Crystaline Entity unkillable?

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I've just got owned big time by the Crystaline entity, i think we must've been around 20-30 ships that got our rear ends handed to us by this thing.

It actually started spawncamping on us insta-killing us all upon respawning.

I dont have time for screenies right now but they will follow later.

This was insane, and on top of all, it started healing it self from 18% hull to 36% hull in less than 1 minute !?

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sounds luke cryptic decided, rightly so, it was too easy in OB

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Its getting revenge now.. Lol

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In (Soviet) Head Start, Crystalline Entity spawn camps you!

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this is just awesome. hopefully working as intended.

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you have to modulate resonance harmonics to the fequency that insane old lady did in that SNG episode ;)

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In (Soviet) Head Start, Crystalline Entity spawn camps you!

Great, explaining to my boss why I'm giggling lol

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it's a lvl 17 fleet boss. You have 20 lvl 5's trying to kill it. See the problem?

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Great, explaining to my boss why I'm giggling lol

get back to work

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Wait until you get Ramming Speed before you try to take it.

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In (Soviet) Head Start, Crystalline Entity spawn camps you!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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You guys are trying to take it on in Mirandas and you don't understand why you are getting owned?

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As far as I can tell, the Crystal Entity is still the warm and fuzzy pinata we've all come to know and farm, er, love. It's just it's not so easy to kill at a +lots level rating.

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it's a lvl 17 fleet boss. You have 20 lvl 5's trying to kill it. See the problem?

Hogger raid lol... (soz yes i play wow)

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Just use alot of mines and overcharged weapons.. Mines will Hurt if bad fast especially if you get the plasma variety that do a dot to it. While I havent fought it since open beta if you mine the area real good before it spawns it will get chewed up fast and you can stack your damage on it with phasers and torps while the mines pummel it.

Sides the Crystaline entity destroyed planets eco systems entirely ripping the life from them so it could grow on its own. Its not supposed to be easy to kill tho i say give Wesley crusher a tuning fork a tricorder and some bubble gum and hed prolly figure out how to shatter the thing all over again on his own.

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I've already run into two Lt.Coms farming it.

Don't know what you guys are talking about.

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I just did the Fleet Action.
Its hilarious with these weaker ships again.
Here: http://defiantsquadron.net/files/pics/CEFA.JPG
There were so many Mirandas, i told them to all join this instance.
Best part was when the Entity was spawn camping.
It kept setting off Miranda chain reactions. LOL

But in the end we beat it.
Im the one with most damage btw. :p

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i hope it's harder now than it was in the open beta, fights there usually lasted around 10 seconds, sometimes less..

although if you were much lower level, it's not surprising that you just got owned :)

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Perhaps Cryptic added some resistance against mines ^^ try shooting it for a change

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He's killable. It just took a while. We had 6 ships, all tier 1, and finally had to designate people to shoot shoot down the shards and stay at long range. It took about 10 minutes once we got a strategy down, and probably 30 minutes total from the time we first engaged him.

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This looks to be a good thing. It was rather silly and pointless when I first encountered it and everyone was just sitting, waiting for it to show up, there were a few flashes of light and then it exploded.

Glad to see that it got a boost.

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Anyone try an intermittent graviton pulse?
Maybe we can talk to it.

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In OB it was far to easy to kill. But the loot was very rewarding :D

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There may have been 20-30 ships but I bet they were all T1 ships.

The spawn camping problem can be simply solved by making it invulnerable to any damage for 5-10 seconds after it initially spawns. I think the same should apply to most mobs that are being mine camped.

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We killed it last night with a bunch of Miranda, ShiKar and Centaurs. It took about twenty of us and a little strategy but we took it down. Half the group focused on killing/distracting the shards while the other maxed out weapons and concentrated fire on the entity.

It did suck however. At one point we had it down to 2% just to have it wipe out half the fleet and be back to 65% within seconds. Total time took us about 45 minutes to get it right and bring it down.

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It can be won with some strategy and hard work. I was a Lt. 6 with a few similar in the instance. It took us forever, but it finally was destroyed. Quite fun. :D

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I've just got owned big time by the Crystaline entity, i think we must've been around 20-30 ships that got our rear ends handed to us by this thing.

It actually started spawncamping on us insta-killing us all upon respawning.

I dont have time for screenies right now but they will follow later.

This was insane, and on top of all, it started healing it self from 18% hull to 36% hull in less than 1 minute !?

I have seen it done, but it takes some coordination. The shards it releases do one of two things.. kick your ass, or heal the entity, so you need to have people on them. I will however take more than a bunch of starter tier1 miranda ships with mk1 weaponry.

When you meet a big beast, chat to Ops, they give tips

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I did it today with like 15 lvl 4-9 ships. We survived by putting our ships on Engines mode and outrunning the entity's big shards (they go at the same "max" speed). At the same time target weapons available to him.
You will die if people target the shards from the spawn site.

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Well about Mirandas in T2 fleet actions:

Those who dare taking on giants rarely live to tell the tale...

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I have seen it done, but it takes some coordination. The shards it releases do one of two things.. kick your ass, or heal the entity, so you need to have people on them. I will however take more than a bunch of starter tier1 miranda ships with mk1 weaponry.

When you meet a big beast, chat to Ops, they give tips

The big shards kick your ass, to explode and create 3 small shards that then try to get back to the entitiy and heal it for about 1% per small shard.
Throw a bunch of greedy player into a pot, all horribly underleveled with the only goal to do more damage than the next guy and tactics is down the tribble can.
Even if you manage to avoid shards and shoot either the small shards to prevent from healing or do very good damage to the entity, the sheer amount of people healing the entity makes it plain unkillable.

It's hilarious, will come back later.

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you have to modulate resonance harmonics to the fequency that insane old lady did in that SNG episode ;)

I don't think that the game has enough depth to where you can set resonance harmonics for a scan. That is the kind of thing that would make the game ultra-fun, but so huge that my entire computer would be filled up.

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I've just got owned big time by the Crystaline entity, i think we must've been around 20-30 ships that got our rear ends handed to us by this thing.

It actually started spawncamping on us insta-killing us all upon respawning.

I dont have time for screenies right now but they will follow later.

This was insane, and on top of all, it started healing it self from 18% hull to 36% hull in less than 1 minute !?




were you all lieutenant rank? lol

because i can tell you now they havent changed this instance at all and I'm already back to being able to solo it in under 1 minute :/

that and I already see commanders in here, so they havent put a level cap on it either.

yay! free loot for the highest level escort! (*sigh*)