Neat thread, I've just been trying this on my Jem'Hadar Heavy Escort and now I find this. While I think the temporal destroyer will be the best escort torp boat, due to the sci boff, the carrier is not bad as the fighter cover helps against small things. I use the breen set + transphasics; two breen cluster, 4 rapid or…
Are you kidding me? You make this up, and treat it like it's gospel? That's simply your opinion. Most of us don't have this PvE/PvP hangup. We play the game, and take the fun wherever it is. It's just a precious few who have to change the rules rather than play by them. -Jeff
It's funny you should say all that. I took my lessons learned and turned my defiant retrofit into a torp boat. 2 breen clusters up front, 4 rapid-fires, and a transphasic mine in the back. The 16 transphasic mines are a thing of beauty, the shields help with the spillover damage, and moving all the time I fire front and…
I love world vs world / realm vs realm in other games, and was drawn to this game precisely because of the promise of a real war. I can click glowies and choose option a/b/c and gear chase in any game, but a fed vs klink space war...that's different. Having said that, there's no reason to have open PvP in sector space to…
For fun, I took my mirror vor'cha and turned it into a torp boat, using a mix of torps front and rear similar to a brel torp boat, adding a mine and vent gas. I then boom and zoom at top speed, not bothering to engage in a turning duel. I have no idea how well it works in a comparative sense, but I do the romulan daily…
I re-scanned the thread, then re-checked some things. If I understand correctly, what I was thinking was "impulse" is actually "inertia" - so my mirror vorcha feels faster than my mirror assault because the inertial rating of the vorcha is 30 vs 15 for the assault. So what I'm really looking for is a small cruiser, I…
Thanks all. I've been combing the wiki, and couldn't find anything different (though I hadn't considered the inertia, just the impulse modifier). So fed side there's nothing like KDF battlecruisers. Makes sense, I guess.
Something I haven't been able to find, or maybe i've just missed it... What does the breen cluster torpedo/mine thingy share a cooldown with? I'm guessing it shares a cooldown with cluster torpedos, not mines, but I want to be sure. Bonus question - the breen rapid fire transphasic thingy - that's considered the same as a…
+20 power is +20 power. I'll just move the sliders around. Trading lt. cmdr this for lt. cmdr that (etc) is just shuffling things around unless you have a very specific purpose in mind. Granted, a universal is better than a sci-slot, but on a ship with 2 tac and 2 eng a sci slot is not a bad choice. Basically, it boils…
What I'm seeing is that there's no substantial reason to spend real dollars on a ship that's virtually identical to one that's cheap on the exchange, unless (as you point out), looks are an issue. Thanks, -Jeff
Regarding the Assault Cruiser refit, aside from the modules, what sets it apart from the mirror assault? I have the latter, and I've been studying the wiki and I really don't see much of a difference. A slight shuffling of BO slots and power, and that's about it. Did I miss something?
I think another way to look at this is what ship is better on a team vs a pug vs solo. For the team, I would give the Defiant a nod. Solo I prefer the patrol escort. A pug? It depends, but I would take the patrol escort as well. But I think the fact that they are so close means that the defiant needs a buff. -Jeff