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whistlerdavidwhistlerdavid Member Posts: 420 Arc User
my pet on my Odyssey was basically a joke dies in a few hits.just got the path finder and wow that pet blew me away its a tank i get hurt more then it does lol.did they just mess up on the odysseys pet hp? or was it meant to be that squishy? i have to say after playing with the pathfinder its making me think about getting a ship with a hanger bay.anyone know if the ships in hanger bays are squishy or are they has tanky has the pathfinders pet?
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  • daedalus304daedalus304 Member Posts: 1,049 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    with the exception of frigate pets (some ships have them) most of the hangar pets are extremely squishy.
  • nategamersnategamers Member Posts: 76 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    my pet on my Odyssey was basically a joke dies in a few hits.just got the path finder and wow that pet blew me away its a tank i get hurt more then it does lol.did they just mess up on the odysseys pet hp? or was it meant to be that squishy? i have to say after playing with the pathfinder its making me think about getting a ship with a hanger bay.anyone know if the ships in hanger bays are squishy or are they has tanky has the pathfinders pet?

    Elite tholian widows got some teeth on them. Not tanky but do well
  • norobladnoroblad Member Posts: 2,624 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    my pet on my Odyssey was basically a joke dies in a few hits.just got the path finder and wow that pet blew me away its a tank i get hurt more then it does lol.did they just mess up on the odysseys pet hp? or was it meant to be that squishy? i have to say after playing with the pathfinder its making me think about getting a ship with a hanger bay.anyone know if the ships in hanger bays are squishy or are they has tanky has the pathfinders pet?

    ships that have a hangar are pretty weak unless its a real carrier with a frigate pet. fighters just die too much to be very useful to me ... nearly every kill you make will take out your fighters with the warp core breach. The frigates, for whatever reason, usually live through an entire STF without needing to be replaced.

    That leaves the fed kind of in a tight spot for pets... either you use a box ship, or you are stuck with weak pets.
  • makburemakbure Member Posts: 422 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    All the fighters are terrible. They all need to be rebalanced so they don't die right away, so they don't die right out of the hanger on launch, so they hold rank longer, like much longer.

    The best overall fighter with respect to damage and survivability is the Elite Scorpion, currently. It makes a nice bomber and that has some good dps.
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  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,921 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    noroblad wrote: »
    ships that have a hangar are pretty weak unless its a real carrier with a frigate pet. fighters just die too much to be very useful to me ... nearly every kill you make will take out your fighters with the warp core breach. The frigates, for whatever reason, usually live through an entire STF without needing to be replaced.

    That leaves the fed kind of in a tight spot for pets... either you use a box ship, or you are stuck with weak pets.

    I wouldn't go that far about Frigates...yes their survivability is very much superior to Fighters but I wouldn't go as far as call them immortal which you're practically calling them though.
  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,921 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    makbure wrote: »
    All the fighters are terrible. They all need to be rebalanced so they don't die right away, so they don't die right out of the hanger on launch, so they hold rank longer, like much longer.

    The best overall fighter with respect to damage and survivability is the Elite Scorpion, currently. It makes a nice bomber and that has some good dps.

    Yeah...they should be more like NPC fighters...they seem to get a lot more evasion compared to player carrier fighters.
  • kasrken002kasrken002 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    noroblad wrote: »
    ships that have a hangar are pretty weak unless its a real carrier with a frigate pet. fighters just die too much to be very useful to me ... nearly every kill you make will take out your fighters with the warp core breach. The frigates, for whatever reason, usually live through an entire STF without needing to be replaced.

    That leaves the fed kind of in a tight spot for pets... either you use a box ship, or you are stuck with weak pets.


    You would think the almighty guys at STO would give FED captains a frigate we could use with a normal hanger ship(non carrier), Would really appreciate something that could take a hit and deal moderate damage.They could name almost any price and i would pay it.
  • lindalefflindaleff Member Posts: 3,734 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Personally, I love my Elite Swarmers. Yes, they die if you even sneeze at them. But they do have Beam Overload, so they are often enough damage, that I don't need to fire a shot. I can let my Swarmers do all the work for me. Mechanical slavery for the win!
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  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    lindaleff wrote: »
    Personally, I love my Elite Swarmers. Yes, they die if you even sneeze at them. But they do have Beam Overload, so they are often enough damage, that I don't need to fire a shot. I can let my Swarmers do all the work for me. Mechanical slavery for the win!

    I use Elite Swarmers as well, and I'm pretty happy with them.

    They are a little squishy, but they seem more durable then Scorpions and also seem to deliver better overall damage.

    Overall, pets in general need a massive boost. They were recently nerfed into oblivion by the geniuses over at Cryptic and as usual, they took the nerf way too far.

    Pets are alright on something like the Scimitar or one of the Command ships where you don't sacrifice a weapon hard point in favor of a hangar. Hangar ships that get only 6 weapon slots in favor of hangers really got the shaft.
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