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Saphire.. Science ground......Ko'el Romulan space Tac
Leva........Tactical ground.....Koj Romulan space Eng
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A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch." "We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Passion and Serenity are one.
I gain power by understanding both.
In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
I am a shadow, darkness born from light.
The Force is united within me.
Just got out of KASE. This is a popular queue, I figured that a PUG wouldn't be too bad, right?
So I'm on my alt's Avenger, with a rainbow cannon/chroniton torp/plasma mine build that actually works really well in KASE, and I get a team with a ha'feh, a scimitar, and two others.
OK. Looks good. Tac cube takes more than a minute to go down. I call left, and ask someone to camp probes. No response.
I take down 2 gens, go into beast mode, and solo the cube. I'm halfway through the transformer when Ha'feh man calls me a n00b for some stupid reason.
He's flying a rainbow beam-boat build, and his DPS is maybe 3k. I go "LOLwut? U mad bro?" at him.
The Scimitar is spending half his time respawning.
Beamscort dude lets some probes waltz towards the exit. I chase 'em down, then go for the gateway.
This idiot is shooting ONLY the probes (staying back from the gate), so I die three times because the Avenger isn't as resilient as my usual scimitar.
Beamscort man still lets a probe through, ruining the optional.
Meanwhile he's telling me that I'm a n00b.
:rolleyes:
So I finish the gate about the same time as the 3 guys on the other side finish theirs. Scimitar guy is alive for once, so Donatra spawns, and...
She takes over five minutes, mostly because Beamscort Man keeps getting too close and I borked up on EM one time and skated within 2k of the Borgmitar. Scimitar Man dies two more times.
I take my loot. Beamscort man calls me a n00b one more time and puts me on ignore.
Last night i had my worst ISE run ever...at least that actually got finished by the entire team.
Warped in my my fleet Amb fleet plasma beam build A2B
Others were 2 Avengers, a Scim and an Undine thing
Hit my powers and hit the tac cube head on, notice no one else seems to be moving, pull the cube down to 65% by myself before the scim and one of the avengers finally start hitting it.
Mr Undine finally comes in when the cube is basically swiss cheese...
Avenger 2 still sitting at spawn
I fly left with the active Avenger and Undine, the scim seems to of gotten exploded by the cube going boom.
Pop the cube, start on the gens, I grav well the spheres and we get the gens and transformer down in not too hard a time. Undine goes boom when the spheres swarm in... while popping the spheres i see that Mr Avenger 2 has gone right and tried to pop a gen already, not the cube, the scim is trying to pop the cube by himself and it's moving towards the spawn. Well we lose the optional because a nsphere heals something over there...
Avenger 1 sends a team chat telling the other avenger to stop attacking the gens and to help clear the spheres and cube... he answers back with "*redacted* are all total noobs LOLOLOL"
and just keeps rainbow boating nothing specific, somehow isn't getting totally popped, but probably because the poor scim keeps agroing everything.
Well I swoop over and help pop the cube, then with the scim pop spheres from the right as Avenger 1 does from the left. I get popped by the gateway, tac cube and 2 spheres (and my stupidity admittedly) The Undine keeps getting popped by the gateway and/or tac cube and is basically stuck in respawn limbo much of the time at this point.
After I respawn the spheres are down enough so I swoop in on the right gens with Avenger 1 and the Scim, Avenger 2 decides to agro the tac cube. Scim isn't having much luck surviving and gets popped again. Avenger 2 goes boom but now tac cube is close enough to the spawn to cause the scim to go boom over and over as he spawns as we are trying to pop the transformer. We get the trans popped and the Undine, Avenger 1 and myself start on the gateway. Avenger 2 decides to start spamming the chat with how the cube is killing him before he can get away. The tac cube is now parked over the spawn. The scim finally sneaks out as we have the gateway down to 20% or so and helps us finish it. We move in on the cube and make it go boom efficiently enough.
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Avenger 2 is still in respawn limbo after i warp out... total time 33 mins
Yesterday i had a really terrible run of the Undine Assault (normal) queue.
