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thomaselkins
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For the love of the Great Bird of the Galaxy, the next time we do the Mirror Universe Event could we please get the option to close these portals while under fire? There is nothing more infuriating than being less than a hair's breadth away from closing a portal, only to lose it because fifty, (exaggeration), other ships focus fire on you. Or worse yet, a single little frigate who takes a pot shot at you, which allows a Battleship to then come through the portal you almost closed. Even if you try to work as a team and distract them, they still use Fire At Will so you can be hit even when not being engaged directly. It would just be fantastic if we could finish closing them.
I'm also not complaining that it's "too hard" or anything like that because I've been in groups where we slaughtered the Terrans and spent four minutes waiting for the Dreadnought to show up because we closed everything really quick. That doesn't happen all the time though and for the most part the event can get rather tedious. I just think things would go by more smoothly if we could close the portals and then engage the seventy, (exaggeration), ships that came through.
Just my two cents.
I'm also not complaining that it's "too hard" or anything like that because I've been in groups where we slaughtered the Terrans and spent four minutes waiting for the Dreadnought to show up because we closed everything really quick. That doesn't happen all the time though and for the most part the event can get rather tedious. I just think things would go by more smoothly if we could close the portals and then engage the seventy, (exaggeration), ships that came through.
Just my two cents.
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This character is why I don't play my Romulan any more. Tovan Khev is NOT my BFF! Get him off my bridge!
that's right, that guy that flys around and does nothing but closes rifts and never fires a shot....that's me!!!
if I see rift by itself I run to it but if im engaged and by myself TRIBBLE it, I hit evasive and go somewhere else. staying is more often than not a waste of time better spent elsewhere
Regardless, the randomly matched players in pug queue groups appear to be too stupid to put this simple gameplay concept into action. If you wish to accomplish anything in MIN pugs, you'll have to just get better at tanking all the mirror ships and killing them. They're quite easy to tank and quite easy to destroy.
I'd also suggest the Aceton Assimilator console, once you clear the ships off a rift, drop an AA and close it. If any more ships spawn before you get it closed, they'll attack the AA rather than you.
me too unless I know a science guy is near me then I grab the aggro. and it's nice they dropped the timer to 120 seconds instead of 300
Heck I'm in a science boat, and have gone pretty much the entire MU without firing a shot, simply because I've had my bodyguards hopscotch with me to allow me to close the rifts while they take the brunt.
People though are so conditioned with the idea of soloing it and RAWR DPS... that they'll fly into a zone of rifts and decide to start pew-pewing and never actually once think "That cruiser has the agro, maybe I should close the rifts even though I'm not in a science ship"
There is nothing worse then flying around on my cruiser alt, taking the agro from everything, in totally fine shape at 100% hull and a bit of shields knocked off, and they just start pew-pewing and never once close the 4-6 rifts that are just constantly spitting out ships non-stop.
Simpy put, if people work as a team and one person actually closes the rifts while the others pew-pew it becomes totally simple. I've been in teams were we've closed the rifts with 2-3 minutes left on the countdown.
Work as a team, one pew-pews the other closes the rifts and the mechanic is a non-issue.
It's only an issue when everyone free-for-alls it and tries to RAWR DPS PEW-PEW it.
For the love of all that ever was, why does no one understand that:
-Not everyone has the best DPS ever (there are healers, disablers, and tanks about you know)
-It's not just the first few frigates we worry about (many of these portals group up, so you are fighting wave after wave after wave)
If I had a dollar for every time someone pulls the "you ship sucks" card when talking about MIN...
Of course, there is always the "stop pugging" card...
That's kind of his point. If you don't have the best DPS, you should be the rift closer, not the agro-holder/destroyer. So let the tank cruiser take the agro from all those frigates that are being spit out, and you close the rifts without firing a shot. I have yet to be in a MU that didn't have at least two cruisers in it. Usually its the science ships that are lacking.
So be the team player, don't worry about your DPS and close the rifts. Trust me the guy taking the aggro from the 18 frigates, 3 cruisers, 2 escorts, and the 4 Typhoons will thank you for it when they don't have to deal with any more.
^this, and i'll repeat this because it bears repeating, pair up, I don't care how good your build is like the man said you cant have agro and close a rift, and even if you both have agro even the crapiest pair of ships can still often clear the mobs better than one
On the ones that are not I attempt to be the rift closer.
But a few times I've attracted chat agro from players for sneaking in and stealing 'their' rifts. What?
