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ciranfera
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As the topic says, I was looking through the ships I owned on my klingon and I noticed this cute thing being "Available" for me to claim. I have never seen anyone fly one before, Ive never flown one before and I'm a Tactical captian thats bored of the "DPS" rush. So I say what the hell and fit one out...
About 1 Elite STF later and a small intermission backed by the jeopardy theme, And I'm already flying the Fleet version of it.
I have to say its one of the most fun things I have on my klingon. I got these awesome healing drone platforms that are like having hazard emitters on the fly, endlessly. I got this sensor ability for the ship that can increase everyone damage on target by 30% [ish] Combined with a nice fire on my mark from my captain and it seems to help the team melt things so fast.
So heres a little story from an STF- HIVE ELITE, Were gana call this scimitar "Fred" And Fred is the happy go lucky, BFAW Scimitar that loves to parse logs. Show off his mighty DPS and brag. Now Fred, the adorable rapscallion doesn't seem to have much tank. In fact I had to zip on over, Heal him [Four times] And save him from the brink of death. With Hazard emitters, Transfer shields, Engineer team. Tac team.. And so-on so fourth.
Fred does not like this. And as close as I can quote without being pulled aside for badn language I think he said. "Get out of that **** Ship and do more DPS. " followed by me repairing him again. And with him following up with. "Worthless Tac" - Fred Did not like me saving him. So Onto the next teammate... As Fred learns what 4 tac cubes can do. And some spheres...
So I head over to another teammate who is 'frankly', Getting chewed up like a lawn flamingo fighting a weed whacker. Now this teammate I'm gana call "Billy". Now billys in a cruiser. Looks like a Fleet Assault cruiser, And hes getting burned alive by the plasma burns. So I go over and decide to save him for a change. Now Fred, Probably thinking he is hot stuff by now learns what a handfull of cubes and Spheres can do.
Fred dies. Really..really fast.
Fred did not like this, At all.
"Stop being a **** Healer and heal me!" - Fred.
Skipping to the end of this round. Fred parsed the logs, And my little Varanus, Using only 3 photons and 3 turrets did a whopping 5k DPS, Fred did closer to 20K Dps. But lets look at this.
Fred was shooting my targets with sensors on them. *30% ish bonus for his dps. and everyone else.
Bonus DPS for fred alone. 5-6K DPS. Assuming he was shooting mostly the targets i was locked on.
Bonus from other teammates. probably 1-3k each, as they were in the middle. so rounding down. 5+1+1+1+5 =13k dps, from my end, helping the team. And I only had 3 photons, and small puttergun turrets.
Again that was rounded down for safety as i'm not the best at math.
Average round time, 15-18min.
If I never healed fred? Re spawn time.. About 3-4 Possibly waiting to re spawn from all his "potential deaths" That would have cut his dps, By alot!
So I'm a Tactical Klingon that flys a Fleet Varanus Support ship. And I'm proud of it!
Fred, Is a mad Scimitar who only wants to be the best and insult others.
Billy Is a Happy Cruiser who didn't have to repair after the round!
The other guys Also were happy for the heals inbetween!
Just thought this would be a fun experience to share!
PS: Where are all the other Varanus ships?
No one flys em!
About 1 Elite STF later and a small intermission backed by the jeopardy theme, And I'm already flying the Fleet version of it.
I have to say its one of the most fun things I have on my klingon. I got these awesome healing drone platforms that are like having hazard emitters on the fly, endlessly. I got this sensor ability for the ship that can increase everyone damage on target by 30% [ish] Combined with a nice fire on my mark from my captain and it seems to help the team melt things so fast.
So heres a little story from an STF- HIVE ELITE, Were gana call this scimitar "Fred" And Fred is the happy go lucky, BFAW Scimitar that loves to parse logs. Show off his mighty DPS and brag. Now Fred, the adorable rapscallion doesn't seem to have much tank. In fact I had to zip on over, Heal him [Four times] And save him from the brink of death. With Hazard emitters, Transfer shields, Engineer team. Tac team.. And so-on so fourth.
Fred does not like this. And as close as I can quote without being pulled aside for badn language I think he said. "Get out of that **** Ship and do more DPS. " followed by me repairing him again. And with him following up with. "Worthless Tac" - Fred Did not like me saving him. So Onto the next teammate... As Fred learns what 4 tac cubes can do. And some spheres...
So I head over to another teammate who is 'frankly', Getting chewed up like a lawn flamingo fighting a weed whacker. Now this teammate I'm gana call "Billy". Now billys in a cruiser. Looks like a Fleet Assault cruiser, And hes getting burned alive by the plasma burns. So I go over and decide to save him for a change. Now Fred, Probably thinking he is hot stuff by now learns what a handfull of cubes and Spheres can do.
Fred dies. Really..really fast.
Fred did not like this, At all.
"Stop being a **** Healer and heal me!" - Fred.