As we start we are one player short, there are 2 Galaxy-X's and some Klingon cruiser. I move to the bottom lane while the rest of the team goes for the middle one. I pop the first rift, the rest of the team is repeatedly dying and haven't popped their rift yet.
I move forward and pop another rift. Then another and another. By this time both the Galaxy-X's have left and only the Klingon ship remains apart from me. They still haven't gotten a single rift down at this point.
So i move to the middle and final lane, steamroll everything, get both rifts with the Klingon player and finally get to the planet killer.
Some 20-30 minutes later we finally pop it and finish the mission. This is by far the worst team i have ever seen in this game.
I basically soloed the entire mission. . .
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Some 20-30 minutes later we finally pop it and finish the mission. This is by far the worst team i have ever seen in this game.
I basically soloed the entire mission. .
Done that a few times on my gorumba on Cure, had a whole team of 4 killing the spawns while i tackle the hard stuff. Even got the optional one time like that.
Been seeing a lot more really awful escort pilots lately. I'm talking Escorts that can't hack having an Infected Cube or a gateway shooting at them at all, (literally they go from full hull and shields to nothing in 10 seconds), Hell i'm seeing cruisers doing the same, and thats just awful.
Worst recent though was probably Undine assault elite on my Sov. Was having serious fun keeping all the Undine off the tankless escorts running alongside me whilst thumbing my nose at their inability to really scratch me, (even with no support i could go a good solid 2-3 minutes before they overran me), only after 20 minutes of hard slog finding out the 3rd lane command cruiser was stuck . Not the teams fault there, just plain BUG. But a common and annoying one.
I haven't really had one well actually yes I have infected conduit on normal okay Tac cube comes in with spheres I go for the cube everyone esle chases after the spheres I basically killed the cube by myself.
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Just had a strange one on my alt. In my Avenger, not really specced for space, chroniton torps to slow spheres, rainbow boat with beams and cannons, counting on the procs, works surprisingly well. I warp in with a Scimitar, another that I think was a gal dread, and a Chimera.
So we go in, and it's clear that these guys know what they're doing, but the team DPS is really low. Like, I've got 4 tac consoles boosting only my torp, and I'm still doing the best DPS. Tac cube and spheres go down OK, left cube pops easily enough, generator 1 blows, I reorient and spam TS3 on the spawns, slows 'em down, other guys focus fire and manage to blow the trans while I take out half the spheres, thanks to one Scimmy showing up with TBR used right and pushes the spheres back to save the day. I pop RSP and a couple hull heals, that fixes me up fairly well, I hit EM and jet across to the right cube with the other Scimitar. We take the cube, gen pops, scimmy 2 and I beat on spheres, trans blows, tac cube spawns, I draw aggro and die while EMing away.
OK, not terrible. Heal, rez. Jet back in, gate blows just fine, someone else (scimmy I think) draws cube aggro but stays up. I hit it with everything, it goes down with 2 or 3 minutes on the clock.
Not bad. Get my BNP and bonus marks, hang around for loot, warp out.
Not bad at all, but strange. You normally expect 2 scimis (including a FAWmitard) and a Chimera to equal insane leet pwnage, but no...
I mean, the team was smart, we got the optional easily, but the DPS was just really low. Not complaining, but I just find it unusual.
Not bad at all, but strange. You normally expect 2 scimis (including a FAWmitard) and a Chimera to equal insane leet pwnage, but no...
A scimi doesn't automatically mean that it's OP. Yes, it has the ability to be powerful, but it depends on the skills, resources and knowledge of the player to use the ship to full effect.
Usually when I see a scimi (either in stf, arena or ker'rat), I usually except it to be one of the first (or easier ones) to blow.
That's quite the paradox, how could you nerf nerf when the nerf is nerfed. But how would the nerf be nerfed when the nerf is nerfed? This allows the nerf not to be nerfed since the nerf is nerfed? But if the nerf isn't nerfed, it could still nerf nerfs. But as soon as the nerf is nerfed, the nerf power is lost. So paradoxally it the nerf nerf lost its nerf, while it's still nerfed, which cannot be because the nerf was unable to nerf.
A scimi doesn't automatically mean that it's OP. Yes, it has the ability to be powerful, but it depends on the skills, resources and knowledge of the player to use the ship to full effect.
