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dojihajime
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I know I posted this before but not in a few years and well anyone really understand why some of the old mission seem to scale badly if you are max level. I mean I doing one of the Romulan arc missions and Mogai Romulan ship is beating me easily, and I know when you are hear at lower levels this isn't even close to this difficult. Pair with doing it for the Klingon Recruitment character, so you can get the Box for that arc. They can't just be a just me thing.
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Also, for plasma burn you really want Hazard Emitters, and for tractor mines Polarize Hull or (as a weaker substitute) Evasive Maneuvers. That might help.
I talking about dealing with old mid-level missions after becoming 60 or above. I have a Tier 6 Ship [Legendary Vor'cha] I did switch ships and it help a bit but thier 35000 Plus Heavy Plasma Torpedo isn't helping things. It really feeling like banging my head against the wall!
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AOE attacks (BFAW, Scatter Volley) can help. If you're locked on the ship with single-target tac powers then you're tanking the torpedo hits.
If you are using single-target, and even if not, you can spend a Rare Phoenix token on an Automated Defense Turret - https://sto.fandom.com/wiki/Console_-_Tactical_-_Automated_Defense_Turret
There is likely nothing better than hearing that their is a reason that this is happening.
That said even changing things is not helping at all!
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Most things scale more steeply after level 50, not just the old missions, as you have more of all things available to you (i.e. boff abilities, consoles, skill points, spec points, higher mark items, hull, etc).
Some suggestions...
Keep out of range of the tractor beam.
Escape from the tractor beam using Polarize Hull or evasive maneuvers or rock n roll.
Target then shoot the heavy plasma torpedo. Cannon scatter volley or beam fire at will or torpedo spread make it hard to miss.
Use brace for impact or something like Aux to SIF prior to the plasma torpedo hitting to get some damage resistance and hit points going.
Then - buff up - use captain abilities, attack pattern beta, emergency power to weapons, beam or cannon and torpedo skills, and give the opposing party a lesson they won't soon forget.
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A lot of what others have posted are good points, but the truth is the scaling is extremely out of wack for those older missions. There's no reason for normal difficulty to be THAT hard. At least make it doable for the first run through so that I can see how it all ends. THEN if I want to go back and replay it, make it harder. The way it works now is extremely frustrating and makes me want to just not bother. I mean, why have a difficulty setting if the game automatically sets itself to extreme difficulty once you hit max level?
> i had a problem with the Krieger and Keldon in Jabberwocky but I was in a Malem which has always been squishy for me.
I always forget that Galors have FBP 3 until I receive the death timer reminder after a full Alpha Strike against them.
Also a problem is that the infamous McCoy bug in Night of the Comet that stopped the arc dead in its tracks was finally fully fixed only a short time before they ripped the Spectres arc out of the missions tab and exiled it to the "Available" tab, which broke the fix and reverted it to earlier fix levels.
Making the whole difficulty curve an even bigger factor is that with all the back to back events it is now rather common for captains to reach endgame but only have the first few missions done, not to mention the new instant endgame tokens they are starting to bloat out Legendary ship packages with.
Yeah, good luck to anyone who pays to become instant 65 and then tries to run a mission. On my first character I got all the way to the delta quadrant story before I got stuck on "What a Waste." I haven't been able to complete it even after hitting 65 and using tier 6 ships. I switched to a tier 6 defiant, all loaded with at least mk 12, and after about fifteen minutes I got the final battleship down to 57 percent, but it just kept healing itself back every time. It's ridiculous.
The Delta Quadrant has always been a bit of a test. Tactics and build start to become more important as well.
Sometimes it's a case of ensuring the ships power levels are set to the 'attack' preset, not mixing too many weapon types, ensuring energy specific tactical consoles are used to fill tactical ship slots, and the selection of bridge officer abilities such as having emergency power to weapons up all the time and using a debuff like attack pattern beta.
These sorts of things focus more on general build basics versus needing a specific ship and together in combination with the right tactics might be enough to provide a better experience when playing through the missions to rank up.
The plasma torpedo spam is one best managed through positioning. Always try to keep on a Warbird's flank, you can hammer away at them from then with relative impunity and there are various BOff skill that can counter their tricks that have been covered in the posts in this thread.
If that all falls short then you may want to revisit your build and ship's loadout.
That's one of my most favourite consoles. It even takes out the borg dreadnought torpedoes