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Life before Elite Scorpions?
captainobvious09
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In just about every Fed side Carrier/Vesta thread, its Elite Scorpions...
What do you do before you get Tier 5 faction with Romulus?
I still have a long way to go.
What do you do before you get Tier 5 faction with Romulus?
I still have a long way to go.
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Advanced Peregrines are your damage option until then, or just use the normal blue ones if you want to save your dilithium.
Very Rare Danubes are quite good.
For PVP (which I do rarely and badly) or CSE/KSE I prefer the Danubes as they hold targets still and so lower their defences. I haven't parsed them but I imagine their DPS is less but their contribution is well worthwhile and, in effect, make my guns better.
have you ever thought that maybe you should not use full aux, and change the aux weapons? compared to a regular escort you lose a dhc for a hangar bay (which is not much of a trade off). and if you know how to shield tank, then you should have no problem tanking in the vesta (especially with a sci)
also, elite scorpions are the best DPS at the moment. your other option is the advanced peregrines, they are good for dps too. or maybe there will be some elite goodies with starbases. I suspect peregrines will get a torpedo ability, either high yield or spread, we shall see
10k DPS Vesta threads: 1; 2
Have folks been able to test against Fleet Peregrine yet? I know few fleets have them unlocked yet, but still.
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Derp. nope not unlocked yet, Spectre is about to unlock it, so we still don't know. And even then, it may be realistically out of grasp to be considered anyway.
I have the scorpions from the old reman missions, but it's a device, not a hangar craft, and has limited charges.
They're an ultra-rare hangar pet you can get from Tier 5 Romulan reputation. They rain plasma death on their targets.
You're doing something wrong. This is what elite scorpions should look like:
DPS from player weapons:
Disruptor array 555
Cutting beam 567
Disruptor turrets 628
Disruptor dual beam 653
Photon torpedo HY2 949
Photon torpedo 1865
Total: 5217
DPS from Pet weapons:
Dual plasma cannons 406
Plasma turret 646
Plasma torpedo 1066
Plasma torpedo HY1 1767 (+462 burn)
Total: 4347
you are doing something right rather. the best I got from them was 3k DPS.
unless you are using a carrier, which means that you have 4 wings of scorpions out there
compared to advanced peregrines they have higher level boff skills, also they have one more boff skill (high yield plasma torp, and it makes a great difference), and they use plasma
10k DPS Vesta threads: 1; 2
Aaaaah, I missed the "Armitage" part of that post.
I was using a Jem Dreadnaught. Two hangars worth of fighters is more than twice as good as one thanks to cooldown from FDO's. I don't really have a good baseline for what kind of damage to expect from a half-carrier worth of superscorps.
The shuttles should have gotten self-replicating photon mines, as fitting with the Chaffee theme, but no, they got torpedoes. So, ho-hum, useless.
Since most Feddies want flavor, that leaves 1 thing: THERE WILL BE YELLOWSTONES, EVERYWHERE.
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Yellowstones? You mean the danubes right?
*checks stowiki*
10k DPS Vesta threads: 1; 2