I am in the process of rebuilding my Fleet Varanus for Plasma damage. I'm basically trying to maximize DPS while still maintaining a respectable level of Sci support stuff. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Varanus Fleet Support Vessel
Fore weapons
* Experimental Romulan Plasma Beam Array
* Romulan Dual Plasma Beam Bank Mk XII [Acc]x2
* Romulan Hyper Plasma Torpedo
Deflector
* Romulan Advanced Prototype Mk XII
Engines
* Klingon Honor Guard Mk XII
Shields
* Romulan Advanced Prototype Mk XII
Aft weapons
* Advanced Fleet Plasma Turret Mk XII [Acc]x2 [Dmg]x2
* Advanced Fleet Plasma Turret Mk XII [Acc]x2 [Dmg]x2
* Kinetic Cutting Beam
Devices
* Subspace Field Modulator
* Red Matter Capacitor
* Scorpion Fighters
Engineering consoles
* Console - Universal - Plasmonic Leech
* Console - Universal - Repair Platform
* Console - Universal - Assimilated Module
Science consoles
* Console - Universal - Zero Point Energy Conduit
* Console - Zero-Point Energy Conduit
* Console - Science - Particle Generators Mk XII [ShH] [-Th] (fleet ultra-rare)
* Console - Science - Particle Generators Mk XII [ShH] [-Th] (fleet ultra-rare)
* Console - Science - Particle Generators Mk XII [Pla] [-Th] (fleet ultra-rare)
Tactical consoles
* Console - Tactical - Plasma Infuser Mk XI (very rare)
* Console - Tactical - Plasma Infuser Mk XI (rare)
* Console - Tactical - Plasma Infuser Mk XI (rare)
Bridge Officers
* Nausicaan TAC Lt boff: BFAW1, BFAW2
* Borg ENG Lt boff: EPtS1, Aux2SIF1
* Klingon ENG Ensign boff: EPtS1
* Klingon SCI Cmdr boff: TSS1, TSS2, GW1, GW3
* Klingon SCI Lt Cmdr boff: HE1, PH2, HE3
Duty Officers
* Energy Weapons Officer (very rare) (reduce recharge time for subsystem attacks)
* Projectile Weapons Officer (very rare) (reduce torp recharge time)
* Projectile Weapons Officer (uncommon) (reduce torp recharge time)
* Deflector Officer (uncommon) (reduce recharge time for Deflector abilities)
* Gravimetric Scientist (rare) (Chance to create aftershocks for GW)
Reputation Choices
* Romulan T2: Precision
* Romulan T4: Emergency Secondary Shielding
* Omega T2: Omega Weapon Training
* Omega T4: Omega Graviton Amplifier
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Comments
Recommendations in Green
Put skill points into Particle Generators, Graviton Generators, and Subspace Recompiler.
Another recommendation, depending on your preferences, is to put on an Aceton Assimilator in favor of the zero point energy conduit. Goal here, is when you get mixed with enemy ships, both PVP and PVE, deploy it beside the vessels after they get sucked into your gravity well, and follow up with a photonic shockwave.
In PVP, you'll render most escorts quite useless in doing so, long enough for the heavy hitters on your team to finish them.
Well, I only have 1, I don't have any others (out of 255 DOffs) so I wouldn't know overall. They are heavily rare.....
You're missing Tactical Team entirely, though, which is probably one of the best abilities in the game for its rapid shield redistribution.
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KarFi is a horrible Science Vessel, compared to the Van.... Van is much better. (And more pleasing to the eyes)
And on Gorn vessels, I prefer the single cannons, because they look cooler for the Gorn ships..
For drain builds, the Karfi is better, and for plasma dot builds the Karfi is also better due to pets that can drain or apply plasma dot.
The problem is this game is DPS orientated, so pure sci ship is almost never needed. Carriers let you have just enough sci to support while still having way more DPS then sci ships like varanus.
For the OP: didn't notice this in my earlier post, but if you really must use a Varanus for a plasma build ditch the cutting beam. You only have 6 weapon slots and 1 of them is a torpedo, so you won't run in to any power drain issues so the 2 piece set bonus from cutting beam isn't needed. You need to use all of your limited weapon slots for plasma weapons. also sci consoles should all be switched to plasma infused versions, not shield heal.
I didn't catch the shield heal he had on it.