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colonelmarik
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So, I've been leveling my Klingon Recruit character, going through all the story missions. He's in his shiny almost new Vo'Quv carrier, doing missions in the Delta Quadrant. The Vaudwaar are a pain in the neck, running around at warp 90 everywhere, ignoring damage, constant massive artillery barrages capable of almost oneshotting the carrier, often untargetable anchor drones, etc. But, I was managing all right.
Until I came to the mission to help break a blockade. You know the one, you have to go out to repair three ships while under continuous artillery attacks in vast areas of effect... The carrier can withstand an attack... but only one. A second one will kill it for certain. However, the attacks come so fast, that there's no way to get the carrier out of the aoe, so it's guaranteed to get killed. Over and over and over.
Came as kind of a shock. I don't remember the artillery attacks coming continuously, I seem to recall that they would come periodically.
I guess I'll just have to not use that ship, it's flatly unplayable in the carrier.
Until I came to the mission to help break a blockade. You know the one, you have to go out to repair three ships while under continuous artillery attacks in vast areas of effect... The carrier can withstand an attack... but only one. A second one will kill it for certain. However, the attacks come so fast, that there's no way to get the carrier out of the aoe, so it's guaranteed to get killed. Over and over and over.
Came as kind of a shock. I don't remember the artillery attacks coming continuously, I seem to recall that they would come periodically.
I guess I'll just have to not use that ship, it's flatly unplayable in the carrier.
Once, I was simply called Mojo. Now, I'm forced into a new name, but don't be fooled, I'm the original STO Mojo!
This game needs detailed crafting, exploration and interaction systems.
This game needs detailed crafting, exploration and interaction systems.
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You are right, there used to be gaps in the artillery's fire from what I recall. I suspect that it could be a subtle bug from the recent patches since there are other odd things going on in other scenarios too. Maybe something in it happened to throw some of the timers out of whack.
I did this one the other day, the first ship I didn't see a single artillery strike, the 2nd one there was a quick 2 of them then nothing, and the third one again was just 2 during the fight with the enemy ships then nothing.
If you still can't seem to time it, park your ship a short distance away from the ship you want to save and wait. After a couple seconds you might get an artillery strike called on your ship.. sit there for a couple seconds, then right before it fires.. boost out of the range over to the ship and start repairing it.
They don't strike over and over, they hit a couple times at the beginning then mostly stop. Just wait it out.
Carrier should be fine.. just do this.
1. Approach the first ship. Blow up all the enemy ships around it. Keep moving the entire time, don't try to repair the ship just defeat the enemies.
2. Once Enemies are defeated, move away from the ship you want to repair. Stay far enough away so that if you're targeted for Artillery, the ship you want to repair won't be in the blast zone.
3. Aim your ship at the damaged ship and wait. As soon as you're targeted by Artillery, go to full impulse and fly to the damaged ship.
4. Repair the ship while the Artillery is blasting the spot you used to be in.
5. Rinse, repeat.
Once you get the timing down, you should be fine.
The ship is objectively the best Klingon vessel in game. It’s stats are incredibly versatile to get any type of build running and the price is very tempting.
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But when you are playing through it now, you likely haven't spend the weeks grinding out reputation gear or whatever, so it's pretty hard.
I'll just say..
I'm old, so bare with me. I assume this is sarcasm, because to me that ship is everything you said in reverse.
Now we are talking eh?
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The ship release appears right to you and I apologize for the confusion.
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While players like me rofl-stomp through every story and patrol content even with their new characters the game must feel quite different for many others and who then seek help in forums.
Yes, we do have an increase in difficulty during the delta arc. No, it is not an issue if one sticks his head a bit into builds mechanics.
The best option here is to gear out your craft to face the obstacle. Two ways work:
1) Tune up your DPS to kill every critter b4 it annoys you. By far the easiest way! We have tons on general build recommendations on the league homepage by now letting you do just that.
2) Pack up on some heals and resistances. Flocki made a guide on support ships a while back. I have 4 supporter/tanks in my toon gang as a result to pull some crazy stuff for the teams I end up with. They kill stuff slower on their own but also have an easier time not being killed themselves.
I played the patrol the OP mentions 4-5 times already with my new recruit as it is perfect to get the heal shields and hull endeavours done in a flash.
As my recruit is not yet up to @peterconnorfirst space pew pew standards I found a mix of 1) and 2) prudent for the time being. Reverse shield polarity, Reiterative Structural Capacitor, Protomatter Field Projector and perhaps one of the free armor consoles we get from storys for free should get the job done temporarily.
Should work for you too Marik and we went through the “lets build a ship to be potent” numerous times in the past so I fully believe in you now to sort It out and get it done on your own!
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Other things of course include emergency power to engines, aux to dampners, and various immunity traits you may be able to trigger.
Vaadwaur have always been annoying and they are a lot harder than they were originally, including the artillery barrages, but they just take some adjustment.
Could you perhaps tell us more about this? I have no idea what beam arrays you are talking about, and I'm curious