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nijai
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In the first part of Temporal Reckoning I have to fight several groups of destroyers and battleships, all of which use distortions almost constantly and I cannot seem to defeat them. Is this a bug or is it something that is supposed to happen with all ships in this mission? Please help me! I am running out of ideas to defeat those battleships and all. I have used a Multi-Vector Advanced Escort but I am not sure if that is the right ship to use.
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1. Stay out of the telegraphed attacks (evasive maneuvers helps)
2. Disperse the distortions by shooting at them (ie: Destroy the distortions or the ship is invulnerable)
3. Time your buffs correctly and destroy them while the distortion ability is on cooldown
^This.
Plus a few more pieces of advice in general:
-if something becomes red, is pointing at you and isn't cast by you, get away from it as fast as possible
-if an enemy becomes invincible, search for an object or a foe that just appeared, or a visible link between the enemy and something else and destroy that something else
-never fight more than 1 group at once unless you have no other choice
-always try to stay at above 5km away from a target as some tend to use dangerous/annoying attacks at this range
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
Tip: if you think you're being targeted, look around and head for the side of the targeting cone as quickly as you can. Just being next to that cone will damage you, but if you are in it, you will probably die. Speed skills are a must, and ones like Alpha, Beta, and Omega do give a boost although Maneuvers gives better. Once the targeting cone starts, it won't move from position until it fires, so you have a few moments to kick it into gear and scoot out of there.
Tip: if a Distortion appears, stop what you're doing and target it.
It has now become the priority or else you won't be able to get rid of the one that created it (and several ships can).
not only this, but the Distortion may be able to destroy you as well as the original ship doing the same. (pretty sure I've been blown away by distortions a few thousand times, but when it's happening you don't care which ship did it.)
Can't say i have had that problem except while playing on elite difficulty and that time it was simply lag and slow activation of powers.
They're pretty easy to deal with with AoE.
Using stuff like Hazard Emitters and Polarize Hull can make a nice difference.
They're probably not in that episode, but some dreadnoughts have the ability to create multiple clones. It is in fact a buff of the real ship and debuffing (with duty officers, or with Subnucleonic beam) removes the clones as well. Using subnucleonic beam might also work on other ships that have this distortion ability.
Or, the dumb way: using FAW or any other AoE ability can also help, as always.
Um, no?
Hasn't really happened to me in a long time, since they seem to have down-graded most of the Na'kuhl, but when I first fought the Na'kuhl, I recall having up to 6 ships or more targeting me with those cones and it was pretty much a lost cause by that point. Of course, I was 'Playing Bait' and drawing all their fire so someone else could get rid of them. Wish I had a pic of it. That much fire power at once was insane. And it wasn't even the worst I'd been targeted by them. Having every ship you fly past ignore everyone else to come after you is a very enlightening experience.
not the old Na'kuhl. The new improved nerfed ones? yeah... once you figure out how, it doesn't take much.
nah. don't play with them much anymore. and the ones around now don't feel the same. *shrug* You should try for elite at least once, though. Shame you can't do it on elite with the old setup. That was... fun.
Once I put an embassy console with the reduce threat on my ships they became a cake walk. If you pull threat they are going to rip you a new one.
definitely. but - it was fun. which was the whole point of doing it.
New and improved Na'kuhl?! When did this happen?! LOL. The ones I know are from the 'The Battle of Proctologist V' mission (because, let's face it, those were a pain in the *ss).
during the TOS event. Those were harder - a lot harder - than they are now. Was being sarcastic with the "new and improved NERFED ones".
And the ones in the Battle of Proc. aren't very difficult. I've actually run that one solo on Elite when everyone else bailed on me or lost connection. Before it'd take as many people as you could get just to close one portal, but not now. And Battle of Proc wasn't really the hardest, just respawns the same ships over and over if the portal isn't closed. No, the hardest instance was that one where you had to save the ships, but I think the only Na'kuhl instance left is the Battle of Proc, since they did pull all the others from the list after the event. (I think. would have to check.)
Ah. Thanks for the explanation; that, erm, explains a lot.
I kinda missed out on the TOS event a bit, so yeah, never encounted the new and improved Nah'kuhl. Would have been 'kuhl', though.
not really. not against the Na'kuhl. Here are the ships I used:
- Utility Cruiser [T1] (generic)
- Light Cruiser [T1]
- Escort [T2]
- Tactical Escort [T4]
- Support Cruiser [T3] (never used it, but it was free)
- Escort Retrofit [T5]
- Tholian Meshweaver Escort [T5]
- Heavy Escort [T3]
- Mirror Universe Science Vessel Retrofit [T5] (never sure why I bothered with this one)
- Patrol Escort [T5]
- Kobali Samsar Cruiser [T6] - (slow as hell without the right setup)
- Mirror Universe Advance Escort [T5]
The last one is the primary one I've come to use with that particular toon, which happens to be the same one I used for most of the TOS event. If you look at these ships, you'll see a pattern. I stopped using the others as soon as I could afford the next better in the line. Given, I haven't gotten the best escort-type ship out there yet for this toon, but one day I might. (having said that, got the winter event ship and other than a slot increase, not really pleased with it's performance so far. Like trying to drive a barge after driving a corvette.) Still thinking of swinging suicidal and going for the small fighter types later on someday. Just haven't yet, as I've had other things to do.
But as to fighting the Na'kuhl with a T1... not if I could help it. started using the Samsar as soon as I could pull it out of the reclaim bin and knock off the dust. Gave up on that, because it wasn't doing what I wanted it to do and switched off the the escort class.
think that's about it. maybe forgot a few small craft (which I ran some Na'kuhl events with just for the hell of it, but maxed out to hell and gone. now THAT was fun! ha!).
Point: I didn't really go grabbing up every ship I could, simply because that wasn't what my goal was and things like Galaxy, etc., didn't fit the play style I was using (and have gotten a bit addicted to, to be honest). Now having said that, the fact I missed the summer event ship really bit me in the behind. I REALLY wanted those ships, but missed them 2 years in a row, so didn't get either.
Why didn't I upgrade any of them? Why should I? I wasn't playing with that goal in mind this time around. It's been all "Cannons And Speed".
(Cannons and speed - and how much time do I have to play before I have to get back to work, etc.)
I should probably get back focused on getting the next few ships in the line. I seem to have forgotten about that goal at some point.
If you stay with your escort, do not, do not, do not, get in the middle of a group of them. You'll have death cones coming from so many directions at once there is literally no where to go to avoid them all, and escorts are too fragile to just shrug off a hit from a death cone. Hit and run from the edges, stay at full throttle, and make a dash for the nearest edge of the cone as soon as it appears. Escorts are plenty nimble enough to avoid the death cones even without evasive maneuvers as long as you don't get in the cross fire of multiple cones.
The closer you can stay to your target without ending up in the middle of a large group, the better, as the distance needed to travel to escape the cone is much smaller.......
And if you have it available, tossing scramble sensors into the middle of a group is a lot f fun
I have found that in this game, trying to be careful and playing a defensive style actually works against you. When in doubt, just do as much damage as you possibly can.
agreed. I forgot to mention that my play style is one of the hardest to use in sto. But I've been playing so long that a challenge was what I was looking for. New players should probably go with the other types of ships until they get a handle on things.
I'm considering asking for fleet help to boost me through, if my next couple of runs still leave me sucking vapor over New Khitomer?