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It Doesn't Get Much Better (The Best Ships in the Game)
semalda226
Member Posts: 1,994 Arc User
I just got my hands on the Annorax today (previously I was stuck with the T5-U Romulan Temporal Science Vessel a really good ship mind you) and it's virtually everything I want in a Science ship. Between the intel seating the really heavy focus on science boffs and consoles and even a hangar bay it's an all around 9.5/10. The complaints I have are minimal mainly about the turn rate but that's just nitpicking.
Truthfully I am very satisfied with my upgrade. There is something truly satisfying about popping a GW hitting all your damage skills and getting that sweet 30% boost from "Time to kill" while throwing a Ionic Turbulence and a EMP probe to decimate a large group of ships.
What are some of the ships you guys have that you deem perfect (minus a few nitpicks) for your play style?
Truthfully I am very satisfied with my upgrade. There is something truly satisfying about popping a GW hitting all your damage skills and getting that sweet 30% boost from "Time to kill" while throwing a Ionic Turbulence and a EMP probe to decimate a large group of ships.
What are some of the ships you guys have that you deem perfect (minus a few nitpicks) for your play style?
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Momentary thought based on this afternoon's gaming.
"If this will be our end, then I will have them make SUCH an end as to be worthy of rememberance! Out of torpedos you say?! Find me the ferengi!".
Personally, though, the most fun ships for me to fly are the Pilot escorts. Those things are damn near unkillable if you fly them right.
Your father was captain of a starship for twelve minutes. He saved 800 lives, including your mother's, and yours.
I dare you to do better.
My only nitpicks about it are its lack of science slots because I love gravity wells, but with how quickly it obliterates things, gravity well isn't even that important. If I could flip the sci and eng consoles + boff stations around, it'd be absolutely THE perfect ship. In other words, it'd pretty much be the annorax science ship. Oh how I hate the way they went about distributing that thing...
That being said, in terms of DPS, pretty much all ships are "the best ship", I mean, I outfitted a mirror escort once with a reasonably priced set-up(by that I mean, it was a set-up that anyone could make very cheaply) and took it for a spin and pulled over 15k DPS with it. And for those who do not know, less than half the people that play this game put out 10k DPS, and only half of all the players who have posted their DPS have reached 15k DPS, so that is highly respectable.
So in all reality, all tier 5 and higher ships, at least and to my knowledge, are excellent ships.
Post: Knowing what I know now and having the equipment I have now, some several months after my initial Mirror escort run, I could post WAY higher numbers on that same mirror ship, probably closer to 25k to 30k DPS.
And for those who doubt that I did this in a mirror ship:
Beware however, this video is long, over 1hour, I do more than just do a run, I actually walk through the set-up, I made it for people who either don't know anything and are just starting or for people who just plain think one ship or weapon is better than another.
The Dauntless is too rigid and I'm afraid it'll be quickly outdated, so I guess I'm waiting for a T6 Vesta.
FED: Manticore, Valiant, Pathfinder, Presideo
KDF: Bop t6, T6 raptors
ROM: T6 Tvaro, ROM Destroyer.
Star Trek Battles member. Want to roll with a good group of people regardless of fleets and not have to worry about DPS while doing STFs? Come join the channel and join in the fun!
http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1145998/star-trek-battles-channel-got-canon/p1
The turn rate is awful. I got the Tachyokinetic Converter and 2 Epic RCS consoles (one Fleet, one Crafting), and Pilot training, and it's still too low.:p
Mustrum "Moonfaced Assassin of Joy" Ridcully
Until they ever decide to release T6 versions of the MM ships, I'm sticking with my T5-U Vesta.
I'm not going to use that toilet seat, the ugly science cruiser with equally ugly looking nacelles or the pilot ship.
Playing it as a DPS ship while ignoring it's science abilities is absolutely criminal.
For my playstyle? As a main Fed science officer that loves fast, nimble, escort-like ships and space magic, I'd have to say the Nova (science vessel retrofit, mirror and fleet versions). Turn rate almost that of an escort, fleet version comes with a LtC tac boff seat that at the same time doesn't sacrifice too much science, a fragile hull with very good shields, that's right up my alley. Performs well when paired with the pilot spec. Not to mention it's a gorgeous little ship. Favourite design in the game for me.
As Reyan implied, it's nowhere near objectively being the best ship in the game and not even a top contender for Fed science officers... But for my playstyle, what it does, it does best. "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee".
Nothing else comes close, it has it all!
Nandi is better or equal to most ships named in this thread already, and was a freebie.
What more can one ask for ? For Free ?
I can't justify spending 600-700-800 million ec for a ship that will be hardly an upgrade over the Nandi. And quite possibly a downgrade !
Hard to beat;
4/4
5 tac slots
4 Science Slots
2 Engi slots
3 Device slots
GW capable.
Commander Tac
Eat your heart out Lockbox/Promo ships.
Only thing I miss is it not being T6 so missing one slot for a console and the aux weapons only being cannons when I'd rather have the option of beams.
Aside from that it's perfect formula style.
I do with that the Wells/Mobius could use the consoles that the Annorax can...and that I could make my Mobius look like the Wells, like the Undine ships can be interchangeable.
I dearly hope that when a T6 Odyssey is released, they also release a T6 Aquarius with pilot rolls.