In Borg Disconnected, we can close them regardless taking damage. Why is that not part of this so-called 'you need to play together to achieve' bit? Oddly enough, freeing the Borg in the same map, does go interrupted.
So, I guess Cryptic intended this to be that way, because it's how you should play it. Star Trek techno-babble be damned.
Yeah I've got that too. I've been yelled out in team for not helping destroy ships when I was busy closing rifts.
Those are the idiots. I don't care how good or bad your dps is, but people who don't know the mechanics of a system and yet act like they do and then yell at you because you didn't follow their flawed logic... those are the idiots.
dude. I'm saying I can solo rifts with a 3.5k Odyssey. if you are level 50 and you are having problems with three miranda frigates, there IS something wrong with your build
There are a few pets(Nimbus, Photonic fleet, the Dauntless console, the scorpion device) that non-carriers can use to distract enemies, but they're no more reliable then the use of carrier pets.
There are some stealth powers that can be used, but Intel team is a weak cloak, and the Rom Rep t5 power has a short duration and long CD.
My character Tsin'xing
That's kind of a point. Those powers are nice for the "oh crud we just got dumped on" moments, but their shouldn't be any reason anyone in MU should have to solo the rifts.
When done right it's astoundingly amazingly simple to get them all closed anywhere from 25-30 of them with a ton of time left on the counter.
The issue is, it's not done right. People are so conditioned to fly in, go pew-pew, that they fail to think of any other way of doing it, or are so conditioned to want to show off their MASSIVE DPS boat (with a total of 12k dps) that they don't want to play as a team.
Either way it boils down to the end of a MU fail... well as much as you can fail the MU... and a lot of people coming in complaining that MU is too hard and lets make the mechanics stupid simple.
As of a couple of days ago the STB group have acutally just let the portals go... we just pew pew for the whole time! hahah... the 95% of the time.. we finish with the SB at 100%. I kinda like having all the ships come out.
We've only done this on normal but and we do miss out on 10 marks but... it's 10 marks. I've just been trying to enjoy MI as much as possible as once it's gone... have to wait until it returns.
If you don't care much for the missed marks... just go for the stations and leave the rifts... more fun IMO.
Have fun!
I mean... Sure.... Make it so that sci ships cannot be disturbed while doing it, and give cruisers the ability to not be disrupted while activating the satellites...
If im in my cruisers i focus on powering the station, i will also take down Mirandas and close portals if their clear.
In my sci i focus on portals, one good thing about sci caps if im closing one or start to get attacked i just pop photonic fleet and evasive away from the battle.
In my tact captains i foucs on taking out the ships, but i will pop rifts to if i can.
"It appears we have lost our sex appeal, captain."- Tuvok
The romulan absorption singularity power used to work in previous MI but the times I've tried this time haven't worked. The Vesta bubble sitll works, though (and the romulan rep cloak too, as you said).
good use of powers, team work, the right ship for the right job and its a walk in the park. yes its frustrating when it goes wrong but having it so you dont even need to think is not the answer, especially when you are rewarded with more marks the better you do.
I for one only care (main goal) about the event item (can't remember the damn name), so being overwhelmed, finishing with 4 minutes and having to wait is all the same. Since I'm doing it in 9 characters, I get to see all these aspects. Some of my ships can wipe a wave in one pass, others feel like I'm talking the mirror ships to death.
Yesterday with all the constant disconnects I even finished an instance with another person (just the two of us). Since it's timed all the rest becomes irrelevant.
Personal opinion, obviously.
It adds some interesting dynamics to the mission and it does go some way towards getting teamwork more attention. Even pug groups can manage some basic teamwork unless all 5 players are morons and have no idea what they are doing. Not all pugs are that bad, quite often you'll get a killer team and totally rule the map.
I always team up with a ship that complements my own (Phantom) so even if there's no chat going on we can work pretty confidently together. I'll stir up some aggro and then hold the npcs off whilst my buddy closes the rift. I find the phantom can be pretty tanky as well and I love flying into a swarm of npcs to aggro them and letting off CSV all over the place. I'll flatten swarms of frigates whilst my teammates close rifts.
Plus if it all goes to hell it feels truly epic fighting your way through 30-40 mirror ships to try and save the station, npcs blowing up all over the place as you tear a path through them.
Heads up: There is only dps+secondary "specializations" in this game. Even the smalles sciship can do dps while healing&CCing.
"I only close rifts" is bascially saying "i cant do much", while others just blast through enemies and close rifts at the same time. Even on a small Sci ship.