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I read alot of Mothership owners complaint about the new Robot Incursion event.
Note that i have used a Mothership aswell as used Quad multiple times for this event.
I thought i'd make a thread to describ the event phase by phase, some comment posted on other thread can be misleading concerning the usage of MS.
This thread should make it clearer for anybody who hasnt joined the event yet.
All kind of ship can join the event and each have a strong purpose. Different purpose in each wave.
(Avoid using a sleipnir, the weapon is useless).
While a Mothership has a huge advantage in phase 2 and 3 to clear the dropship and progress through the event, The mothership still has a role to play in the Boss phase, The Quad in a presence of Mothership/privateer is more usefull in the boss battle.
That doesnt mean that the Mothership has no use in the boss fight, i'll explain below.
PHASE 1:
A cloaking device is hidding the robot incursion, you simply have to blow up the 1k hp device. 3.5ped shrapnel will be split and returned to the shooter.
Upon destruction of the device the 2nd phase is initiated.
PHASE 2:
In this phase it is highly recommended to use a Mothership to clean the Dropship or if you are using a Quad to be registered in a Mothership taking part of the action to use it as a revival point.
The Mothership will clearly dominate this phase by far.
Goal of this phase is to blow up 4 satelittes structure as well as clearing the area from all the dropship defending them.
As soon as the device is blown up the Dropship forces will be revealed, they have a higher aggro than usual, about 0.100UA.
A Quad will like to stay far enough when the Phase 2 starts.
Destroying the cloaking device with a quad alone could for the less experienced pilot lead to a death banged by several dropship.
Each of the Satelite will have 6 dropship spawned around it.
24 dropships total to kill this wave.
NOTE that a fully repaired quad should be able to take down 1.5 dropship maybe 2 before being blown up (could be more for the high Captains profession out there (space evader/dodger)).
A Quad will then need to be repaired after each dropship.
You understand that the presence of Motherships are essential, for the efficient killing and to provide a check point for Quads.
The Mothership even with a 1 Man crew will easily tank and kill the 6 dropships next to the satelite, repair and move on to the next one.
To sum up, this wave is in favor of MS/Privateer.
PHASE 3.
You have to kill some more Dropship that are randomly spread out around the area, a new maturity is available in small number, doable in Quad.
These dropship have close to 0 agrro, it is easier for a Quad to fly around.
Through the killing process to complete the progress bar there will be 3 separates Elites with their own spawning threshold.
Elite hit slow with there 1on1 attack but they also send a globe AoE damage (1000 damage) that are easily avoidable by a quad. It will take a skilled pilot to avoid them in MS.
A 1 man crew MS will be vulnerable to the AoE when soloing an Elite. They die quickly to the gunner though.
The range of the AoE is up yo 0.300UA
Once again the MS is the favorite for this Phase.
PHASE 4: The Boss
This final phase require organisation, team work and altruism.
The boss is static. It uses a slow 1on1 attack aswell as sending multiple globe AoE like the elites(1000 damage).
The boss can spawn rare dropship with low aggro to no aggro range.
He also has threshold on which he spawn 1 or multiple Repair Drone aswell as activating a shield against burn damage.
The shield will wear off after killing all the Repair Drone and meeting a new hp threshold.
The shield will be activated up to 4 times. Repair drone will frequently spawn.
The Repair Drone doesnt attack anybody. It repair the boss.
Each repair drone provide its own repairing per second stacking with the others around him.
I mentioned organisation and altruism.
Quad are able to dps the boss from full hp to the boss death. With no limitation.
Mothership are prevented to shoot at the boss when the shield is up.
Meanwhile the Mothership are very efficient at cleaning the area from the Repair Drone which have decent health points, they must kill them unless the shield is off.
Theorically 4 or 5 organised players are enough to kill the boss.
1 pilot for the MS to manoeuver and avoid the AoE. Pilot can join to dps the boss and repair drone if enough SI on the MS
1 gunner for the repair drone and the boss
3 quad to perma dps the boss. By doing so the shield on the boss wear off faster.
In this scenario quad are still using basic kismet or porcupine.
This event in my opinion clearly require Mothership in every aspect.
Quad are essential to defeat the boss and completely optional for the previous phases.
Pilots and repairing crew are missing out during this event.
Completing the tier 1 of the event by 100% will award 1 Possible Dropship Sensor that you can trade for a reward at CP.
Including new gear in the form of blueprints for MS and Quads.
This was typed on my phone, some area may require editing and i will add picture later.
