This thread seems to be the most accurate one. Most of the instances I join fail at the 30% level as the "leader" suddenly shouts "Ignore the Large Crystals!"
Unless everyone has Ramming Speed at that point, it's a guaranteed fail when the Large Crystals explode on you and heal the CE.
Other than that, the slow but tried method seems to work.
The best strategy for defeating the Crystaline Entity is:
Wait until the Dev's fix it. The encounter was stupidly easy in Beta, and so they buffed it, but obviously they buffed it too much. I'm sure they'll find a happy medium, but until then: why bang your head against an encounter that is clearly mis-tuned?
Well, you can circle it at full throttle with full power to engines and beam or turret spam the sob. But that will take forever because it regens quicker than you'll ever whittle it down.
So what's left? Well, you need a LOT of people to do this... A LOT... There's no actual strategy involved. Just zerg the thing with 50 people all wailing on it while at full throttle because otherwise the shards will catch up with and kill you.
Of course then you get the fact that a lot of people will just sit on their lazy butts at the zone entrance and let you do all the work. In addition, if people get bored with the 2 hour long fight and leave (there just isn't enough experience or reward in the fight to make it worth anyone's while) then you end up having to wait till there are enough people again....
Simply put, the CE is a worthless fight. It's next to impossible to get enough dakka in one place to kill it.
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Unless everyone has Ramming Speed at that point, it's a guaranteed fail when the Large Crystals explode on you and heal the CE.
Other than that, the slow but tried method seems to work.
Wait until the Dev's fix it. The encounter was stupidly easy in Beta, and so they buffed it, but obviously they buffed it too much. I'm sure they'll find a happy medium, but until then: why bang your head against an encounter that is clearly mis-tuned?
So what's left? Well, you need a LOT of people to do this... A LOT... There's no actual strategy involved. Just zerg the thing with 50 people all wailing on it while at full throttle because otherwise the shards will catch up with and kill you.
Of course then you get the fact that a lot of people will just sit on their lazy butts at the zone entrance and let you do all the work. In addition, if people get bored with the 2 hour long fight and leave (there just isn't enough experience or reward in the fight to make it worth anyone's while) then you end up having to wait till there are enough people again....
Simply put, the CE is a worthless fight. It's next to impossible to get enough dakka in one place to kill it.