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Assimilation Nanites

freenos85freenos85 Member Posts: 443 Arc User
edited July 2014 in Builds, Powers, and Game Mechanics
Usually if you are being assimlated by a drone you take a steady amount of managable radiation damage. If you fall below 25% health you die and are assimilated. So far so good.

The problem is, with each tier of borg you fight the assimilation damage is amplified (probably a general damage multiplier to all their abilties). A trickle of radiation damage is increased to ticks of around 130-150 damage. I don't know what the interval of the dot is, but when an elite drone uses this ability on me i'm dead in a second. I know there are special hypos for cleansing the debuff, but if your're just suddenly dead in a sec, you don't have the time to react.

Going melee always provides a great risk of being flanked so this additional risk of being assimilated is very much over the top. I'd propose to either decouple the assimilation ability from the tier of drone that uses it (this would at least make sense in the star trek lore [maybe], since nanites are universally the same), or give me some set bonus that reduces or eliminates the assimilation effect. Maybe add a melee weapon to the Honor Guard/Adapted M.A.C.O. sets that can replace the 3 piece instant remodulation bonus with this immunity to being assimilated. Something called "Nanite Immunity" or "Auto - Nanite Cleanse" perhaps.
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  • nandospcnandospc Member Posts: 1,260 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Idk, personally i use the advanced immunosupports from omega reputation store. They counter immediately the assimilation process without the malus of the uncommon ones that you can drop or buy from the exchange. Use them followed by a large hypo and do melee! ;)
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  • woodwhitywoodwhity Member Posts: 2,636 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    nandospc wrote: »
    Idk, personally i use the advanced immunosupports from omega reputation store. They counter immediately the assimilation process without the malus of the uncommon ones that you can drop or buy from the exchange. Use them followed by a large hypo and do melee! ;)

    Actually, those can also fail to remove it, sometimes even 3 in a row wont trigger. But aside from that, its the way to go.
  • nandospcnandospc Member Posts: 1,260 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    woodwhity wrote: »
    Actually, those can also fail to remove it, sometimes even 3 in a row wont trigger. But aside from that, its the way to go.

    Weird, never happened to me tbh, and i do several ground runs per day with fleetmates... maybe i'm just lucky lol. Any suggestion wood?
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  • freenos85freenos85 Member Posts: 443 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    The problem is elite drones do enough damage as is, and as described above, i can't react in 1 second. Maybe if the immunity charges would make you actually immune to the nanites for a few seconds (like 10 sec perhaps), then they'd be really usefull. Right now though they are useless to me, since a normale drones attempt at assimlating me is basically a joke and the elite drones just just kills me in a sec.
  • voporakvoporak Member Posts: 5,621 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Yeah. Nanites should be made the same across the board (and the Borg should use them a lot more often - I mean, since when did the Borg just decide to punch you in the face?)
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