Please discuss..
Note that i have used a Mothership aswell as used Quad multiple times for this event.
I thought i'd make a thread to describ the event phase by phase, some comment posted on other thread can be misleading concerning the usage of MS.
This thread should make it clearer for anybody who hasnt joined the event yet.
All kind of ship can join the event and each have a strong purpose. Different purpose in each wave.
(Avoid using a sleipnir, the weapon is useless).
While a Mothership has a huge advantage in phase 2 and 3 to clear the dropship and progress through the event, The mothership still has a role to play in the Boss phase, The Quad in a presence of Mothership/privateer is more usefull in the boss battle.
That doesnt mean that the Mothership has no use in the boss fight, i'll explain below.
PHASE 1:
A cloaking device is hidding the robot incursion, you simply have to blow up the 1k hp device. 3.5ped shrapnel will be split and returned to the shooter.
Upon destruction of the device the 2nd phase is initiated.
PHASE 2:
In this phase it is highly recommended to use a Mothership to clean the Dropship or if you are using a Quad to be registered in a Mothership taking part of the action to use it as a revival point.
The Mothership will clearly dominate this phase by far.
Goal of this phase is to blow up 4 satelittes structure as well as clearing the area from all the dropship defending them.
As soon as the device is blown up the Dropship forces will be revealed, they have a higher aggro than usual, about 0.100UA.
A Quad will like to stay far enough when the Phase 2 starts.
Destroying the cloaking device with a quad alone could for the less experienced pilot lead to a death banged by several dropship.
Each of the Satelite will have 6 dropship spawned around it.
24 dropships total to kill this wave.
NOTE that a fully repaired quad should be able to take down 1.5 dropship maybe 2 before being blown up (could be more for the high Captains profession out there (space evader/dodger)).
A Quad will then need to be repaired after each dropship.
You understand that the presence of Motherships are essential, for the efficient killing and to provide a check point for Quads.
The Mothership even with a 1 Man crew will easily tank and kill the 6 dropships next to the satelite, repair and move on to the next one.
To sum up, this wave is in favor of MS/Privateer.
PHASE 3.
You have to kill some more Dropship that are randomly spread out around the area, a new maturity is available in small number, doable in Quad.
These dropship have close to 0 agrro, it is easier for a Quad to fly around.
Through the killing process to complete the progress bar there will be 3 separates Elites with their own spawning threshold.
Elite hit slow with there 1on1 attack but they also send a globe AoE damage (1000 damage) that are easily avoidable by a quad. It will take a skilled pilot to avoid them in MS.
A 1 man crew MS will be vulnerable to the AoE when soloing an Elite. They die quickly to the gunner though.
The range of the AoE is up yo 0.300UA
Once again the MS is the favorite for this Phase.
PHASE 4: The Boss
This final phase require organisation, team work and altruism.
The boss is static. It uses a slow 1on1 attack aswell as sending multiple globe AoE like the elites(1000 damage).
The boss can spawn rare dropship with low aggro to no aggro range.
He also has threshold on which he spawn 1 or multiple Repair Drone aswell as activating a shield against burn damage.
The shield will wear off after killing all the Repair Drone and meeting a new hp threshold.
The shield will be activated up to 4 times. Repair drone will frequently spawn.
The Repair Drone doesnt attack anybody. It repair the boss.
Each repair drone provide its own repairing per second stacking with the others around him.
I mentioned organisation and altruism.
Quad are able to dps the boss from full hp to the boss death. With no limitation.
Mothership are prevented to shoot at the boss when the shield is up.
Meanwhile the Mothership are very efficient at cleaning the area from the Repair Drone which have decent health points, they must kill them unless the shield is off.
Theorically 4 or 5 organised players are enough to kill the boss.
1 pilot for the MS to manoeuver and avoid the AoE. Pilot can join to dps the boss and repair drone if enough SI on the MS
1 gunner for the repair drone and the boss
3 quad to perma dps the boss. By doing so the shield on the boss wear off faster.
In this scenario quad are still using basic kismet or porcupine.
This event in my opinion clearly require Mothership in every aspect.
Quad are essential to defeat the boss and completely optional for the previous phases.
Pilots and repairing crew are missing out during this event.
Completing the tier 1 of the event by 100% will award 1 Possible Dropship Sensor that you can trade for a reward at CP.
Including new gear in the form of blueprints for MS and Quads.
This was typed on my phone, some area may require editing and i will add picture later.
Please discuss..