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nadiezja
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Well... I'm on the Patrol the Nassordin System mission ("Aftermath"). I've saved the Kobali ships, and now the mission step I'm on is "Defend Against Further Attacks." The only enemy I've been able to find is a heavy artillery ship that cloaks and summons a friend every time I do a few percentage damage to it, and heals fully by the time I deal with its summon. I can't imagine the goal here is to kill that ship.
What am I supposed to be doing?
What am I supposed to be doing?
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Is this even POSSIBLE in a cruiser?
I completed that mission 2 days ago and I understand your pain. That damn Vaadwaur ship took an impressive amount of firepower to bring down.
I had no problem with this ship and Im running a T5U Escort with Mk XII purple gear as well. If we knew what exactly you are using in the way of gear. And the BOff abilities you have. We may be able to find out why youre underperforming DPS wise. As you should be able to burn down the ally ship before the Artillary Ship can even heal up to 25%.
Get some Sci team to scrub your sensors clean and you're good.
More firepower only hurts when it's aimed at you though.
Also, not sure if its a bug, or if I missed something, but after helping the last ship and destroyed some enemy shps I still had the "Defend Against Further Attacks" objective. So I flew around for about 10 minutes until I found two more assault ships close to one of those satellites marking the ships you're suppose to help.
I don't know if the options you choose while helping the ships have an impact on the mission, but 3 of the helped ships spawned 2 waves of enemy ships each one... and after that I still had to look for another 10 minutes for the last two
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I'm not optimal - this is a character I pulled out of mothballs because I fancied using her in the Delta Quadrant - but I'm using Mk XII purples (cannons and the rapid reload transphasic forward, arrays and the 360-degree antiproton array aft). In other words, a perfectly respectable semi-casual build. I cleared a few Advanced STFs with her just before the expansion hit without too much difficulty and with a sufficient contribution to group efforts that I felt all right with myself.
I really hope that ship was glitched - basic story content, on Normal difficulty, should not be nearly that frustrating.
I beat it 2 days ago in my Qib. I was using MEH gear (that could have been considered decent pre-DR/upgrade system), and a terrible BOff layout. Took me about 15 minutes though. Maybe your problem is that you have the difficulty setting too high? I had it on normal, and it was still a tough kill.
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Ans that Heavy Artillery ship is truly a pain in the TRIBBLE. I'm running a stock Tac Officer / Tac Odyssey. My first go-around, I kept getting squashed like a bug and gave up. Came back after some upgrading (raised a turret and couple of beam arrays to Mk 13) and it was still no picnic, but I fared MUCH better...No tearing into the hull nearly as bad as the previous outing. I also think that the blue Vaadwaur Torpedo Launcher (quest reward from the previous mission) helped immensely...That thing packs a hell of a hull punch.
Hopefully I will try this again today, the vaadwaur hit hard you need sci team an heals, it can be a pain in the TRIBBLE if you play on elite.
Did it in an adapted Destroyer, adapted BC and elachi escort. All on elite difficulty.
Use the vaadwaur cluster torpedo and things are suddenly a lot easier.
I didn't choose the BoP life; the BoP life chose me.
Zoom & Boom seems to work well against the Vaardwar
My strategy is usually to clear the sensor jamming ASAP, evade the barrages, and try not to get too bogged down with the summons while focusing fire on the big target.
if its the mission in mind , you have to kill a certain amount of reinforcments before actually tangling with the boss ship.
I think the threshold is 10000 dps needed to easily beat this on normal, unless you find other ways to do it. For most people new to the game the easiest way to beat this is to upgrade the gear.
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Enemies that disappear from your sensors often use Jam Sensors (very few NPCs actually cloak). You need a Science Team to counter that, and I strongly advise to always have a Science Team. It's also a decent shield heal, and jams is not the only thing it clears.
Now, to deal decent damage to a target, you want the appropriate buffs. Beam Fire At Will is the buff you want for beams, Cannon Scatter Volley is usually the one for Cannons (though in case of this artillary ship, Cannon Rapid Fire might do just as well or better - but you often have multi-target engagements, and then CSV is better:). Torpedo Spread is generally good for any torpedo. (And remember that the torpedo buff skills only buff a single shot - so they can be worth it even if you got just one torpedo launcher. This is a trait it shares with Beam Overload, by the way)
To also be able to take decent damage, Emergency Power to Shields (for a minor heal, for restoring disabled shield subsystems, for a major buff to shield damage reduction which makes your shield last a lot longer), Hazard Emitters (good hull heal over time, cleanses many nasty debuffs) are basically bread & butter skills. If that is not enough, Engineering Team, Auxiliary to Structural Intengrity Field and Transfer Shield Strength can provide additional help. Depending on hybrid spec seats you have there might be additional or alternative options like Hold it Together or Rally Point.
An additional aspect is plain piloting/maneuvering. Evade the enemy fire, move into his back, stuff like that. The Vaudwaur also have a ship that fires a Tri-Cobalt Cluster torpedo - basically a torpedo that drops a bunch of Tri-Cobalt Mines. That's extremely dangerous, evade it. If you can't evade it, be ready to intercept it with area effect abilities like BFAW or, heck, Gravity Well if you got nothing smaller.
Sometimes it can be advisable to wait with certain counters and abilities until the enemy has used particular abilities. (For example, if you know the Cluster Torpedo hasn't been fired yet, and you know you aren't able to kill the enemy before he fires it - wait popping your AoE until that torpedo comes.) Sometimes you can only whether the storm. (That's more a thing for dealing with the Borg and their drain abilities - wait until the drains are done before you bother repairing - and make sure you live till then.)
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Don't get within 5 Km of that vaadwaur ship. That's the threshold for the cloak and spawn cycle.
Other than that: Dps and cluster torpedoes.
Edit: Didn't notice the zombies.