So I've been flying around in my Kar'Fi for a week or so now and have a few hangar pet questions.
I like the little gifts my Orions bring me from time to time so I'll be keeping them, but the other slot is negotiable (using the Skuls it came with atm).
Recently came back to the game and joined a fleet with a buddy of mine (awesome super L337 three man fleet rawr) and without thinking I dumped all my dil into fleet missions (and a little zen) to get caught up.
So I have enough again to pick up some advanced pets and before I drop the dil on them would like some input on them.
Which is the best all-arounder for the other slot?
Frigate seems interesting but when I need lead downrange because I've gotten aggro again are they going to be useful? Even if it's just getting attention long enough for me to rep up a bit.
Or should I go for the advanced BoP? I liked my generic ones on my Qu'Vov well enough.
Not really looking at the advanced Skuls or other ones, but should I?
Really enjoying this ship though and figured it was time to look at the advanced variants.
Or is the upgrade so minor that it doesn't really matter?
Thanks,
Jorm
Oh, and I have no intentions of getting the romulan rep scorpions as long as they have that damage type unless someone brings some info to the table showing them being worth the stupidly massive material cost.
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Apart from that, I'd recommend looking at their various wiki entries here: http://www.stowiki.org/Category:Hangar_Bays
Some upgrades are pretty massive, while other pets gain smaller upgrades, in my opinion. Not all the info is up to date, so maybe crossreference ingame, but it'll give you a general idea.
Nota bene: the BoP's will only work with the Vo'Quv, so those are out for the Kar'fi.
Me? I'm aiming for the advanced Fer'Jai's, after that, maybe some advanced slavers, for the contraband (though they'd need to steal 300 contraband to pay for themselves, lol).
Edit: this post also gives a breakdown of their abilities/equipment: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=269208
I've flown quite a few elite STFs with Karfi pilots using the advanced frigates, and wouldn't hesitate to equip them if I ever get a Karfi. Try running the regular (EC) frigates, and if you like them, you can upgrade to the advanced dilithium versions with confidence.
but despite that i still use the frigates, the damage reduction from aceton beam and the occasional tricobald explasion has its benefits.
And while those do little, the Fer'Jai Frigates's chroniton and transphasic torpedoes do their job well: Slow and Disable
Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
yeah, agreed. it is the utility of the frigate...even if it does less dps as other hangar pets. No other pet is so versatile.
So, I'd definitely stick with the Skull Fighters if I had a Kar'Fi.
They are great little bugger for causing damage, but keep getting themselves killed. Its no fun when you send all of your little devils to attack a new target, just to realize you only have about 3 left alive because the rest crashed into the nearest enemy.
Can't wait to see what the Fleet versions are like
Guess I'll give the advanced frigates a go and see how it goes.
My only beef with the basic Skul fighters is I noticed that they tend to get themselves blown to bits in warp core explosions when npc's pop hehe.
I do feel really stupid for buying my Kar'Fi and Guramba and then a week later they put all the ships on sale! >.<
Guess it's time to pick up that destroyer with the plasmonic leech hehe.
Jorm
As for Orion Slavers, they're really fast, so they shouldn't blow as fast from enemy warp core breaches as other small craft. They use disruptor beams which may put a dmg debuff on the enemy, place quantum mines, and sometimes steal crew and items from the enemy. Not very often, mind you, but on several occasions I've got quite a stack of contraband.
the skull fighters if u want to rip them to shreads
out of those two i prefer the skull fighters just for pure damage but they have a habbit of attacking kang so if your doing cure id go with frigets.