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Time commitment and gear requirement for Crystalline event
farranor
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How long does it take to do Crystalline Cataclysm, including the queue and the fight itself? Is it a "participation ribbon" event like the 5th Anniversary minigame, or are there actual gear requirements (even for Normal)?
I ask because I have six characters between 50 and 60, with gear ranging from purple/yellow all the way down to the common items that came with the ships (the free level 40 promotion ships, for some of them). Can my non-geared alts get Crystal Shards without being a burden to the team and ticking people off? If so, would it be realistic to complete it six times in an hour or so?
I probably don't strictly need that torpedo on more than a couple of my characters, but I'd really like to get it for all of them if possible, because I don't like the notion of Gone Forever.
I ask because I have six characters between 50 and 60, with gear ranging from purple/yellow all the way down to the common items that came with the ships (the free level 40 promotion ships, for some of them). Can my non-geared alts get Crystal Shards without being a burden to the team and ticking people off? If so, would it be realistic to complete it six times in an hour or so?
I probably don't strictly need that torpedo on more than a couple of my characters, but I'd really like to get it for all of them if possible, because I don't like the notion of Gone Forever.
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you have to do it like 14X.
I've done this event every time since they started it. I haven't played CE since the last time, and I'm already tired of it.
Support 90 degree arc limitation on BFaW! Save our ships from looking like flying disco balls of dumb!
1) Tachyon Beam - Best ability to remove the 2% damage stacks regardless of flow caps skill. There are others, but this one can be used by anyone and is more effective than the others.
2) GW with aftershocks doff or TBR to deal with the shards.
3) Stay away from the blast radius UNLESS you're in a Voth ship with the damage reflection console. Just put up the shield about 5 seconds before it blasts you. You'll get to hit the CE back hard and sustain absolutely no damage.
4) Now that the aceton assimilator drain has been fixed. Spamming those around might be useful.
As far as hitting it, I think kinetic builds do better against it. A part gens build should be pretty good at dealing damage to it since exotic damage is basically kinetic damage with another name.
Did they fix that thing where you can remain at <1km from the Entity and not get hit by the blast?
Support 90 degree arc limitation on BFaW! Save our ships from looking like flying disco balls of dumb!
Yes, that has been removed. You take full damage now at point blank range.
That is unfortunate. I thought it was a pretty good strategy (and good for really learning to control your ship) to have that.
Ditto - I thought it was 'functioning as intended'.... should have known better.
Ah well, singularity leap in my scim is still a boon... would be cool if we could craft a [sonic] ship weapon that does extra damage to the CC...
Is this correct?
That isn't even needed anymore on regular or advanced.
Before shields up or not, it was instant death.
Now, full shields taking the blast, I'm usually sitting with 50%+ Hull and some shield facings still up.
Yeah but not everyone has good resists, and if the team has been sloppy with shards then the CE may have seriously buffed itself and that blast can hurt. Especially now with the optional blown if too many people die, probably better to show a little excess of caution just to be sure rather than tell everyone to Tough It Out and create the chance for a mistake that hurts not just you but your whole team. Plus the OP implied he wasn't particularly familiar with the event, and when you're new at anything better safe than sorry.
14 days of normal CE, 10 minutes each day per toon. you will need reasonably good shields to withstand the CE attack and some boff heals, the CE beam hits can be lethal if left unchecked long enough, otherwise, standard mk12 common beam or dhcs would be enough to take part, as long as you provide enough damage over the duration, you should be fine.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
With that in mind even using rock and roll might not be a fail-safe unless you hit it just before the blast is activated.
As for weapons, well I find a GW3 and gravimetric torps does some really bad damage to it. Lovely to see the Tholian + shards washing machine effect centered round the entity! Plus all that overlapping damage can kill multiple targets, good way to clear out the larger shards.
Yep, that would be me.
I'll try to get some [Ap] shields and Parametallic Hull Plating consoles.
It sounds like it targets you if you're within 10km, so if you're not outside of that at the moment it fires, the pulse will travel to you, and you have to use defensive abilities as it hits you - similar to being attacked with torps. Correct?
Is there a countdown on a buff timer or something to give you an idea of when to do things?
I'll faceroll it in Normal, then.
It's a delayed reaction, like the torpedos. Damage occour instantly, but the result are when the graphics follows up. The moment it fire, everything is calculated and will be applied accordingly.
- Quantum torp builds on Sci vessels are fun here
*EDIT* There's a notification that the Entity are building up power and a build up progression box above the Entity.
Tldr u don't need to clear to 10km.
You have several slots for events .
Just choose an unoccupied slot to cash in .
FYI this event won't award the shotgun . This isn't Mirror Invasion .
Capt. Will Conquest of the U.S.S. Crusader
The Tholians at this time do not matter. Many players still engage them but unless you have a good group of Players that can produce the DPS needed to swat the Tholians quickly and efficiently they should probably be ignored. Again. You will probably end up with a group that goes for the Tholians first. Even though the Tholians are not included in the mission bar and their destruction or lack of destruction has no affect on the mission bar.
The CE has a 4+ minute timer on it. The better the DPS output of the group the less time youll need of this countdown. But considering how close it can come sometimes even with a good group. No amount of time should be wasted.
The CE has a AoE attack that is triggered once its HP is reduced to 65% and 35% respectively. Both times the CE will absorb energy (except kinetic I believe, so you should still be able to hurt it with torps...might have to double check that though) and once the CE is full it will release the AoE and hit anything within the 10km radius. Including under 1km. Its best not to take any chances with this and try to tank through it. Simply Evasive Maneuvers out of the 10km range and wait for the blast. The Optional requires no more then 30% of the ships in the instance be lost to the AoE attack either time.
Capt. Will Conquest of the U.S.S. Crusader
Using brace for impact also helps reduce the damage from the shockwave
If we have a nice TBR with GW on a sci ship, which direction should we be pushing the CE with the TBRs? Or does it matter? I don't want to be flamed for being on the wrong side of the CE when I activate my TBRs...
Thanks!
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