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Will you keep using melee or cloak/ambush attacks once you have completed the goal?
smi3th
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Many people have already reached the goal of 2500 ambush kills or 2500 melee kills on their Klingon recruit. Others, like me (for melee) are getting close.
So the question is, once you finish these goals, will this character continue using these strategies? Or will you revert to some other playstyle?
So the question is, once you finish these goals, will this character continue using these strategies? Or will you revert to some other playstyle?
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The Melee one is where I was really surprised. Like many, my plan was.. grind it out as quickly as I can and then equip a Ranged Weapon. But something curious happened, the more I played around with Melee.. I really.. really like it. I got the Dual Nanopulse Mek'leth's as a mission reward and I absolutely love them. I am constantly surprised by how powerful they really are, at Mark XV Epic I have yet to face anything on the ground that can live more then a few seconds with my Klingon in their face. I equipped the Personalized Spatial Trajector from the new lock box that teleports you to your enemies and man oh man.. I love it and I am absolutely sticking with it.
In fact, Melee Combat has made my KDF Recruit my current favorite character to play. I decided not only am I not going to delete the character, I am going to pour resources into her to bring her up to the level I want. Yes, playing Melee is more challenging then Ranged and yes.. you can die from ranged attackers.. but it's honestly a big part of the fun. If I get in the enemies face, it's over.. flat out. The challenge is navigating the battlefield and it's actually been surprisingly enjoyable.
With my current ground setup all that's needed is to swap out 1 kit module and my primary weapon and I'm good either way.
As far as the effectiveness of melee is concerned I'm still quite amazed at what can be accomplished with a little practice.
You'd have to be an accomplished and well geared ground player with a variety of meta kit abilities to keep up to or surpass my melee build on most advanced maps.
For the space ambush kills it's about the same. My current raider build with practice and improvements is now good enough in advanced TFO's that the limiting factor in taking out bad guys is my own abilities as a pilot. The Temer Alliance Raider says hello and is deadly. Again for variety I certainly have a beam ship and a carrier to switch to but cannons plus flanking just makes things go boom faster for me at least.
I find it somewhat humorous that lessons taught as a 2255 kdf recruit hold true for most of STO's gameplay - learning and knowing how to use things is of more importance at least initially than the shiny lockbox item of the day.
Melee not quite as much, but I have learned quite a bit about it, too, so will probably still use it more than I have in the past.
Ambush I've always done with ships equipped with cloaks. What the event has me doing that I didn't normally do is recloak when I get the chance. Before it was just a start of mission thing which is behavior I'm sure to go back to once I've completed the event task.
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Melee still needs some adjustments imo and is a bit of a pain.
But I am using the Nanopulse Staff-Rifle and do knock things around with its melee options when enemies are close.
Cloaked Ambush? yeah, but only really doing that at the start of combat, not gonna cloaking mid combat anymore when more enemies join... since I don't need ambush kills anymore.
Also I just wanna kill things fast, and it takes time to cloak, and since I kill things faster than the time it takes to cloak and uncloak. So the bonus attack power isn't worth it.
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(I'm at 1400 melee kills, 500 ambush. Feels like it will never end.)
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The melee not so much, I used the melee function of some ranged weapons occasionally but until the twin nanopulse mek'leths turned out to have something like a workable melee style I never carried a pure melee weapon except when the mission required it. I will probably keep it in my secondary weapon slot more from now on though.
Space ambush is a plus for DPS. If I end up on a ship with a cloak then I use it but I won’t select new ships just because of it.
As for melee I found it far less efficient then ranged options. There is only the variety aspect to it.
I have a fed side Andorian. She happens to have 3 melee securities and the Fangs from the last time I planed going for melee. To my knowledge there are hardly any other build adjustments other than the doffs on a tac (perhaps 2-3 traits or so) so I can go for it again whenever I feel to.
Fangs seem to have the best reach. My friend who is a melee enthusiast climbs up walls and mountains with it so I keep those as addition to the nanopulse mekleths and call it a day.
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Cloaked ambush, however has some really good new toys and if you're a recruit, the BOFF. It was always worth using but I never did so religiously. If you want to build a cloaked ambush ship, you have a lot of things to play with now, so I'll be playing around with it some more to see what I can get out of these traits and so on.
Oh, it's not a trait.. it's a Kit Module.
It's new, so it doesn't have a Wiki entry yet, so I'll just quote from the Arc Page for it's description:
You can teleport up to 30m with this, and it only takes a few sec before you can jump again. The Dodge bonus is also huge, and stacks with every move.. they can't even hit you when you get there. The best part.. no one wants this thing, they're seriously like 30k EC on the exchange.. they're basically free and they make Melee much more enjoyable. I mapped it to my thumb mouse button, so I just hit tab to change targets and then tap with my thumb until I am in my targets face.
Really fun.
I started practicing melee on my main prior to the Klingon recruitment event, but my disco KDF slices through everything on the ground as a hot knife through butter.
Ambush on ships is something which doesn't agree with my play style too well. I like playing stealth bomber, but that doesn't work with the ambush. Currently at roughly 1350 out of the 2500 required.
It's unlikely i will move back to that play style after i finish the 2500.
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I don't have a thumb button on my mouse but maybe I'll use the tilde key right above tab.
I had always found ambush difficult because while you do get a damage boost for a few seconds, that boost is not that large, and meanwhile your shields are down for a few seconds while you decloak. In the past I had found that I would often get destroyed immediately after leaving cloak as groups of enemies fired on me before my shields were up, and birds-of-prey are not especially durable.
The practice from the event has helped, but for most of my toons I will probably continue to fly cruiser-style.
The "ambushing" is dependent upon which starship my character is using though I've enjoyed immersing myself in the mind-set.
For both probably not as much once I achieve the 2500, but it's been fun & a slight learning curve so that's good.
Melee, I can see continuing just for fun. A little skeptical of its viability in TFOs.
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