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captainmerzan
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I was woundering what is the best setup for infected ground run doing it with melee weapons, what melee weapon is best what shield and what armour would be best to use for a ground melee run on infected
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Well said, I've never been able to get the optional when a sword wielder is on the team for IGE/N. It's as if they intentionally go into the mission with the intent of messing up the optional. Killing borg from range is key to doing well in the mission and obtaining the optional, which can't be done if the player is using a melee weapon.
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ive got the elite team commander acolade on 4 of my 5 char and my rommy will be getting it in the next day or two now she has the ground mk xii set.
Elite team commander means ive got all optionals for ground and space elite stf.
Soz for any typo doing this from my phone.
But dont take melee to to ground infected.
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The thing is, if you're going to do this, everybody must do this. If you have a team member trying to be cagey and snipe from the trigger points then things go south quickly.
oh ok was woundering from the videos why the heavies wherent one shotting like they normaly do
All i can think of is its ign not ige
ignore me i miss read lmao yer its a eng kit
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That's not a real melee run, that's an engineer mining run. Which, by the way, goes much faster if the engineers are all using pulsewaves.
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Indeed, what I took from the OP's post is not that they expect this to be in any way an easy, quick, or optimal way of doing IGE. It's a way of getting an extra challenge by playing with self imposed rules, like playing Pokemon under the Nuzlocke rules. That said, I'm curious to hear how it might be done. Sounds like you need to somehow neutralize the bulk of the Borg, and take down the ones on the hostages hella quick. Either that, or just be able to tank like a boss while you save the hostages. Probably requires planning of the team's gear loadout to make sure you're getting the right team buffs from the set bonuses.
Another reason is that the melee weapon requires very close combat and you will most likely end up agroing more than one mob if you?re the type that says TRIBBLE the team I?m running ahead and slashing a few Borgs, also not good for the team.
I have also seen players just stand there doing nothing because they do not want to rush forward so they wait for the Borg to get closer before they do a melee attack and that?s a waste of Group DPS just standing there and waiting.
And my all-time reason not to use Melee weapon in any ground STF is that the DPS on the weapon is low compared to the most common energy weapon that?s used in the game.
The Pulse wave rifle, this weapon is an AOE with a high knock back attack and makes it difficult for Melee weapon users to effectively use their attacks if the NPC keeps getting knocked all over the place.
The pulswave is a good weapon, but I have seen many melee players trying to swing at their target and all of a sudden their target gets knocked out of swinging range and they try to run up to the same target and give another swing and once again that target gets knock around and in the end the melee player only got one or two good swings in, see, bad DPS.
If you really want Borg on Melee weapon action then may I suggest you run Assimilation on Elite level. This can be found in the Episodes Tab in your mission journal under Undine Advance.
This way you can have your Borg slashing fill without affecting other players that just want to finish the STF in a timely manner.
See, win, win for everyone.
I'd guess that in order to have the melee party on the Borg STF would be finding similary minded people and experiment and well... have fun. Something I am totally not opposed to at all; need some more challenge, the Borg on Defera are a snorefest which can be taken care off with my eyes nearly closed...
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Use the Adapted MACO Phaser Pulsewave, the Borg do not adapt to that weapon. It's a copy/paste from the KHG rifle. The weapon procs the borg phaser adaptation, fires phaser damage, but only disruptor borg adaptation will trigger the need to remodulate with the Adapted MACO pulsewave.
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Two of the players in that video, Erik and T.J., are great ground PvPers. I don't recognize the other three people in the video. The video is not a sword run however, though one person is using a sword full time and the other uses one occasionally. Erik, T.J., and Mr. Spock are all using Pulsewaves for most of it.
Watching that reminded me of the IGE run I ran with some ground PvPers the other day. It just shows you how powerful a group of ground players can be when set up completely. It's true, you don't need to sit back with the right team, but you also don't want to go in with 5 swords.
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First off, the knockback exploit is now patched, which means it's no longer possible to chain knockback as they did throughout the video to kill the borg. Second, the run is significantly slower than the average energy weapon run-through. Swords work, but they are still not the best weapons in the game.
Again, not a sword video, this video is just a group of engineers running the enemy neutralization kit to oneshot entire groups of Borg with minefields. There is also energy weapon use throughout the video, only the tactical officers use melee and they contribute very little overall damage.
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This ^^^
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yeap these are things I was woundering as far as which melee to use I have the newest ones with the higher dps but I also have an old mk x purple borg batleth which does the additional radiation to borg damage, so which would be better to use the higher dps or the old mk x with the extra borg damage on it.