Usually when I see a scimi (either in stf, arena or ker'rat), I usually except it to be one of the first (or easier ones) to blow.
Well, this one guy was a FAWmitard, so I figured that he at least would be some hyper-elite spacebar spammer. But no...
At least they all knew what they were doing, so it didn't turn into a giant clusterf*ck.
Well, this one guy was a FAWmitard, so I figured that he at least would be some hyper-elite spacebar spammer. But no...
At least they all knew what they were doing, so it didn't turn into a giant clusterf*ck.
If you see the game as a three-parted dps-range (to low, enough/middle (5-15k I would say), and powerful), then there is no UP or OP ship. Any ship can get into (even the higher) enough-dps. Its the player who is UP/OP. Clearly, the ship helps, but seeing <1k kumaris and scimis, and not many 8k+-Scimis in pugs, its clearly that the game doesnt teach enough on how you should build a ship (which is clear, since HY Plasmas own NPCs till lv40 and are (without doffs or special setup etc.) trash in endgame).
Aside from some ppl gimping themselves (but still being in the enough-range, and knowing what can be improved), most players simply lack knowledge (or the ability to learn (mostly out of arrogance and ignorance^^)).
We are living in an age, where an Attrox can go to 18k+ when flown by a Sci in a pug-stf. And thats one (dps-wise) screwed up ship.
Been seeing a lot more really awful escort pilots lately. I'm talking Escorts that can't hack having an Infected Cube or a gateway shooting at them at all, (literally they go from full hull and shields to nothing in 10 seconds), Hell i'm seeing cruisers doing the same, and thats just awful.
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Well honestly since S9 came in, I've almost given up on my Escort builds... what used to be survivable encounters are now "pop-goes-the-escort" 2 shots to death type encounters even with all BOFF/traits active. Even relatively easy STFs like ISE are like that now... and things like Breech are like watching a video of my ship exploding on repeat
Even my previously tanky Fleet Ambassador build is now getting exploded far more often than prior to S9... I'm still learning the new balances, and I'd guess almost everyone else is too.
For me the worst thing lately is running into the same afker in ISE repeatedly. Seen him yesterday, seen him today. Named after a TOS character (with a typo), and with enough unspent skill points that if I focus on him he shows as a lieutenant. Sits in spawnzone in his Enterprise or Gal-X. Thats my 3rd encounter with that fkin leecher in 2 days.
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I use Cure Space Normal to test alterations to my builds or new ships.
I gave in and finally bought the Mobius from the Lobi Consortium for my Fed sci toon, built it up to a good spec using fleet AP and entered CSN.
One guy sat on the spawn point and another charged off towards the spawns coming from the middle dock, stoped dead and that was it.
Me I headed towards the left cube, targeting the BoP spawns barely making a scratch in their shields:eek:.
Knowing the DPS I should have generated I retreated to check my build only to discover my power was distributed to everything but weapons:o. Redistributed my power and went back in killing the BoP, Raptors, Probes and Cube.
To add insult to injury the guy at the spawn point called me a AFKer:rolleyes:
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch." "We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Passion and Serenity are one.
I gain power by understanding both.
In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
I am a shadow, darkness born from light.
The Force is united within me.
A guy who was doffed apding neverything pug ISE I went into with my rommies romplas beam boat of doom. He got his doffed and to me.... everything starts shooting me... I proceed
To call jimbus, fleet support, and destroy everything. Fail lol.
The boss being a gigantic Winter Epohh Researcher. As you lay waste to the Epohh Horde, she can occasionally cry out things like, "Didn't you want an Epohh friend?"
A guy who was doffed apding neverything pug ISE I went into with my rommies romplas beam boat of doom. He got his doffed and to me.... everything starts shooting me... I proceed
To call jimbus, fleet support, and destroy everything. Fail lol.
I am so confused...
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"Recently I took it upon myself to venture solo into an Elite Space instance of the mission 'Infected', with a ship I have taken the time to outfit with 'Romulan Plasma' beam weaponry. In there I met a chap who was attempting to tank everything via the use of the ability "Attack Pattern Delta".
