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cannons and escorts

dem613dem613 Member Posts: 143 Arc User
edited October 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
How many of you use escort ships without cannons?
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  • lordvalecortezlordvalecortez Member Posts: 479 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Escorts without cannons, while there are people that do it, is heresy. We must purge the heresy with fire. Now please stand still.

    I personally don't use torps on my escorts, but I do use cannons. So I'm made of half escort heresy.
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  • corbinwolf#9797 corbinwolf
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    edited October 2013
    Tried using beams on an escort when I first started playing STO. Lack of experience and poor understanding of game mechanics at the time made for a miserable experience. That being said, those who know what their doing have used both together with success.
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  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    I have a Cannon/Dual Beam build.

    3x Dual Cannons, 1x Dual Beams Front

    3x Turrets Rear.

    Works really well for me, but I had to dedicate significant attention to keeping my powerlevels up at all times.
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  • assimilatedktarassimilatedktar Member Posts: 1,708 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    I had an awesome Prometheus with phaser beam arrays once. (Prometheus with cannons is heresy against the power of canon!??) But then I got an Excelsior, and later when lockbox and fleet ships became more common an Aventine (that I'm again playing with beam arrays instead of dual cannons).
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  • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    While all my escorts and destroyers use cannons, only one uses Beams. Because I wanted a different way of playstyle, and in it's own way it is rather fun. I liken it to a scalpel vs a blade.

    Beam Escorts for a long time have been proven to be rather useful with their ability to disable with Level 3 abilities or debuff using Beta 3. And in certain circumstanes, Beam Overload 3 in conjunction with High Yield 3 can sometimes yield very powerful results, especially in PvP. (Well the old PvP, stopped playing PvP since F2P went live).
  • dahminusdahminus Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    A properly outfitted beams core will out dps any cannon boat.

    By properly I mean an aux2bat build with dem+marion, Bfaw3 and a eptw. Or a build with duplicate abilities.

    To those that call bs...just think about scimitars, layouts are the same...I'll leave it at that.
    Chive on and prosper, eh?

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  • wuustawuusta Member Posts: 76 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    I don't know why you would run beam arrays on a escort anyways since they are built to equip cannons/beam banks/torps (unless you want to run beams and also have a lot of tac boff stations). The only reason why cruisers and slower turning ships run beams is because of its turn rate...or they just like beams.
  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    I will take the risk, and say that you lose out on a Pure canon/non-beam build, because of the limitations on Tac skills.

    Most of the low level tac-BO skills are Tac-team and Cannon/beam, and the Attackpatterns are just not enough of a benefit.

    Going with at least one beam helps you get the most of your DPS.
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  • flash525flash525 Member Posts: 5,441 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    When I had a Tactical Toon I spent most of my time flying around in the Patrol Escort armed with 3x Dual Beam Banks and a Torpedo Launcher on the front, alongside Turrets at aft. I didn't bother with cannon abilities, but Beam Overload 3 and Fire at Will 3 worked well for me.
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