The Underbelly of the Uranium Beast

A look at Uranium availability, the Apollo, the Hell Wraith, and the upcoming new Uranium targets.

By: George Argyropoulos
a/k/a Dragon_Bane

With the current raid upon us, and the new raid set looming, I thought I would take the time and do a review that is a bit off center about the Apollo, the Wraith and what they mean for players with regard to Uranium availability.

Currently, if you have an Apollo, you should be able to fill yourself up on Uranium at will. If you are having problems driving, you can watch these videos showing how to do the 75’s with 1 Apollo or 3.

1 Apollo run:

3 Apollo run:

Ease of Uranium gathering should bring a pleasant effect to your game if you take advantage of it while you can (more on this below).

• You should be filling up at any time you have free time.
• You should be rolling and storing only the best crews and be topped out.
• You should be pressing forward with your Research & Development.
• You should be upgrading turrets and anything else that needs Uranium.

Why should you be doing this right now if you have Apollos? Well, come January, or at the latest, February, we will be bidding farewell to the loveable Draconian Armadas. From then on, the Apollo seems to only be ear marked for Legion Assault Force (LAF) targets and 91 Mega Hull targets.

The next raid set is the oft tweaked Reaver Armadas as seen in the various iterations of the ‘test’ Armadas on our World Map. Additionally we have seen a few variations on the Test Server, and these likely are what we will really see going forward. What does this mean?

Well folks, welcome to the new Uranium targets we will see early next year- as early as January. As you can imagine, if you can not do the next raid set, nor get the Wraith in this raid, your ability to reap uranium will be severely impacted.

I think this is a rather significant pivot point in the game for the access to Uranium (barring Drac Uranium Bases). This really is significant going forward in the game. Crews are likely to become a HUGE mitigating factor in the new targets going forward, particularly in the Uranium configurations (I expect bypass to be removed for these as it will not be a raid target at this point). Additionally, there seems to be a massive push by Kixeye in the new area of the game with regard to Player-based Mega Hulls. Mid-level players have been slow to start in this aspect of the game. From various feedback, it seems a goodly portion of this is the exorbitant amount of Uranium needed for the Research & Development requirements. This will be compounded going forward should your Uranium availability be compromised.

I have heard a lot of complaints about the cost of the Wraith. I can see both sides of this, however, I would hope the cost would have come down a little. The apparent need for this hull to remain current and relevant in game is rather significant because of the secondary game-play issue of Uranium and the easing of in-game play with constantly available Uranium.

I, and I hope others, also understand that it is a hull raid, the next meta hull is coming out in an easier raid a month early, the raid is a week long, AND that you can potentially save 30 days/1,440 gold worth of refit time getting the Wraith now as opposed to getting it in September. Additionally, and importantly, I think that the Torpedo, even as a dumb fire weapon, would improve any sub dramatically **for these targets as we have thus far seen them**.


So… does that mean all hope is lost should you NOT get the Wraith? No. There are many options going forward. Your life will be made MUCH easier getting the Wraith and new torpedo however. That all said. In your own interest as a player, I strongly urge you to get -at the minimum- the new torpedo. Even though it is a dumb fire weapon, it does fantastic in these targets thus far in the iterations presented to us.

The best bet for you as a player is to plan ahead. One of the great folks, and Admins, over at The Forsaken Council, Mark (TSM), made a Hell Wraith Build Clinic video, covering various builds for the new Wraith as well as other sub options should you not get the Wraith. Yes, that was an incredible run on sentence, but I need coffee. You can watch the Clinic here:

I hope, as always, that this has helped some of you. Hopefully this can help some players plan through their raid and ease their play over the next few months. I appreciate all the feedback I have been getting.