Unfortunately for this fellow, his vessel exploded and I started drawing the attention of the various enemy spaceborne cretins. I managed to survive via copious usage of abilities, many of which I usually hold in reserve.
"Recently I took it upon myself to venture solo into an Elite Space instance of the mission 'Infected', with a ship I have taken the time to outfit with 'Romulan Plasma' beam weaponry. In there I met a chap who was attempting to tank everything via the use of the ability "Attack Pattern Delta".
Unfortunately for this fellow, his vessel exploded and I started drawing the attention of the various enemy spaceborne cretins. I managed to survive via copious usage of abilities, many of which I usually hold in reserve.
so basically, the person using it was a griefer, getting everyone blown up, and tried to get the poster blown up as well, but he spammed reinforcements and took out the borg instead
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch." "We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Passion and Serenity are one.
I gain power by understanding both.
In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
I am a shadow, darkness born from light.
The Force is united within me.
i would have said 'pot, kettle, black...welcome to GM report and ignore, hypocrite' and then did just those things
LoL
Just added him to my ignore list, not fond of using reports as I don't think they are taken seriously
Did a elite PUG one time where three sat at the spawn point, the other player left, optional went boom. Reported, met at least 2 of them over the next week in PVE doing the same.
Just added him to my ignore list, not fond of using reports as I don't think they are taken seriously
Did a elite PUG one time where three sat at the spawn point, the other player left, optional went boom. Reported, met at least 2 of them over the next week in PVE doing the same.
they are taken seriously, but the GMs won't take any action unless a player has several reports filed against them from different players (they probably check IP addresses against the reports as well, so someone can't just create multiple accounts and file multiple reports against a single player)
obviously, that's in place to prevent any single person from abusing the system by reporting players for any old thing and trying to get them suspended or banned
needless to say, if that person has done that before, s/he probably already has several flags on his/her account, and yours might've been the one to tip the scales had you made it
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch." "We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Passion and Serenity are one.
I gain power by understanding both.
In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
I am a shadow, darkness born from light.
The Force is united within me.
Is it me or is the number of people who don't know basics such as to heal injuries in Elite STF on the rise?
In the Undine infiltration i often see people beam in with a handful (sometimes even critical) injuries and in Infected and Vortex i notice more and more people who are stacked with injuries.
This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
Wonder how it interacts with Threat Consoles and Cruiser abilities... (not that APD's uptime is magnificent or that my Escort usually has issues surviving having to tank things... but every little bit helps!) :P
Just PUGged ISE on my alt. Avenger battlecruiser (9-console), with the VATA, ZPEC, and Rommie supertorp. DBB/turret build otherwise.
Rest of the team: two scis in sovvies, one dude in a RA patrol escort (I think), and a mirror ha'feh. Only the last guy has any DPS to speak of.
I lag while shooting the spheres on the left, so no optional. We finally get that mess cleaned up, rommie and I leave the others to mop upspheres and kill right spawns while we nuke the right.
Idiots just sit there. Two sovvies, just sitting there.
We finally kill the transformer, after a death on my part and two on the rommie, then the tac cube spawns and kills everyone off one by one. Repeatedly.
Rommie guy and I are the only ones with above 1k DPS. I kid you not.
Is it me or is the number of people who don't know basics such as to heal injuries in Elite STF on the rise?
In the Undine infiltration i often see people beam in with a handful (sometimes even critical) injuries and in Infected and Vortex i notice more and more people who are stacked with injuries.
Hence when I take fleet cadets onto elite stfs, I always make sure they are fully stocked up on repair parts before i put us into a game, it saves headaches later
"The meaning of victory is not to merely defeat your enemy but to destroy him, to completely eradicate him from living memory, to leave no remnant of his endeavours, to crush utterly his achievement and remove from all record his every trace of existence. From that defeat no enemy can ever recover. That is the meaning of victory."
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
Just PUGged ISE on my alt. Avenger battlecruiser (9-console), with the VATA, ZPEC, and Rommie supertorp. DBB/turret build otherwise.
Rest of the team: two scis in sovvies, one dude in a RA patrol escort (I think), and a mirror ha'feh. Only the last guy has any DPS to speak of.
