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What are the kind of skills that I should be training my away team and myself so that I can easily solo dyson ground battlezone. I am getting killed too fast.
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-what is your profession?
-what is your favorite play-style in most similar games (like staying away from battle and let the AIs do the job while you keep them alive, the opposite, wanting to hurt as much as possible, wanting to be hurt as less as possible, to have a good mix of survivability and damage, not caring as being damaged as long as you can recover from the injuries as fast as possible, or other styles?)
-what are your favorite Boffs?
-Do traits (both for you and the Boffs) matter to you? Do you want to follow a coherent character-building with traits relevant to the character? Or do you not care if you don't want to have a character without abilities coherent to its character?
Away team consist of 2eng 1tac 1sci
I dont care about coherent building as long as I'm producing results.
- Take cover 1, strategic analysis 1, Shield Recharge 3, Shield Generator 3 ( Use iconian ground set 3 pc)
Eng 2 - Temporal speciality
- Shield recharge 1, Reroute power to shields 1, Paradox bomb 1, Medical Generator 3. (Use Maco/Adapted Honor guard 3 piece set)
Tac - Command speciality
- battle strategies 1, suppresing fire, return fire 1, Overwatch 3 (Use omega ground set 3 piece)
Sci - intel speciality
- medical tricorder, vascular regenerator, electrogravitic field 3, nanite monitor 1.
Bring two scis with medical tricorder, vascular regenator, nanite health monitor.
During the Sompek event, several of these powers were used as a template for captains who struggled on ground. Multiple 100+ rounds were achieved after that, naturally with the addition of some team tactics and game awareness but the powers helped people from dying too easily.
"-Grind is good!" --Gordon Geko
Accolades checklist: https://bit.ly/FLUFFYS
Get yourself mk 14 armour and shields, and a good weapon that can hit multiple targets like a split beam rifle and upgrade it to mk 14. Before engaging a mob buff your damage ouput, aim and then shoot - this works on all content with multiple regullar bad guys. Carry a hypo and or shield regen, best tribble you can afford and then best other device. This way the most dangerous member of your squad: that is YOU, are best able to stay alive and kick TRIBBLE. Best shield in game is the free Nakhaul one. Best tribble is gambling device. Best affordable dps armour is fleet critD one.
Start collecting good damage dealing kit modules and a good kit. I really like the summer event graviton spike module, has the fire power of a grenade, puts baddies on the floor and fires from your gun so less hassle than a grenade.
Get three of those security officer doffs that beam in extra security guys, and when affordable buy purple ones. This does two things, gives you a bit extra damage and the bad guys a load more additional targets.
Use your captains abilities, don't save them up until its too late and die.
2 Stop the bad guys from returning fire.
If the away team has split beam rifles with KB3 then bad guys will spend a lot of time on the floor. Some types of energy weapons have a proc that helps the group by debuffing the targets armour or stopping them from firing.
For the away team the eng ability sabotage is great - they won't be able to return fire for a while. Also eng ability equipment malfunction with good doff.
2a Get your away team doing as much damage as possible. For example sci cold flash kit 100 dps on multiple targets at lt comm on a boff - thats more than their weapon
3 Healing
Sure you can go defensive and load up with heals, med generators etc, but the best defense is killing stuff quickly, keeping your eyes open and having some decoy stuff for the bad guys to shoot at.
Some gear armour/sheld/gun sets have passive bonuses that improve team survivability, like iconian, maco, klingon honour guard, and probably others I've forgotten about. Buying these for the away team helps. At the very least get the away team in mk12 good armour/shields like Romulan Navy Set, jem hadar set etc.
Also consider kits modules that boost the team, command spec is good for these.
Give boffs stacks of healing hypos and shield regens, just basic ones are fine.
4 Specialisations
As with space combat, filling these helps. I like intel for dyson with all that being shot in the back by arriving/spawning mobs. Remember to activate a secondary specialisation that also boosts ground.
5. Team up with another player, you get slightly better rewards and it makes things easy.
Kits modules:
Some nice kits modules:
Universal kits from exchange to consider for the capt:
Solar gateway, this is that beam thing, its like a turret but does way more damage than the engineer boff one. Avaiable easily on the exchange. GET THIS ONE
Gravimetric traps, black disks that levitate and damage mobs, great for holding annoying things getting too close. See exchange
Crystaline spike, mobs attack it instead of you. Might only be available from phoenix box system
Boff:
Sci: cold flash area effect damage; tricorder scan, debuffs mobs and they die quickly; seismic agitation fields, puts bad on the floor and damages them; cryonic pulse is okay
Eng: med, shield generator, turret and mortar are okay but are static. Sabotage and weapon malfunction very useful. Support drone is nicely mobile but can wander off, also explosive drone from exchange. Molten terrain very nice like a sci power.
