The other two ships have cloaks that are part of the bundle release (where the Defiant/Valiant was released), but for some reason this version of the Defiant has no cloaking device. Does that seem strange to anyone else? I'd think the most advanced version would have one.
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Long story short: the Defiant (or Valiant actually) can use the Fed cloak console. But like the Defiant on DS9 it doesn't have a cloak (no, the ship did not have a cloak itself, it got one for lease from the Roms). Integrated Fed cloak so far only happens on Intel ships.
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l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
That's because that person believes the Pilot Escorts are superior because they have the specific Pilot Maneuver abilities and feels that all Escorts from now on should be just like them. The T6 Defiant is no different than, say, the T6 Galaxy. Its not specialization ship, so she wouldn't get the mechanics like the specalized Pilot/Intel/Command ships. She's got seating for Hybrid BOffs, which I personally believe works just fine for the non specalized ships.
IMO, the Pilot Escorts are now the golden master race of Escorts that beat out every other Escor tso far in the game, and wil ldo so in the forseeable future. 5/2 weapon layout and Pilot maneuvers are just too awesome as a combination.
Pilot really is the only ship class that got such an awesome Speicalization feature. Inspiration and Gather Intel are in comparison boring, lame, and have hardly a game effect that matters compared to the always present, damage immunity granting and incredibly fun pilot maneuvers.
But... The Defiant Tier 6 upgrade is exactly in line with all the other Tier 6 Escort Retrofits, and even the other Tier 6 Escorts (like the Phantom). The Pilot ships are the outliers here, not the Defiant.
And despite al that uberness and coolness the Pilot ships bring - the Defiant is a deadly ship and does't have to hide behind the Advanced Escort, the Phantom or the Alita. It competes very well with them.
The Refit gives you the Quad Cannons. This way you get a Defiant based ship. Others will debate if they are useful. To me they do a very nice job, and has nice effects when firing. I have no issues using them. Then again they are the same ones saying a Romulan D'Dedriex can't use cannons either. But I use mine all the time.
Also with the purchase of the Refit, you get the Sao Paulo variation.
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That is because the player can't handle a Defiant. The Defiant has been my main escort on the Fed side. That ship can really do some damage.
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Gather Intel is very good for PvP
Like very very good.
In PvE, yeah not so much.
Really only shines when your enemy can withstand a lot of firepower.
Like in PvE, a Tac cube or something (but even those now days are popping in very short order - depending on your team)
Soon to be a 3 piece set? I miss something?
I'd be willing to overlook it if they removed the ambush mechanic from cloaking devices.
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l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Exactly, and the fact we're not flying around with 'Phase Cloaking' tech on our fed ships would seem to prove that the Federation is still 'bound' by the 'Treaty of Algeron'.
no, they just missed the boldly part of boldly going.
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"Soon to be a 3 piece set? I miss something?"
Yes. A dev has said on twitter, then was quoted on reddit, that an update was forthcoming to the Defiant set, no other details. But this was surrounding "observations" that the quad cannons were neglected and the reduction of cloak cooldown made was useless on regular cloak and was superfluous.
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