I lag while shooting the spheres on the left, so no optional. We finally get that mess cleaned up, rommie and I leave the others to mop upspheres and kill right spawns while we nuke the right.
Idiots just sit there. Two sovvies, just sitting there.
We finally kill the transformer, after a death on my part and two on the rommie, then the tac cube spawns and kills everyone off one by one. Repeatedly.
Rommie guy and I are the only ones with above 1k DPS. I kid you not.
Takes 15 minutes to bet the STF.
Ugh. What a mess.
Outside of well-known channels the DPS has certainly decreased due to S9.
Outside of well-known channels the DPS has certainly decreased due to S9.
Yeah, but my DPS is still about the same.
This isn't a fantastic build; maybe 8k DPS? Spikes to 12k. The mirror ha'feh was putting out something similar, but the escort and the two cruisers had neither DPS nor survivability.
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2 minutes later we left
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A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
So I'm on my alt's Avenger, with a rainbow cannon/chroniton torp/plasma mine build that actually works really well in KASE, and I get a team with a ha'feh, a scimitar, and two others.
OK. Looks good. Tac cube takes more than a minute to go down. I call left, and ask someone to camp probes. No response.
I take down 2 gens, go into beast mode, and solo the cube. I'm halfway through the transformer when Ha'feh man calls me a n00b for some stupid reason.
He's flying a rainbow beam-boat build, and his DPS is maybe 3k. I go "LOLwut? U mad bro?" at him.
The Scimitar is spending half his time respawning.
Beamscort dude lets some probes waltz towards the exit. I chase 'em down, then go for the gateway.
This idiot is shooting ONLY the probes (staying back from the gate), so I die three times because the Avenger isn't as resilient as my usual scimitar.
Beamscort man still lets a probe through, ruining the optional.
Meanwhile he's telling me that I'm a n00b.
:rolleyes:
So I finish the gate about the same time as the 3 guys on the other side finish theirs. Scimitar guy is alive for once, so Donatra spawns, and...
She takes over five minutes, mostly because Beamscort Man keeps getting too close and I borked up on EM one time and skated within 2k of the Borgmitar. Scimitar Man dies two more times.
I take my loot. Beamscort man calls me a n00b one more time and puts me on ignore.
Some days, I wonder about our species. :rolleyes:
Warped in my my fleet Amb fleet plasma beam build A2B
Others were 2 Avengers, a Scim and an Undine thing
Hit my powers and hit the tac cube head on, notice no one else seems to be moving, pull the cube down to 65% by myself before the scim and one of the avengers finally start hitting it.
Mr Undine finally comes in when the cube is basically swiss cheese...
Avenger 2 still sitting at spawn
I fly left with the active Avenger and Undine, the scim seems to of gotten exploded by the cube going boom.
Pop the cube, start on the gens, I grav well the spheres and we get the gens and transformer down in not too hard a time. Undine goes boom when the spheres swarm in... while popping the spheres i see that Mr Avenger 2 has gone right and tried to pop a gen already, not the cube, the scim is trying to pop the cube by himself and it's moving towards the spawn. Well we lose the optional because a nsphere heals something over there...
Avenger 1 sends a team chat telling the other avenger to stop attacking the gens and to help clear the spheres and cube... he answers back with "*redacted* are all total noobs LOLOLOL"
and just keeps rainbow boating nothing specific, somehow isn't getting totally popped, but probably because the poor scim keeps agroing everything.
Well I swoop over and help pop the cube, then with the scim pop spheres from the right as Avenger 1 does from the left. I get popped by the gateway, tac cube and 2 spheres (and my stupidity admittedly) The Undine keeps getting popped by the gateway and/or tac cube and is basically stuck in respawn limbo much of the time at this point.
After I respawn the spheres are down enough so I swoop in on the right gens with Avenger 1 and the Scim, Avenger 2 decides to agro the tac cube. Scim isn't having much luck surviving and gets popped again. Avenger 2 goes boom but now tac cube is close enough to the spawn to cause the scim to go boom over and over as he spawns as we are trying to pop the transformer. We get the trans popped and the Undine, Avenger 1 and myself start on the gateway. Avenger 2 decides to start spamming the chat with how the cube is killing him before he can get away. The tac cube is now parked over the spawn. The scim finally sneaks out as we have the gateway down to 20% or so and helps us finish it. We move in on the cube and make it go boom efficiently enough.
