Thanks for all the comments! I was running those missions on normal, with a T5 ship (not upgraded) as a sub admiral II. I bought as much purple gear for the ship as I could. I tried different ships, different tactics (like trying to stay 5k away/using battle cloak, etc., yet nothing worked.
As a side note, and possibly interesting, is that I ran this mission tonight with my Klingon captain (34), in a standard, free ship from one's promotion, without purple stuff. I didn't expect to survive, but to my complete surprise I did. Not only did I survive, but the mission wasn't even difficult at all. I'm sure someone out there has the answer to this very disproportionate outcome!
I think the important thing here is your promotion. As I understand it, as you level up, so do your NPC opponents. I noticed this when I reached level 60. Even with my bright and shiny new Galaxy X I suddenly found myself being beaten in the Traellus Satellite mission. My solution was to start upgrading hard. As you increase in rank, the standard Mk XII kit won't cut it any more.
TOIVA, Toi Vaxx, Toia Vix, Toveg, T'vritha, To Vrax: Bring in the Allegiance class. Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider. Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.
Welcome to mission scaling. Level 50, 51 and 60 have BIG jumps in the scaling. Basically after 50+, the game becomes a game of blow them up before they can get you game because if you go for defense, you end up nerfing your damage so far that it takes forever to kill them. If you try and balance it out, you end up not doing either very well. That isn't to say that one should not have any save me jeebus abilities...but you really need to focus on DPS...or at least spike damage.
No you don't. You can kill enemies quickly, even Iconian battleships with 10 k DPS that is normal. You don't need to force everyone to become a 90k DPS master. Stop lying, lol. It's not helping. He can focus on defense and do just fine.
Unless I missed something, we don't know the OP can do 10k DPS. I'm pretty sure I couldn't back in the day when I was newish with the game.
And fact is, it definitely helps to clear any enemy with your first volley.
Anyway, what ship exactly are you using, breetime13?
TOIVA, Toi Vaxx, Toia Vix, Toveg, T'vritha, To Vrax: Bring in the Allegiance class. Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider. Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.
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Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider.
Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.
Don't make ARC mandatory! Keep it optional only!
No you don't. You can kill enemies quickly, even Iconian battleships with 10 k DPS that is normal. You don't need to force everyone to become a 90k DPS master. Stop lying, lol. It's not helping. He can focus on defense and do just fine.
And fact is, it definitely helps to clear any enemy with your first volley.
Anyway, what ship exactly are you using, breetime13?
Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider.
Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.
Don't make ARC mandatory! Keep it optional only!