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OK - I have 4 device slots (wish I had more). I seem to do best with a hypo and shield charge, and ya gotta have a tribble (don't you?). So that only leaves 1 slot. If you are fighting Borg, that is taken by a remodulator. Do people use the power cells? I don't notice "weapons malfunction" much (PVP only?). I like to use my final spot for Ophidian Cane or Shard of Possibilities. Is there some better configuration? You don't get to swap them around much when you are being hounded by baddies, so I need a good set-up I can just leave there.
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Kyle
Large Hypo
Shard of possibities
Fleet/Cryo tribble
Large weapon battery/Horta ally <- handy for arggoing/hurting borg on Infect Ground Elite
Before i have my Omega/Maco/Honor Guard
Reodulator
Cryo/Fleet Tribble
Large Hypo
Shard of possibilities
Large Hypo
Shard of possibities / Gambling Device ()
Ophidian Cane
Immunosupport Nanite Injector or Large Power Cell
or
Eisilum Crystal Horta (for fun)
Being an Engineer, I'm also well equipped with seeker and service drones, turrets and mortars. With doffs to get extra ones of each of them in. While everyone is busy shooting at all this random TRIBBLE I've spawned, my boffs go in and shoot them to pieces.
Obviously this is only pve. I don't pvp.
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One thing I LOVE, are Personal Combat Modules, they are awesome pieces of work. And Team Combat Modules, can save some serious skin if the person using them is good with them (goes double for a science specced into Medic). The health and shields booster, for yourself or your whole team can act as a 'full cure' across the board.
Large Hypos
Large Energy Cells
Large Shield Pack
Combat Pet.
If I've got MACO kit on I swap out the shield pack for something like the cane, orb fragment or the like.
2. gambling device --> if you don't have omega or maco set you can swap for a remodulator after you use it and keep the buff
3.ophidian cane
4.shard of possibilities
the stats of the gambling device totally destroy any tribble buffs.
I'm carrying Shard of Possibilities, Remodulator(if needed, otherwise Triolic Pattern Enhancer), Fleet Tribble, and Ophidian Cane.
On my 3rd character I use Remodulator, Fleet Tribble, and two placeholder slots.
Edit: To explain the first sentence: I rarely remember to use any of it outside the Remodulator.
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
God, lvl 60 CW. 17k.
1. Combat Horta (Horty the Horta)
2. Shard of Possibilities
3. Triolic Pattern Enhancer, mainly for...
4. Ophidian Cane
Luckily, I don't have to use a Remodulator, as I have the TR-116A Sniper Rifle, which eliminates the need for one.
Large Hypo or Cordrazine | Large Shield | Immunos | (optional)
(optional) can be anything... since you CAN swap them around in combat. One choice the others did not mention was the Borg Static Grenades. More useful for Scis/Engrs than for Tacts who might prefer a Large Power cell instead.
You can skip the Immunos if your DPS is so low that you don't end up tanking. 'circle strafing' doesn't work on NPCs so sitting still might help your team mates score more critical hits. Just try to remember what standing/crouching does for your range dodge% versus melee dodge %.
You need the complete, 3-piece set for Integral Remodulation
Kyle
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What does a "placeholder spot" do, and what is it? Is that just where you store devices for some other character?
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I simply stuff random junk in it, never to use it again... or stuff to RP with, such as the Portable Shroud Generator I recently ran out of.
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
* Large Hypos for any character.
* Large Shield Charge for my Tac. Eng doesn't need it - between his captain repair ability and the MACO repair system.
* The spare device slot is for various things - the Tac will probably get a second Horta in there sometimes (actually the same in-character Horta as the first, even though it'll probably be the Acid Horta or Standard Horta - like I said, a long story!), or a Tribble or another special device. Nanoprobe cure hypos are a must in any Borg fight. Remodulator is generally unneeded as both use the MACO set remodulator. My engineer has more room and two slots, one usually a Horta and another a Tribble, or I just use leave the nanoprobe cure in there.
No remodulator, as I use the built-in one for the MACO set for both my tac and engineer.
I REALLY wish I had a fifth slot, because I'd love to carry the Shard or a Tribble regularly on my Tac.
One thing I never do use, however, are the power cells - I sometimes give them to my tactical BOffs, but I've never found a reason to use them myself - or had room that didn't have better things I could stick in it.
Triolic Pattern Enhancer. Before everyone rushes out and uses this in STFs, DO know all there is to know about it. In particular the small chance that its activation will summon a 'creature'. Just when you thought you had one boss to fight... now there's two. In IGE for example, a good place to activate this is on a pipe. So if an 'umbral' appears... it will usually fall into the plasma. Aside from this, the posts seem to generate a lot of aggro from the boss borgs and can be used to draw ol Becky within shotgun range.
PS It only costs 60 EDCs to get a Mk X 'STF' set for the instant remodulation feature.
PSS You CAN equip BOffs with the STF sets so they get the instant remodulation feature... and the set team bonus effects as well.
I wouldn't skip on the nanoprobes no matter what, really. The Borg assimilation attack has a really long range (it's more like a hose than a set of needles as in First Contact), I've had them try to get me from at least 5 meters away. I've seen tons of people who like to live dangerously in Defera glowing utterly green from the nanoprobes though - wonder how they avoid being assimilated. I hardly ever see it actually happen, though if I don't have the anti-nanos it almost always happens to me.
