Difficulty - Need Help with Ship Build

nsinger

I am a Level 65 fleet admiral. I have a Galaxy ship. Most of my equipment is purple. Usually around Level 13. So I have very rare purple Vice Admiral shields. I am on Spoils of War Pursuit and have to destroy the mirror universe ships. I get that at this level you have to show some skill. But you approach the ships, then they fire and I am dead within about 3 seconds. Am I just seriously under powered? What sort of level equipment do I need?


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nightken

nsinger wrote: »

I am a Level 65 fleet admiral. I have a Galaxy ship. Most of my equipment is purple. Usually around Level 13. So I have very rare purple Vice Admiral shields. I am on Spoils of War Pursuit and have to destroy the mirror universe ships. I get that at this level you have to show some skill. But you approach the ships, then they fire and I am dead within about 3 seconds. Am I just seriously under powered? What sort of level equipment do I need?

very rare mk 12 should be good for normal and advance difficulty. assuming your build isn't too crazy. terran have two tricks that can mess up you up if your not careful. nebula science vessels can use feedback pulse turning your own energy weapons against you by reflecting some of the dmg back. and some of their cruisers, I forgot which one, have a mean Torpedo: Spread that can kill you very fast.

wait... which galaxy class? there are several and at least one is outdated for your level,

leemwatson

Slap some Neutronium armour on (Fleet versions if you can), and equip as Boff skills, Reverse Shield Polarity and Hazard Emitters for heals and you'll be fine. MK XII equipment is fine, but upgrade as soon as you can.

nsinger

Thanks! I will look into upgrading. I am a bog standard Galaxy class. Old Enterprise D! I suspect I should also be a Sovereign class. I just want to keep my Galaxy Class ship.

cannibalchicken

nsinger wrote: »

Thanks! I will look into upgrading. I am a bog standard Galaxy class. Old Enterprise D! I suspect I should also be a Sovereign class. I just want to keep my Galaxy Class ship.

Standard Galaxy is T4 - that's probably a large part of your troubles. Someone else pointed out that Terrans employ torp spread a lot - that tends to be where most people have trouble with them. Brace for impact when you see Typhoons, and make use of shield redistribution to drastically reduce their effectiveness.

protoneous

nightken wrote: »

nsinger wrote: »

I am a Level 65 fleet admiral. I have a Galaxy ship. Most of my equipment is purple. Usually around Level 13. So I have very rare purple Vice Admiral shields. I am on Spoils of War Pursuit and have to destroy the mirror universe ships. I get that at this level you have to show some skill. But you approach the ships, then they fire and I am dead within about 3 seconds. Am I just seriously under powered? What sort of level equipment do I need?

very rare mk 12 should be good for normal and advance difficulty. assuming your build isn't too crazy. terran have two tricks that can mess up you up if your not careful. nebula science vessels can use feedback pulse turning your own energy weapons against you by reflecting some of the dmg back. and some of their cruisers, I forgot which one, have a mean Torpedo: Spread that can kill you very fast.

wait... which galaxy class? there are several and at least one is outdated for your level,

^^Excellent advice. OP, this (in bold) may very well be what is getting you regardless of what level of ship you are using. Assuming your build is reasonable, do you have adequate resists i.e. at least one decent all damage armor console? Are you using all your Captain and boff abilities to help protect yourself?

Also for feedback pulse you can either take your weapons out of auto-fire (right click each so that they're not green) or click on empty space to de-target the ships using FBP and wait until they stop using the ability (they'll stop sparkling) until using energy weapons against them.

Some of the encounters in this mission are more difficult than usual, require a bit of proper timing or planning, and can be very much a case of attrition warfare in which you end up re-spawning a couple times. Torpedo attacks aside, you could very well end up in re-spawn right quick if attacking a ship using FBP regardless of what Tier the ship is.

nightken

nsinger wrote: »

Thanks! I will look into upgrading. I am a bog standard Galaxy class. Old Enterprise D! I suspect I should also be a Sovereign class. I just want to keep my Galaxy Class ship.

look up the t-6 Exploration Cruiser/Andromeda class. it is the endgame version, it can use the galaxy skin but it much more powerful. it is a zen/c-store ship, but as it happens if you run the current and next two featured tfo you can earn a coupon for a free t-6 of your choice from the store.

actually your level 65 right? if you haven't spent the token you got at.. 61 I think it was
, you should be able get the Exploration Cruiser Retrofit, which is the upgraded version of galaxy. which should cover you tell you get around to getting the t-6 version.

nsinger

Thanks all.