Plasma burn werde plain annoying, so I can live with that xD
Lessining the spikes and duds is a good thing.


Does the global damage reduction come from removing the spikes? I really hope so. When not, then please Cryptic augment the overall damage for 20-25% on Elite :-) So that healers/crosshealing are more important.

i was in a cure elite match the other day.

in a science ship

kicking butt

im holding my lane, and killing the cube, i finish off my cube then notice the other 4 people are at the kang.

im then getting told in the chat box that i wasnt a team player because i killed the cube,and that i ruined the game.

now....

me in a science ship could hold and hill his entire lane himself...

wtf were the other 4 people doing?

so apparently i learned i was a noob and "anti- team" minded.

yay... -_-

on one hand, I would love if the borg was stronger, but not in the cheating way (oneshots). if they removed these supercrits, imo they could increase the dps atleast by 200%

however on the other hand the higher need for healers and such, would make this topic more interesting.

Just came back from a disastrous elite Khitomer space and need to vent.

It began quite promisingly. After getting through the cube rather quickly, everyone agrees to start with left. One guy says "goin rite", everyone assumes he'll guard the probes. Instead he proceeds to completely ignore them, and tries to take on the far (?!) conduit by himself, cube and all. After he gets blowed up and obviously lets the probes through, he calls everyone "noobz" for not helping him and rage-quits.

Unfortunately two others got discouraged and also left. Myself and one other guy stuck around for a bit more, hoping some more random people will join, but nobody ever did

Suckiest 20 minutes in game.

You very well might have screwed the mission if you blew a cube and the others still had gens running and Neg'vars started spawning - were you keeping track of the status of the other 4 people and the status of the other cubes?

With 4 people protecting Kang those N'V shouldn't get closer than 15km from Kang.

Do you pug cure elite a lot? If a cube is popped and the other 2 cubes spawn Neg'vars and raptors - half the time 5 people defending will FAIL!

This is a common thing in CSN. For whatever reason 4 of the team ships will think they need to protect the Kang. IF all 4 had any DPS at all they would be able to protect the Kang. But all to often they all have Rainbow/Technicolor beams and/or have their weapons set on stun and lose the optional.

In reality, it only takes ONE properly set up ship to protect the Kang. That ship should be able to keep anything from ever firing a shot at the Kang.

I stopped protecting the Kang long ago. In fact I don't even worry about going after any ships being spawned. I just kill nodes and cubes and fly on over to the next. Using this tactic I can usually clear out all the cubes in 9 minutes or less by myself.

If the others are helping out at the cubes like they should be, then I'll help kill the spawns, otherwise NO WAY. If we lose because 4 ships setting at the Kang can't protect it then so be it.

Most Kang defenders on pugs like to sit at the kang and only engage when the enemy starts shooting at the kang. And they are usually grouped up. (read below for more)

I have two words that explain exactly why this is the case. Those morons defending the kang with more than one person are usually grouped up. The two words that explain exactly why they will fail: Isometric Charge. Need more be said.

Heres a big 'If'

IF the people of the team have realistic DPS and otherwise well set up ships;

AND

IF the people know how to properly run a CSN or CSE;

THEN the ship which is supposed to be protecting the Kang should never have to fire a shot unless he too KNOWS what he's supposed to be doing and flys into the cubes as the Borg are spawning and kills them as they spawn.

And IF the people at the cubes know what they are doing then they too should be helping kill the spawns.

And still, nothing should ever get close enough to the Kang to fire a shot.

BUT this is something you'll never see in a PuG filled with Farmers, Rainbow/Technicolor Weapons, Noobes, Skittles, and all around Clowns.