Hi STO community,
The Andorian Escort. A joke or what?
I'll start off with my personal opinion. I finally wanted to face off against this ship in PvP hoping to run into a couple dozen over-zealous pilots thinking their forward firing arc was something to be feared.
Needless to say, I beat nearly all the Andorian escorts I came across like an abused stepchild. Pretty sad, all literally a 'glass cannon' as many people have been saying. I only came across one who could tank my DHC's (I use a JHAS) maybe a couple seconds longer than everyone else before I made him/her bite the big one. So far, in my opinion, I've noticed it perform poorly for PvP. Whoever brings one against my team in PvP is asking for a severe beatdown as you stick out like a sore thumb, and I usually do the target calling, so you'll have plenty of DHCs, Beams, and torpedoes on you in a few seconds

Please, STO community, feel free to lay down your own opinion on this topic, dsnt matter HOW extremely mean or incredibly nice you are, everything you can throw is welcome

What you guys think of the Andorian Escort line in PvP?
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Properly built I think it could be a great hit and run ship. "Boom and zoom" if you will. Mostly I think players just need to rethink their tactics when it comes to how they engage and when they need to disengage.
I agree w/this. I don't see how the Sci Varient can be called a glass cannon, if there was a reset to over a year ago and people had to fly the Raiders of that time vs pre Season 5 et al nerfs to Sci Debuffs and buffs to ship's defenses would know what a glass cannon felt like. Being more fragile doesn't = a glass cannon.
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an andorian escort vs anything that cant turn well, doesn't have APO, and cant speed tank at all and just has to take it on the chin and out heal damage, the andorian ship should be a nightmare. anything that can outmaneuver the andorian ship, and if the andorian ship is flown by an pilot of inferior skill, well you will just defeat it like anything else.
I mostly play KDF, and whenever I queue up there I am very obviously still in training. I run various characters with various ships, and compared to my teams I generally score mediocre. Not bad, definitely get my kills, but got a long way to go still before I consistently hit top 3. Now, on my Fed, which I hardly use anymore, I score top in both damage and healing in nearly all matches I tried. That's on a sci, running sci ships and cruisers. (got our asses whipped in almost all of these matches, I might add)
Clearly, that's all anectdotal, and I sometimes get steamrolled on my kdf's vs fed groups, but I suspect that general pug queue play doesn't really give any clear info on the Kumari's (or any ship's) alleged overpoweredness.
Something to keep in mind.
The engineer version of the Kumari is actually pretty good, with very high firepower and average turnrate and staying power.
JH Bugs are OP anyway, so Kumari's didn't stand much of a chance
Still, I'm trying to make a Charal work just for giggles...
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PvP comes down to 90% player skill, 9% builds, 0.9% career, and whatever's left is the advantage of having an Andorian or a Bugboat or a Fleet Defiant or whatever.
If I'm better than you, I will most likely kill you. If you're better than me, then you will probably kill me, no matter what ships we're driving.
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Great, I guess you can teach me few tricks with the Galaxy....
when the andorian escort gets the needed support, it can destroy its targets even faster, than a jhas.
i am still testing the andorian escort. my current impression is, that endurance and turn rate are only slightly worse, in comparison to a jhas. on the other hand the andorian escort has the significant better damage output.
imo it is not possible to judge, whether the jhas or the andorian escort is the superior escort. it only depends on the players piloting skill and style
I'll be curious to see if the changes on Tribble make any of the special consoles worth anything.
(Nerf Bug ship turn rates now! kthxbye)
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LMFAO!!!!! Well said! I guess magnumoftheblack can eat his own words now :P
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