Day 1? Wasn't it really weak sauce until they added that cooldown reduction?
Correct. It was terrible back on day 1.
Waiting ten minutes in between battles was pretty bad, not to mention that there was a lot less stuff to do while waiting for that timer to finish. We really have come a long way since those first few months.
I have to wonder what crew combinations people will trot out for the Valdore.
I doubt there will be much change in the top ranks. Might start seeing RP Kirk make a comeback. That's about it.
Coming from someone who still uses rp Kirk, I know that I will be using him on the valdore...I have a setup that, on paper, should crush any krayton setup. I of course am not disclosing my proposed set, and I'm sure someone can figure it out, but I am looking forward to having the valdore maxed!!
Any chance someone can explain how to use the D'Kora Krayton to me? I have her fully maxed, but I still lose whenever I use her and I often lose when I face her. I do pretty well with the Bounty.
It is possible that the Krayton setup as it has existed may be challenged by the Valdore, but I would not be so quick to write off the Krayton completely; the Valdore will struggle to pack as powerful of a punch as the Krayton, and if the Valdore fails to knock out the Krayton it will be a sitting duck.
Although it only lasted for about 5 minutes, I was sitting in 1st place tonight in Admiral after defeating a Krayton with my Bounty. I'm not even using a super-maxed set of crew. (One 5/5, one 4/5, two 4/4).
I have no doubt that the Valdore will have its share of advocates when enough of us get it to level 10.
Any chance someone can explain how to use the D'Kora Krayton to me? I have her fully maxed, but I still lose whenever I use her and I often lose when I face her. I do pretty well with the Bounty.
It really depends on who all you have manning the crew slots. Pretty much every Krayton loadout I see uses one to three instant damage crew with 6-second or shorter activation times - Killy, the RPC, and now Garth are the most notable options - whose initialization times are further reduced by the Krayton’s first ship ability, Power Surge. Power Surge allows you to fire off at least one of your instant damage crew before the cloak activates on a Bounty/T’Ong/Valdore and before these or other non-Krayton ships can fire off their own instant damage crew. Whomever else you have is there to improve your raw Attack/Accuracy/Evasion scores, boost your crit chance or damage boosts, or do something else.
For example, I now only use the Krayton in Skirmish events with my 2/5* Killy, 3/5* RPC, an event crew, and what’s so far been a rotating cast of characters to boost either Attack or Accuracy. I’ve used Locutus, Valeris, Mirror Spock, Captain Scott, and Klingon Janeway at various points, and I’ve even used a few selected Evasion boosters like Lt. Chekov, all with good Skirmish results.
The Arena is a different animal from Skirmishes, of course, but the basic concept remains: use Power Surge plus instant killers to end a battle before it can really start. It’s a good, solid strategy (as shown by the OP) but is by no means the only path to Arena success (frankly also shown by the OP with the number of different ships beaten to take first place). Staffing your ship with the right crew is an important part of the process, and your crew makeup may mean that another ship is better for you.
Any chance someone can explain how to use the D'Kora Krayton to me? I have her fully maxed, but I still lose whenever I use her and I often lose when I face her. I do pretty well with the Bounty.
It really depends on who all you have manning the crew slots. Pretty much every Krayton loadout I see uses one to three instant damage crew with 6-second or shorter activation times - Killy, the RPC, and now Garth are the most notable options - whose initialization times are further reduced by the Krayton’s first ship ability, Power Surge. Power Surge allows you to fire off at least one of your instant damage crew before the cloak activates on a Bounty/T’Ong/Valdore and before these or other non-Krayton ships can fire off their own instant damage crew. Whomever else you have is there to improve your raw Attack/Accuracy/Evasion scores, boost your crit chance or damage boosts, or do something else.
And still this strategy doesn't help the Kraytons from losing most of the time against my T'Ong. Thus far, 10 free tickets are enough for farming legendary schematics on a decent base.
It is the case that the Krayton got better and thus more challenging, but if your fingers are swift enough, you get the cloak most of the time fast enough activated; although you're losing a tremendous amount of hitpoints. But the T'Ong's amount of hp is high enough for slicing like butter through the Krayton once I get out of cloak.
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Valdore.
(Not that I have it maxed.)
It's getting closer for me, and I'll definitely give it a spin. We will see.
Correct. It was terrible back on day 1.
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Waiting ten minutes in between battles was pretty bad, not to mention that there was a lot less stuff to do while waiting for that timer to finish. We really have come a long way since those first few months.
I doubt there will be much change in the top ranks. Might start seeing RP Kirk make a comeback. That's about it.
Coming from someone who still uses rp Kirk, I know that I will be using him on the valdore...I have a setup that, on paper, should crush any krayton setup. I of course am not disclosing my proposed set, and I'm sure someone can figure it out, but I am looking forward to having the valdore maxed!!
I have no doubt that the Valdore will have its share of advocates when enough of us get it to level 10.
It really depends on who all you have manning the crew slots. Pretty much every Krayton loadout I see uses one to three instant damage crew with 6-second or shorter activation times - Killy, the RPC, and now Garth are the most notable options - whose initialization times are further reduced by the Krayton’s first ship ability, Power Surge. Power Surge allows you to fire off at least one of your instant damage crew before the cloak activates on a Bounty/T’Ong/Valdore and before these or other non-Krayton ships can fire off their own instant damage crew. Whomever else you have is there to improve your raw Attack/Accuracy/Evasion scores, boost your crit chance or damage boosts, or do something else.
For example, I now only use the Krayton in Skirmish events with my 2/5* Killy, 3/5* RPC, an event crew, and what’s so far been a rotating cast of characters to boost either Attack or Accuracy. I’ve used Locutus, Valeris, Mirror Spock, Captain Scott, and Klingon Janeway at various points, and I’ve even used a few selected Evasion boosters like Lt. Chekov, all with good Skirmish results.
The Arena is a different animal from Skirmishes, of course, but the basic concept remains: use Power Surge plus instant killers to end a battle before it can really start. It’s a good, solid strategy (as shown by the OP) but is by no means the only path to Arena success (frankly also shown by the OP with the number of different ships beaten to take first place). Staffing your ship with the right crew is an important part of the process, and your crew makeup may mean that another ship is better for you.
It is the case that the Krayton got better and thus more challenging, but if your fingers are swift enough, you get the cloak most of the time fast enough activated; although you're losing a tremendous amount of hitpoints. But the T'Ong's amount of hp is high enough for slicing like butter through the Krayton once I get out of cloak.