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Avenger 2 is still in respawn limbo after i warp out... total time 33 mins
As we start we are one player short, there are 2 Galaxy-X's and some Klingon cruiser. I move to the bottom lane while the rest of the team goes for the middle one. I pop the first rift, the rest of the team is repeatedly dying and haven't popped their rift yet.
I move forward and pop another rift. Then another and another. By this time both the Galaxy-X's have left and only the Klingon ship remains apart from me. They still haven't gotten a single rift down at this point.
So i move to the middle and final lane, steamroll everything, get both rifts with the Klingon player and finally get to the planet killer.
Some 20-30 minutes later we finally pop it and finish the mission. This is by far the worst team i have ever seen in this game.
I basically soloed the entire mission. . .
Done that a few times on my gorumba on Cure, had a whole team of 4 killing the spawns while i tackle the hard stuff. Even got the optional one time like that.
Been seeing a lot more really awful escort pilots lately. I'm talking Escorts that can't hack having an Infected Cube or a gateway shooting at them at all, (literally they go from full hull and shields to nothing in 10 seconds), Hell i'm seeing cruisers doing the same, and thats just awful.
Worst recent though was probably Undine assault elite on my Sov. Was having serious fun keeping all the Undine off the tankless escorts running alongside me whilst thumbing my nose at their inability to really scratch me, (even with no support i could go a good solid 2-3 minutes before they overran me), only after 20 minutes of hard slog finding out the 3rd lane command cruiser was stuck
So we go in, and it's clear that these guys know what they're doing, but the team DPS is really low. Like, I've got 4 tac consoles boosting only my torp, and I'm still doing the best DPS. Tac cube and spheres go down OK, left cube pops easily enough, generator 1 blows, I reorient and spam TS3 on the spawns, slows 'em down, other guys focus fire and manage to blow the trans while I take out half the spheres, thanks to one Scimmy showing up with TBR used right and pushes the spheres back to save the day. I pop RSP and a couple hull heals, that fixes me up fairly well, I hit EM and jet across to the right cube with the other Scimitar. We take the cube, gen pops, scimmy 2 and I beat on spheres, trans blows, tac cube spawns, I draw aggro and die while EMing away.
OK, not terrible. Heal, rez. Jet back in, gate blows just fine, someone else (scimmy I think) draws cube aggro but stays up. I hit it with everything, it goes down with 2 or 3 minutes on the clock.
Not bad. Get my BNP and bonus marks, hang around for loot, warp out.
Not bad at all, but strange. You normally expect 2 scimis (including a FAWmitard) and a Chimera to equal insane leet pwnage, but no...
I mean, the team was smart, we got the optional easily, but the DPS was just really low. Not complaining, but I just find it unusual.
Usually when I see a scimi (either in stf, arena or ker'rat), I usually except it to be one of the first (or easier ones) to blow.
I call it, the Stoutes paradox.
Well, this one guy was a FAWmitard, so I figured that he at least would be some hyper-elite spacebar spammer. But no...
At least they all knew what they were doing, so it didn't turn into a giant clusterf*ck.
If you see the game as a three-parted dps-range (to low, enough/middle (5-15k I would say), and powerful), then there is no UP or OP ship. Any ship can get into (even the higher) enough-dps. Its the player who is UP/OP. Clearly, the ship helps, but seeing <1k kumaris and scimis, and not many 8k+-Scimis in pugs, its clearly that the game doesnt teach enough on how you should build a ship (which is clear, since HY Plasmas own NPCs till lv40 and are (without doffs or special setup etc.) trash in endgame).
Aside from some ppl gimping themselves (but still being in the enough-range, and knowing what can be improved), most players simply lack knowledge (or the ability to learn (mostly out of arrogance and ignorance^^)).
We are living in an age, where an Attrox can go to 18k+ when flown by a Sci in a pug-stf. And thats one (dps-wise) screwed up ship.
