Nova advice (PvE and PvP)

adamkafei

Okay, I've been running a sci Nova for a while and I love the ship but I'm not so sure about the build now, it worked in season 7 when I first built it but it suffers from some defensive issues in PvP so I'm looking for a few suggestions of how to fix it.

With that in mind, this is what I have now:

Weapons:
Fore: 3x Advanced Fleet Phaser Beam Array Mk XII [Dmg]x2 [Acc]x2
Aft: 2x Advanced Fleet Phaser Beam Array Mk XII [Dmg]x2 [Acc]x2, Kinetic Cutting Beam Mk XII [Dmg]x3

Equipment:
Deflector: Elite Fleet Axion Deflector Array Mk XII [PartG] [CoSys] [SsD] [SciCdr]
Engines: Elite Fleet Efficient Hyper-Impulse Engines Mk XII [Spd]x2 [Turn] [Pow]
Warp Core: Elite Fleet Hyper-Charged Warp Core Mk XII [Eff] [A->W] [ACap] [AMP] [Trans]
Shields: Elite Fleet Adaptive Resilient Shield Array Mk XII [Cap]x2 [ResB] [Adapt]

Devices: Subspace Field Modulator, Nimbus Pirate Distress Call

Consoles:
Eng: 2x Enhanced Fleet Neutronium Alloy Mk XII [+Turn], Assimilated Module
Sci: Hydrodynamics Compensator Mk XII, Graviton Generator Mk XII [HuH] [-Th], Particle Generator Mk XII [ShH] [-Th], Bioneural Infusion Circuits
Tac: 2x Vulnerability Locator Mk XII [Pha], Counter-Command Multi-Conduit Energy Relay Mk XII

Power levels
W: 95
S: 35
E: 35
A: 35

Skill Spec
http://www.kaysvaultofstuff.com/sci-systems-dis-spec.html

PvE Boffs
LTC Tac: TT1, FAW2, APB2
Lt Eng: EPtW1, EPtS2
CMDR Sci: TB1: PH2, TR2, GW3
Lt Sci: HE1, TSS2
Ens Sci: TSS1

PvP Boffs
LTC Tac: TT1, FAW2, APO1
Lt Eng: EPtW1, EPtS2
CMDR Sci: TSS1, SS2, PSW1, VM3
Lt Sci: HE1, TSS2
Ens Sci: TB1

PvE Doffs
2x DCE (Purple), Sensors Officer (Blue, Adds damage debuff to sensor scan), 2x Deflector Officer (Blue, Chance to reduce cooldowns on deflector abilities), Gravimetric Scientist (Purple, Extra Grav Wells)

PvP Doffs:
2x DCE (Purple), Systems Engineer (Purple, repeat VM), Systems Engineer (Blue, VM Spread), Biologist (Purple, Adds cooldown effect to SS)

When it was first constructed it could withstand up to three players focussing on it, now it barely manages one so I'm looking mainly for defensive advice but any other notes would be equally welcomed.

rmy1081

for pvp you need to be moving fast all the time in that little ship. I would drop eptw and go with epte.

I would try to fit in PH1 somewhere in there for the resists and TB immunity.

I really like to drop tractor beam mines with mine.

FAW isn't going to be doing much with just 5 beams in pvp. You could do beam overload but I like the grav torpedo or Enhanced bio torpedo with TS2. With the enhanced bio torpedo you'll be sporting the 2pc set and get a boost to your phaser damage.

VM isn't as good as it once was because of the cleanse doff and team power decoupling. Now, everyone can clear it fast.

if you get the level 15 science crafting trait you could go with TBR and do some great shield piercing exotic damage.

on a side note, you might want to try vanilla PvP with he mirror version.
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1223171

it's actually one of the best science ships for it