Dimensional Typhoon Event
- Task Force Operation: Royal Flush
- Battle alongside unusual allies, the Undine, to defend the Planet Killers from a massive Borg invasion.
- Use the Planet Killers against the Borg.
- Survive the onslaught from a Borg Fusion Cube.
- Patrol: Out of Control
- Defend an Iconian vessel stranded in an unstable gateway.
- Avoid annihilation from a devastating Borg Cube weapon.
- Patrol: Unwanted Guests
- Work with Thaseen-Fei to defeat the Borg and close reality vortices in the Kinjer system.
Patrol: “Out of Control”
It’s a pretty standard “defeat 5 groups of enemies” patrol, with the added wrinkle of the timed AoE attacks from the Borg. I actually enjoy this mechanic, especially when I’m in a slow-as-shit cruiser like I was when I ran the patrol today.
The story is nothing to write home about, as is usually the case with patrols. Alt-universe Iconians need our protection, blah blah blah.
For a brief moment, I thought maybe the other shoe was going to drop re: the Aetherians, but it was not to be (it also would have been very strange for that to happen in a patrol).
Hmmm… Good for speed-running like “Wanted”?
I’m no DPS chaser, and the character I used is weirdly weak against Borg for reasons I’ve never bothered trying to uncover, but I think you could probably complete it more quickly than “Wanted.” I’m sure the XP rewards are far smaller, though.
I’ll give it a shot and see how it goes.
I wouldn’t consider myself a DPS chaser either, since I haven’t even parsed my ship builds in at least a year or two. However, I definitely follow the meta and know I have (or at least) had some high DPS when I did parse.
TLDR: Maybe not a DPSer, more like a fast-damage hobbyist.