Well honestly since S9 came in, I've almost given up on my Escort builds... what used to be survivable encounters are now "pop-goes-the-escort" 2 shots to death type encounters even with all BOFF/traits active. Even relatively easy STFs like ISE are like that now... and things like Breech are like watching a video of my ship exploding on repeat
Even my previously tanky Fleet Ambassador build is now getting exploded far more often than prior to S9... I'm still learning the new balances, and I'd guess almost everyone else is too.
pwebranflakes: this system is currently in place and working the way it should.
moradum: I got banned for saying "I started my day with cutting off 3 MM off of the bottom of my cabinet"
I gave in and finally bought the Mobius from the Lobi Consortium for my Fed sci toon, built it up to a good spec using fleet AP and entered CSN.
One guy sat on the spawn point and another charged off towards the spawns coming from the middle dock, stoped dead and that was it.
Me I headed towards the left cube, targeting the BoP spawns barely making a scratch in their shields:eek:.
Knowing the DPS I should have generated I retreated to check my build only to discover my power was distributed to everything but weapons:o. Redistributed my power and went back in killing the BoP, Raptors, Probes and Cube.
To add insult to injury the guy at the spawn point called me a AFKer:rolleyes:
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
To call jimbus, fleet support, and destroy everything. Fail lol.
I am so confused...
We still live!!!!! Hahahahahahahahaa! We live and we will conquer!!!!! Hahahahahaaha!
-Roach, when asked about Klingon extinction!
Translation:
"Recently I took it upon myself to venture solo into an Elite Space instance of the mission 'Infected', with a ship I have taken the time to outfit with 'Romulan Plasma' beam weaponry. In there I met a chap who was attempting to tank everything via the use of the ability "Attack Pattern Delta".
Unfortunately for this fellow, his vessel exploded and I started drawing the attention of the various enemy spaceborne cretins. I managed to survive via copious usage of abilities, many of which I usually hold in reserve.
Also, I do not know what 'DOFF' stands for."
so basically, the person using it was a griefer, getting everyone blown up, and tried to get the poster blown up as well, but he spammed reinforcements and took out the borg instead
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
We still live!!!!! Hahahahahahahahaa! We live and we will conquer!!!!! Hahahahahaaha!
-Roach, when asked about Klingon extinction!
LoL
Just added him to my ignore list, not fond of using reports as I don't think they are taken seriously
Did a elite PUG one time where three sat at the spawn point, the other player left, optional went boom. Reported, met at least 2 of them over the next week in PVE doing the same.
obviously, that's in place to prevent any single person from abusing the system by reporting players for any old thing and trying to get them suspended or banned
needless to say, if that person has done that before, s/he probably already has several flags on his/her account, and yours might've been the one to tip the scales had you made it
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
In the Undine infiltration i often see people beam in with a handful (sometimes even critical) injuries and in Infected and Vortex i notice more and more people who are stacked with injuries.
Oho, another new toy!
Wonder how it interacts with Threat Consoles and Cruiser abilities... (not that APD's uptime is magnificent or that my Escort usually has issues surviving having to tank things... but every little bit helps!) :P
Rest of the team: two scis in sovvies, one dude in a RA patrol escort (I think), and a mirror ha'feh. Only the last guy has any DPS to speak of.
I lag while shooting the spheres on the left, so no optional. We finally get that mess cleaned up, rommie and I leave the others to mop upspheres and kill right spawns while we nuke the right.
Idiots just sit there. Two sovvies, just sitting there.
We finally kill the transformer, after a death on my part and two on the rommie, then the tac cube spawns and kills everyone off one by one. Repeatedly.
Rommie guy and I are the only ones with above 1k DPS. I kid you not.
Takes 15 minutes to bet the STF.
Ugh. What a mess.
Hence when I take fleet cadets onto elite stfs, I always make sure they are fully stocked up on repair parts before i put us into a game, it saves headaches later
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
Outside of well-known channels the DPS has certainly decreased due to S9.
Yeah, but my DPS is still about the same.
This isn't a fantastic build; maybe 8k DPS? Spikes to 12k. The mirror ha'feh was putting out something similar, but the escort and the two cruisers had neither DPS nor survivability.