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ghyudt
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Ok. this isn't from a pvp mission, but does involve pvp. Doing the borg mission, the one with the repair hulks and what-not, i notice that klingons and federation players are both present and able to fight each other. I had a few opportunities to have a 1v1 with some of these klingon players, and i ran into a bit of a problem. I have all the high lvl vice admiral phaser weapons and quantum torpedos. I use torpedo high yield, phaser overload, and whatever attack patterns i had available. But no matter what i do, i can't seem to put a dent in the shields of a bird fo prey, even though i'm focusing all my fire on a single side of the ship. He just sat there and laughed. Is it my weapons that are having an issue, or is it simply his shields are just so outrageously powerful that it takes a fleet to damage him? And to top it off, when he finally did attack, he took down my shields and destroyed me in less than a minute.
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Ok, I have some questions...
First, what kind of a ship are you flying.
Second, what kind of an officer are you?
Third, do you use your distribute shields (Either by clicking on your ship image in the UI, the button it's self, or Via Keybinds)?
Fourth do you use Tac Team and/or Emergency Power to shields and/or Transfer Shield strength?
Fifth, do you have Reverse Shield Polarity?
Sixth, what power settings do you run at?
Seventh, What other Bridge officer Powers, and Gear do you run, and how many Skill points have you spent in your skills?
Once you have answered those questions, you should be able to get the EXACT help that will be required. Because there are many factors as to why you had such a hard time byond the questions.
Think about this:
American Football has been in open beta for 144 years. ~Kotaku
Edited to add the word "energy"
This will give you a good view of what is going on when you're being attacked and what you can do to preserve yourself. The abilities used are available on any ship. The equipment is all common MK X.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwioA-jUgPA&feature=plcp
For a response on what you could do to ATTACK, if you provide the information to the posters in this thread already I'm sure they can help you out.
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^^ THIS!
You can be the best NPC killer out there, and wipe anything you find on elite while watching a movie and eating popcorn, but if you try PvP, it's a whole new game.
1. Know your enemies
2. Predict your enemies strategy
3. Know how to counter said strategy
4. Learn your enemies weakness
5. Take advantage of said weaknesses.
6. Find the weaknesses of your build, and remedy them.
so... how does this look?
1. You know your enemy can be a BoP. Small, maneuvrable, cloakable, heavy damage.
2. Expect them to decloak and deliver 15 seconds of insane damage
3. Be ready to run away, Tac team, EPtoS. (remember situational awareness! you may have to start defending befor you're being attacked even!)
4. Like the narrow firing arc of cannons (bops have few generic weaknesses... study your enemy)
5. Like using a tractor beam, or repulsors
6. You may want to go back to ESD and change abilities
Lastly, gear has very little to do with anything. You can do PvP with all green XI gear. The only real advantage in gear, you get from the engine/shield/deflector sets.
Dont worry about it just keep tweaking and tuning and learning and you will get better and better!
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Rotflmao!!! That was extremely entertaining and helpful. So, the auxiliary battery is what increases the shield powers? Not the shield battery? I'll admit, i've never actually used the batteries before. I must have 100+ sitting in esd in my bank. I generally use quantum torpedoes with all my setups, one fron and one rear. Are transphasics better? i know they do damage through shields, but is it worth it? And what are the advantages of each torpedo? I know tricobalts to massive damage once the targets dhields are down, but nothing if they hit shields. And what are chroniton torpedoes good for? Damn, not only did you answer a few questions for me, you actually made me stop and think about my choice of weapons.
Second.. ditch the Oddy. It's Too Fat For Tacs. Seriously, tacs rely on agility to survive and do damage. the oddy doesn't have agility.
Sovereigns and Excels for life for fed tac cruisers.
S'okay it was just a slip of the tongue. We all do it. (some with more awkward social ramifications than others...)
I can't keep their names straight. It may be Technician DOFFs that for example reduce your Engineering Team cooldown. If you got enough and/or high quality of them, you don't need 2 Engineering Teams, you can go with just one, since the cooldown is down to 15 seconds instead of 30.
Other DOFFs make your Brace for Impact power into a strong shield heal. And so on.
I still have to get around to make a decent list of what special abilites are good for what. I am too lazy.
So why use an Aux Battery? Because you can very quickly use that high aux power to heal shields and hull and clear debuffs and provide resistances to yourself or allies. Just using a shield battery won't do that for you and you likely already have EPTS available or running.
And go to the exchange. Buy 3 shield distribution doffs and 2 hazard doffs. Get all common ones it will be cheap. Equip them all using the doff interface, active duty space. Go to system space and look at what an amazing powerhouse of resistance and shield healing brace for impact just became.
Then go to the Doffemon forum and start reading! Gotta catch em all!!
On a side note if you (op) did want to use the doffs for reducing your engineering team cooldown, I believe they're called Maintenance Doffs. The Technician Doffs are 'reduce cooldown on bo abilities by ##% when using aux to batteries. Note though, when the doffs came out, there were some buggy ones. For example I have a Technician doff who's ability is actually describing one of a Maintenance Doff. So read their abilities before tossing em out (i think it's called that, might want to double check though) :P
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Simple really, it is called Min-Maxing ... used in every fantasy MMO, from EverQuest to WoW...
Really no difference...do not let the fact that you are flying a Star Ship fool you, the game was not designed for Star Ship Combat...consider that you are playing an Orc or an Elf, in a Star Ship Costume and you will be more successful.
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I can safely guarantee you, the military min maxes it's naval vessels for maximum efficiency.
And Race Teams min max their cars and constantly tune them for different tracks, and find constant upgrades.
Min Maxing happens in Everything.