However, that's news to me about the devices. You can swap around device slot contents even when you're in Red Alert mode?
Can you keybind this?
I equip a remodulator and a stack of large hypos. Everything else is pretty much a waste of space. At low levels a tribble is nice to heal between fights (until you get a medic with decent abilities). Although it sucks to constantly remodulate - I found that the MACO ground gear is inferior compared to the much better gear you can find elsewhere in-game.
Energy cells don't seem to do much.
Flashlights are needed on certain maps, but are annoying (every time you get knocked down they shut off)
Shield batteries are completely useless - shields are so easy to rip through (and a lot of stuff completely ignores shields anyway), that you're better off clicking to fire your weapon than trying to regenerate your shields that will just drop again by the same amount with the next hit.
Tribbles - those that give combat bonuses can be ok.
Healing tribbles, food items = complete waste of space after 10th level.
Jem'hadar weapon modules = useless
As for pets... also useless. They're there for show, and nothing else.
Instead of wasting time clicking on a device, your time is far better spent firing an extra shot from your weapon.
Ugh... has it not occured to you that the Borg draw 30 times as much fire onto themselves than you possibly can? Just drop them regularly and try to steer clear of it so the bosses (Tosk excluded) don't hit you with that chain thing.
Defera: This is a cakewalk! Just spam whatever heals you have - the nanites eventually cease to function and wait for you to be killed by the Borg drones that injected them.
Just stay alive long enough to live through the initial DoT, and you should be fine. (Warning: Do not attempt this in the presence of tactical drones of any level - hide behind a Cover Shield or something, but don't try this against Armek or Manus.)
No idea about the devices, wouldn't know if you can keybind them.
I find that devices, while they MAY be handy sometimes, are both too hard to remember to use and too tedious to resupply. I quite literally can't be bothered to go need/greed on the cordrazines and immunosupports or to go to the nearest station to resupply. Fortunately I understand how classes work well enough to avoid taking fire on the softer Engineer and Tactical, and tank stuff up with my Science character. True, the hypos would help, but... I just can't bother with it, and the shard is a much more useful object for my playstyle on ANY character (except engineer, don't have any FE stuff there).
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
I generally equip a tribble (crossfire) for convience, I could manually use it each time but I'm not risking valuable food in inventory for that, 3.3% damage is decent.
Hypos, if you don't carry and use one you are a liability to your team (unless a sci that can heal of course, but they need the shield bat then)
Shield batteries.. meh, shields last a few seconds in fleet actions, never more than a shot against the borg so this is pretty useless. Weapon batteries don't do enough to save your skin.
Shards and Pets are good in fleet actions, crazy dangerous on borg bosses. Tacticals can call guards, pets, and shards to create an army.
Triolic Pattern Enhance I hate, I can't see anything through it. It can spawn a helper AI or an enemy AI. The vision thing makes it useless and super dangerous on borg bosses.
If you don't have nanoprobes don't fight the borg. You need them, don't tell me your "tricks" because you are either so bad you don't draw agro or you have to be brought up often.
Ophidian Cane is pretty awesome, I rarely use it because I forget. The hold and heal can save you .
I use Crossfire Tribble/Shards of Possibility/Ophidian Cane or Nanoprobes/Hypo
I never see my Boffs use the instant remodulator
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Well, if you're careful enough to avoid the more damaging blows, you should be able to live with 1 heal only.
I have sub-optimal performance on my sci (I admit, it could be optimal if I had the top gear, a bit more experience, and used consumables) with the mark 11 MACO set, do just fine.
I have moderate performance on my tactical KDF-side, using a variety of scraps and bits I've collected throughout the game, including a very nice fleet AP pulsewave capable of shredding every Borg drone in the IGE boss room (seriously, KB3 on a pulsewave is optimal for that place) and the FE rewards. I use Operative Mk X (STF, ofc), and typically let my allies tank by hiding behind whatever's close when I think a tactical is about to fire (not as bad as you may believe, as it only takes 1-2 seconds and can save your life no matter how many heals you have, and it's definitely better to let a more qualified tank tank through it), and specialize in assassinating the IGE worker drones with a quick, high-damage alpha strike (let's just say I typically hit 700-1200 damage per drone with the decloaking shot... worst-case scenario they live to see a second shot), which I do not recommend after the third drone for risk issues (my performance may be ok, but it is most certainly not good enough to finish them off quickly enough after prisoner 3)
And I probably have acceptable performance on my eng, again I'd say I do IGE boss room best (KB3 pulsewave, telekinesis, melee attack. just BEAUTIFUL) with a not-very-tanky gearset, as I typically use transphasic bombs and chroniton mines to deal some dangerous damage to my opposition.
In all three characters, my death rate is quite acceptable, and no team I can remember (which does not mean there isn't a chance of such a team existing) has ever complained and I get a pretty fine score on optionals.
Also, you don't need the immunosupports to live through an STF. I certainly don't. I said why in the above post - just drop whatever heal you can onto yourself and pray the Borg don't keep hurting you.
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
-large hypo
-large shield charge
-tribble (ric)
-shard of possibilities