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Technically you can also fail KA space. Technically. The amount of incompetence required to fail it, however, is pretty high. I've never seen it failed.
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Or, you know, actually read stuff and solve it, like I did. Didn't take long.
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@reyan01: Oh it wasn't aimed at you. Everyone's free to roll greed/pass if they want, just so long as you don't whine about not getting loot afterwards, it's cool. :)
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Oh dear, such a shame I didn't recently make a thread about how to somewhat redesign STFs to significantly improve the design while doing minimal expenditure. http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=281251 More non-spike DPS, more abilities (maybe give spheres RSP or EPtS3 instead of EPtS1), that sort of thing.…
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First: Would need to be account wide. I'd flat out quit if I had to do 20 STFs on each new toon I did on easy mode. Second: What if someone just did 20 ISNs? Or do you expect them to do 120 normal STFs to unlock elites?
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Fun fact: If you shouldn't roll need on items for EC, you shouldn't roll need on EDCs or salvage or tech. After all, you won't be using them, as they aren't even equip-able. You'll just be buying items with it. So selfish, rolling need on something to buy an item with it! [/sarcasm] N/G is a relic of games where drops…
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1) 90+% of the population who pug it wouldn't know good play if it hit them in the face. Number of times I've been blaming for messing things up right after I pull the team's incompetent backside through, optional and all? Very many. 2) Partial pug groups. If I run with 3 fleet members, do you think that poor pug is going…
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I need EC. You need the item. Thanks to the exchange, both are equivalent in value. So why does your need trump mine? If it means so much to you, go buy the item on the exchange - it'll cost you the same as me not getting the item would. All those people complaining about needers where it isn't agreed otherwise by everyone…
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Torpedo spread (photons and I think plasma if I recall right) are a big killer. Don't get in front of or behind her if escort tanking unless you're a tanky engineer escort build. And yea, avoid the thalaron beam (and hope that she doesn't cheat and fire it as she decloaks). You can also stop her from cloaking if the person…
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Would be nice for them to fix all those things (Donatra's instant decloak and one shot kill the entire party with no hope of surviving is probably my 'favourite'). Hmm, against which enemies? I think last time I checked Negh'vars could crit (which should now be fixed) and gateways (which I don't think has been fixed), but…
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Please, please, please make harder STFs. But for the love of god, don't translate 'harder' into 'more spike damage and more HP'.
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Quite a lot of difference, due to the reduction from the boff (6 to 1 second instead of 8 to 3), combined with the 1k bonus damage (which doesn't work against all enemies, mainly seemed to be klingon borg last time I checked, I should recheck that and make a thread on it). Sadly seems to be some issues with torpedoes not…
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You'd get a *lot* more damage (as would your team mates) running AP:B3/2. Plus if you use torpedo doffs, you can boost your DPS a lot by spamming photons (one torpedo, no buffs on it, and it does like 40% of my DPS sometimes, because of how fast they spam; one per second hitting the large HP unshielded targets in STFs is…
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@abcde123123 I'm saying escorts are by far optimal, and everything else sub-optimal. Other ships are great fun, which is precisely why I want the STF balance issues addressed, so all ship and captain types are useful. Although, you do have a point on bortases, since they really can pump out escort like damage in PvE (extra…
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Personally I prefer MRRML, but either works fine (so long as everyone does the same one :P). But yea, escort on the kang, SV, even badly setup eng or sci scort should be able to take two lanes and raptor lane. Well setup tac/escort can fall asleep taking all three bops, drop left raptors in sub 15 seconds (prior to raptor…
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Wrong. So very wrong.
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To those replying: Do you pug it all the time, or do you run with competent groups who cross heal even when playing escorts? That makes a big difference as to your perception. @abcde123123: The Kar'fi is rather a special case. It is a carrier with good tactical slots, good sci, an extra weapon/tac console slot, and it can…
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Dying in space is because your team screwed up. Dying on the ground is, depending on team composition, just something that's sometimes going to happen. You also missed the point that I was responding to the OP, who gave an example of the IG boss fight, a fight which is totally unaffected by the respawn timer. Okay, so you…
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Rebecca Simmons isn't in space. If you repeatedly die in space, you're doing it wrong. (Particularly now negh'vars don't one shot like they used to...that could be fun on a bad day.) Are you saying a team that repeatedly dies should be able to get the optional objective? First, teams are supposed to be able to fail cure.…
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N/G makes sense on BoP items which not everyone needs. You'd have good reason to be pissed if the rogue rolls needs on a warrior BoP item, for example. For BoE items in STO, it makes zero sense. First, it penalises players who actually go buy decent gear on the exchange before going into STFs. I do this on all my toons, it…
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Hmm...I'm confused. Once you start that fight, if you die you can either be ressed or you have to wait for it to be over. How does the respawn timer even affect that fight? Aside from the slight annoyance of having to possible wait a couple of minutes after a wipe. Something you'd have to do anyway to let the borg respawn…
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I heartily agree that they need to stop nerfing the STFs, or add a mode that is challenging (and where there is a reason to roll something other than a tac escort). Adding things like EPtS and shield resistances, etc., to the borg would be great. It'd actually give sci ship shield stripping abilities some use in STFs.…