Skipping to the end of this round. Fred parsed the logs, And my little Varanus, Using only 3 photons and 3 turrets did a whopping 5k DPS, Fred did closer to 20K Dps. But lets look at this.
Fred was shooting my targets with sensors on them. *30% ish bonus for his dps. and everyone else.
Bonus DPS for fred alone. 5-6K DPS. Assuming he was shooting mostly the targets i was locked on.
Bonus from other teammates. probably 1-3k each, as they were in the middle. so rounding down. 5+1+1+1+5 =13k dps, from my end, helping the team. And I only had 3 photons, and small puttergun turrets.
Again that was rounded down for safety as i'm not the best at math.
Average round time, 15-18min.
If I never healed fred? Re spawn time.. About 3-4 Possibly waiting to re spawn from all his "potential deaths" That would have cut his dps, By alot!
So I'm a Tactical Klingon that flys a Fleet Varanus Support ship. And I'm proud of it!
Fred, Is a mad Scimitar who only wants to be the best and insult others.
Billy Is a Happy Cruiser who didn't have to repair after the round!
The other guys Also were happy for the heals inbetween!
Just thought this would be a fun experience to share!
PS: Where are all the other Varanus ships?
No one flys em! Post edited by ciranfera on
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Tac fed with a support cruiser.
You will run into the 'holier than thou; I know better' types off and on, and; you did what I normally do, quit helping them and help someone who is trying instead of being an TRIBBLE.
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If someone has a problem with what I fly, they can go take a flying leap at a rolling donut.
I got a standard Varanus on my KDF as well, but I'm more of a Raptor/Cruiser captain over there, with some BoP and Carrier experience. My Varanus is geared up and ready to go whenever I feel like it.
I have mine set up with the Mk XII Jem Hadar space set, Polarons & quantum torps. I also have the barrier field console and the nadeon detonator. Tossed in the Dyson warp core because I had an extra in the bank. My KDF toon is a Gorn tac, so it seemed kinda natural to have one around to fly. Pulls more than my weight in non-elite content, but haven't gone into anything elite with it.
:cool:
Science ships are, in my view, among the most fun things to fly in STO.
And the Varanus is a fine science ship.
Actually, your topic title just says the name of a ship. It mentions nothing else.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
The Temporal Science Vessels and Palisade, both counted among the best Science Vessels in the game, can be quite costly, esp. the former. But I've had the Veranus from a purchase long ago and all my KDF toons can use it.
Anyways, the Veranus is a science heavy ship, not a hybrid with LtCdr ENG or TAC thrown in. Just pure SCI. If you know how to make an Intrepid shine, then the Veranus is easy to work with.
The Repair Platform is a rather nice team support console. Drop 1 and whoever is nearby gets 2 hull repair drones. Over time, they can get another pair. The cooldown is rather short, so you can sprinkle the battlefield with several Repair Platforms that you know have high player traffic, so friendly ships passing by get these drones to follow them. This is a very handy team ability since it helps to top off everyone's hullpoints and lessen the need of hull repairs and save them for when it really matters.
The Veranus is a good support ship and very underrated. It's not a ship that's confused with its identiy *COUGH* Dauntless *COUGH*. It's a traditional, science heavy ship that is very good in team repairs, despite having a very mediocre ENG layout.
i would love to see cryptic release a vesta analogue for the KDF.
They'll get us a "KDF Vesta" after they get us a Fleet Guramba
i know that
It is, I thought DR was bringing in content that needs tanks and controllers? Like that Borg Disconnected one - one tank to take the aggro while the other ship scans ships sorta thing?
For now at least, the creep will quickly catch up and then things come full circle.
Anyway, back on track.
I like the Varanus. I was happy to see a bonus EXP event not long after I grabbed it so I took advantage and created/levelled a new KDF science toon specifically for this ship.
The build is quite general and not as focused as I would like, but it's good fun all the same.
P.S. I use a Varanus on the KDF side. A few of them, actually.
R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy
First mirror ship I ever picked up. Got it on the exchange for a bargain price. Very high on the fun scale. Sad to see these ships aren't going to be qualified for upgrades.
Kinda hoping they come up with an upgraded Gorn science ship along the Vesta's design concepts(including the aux weapons, hopefully in beam format this time
Your story made me chuckle, I'm not even really that bothered by numbers but I have had similar experiences in what I consider to be the federation fleet variant of last years free giveaway science vessel.
Honestly I fly a **** ton of different ships and that one is one of the few that makes me happy, not being worried about pure dps pounding is really liberating especially if you have teammates who accept your role within whatever mission it is, even if I do have to suffer one or two asshats along the way.
I also have the Varanus on a tactical KDF toon, (it was free so why not if I have free ship slots), I'm going to give it a shot just for fun
"If this will be our end, then I will have them make SUCH an end as to be worthy of rememberance! Out of torpedos you say?! Find me the ferengi!".