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synthiasuicide
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Refound love for the Rom Recon DSD. I was gone on a year break from the game. When I came back the DSD just came out. Played the mission it was featured in, Step between stars? anyways. Bought it after leveling a Rom. Loved it.
Got again caught up in the DPS race, Switching to other ships. With T5U and having already upgraded 3 Rom ships for my only rom toon, I spent the EC to T5U it selling cats and such, my free lobi helped. lol.
Still puts out respectable damage, Parsed 12k first run, DHC build. And alot of fun. Grav wells are always fun on a Escort, so is the Grav torp. The Proton stabilizer, etc. I know theres better ships for straight DPS. And better escorts, the Fleet Arkif I have. But, I miss the flash of Grav wells mixed in with Grav Torps. So much fun to revisit what brought me back into the game was this ship. And it looks amazing with the Nukara shield. Had to make a sig outta it. lol. (The DSD and my other fav ship the Atrox)
The new stuff, and that crafting glitch helps, Showed me I finally need to craft I want them traits I been using. Particle manipulation, Plus the DSD new passive +15% to Exotic, etc.
Only thing is on eveyr single ship I've upgraded, every one that has a +10 Hull or +10 Shield never changes the ships stats AT ALL. every other passive works like it says so far.
That and for some reason on CCA my jem Dread has 100k hull. And only on that map.
Anyway's. The DSD rom model was always great but that white design sucked. Love the detail in the model. Hated the Arkif model. I dunno, so plain for some reason.
Anyone else still like and run this ship? I figured I gotta grind/level might as well make it as much fun as possible. lol
Got again caught up in the DPS race, Switching to other ships. With T5U and having already upgraded 3 Rom ships for my only rom toon, I spent the EC to T5U it selling cats and such, my free lobi helped. lol.
Still puts out respectable damage, Parsed 12k first run, DHC build. And alot of fun. Grav wells are always fun on a Escort, so is the Grav torp. The Proton stabilizer, etc. I know theres better ships for straight DPS. And better escorts, the Fleet Arkif I have. But, I miss the flash of Grav wells mixed in with Grav Torps. So much fun to revisit what brought me back into the game was this ship. And it looks amazing with the Nukara shield. Had to make a sig outta it. lol. (The DSD and my other fav ship the Atrox)
The new stuff, and that crafting glitch helps, Showed me I finally need to craft I want them traits I been using. Particle manipulation, Plus the DSD new passive +15% to Exotic, etc.
Only thing is on eveyr single ship I've upgraded, every one that has a +10 Hull or +10 Shield never changes the ships stats AT ALL. every other passive works like it says so far.
That and for some reason on CCA my jem Dread has 100k hull. And only on that map.
Anyway's. The DSD rom model was always great but that white design sucked. Love the detail in the model. Hated the Arkif model. I dunno, so plain for some reason.
Anyone else still like and run this ship? I figured I gotta grind/level might as well make it as much fun as possible. lol
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Next patch you'll likely have more options than just the white, including faction skins. Already live on Tribble test server according to the patch notes.
Mine stays in drydock even though I actually like the white skin, too compromised on the design, IMO. I usually just ran it in escort-y mode, which meant Lt. Comm Sci most of the time, meaning most Rom ships coudl fill it's role anyway, without having to deal with the odd energy type of the bolted-on DHCs. Flipping back and forth between modes made my BOff ability tray constantly twitch trying to put back/take off the different abilty on the Tac and Sci.
Science R&D skill 15 trait gives you 25% crit chance on exotic damage per 100 skill in particle gens.
I boosted my particle gen skill past 300 + my normal crit rate as a rom i had near 100% crit chance on exotic damage.
Grav torp with Torp spread 3 and grav well 3 were absolutely brutal.
The proton cannon seems to scale really well while leveling and even unbuffed it does nice damage. (post DR)
I love that the tac version gets an extra sci console
I'm excited that they're adding more skins to the DSDs. Right now I would argue the DSD is the best faction science ship for the KDF and Roms. For my feds I'm still sticking with the vesta.
yeah got mine to +40 crit chance on exotic. Still ned a TS3 boff again. Lost that awhile back for another build. And annoying to glitch train a Rom Boff right now. sigh.
@ursusmorologus, Why you think DR made the DSD useless? lol
Play the facility 4028 mission. one of the rewards is a jem'hadar tactical boff with torpedo spread 3. use him to train your other boffs.
If you mean that each gets +1 console for it's 'role', yes. The Tac version, Harpia Class, is 4 Tac, 2 Eng, 5 Sci at Tier 5. The C-Store verison has a thicker hull and shields than the Event version, in addition to the Lt. Sci BOff becoming a Universal. The Tier 5-U versions get another +1 console that complements the layout-- instead of directly enhancing the focus-- like the Harpia getting a 5th Sci console.
You must have misunderstood the question. I know that the C-Store versions are better than the Event version. I am asking how the T5-U versions of those ships rate. Particularly the console layouts of each of them.