Command spec: Hammer and anvil, shock and awe, overwhelm shields, strategic analysis, delegated devestation. For team boosting this stuff is really good.
Intel spec: not great command is better on boffs
For your Boffs, there are several options.
Tactical - Command Spec: Take Cover I, Draw Fire II, Hammer and Anvil III, Strategic Analysis III (or Delegated Devastation III)
Science (Healer) - Temporal Spec: Chronometric Diffusion I, Tricorder Scan I, Medical Tricorder III, Nanite Health Monitor II
Science (Blaster) - Temporal Spec: Medical Tricorder I, Seismic Agitation II, Cold Fusion Flash III, Paradox Bomb III
For Engineers, I have a more general philosophy. I usually give them Sabotage I and Shield Recharge II, then give them Command or Temporal powers for their LtC or Cmdr powers.
For the Dyson Ground BZ:
1) Do not Rush trying to complete anything. This can create an overload situation.
2) Make sure your boffs are in Mk XII gear. The Maco/Omega/Iconian gear is good here.
3) Use the Specializations Command and Commando. The bonuses from Command stacks well with the Juggernaut System from Commando. Plus there's crouch dodge bonus and heal from Commando.
4) Carry Hypo's, to use as needed. Though, also carry some Large Kit Overboosters.
With that, you can use Medical Nanites, Energized Nanites, and Nanite Cloud from the Omega Rep. Kit setup can vary here. But for a firm basis, Battle Strategies and Overwatch. From here you can pick and choose what you want to use. Here of late my entire kits setup has been. Battle Strat, Overwatch, Take Cover, Trajectory Bending, and either Rally Cry or Motivation.
As for my Sci Boff, Medical Tricorder and Vascular Regenerator, with the gravity field thing and something else(I can't remember right off)
My Engi Boff, depending on which one I use, I have Medical/Shield generator and Quantum Mortar, add in like a Fuse Armor and a Quick fix, or whatever else you decide here.
With this setup I can easily solo everything in the Dyson Ground BZ. Even the boss dino's. Of course you can pick and choose which boffs to use, and whether or not you want them to have a specialization. But in truth all you need is you and two boffs in Mk XII gear.
> Eng 1 - Command speciality
> - Take cover 1, strategic analysis 1, Shield Recharge 3, Shield Generator 3 ( Use iconian ground set 3 pc)
>
> Eng 2 - Temporal speciality
> - Shield recharge 1, Reroute power to shields 1, Paradox bomb 1, Medical Generator 3. (Use Maco/Adapted Honor guard 3 piece set)
>
> Tac - Command speciality
> - battle strategies 1, suppresing fire, return fire 1, Overwatch 3 (Use omega ground set 3 piece)
>
> Sci - intel speciality
> - medical tricorder, vascular regenerator, electrogravitic field 3, nanite monitor 1.
> @casualsto said:
> Eng 1 - Command speciality
> - Take cover 1, strategic analysis 1, Shield Recharge 3, Shield Generator 3 ( Use iconian ground set 3 pc)
>
> Eng 2 - Temporal speciality
> - Shield recharge 1, Reroute power to shields 1, Paradox bomb 1, Medical Generator 3. (Use Maco/Adapted Honor guard 3 piece set)
>
> Tac - Command speciality
> - battle strategies 1, suppresing fire, return fire 1, Overwatch 3 (Use omega ground set 3 piece)
>
> Sci - intel speciality
> - medical tricorder, vascular regenerator, electrogravitic field 3, nanite monitor 1.
Simple, cheapest solution for your reported boff setup. Use it
As for skills:
Science Boff - Medical Tricoder I & II, Cold Fusion Flash III, Hyperonnic Radiation II.
Engineer Boff - Sabotage I, Chroniton Mine Barrier II, Quantum Mortar I, Explosive Drone Fabrication III
This setup requires you to spend a lot of EC to purchase training manuals on the Exchange though. Note that the training manuals for the skills below were less inexpensive before the Arena of Sompek event came around the 2nd time compared to the current Exchange prices.
Sabotage I = AoE effect disables weapons and also causes damage to mechanical / non-living enemies (Voth Battle Suits, enemy turrets and mortars). Pretty inexpensive at less 500k EC or less.
Cold Fusion Flash III - AoE cold damage and root for 12 seconds with a 10% chance to stun. I think this sells for around 4m EC.
Explosive Drone Fab III - Creates a spherical drone that shoots an anti-proton beam while closing in on an enemy. At 3m it will explode causing AoE damage. I will self destruct in 20 seconds. I think it costs around 1m to 1.5m EC on the Exchange.
A cheap alternative that works for me...
Science Boff - Medical Tricoder I & II, Tricorder Scan II, Hyperonnic Radiation II.
Engineer Boff - Sabotage I, Chroniton Mine Barrier II, Medical Generator I, Quantum Mortar II