 photonic when i doing solo and is there "cloaking" issue with those ship, no matter how far away, they hunt me down when i am cloaked and not moving. they do try ramming during my experiment as i struggled to find a way to beat it. i dont think it was scaled properly.
My D'D and Gal-X eat Keldons for breakfast. But that's due to comboing EptW with BfaW. Last time I fought one I blew the photonic ships away before the main ship.
what exactly are you flying? Bop are fragile and if you do not know how to set one up, you will die.
That aside, any ship should be able to destroy these guys. One thing to watch out for is science ships like these will reflect your damage back at you --- its possible you half obliterated yourself with your own fire, did you see large blue bolts coming at you? Stop shooting when that happens!
You don't have to kill the photonic ships. When the real ship dies, they go away. They are holograms that can fire, and can be destroyed, but you don't have to shoot them or defeat them, just focus fire on the enemy.
science ships can see cloak farther away. Cloak too close to an enemy, it will see you. And in some places, like missions, AI are scripted to shoot you, without the extra step of being able to see you. That is, the AI is scripted to cheat in a few places ... for the most part, cloak works but here and there, it may not.
I have to ask, do you use tac team to arrange your shield, did you put balance all shields on a key and spam it, or if you fight that way, shields to forward can be useful? Do you have a few defensive officer skills, like emergency power to shields? Are your power levels set properly?
Keldons in a BOP is doable, hit and run tactics seem to work the best
"The meaning of victory is not to merely defeat your enemy but to destroy him, to completely eradicate him from living memory, to leave no remnant of his endeavours, to crush utterly his achievement and remove from all record his every trace of existence. From that defeat no enemy can ever recover. That is the meaning of victory."
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
yeah, as i said in first paragraph, only had some 30ish level weapons and consoles, there wasnt enough decent upgrades, also the bridge officers are crappy, i just got my first purple bridge officer at 45, and that was first time for any purple items for this klingon alt.
i have fed and rom alts, but none would help since the items are required for 50 lvls.
finding items on auction/brokers are way overpriced, and limited dils since devs took away hourly events.
as i said too, my rom didnt had that problem, because he has more weapons to deal with keldon class ships, this rom has photonic ships to counter-balance.
but what do the klingons do??? by saying "it's a good day to die"?
they need special klingon weapons that no feds or roms able to use. torpedo maybe?
been hunting for drops, but all i get was white items, foods, and lame batteries, there rarely any blue or purple drops i hadnt seen in awhile, even i dont see any green ship weapons, but mostly ground weapons and i dont need it.
(omit to edit), but facing 5 photonic ships at once? there something wrong with keldon's summoning. it too many.
yeah, as i said in first paragraph, only had some 30ish level weapons and consoles, there wasnt enough decent upgrades, also the bridge officers are crappy, i just got my first purple bridge officer at 45, and that was first time for any purple items for this klingon alt.
i have fed and rom alts, but none would help since the items are required for 50 lvls.
finding items on auction/brokers are way overpriced, and limited dils since devs took away hourly events.
as i said too, my rom didnt had that problem, because he has more weapons to deal with keldon class ships, this rom has photonic ships to counter-balance.
but what do the klingons do??? by saying "it's a good day to die"?
they need special klingon weapons that no feds or roms able to use. torpedo maybe?
been hunting for drops, but all i get was white items, foods, and lame batteries, there rarely any blue or purple drops i hadnt seen in awhile, even i dont see any green ship weapons, but mostly ground weapons and i dont need it.
(omit to edit), but facing 5 photonic ships at once? there something wrong with keldon's summoning. it too many.
Have you been doing Doff missions on your Engineer Department Head? It's not great gear, but useful while leveling.
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But yeah, Keldons are evil. :P
My character Tsin'xing
That aside, any ship should be able to destroy these guys. One thing to watch out for is science ships like these will reflect your damage back at you --- its possible you half obliterated yourself with your own fire, did you see large blue bolts coming at you? Stop shooting when that happens!
You don't have to kill the photonic ships. When the real ship dies, they go away. They are holograms that can fire, and can be destroyed, but you don't have to shoot them or defeat them, just focus fire on the enemy.
science ships can see cloak farther away. Cloak too close to an enemy, it will see you. And in some places, like missions, AI are scripted to shoot you, without the extra step of being able to see you. That is, the AI is scripted to cheat in a few places ... for the most part, cloak works but here and there, it may not.
I have to ask, do you use tac team to arrange your shield, did you put balance all shields on a key and spam it, or if you fight that way, shields to forward can be useful? Do you have a few defensive officer skills, like emergency power to shields? Are your power levels set properly?
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
i have fed and rom alts, but none would help since the items are required for 50 lvls.
finding items on auction/brokers are way overpriced, and limited dils since devs took away hourly events.
as i said too, my rom didnt had that problem, because he has more weapons to deal with keldon class ships, this rom has photonic ships to counter-balance.
but what do the klingons do??? by saying "it's a good day to die"?
they need special klingon weapons that no feds or roms able to use. torpedo maybe?
been hunting for drops, but all i get was white items, foods, and lame batteries, there rarely any blue or purple drops i hadnt seen in awhile, even i dont see any green ship weapons, but mostly ground weapons and i dont need it.
(omit to edit), but facing 5 photonic ships at once? there something wrong with keldon's summoning. it too many.
My character Tsin'xing