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grazyc2#7847 grazyc2 Member Posts: 1,988 Arc User
Ok now you wonder and I will explain, this is not a rant but something you might agree on if you are a tanker.

I bought 2 ships plus the 1000 day Fed reward ship. Fleet Versions !!!

1000 Day reward ship :

It's a good looking ship but not much more then that, the plus 15 weapon power and enhanced shields doesn't do much with most sets even a good set from the fleet stores it's bad.
against the undine the ship performs very poor not much maneuvering speed and shields are from 100 to 0 in a few seconds when the undine wants you.

With the Borg the same story few shots and the ship is down no matter what set you put on this ship the performance is very poor.

Against the Voth is does a bit better with a constant healing and upgrade to you cannons she does perform medium she does better with beams but still medium and DPS is down a lot.

My findings on the 1000 Day Fed ship is poor to say the least ...

Then the Defiant/ Sao Paulo Class :

I must say I Always loved this ship in combat and performance she is doing very well.
Against the Borg if you stay in motion you can deal a good damage to a cube or a sphere.
With cannons and beams and the Borg Set Mk XII she is doing very nice. She is fast but don't try to hang around because if you do the borg will get you, my tip stay in motion.

Undine the ship is performing a bit poor, well because of the undine gravity pit or whatever they call it, when it guts the Defiant Class you're unable to get loose and will soon be destroyed. it's not a master ship when fighting the undine it's just too weak.

Against the Voth this ship is master, the Defiant Class turns fast can give a good weapon performance and with the Omega or Fleet set your can do the missions pretty quick .


Then the Armitage Escort :

Against the borg it's just the right tool, it's gives a nice DPS performance, with the Fighters is just fun flying she can really show her teeth against them

Against the Undine when set up right she can perform pretty good, best performance so far is with the omega set and Borg Set didn't try it with the fleet set just yet.
With the Aegis Set well sorry to say it's worthless against the undine.

Against the voth, well if you're coordinate your fighters well she is a beauty to fight with.
My choise is the Armitage true and true.

What I miss :

Defiant/ Class Fleet Version, Faster shield rotation, the Defiant was build to battle the borg so I would thought she would be a bit tougher on the shields instead the only upgraded the weapons.
They gave 1 plus Tactical slot well I wish they added LTC Science instead of a LT and an CMD Engineer instead of a LT this would make the Fleet version worth its price.
To be honest with you I bought it but now that I know I never would have spend fleet credits on it and kept the Refit as a ship she is quite as good in combat.

1000 Day Fleet Version, well the gift was junk sorry to be rude but I not gonna spend a dime on the Fleet Version either from what I read it's performing very poor for Tactical.

Armitage, One heck of a ship I love the refit model and I will def buy the fleet version as well. But I must add this it's a shame that Cryptic kept one hanger bay on the Fleet version I Would thought they would provide it with two because the armitage is bit slow on the ruther.
Also would have thought they would add an extra weapon slot on the rear so you would have 4 instead of 3 slots. And only a increase on weapons power and hull and that's all not even a extra on shields or any other systems.
A poor choice I must add, well thats my findings.

I hope you would share yours on these three fleet ships and what would you like to see upgraded on them to give a better performance against the Borg, Voth or Undine.
:D
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  • lowy1lowy1 Member Posts: 964 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Personally, I think the Chimera is an ugly POS. I haven't flown the others, but what weapons and console are you suing? I use the Fleet Avenger and have little issue with any. I have Fleet AP Beams, with Nukara Deflector, Rommy Engine, Fleet shields and Warp Core. Uni Consoles consist of Tachyokintic Converter, AM, ZP, Protononic one and Bioneural.
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  • ashkrik23ashkrik23 Member Posts: 10,809 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    If you are dying in any T5 ship during the Borg story missions, you are doing something wrong.
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  • grazyc2#7847 grazyc2 Member Posts: 1,988 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    lowy1 wrote: »
    Personally, I think the Chimera is an ugly POS. I haven't flown the others, but what weapons and console are you suing? I use the Fleet Avenger and have little issue with any. I have Fleet AP Beams, with Nukara Deflector, Rommy Engine, Fleet shields and Warp Core. Uni Consoles consist of Tachyokintic Converter, AM, ZP, Protononic one and Bioneural.

    Good Question I change a lot with consoles on my Armitage I just love the ship.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

    "Coffee: the finest organic suspension ever devised. It's got me through the worst of the last three years. I beat the Borg with it."
  • grazyc2#7847 grazyc2 Member Posts: 1,988 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    ashkrik23 wrote: »
    If you are dying in any T5 ship during the Borg story missions, you are doing something wrong.

    To be honost the chimere is just a bad ship in a STF
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

    "Coffee: the finest organic suspension ever devised. It's got me through the worst of the last three years. I beat the Borg with it."
  • sophus84atsophus84at Member Posts: 404 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    curretnly my Chimera has the old MK X borg adapted set on it... and some blue Mk x weapons as i never used it.. but... i can do elite borg STFs just fine with it.. O_o
    "Mei Borg is net deppat".....

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  • aloishammeraloishammer Member Posts: 3,294 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    ashkrik23 wrote: »
    If you are dying in any T5 ship during the Borg story missions, you are doing something wrong.

    This. The entire problem in a nutshell is "You're doing it wrong." And speaking of the entire, actual problem:
    kirk2390 wrote: »
    Ok now you wonder and I will explain, this is not a rant but something you might agree on if you are a tanker.

    If you claim to be a "tanker," and you're mucking about in Escorts, I'd say you are most definitely doing it wrong. Couldn't you find anything more fragile to "tank" with? :rolleyes:
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  • carl103carl103 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Since i have way more alts than brain cells i'm currently leveling one of my tacs through the reps so i can get sponsor tokens for the rest. She flys a Chimera.

    Does it die somtime in STF's? Sure, but nowhere near as often as most other ships i see. Quite simply put if your dying often in it and going down in a few hits you need to learn to play the game. Even with the lowest durability universal station distribution it's still no less durable, (and arguably much more durable), than any other escort available.

    Here's my build, it's a long way from awsome these day's, but it does elite STF's no problems if i fly it right, (Specifically avoid gateways and launch bay cubes by staying 10KM+ away while shooting the sphere's/Generators), and has no issues in any other content unless i aggro way more ships than is sensible.
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