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annemarie30
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So I have my engineer up to read admiral.
I have the obelisk carrier and the Ambassador refit. they have the same boff layout so i ask, which is more versatile? the hangars or the weapons slots?
I have the obelisk carrier and the Ambassador refit. they have the same boff layout so i ask, which is more versatile? the hangars or the weapons slots?
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Oh, that's easy, the hangars are more versatile. You have far more combinations of pets and weapons and boff abilities than you could ever have of...anything else.
That one was sort of a gimme. See cause like if you don't have the hangars you only gain two more weapons slots, but you LOSE two weapon types. So yes, much less versatile.
MUCH LESS!
I kept my refit anyway. Obelisk is like almost free to gear it out in AP beams as well. Like if you don't want to blow a lot of coin on it. Or you could blow some coin and get VOTH AP Cannons and all sorts of stuff.
Anyways have a luffly day.:)
In the end, it's really up to you and how you want to do it!
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My name is Rage, and I too support a revised Galaxy family.
front weapon slot (if it can support DHC)<hangar (if the hangar pet is TRIBBLE)
otherwise, hangar is allways better
i'd consider the swarmer pets TRIBBLE
between the ambassador and the obelisk, i'd go with the obelisk.
No you're not. That's why so many have been crying for a federation Frigate. Those paper thin fighters are warp core breach magnets.
Oddy is a decent ship.
But when it comes to pets vs weapons it all really depends, mesh weavers and elite scorpions are total damage dealers.
Runabouts and delta flyers, well not so much.
It all really varies. HEC is a pretty devastating combo, as you can place yellowstones on it to hold ships while you hammer the life out of them.
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- Shield Repair Drones -> Healing
- Danube Runabouts -> Control
- Fighter -> DPS
- Frigates (If Possible) -> Best DPS
Hangar pets are nasty, but they can easily destroyed (especially if your opponent has a beam boat).
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but actually it isn't like that. reasons are:
1. they die like flies. really, their "time to live" 30 sec to 1 min. warp core explosions as well as many AoE skills kill them with 1 hit. established practice in all games with pets is that they up to 90% resistant to all AoE damage skills/effects or even totally immune to them.
actually it is in line with science therms since both energy weapons as well as explosions should have much less efficiency on smaller targets. smaller nimbler fighters are much harder to hit then a slow starships. and explosion affection proportional to size/mass so where slow and big ships would be teared apart small and light fighter would be just pushed by them.
but i can see that expectancy is too much for a sci-fi game to follow the basic physic laws.
2. their AI is just terrible, UI very irresponsible. while they live you will have to do overtime work to keep them on the targets you want. they fly away, get stuck or just drifting in space doing nothing.
because in all games my favorite playstyle is summoner/necromancer/minionmaster i can tell that pets AI in STO are worst of all.
considering that you end up better having 2 beams then 2 hangers.
as for me i will never ever play pet ships in this game again.
yeah all valid and such, but when confronted with parsed combat logs, most hangar pets do more dmg overall than a weapon.
Only a DHC on an escort may parse higher than the fighters of a single hangar bay. Really not a theory, that is hard data.
Common really? 500mill EC just for a hanger pet?
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My name is Rage, and I too support a revised Galaxy family.
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Pretty sure she is comparing the ori to the ambassadors refit, though @ra I think the patrol escort? Is the best ship for the rank