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federation engineer, tank or what?

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited March 2010 in The Academy
:mad: I didn't understood which is the role of the federation engineer flying with a cruiser...I am RA 5 and I tryied almost every skill combination, but there's not a way to tank...not against the npc borgs and surely not in pvp, surely not after the last patch that increased attack power and damage of the escorts.
I'm becoming mad on finding the way to tank with a cruiser...I tryied to rise star cruiser captain skill, I tryied to rise shield skills star ship hull repair skills it doesn't matter, every thing I do the cruiser does not tank...a scientific captain is actually more resistent then an engineer in combat...is this possible? :(
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    The other part of tanking is not just being able to take the beating, but being able to do something about that beating..

    I've been tanking with my Eng no prob for sometime, and even after all the recent changes. While I rarely lose all of my shields.. once I start to I make sure to use my engineering team 3, aux to structure, and other ablities to keep my self alive.. sometimes that means rather than sitting in the middle taking it you simply charge through to draw the agro while the tacs swoop in and pick a bit of the low hanging fruit off.

    As an side point it usually takes 3-5 ships pvp and 2-4 cubes to be able to seriously cause me any problems.. and that's with very little rare gear yet.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Get Reverse Shield Polarity. It is pretty much a 'must have' for tanking.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    i changed some skills :) and now is very very much better...at least against the borg, pvp is another chapter as you know :P
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