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syfyguy64
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I'm a commander and my cruiser I believe is good at stopping in front of a target and do what klingons do to my ship. I use dual beams and photons for fore weapons, 1 photon, 1 dual, and 1 normal beam, and rear has 1 beam, a plasma turret, and a photon. I have resiliant shields, and I try to use the best shield and hull buff's I have in combat (Rarely needed) but I can't decide if I should be a weapons platform of a warship. Really, I'd like to know if I should boost shields or weapon power. Any opinions on this?
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#2: as you can already guess from the above, weapon power is terribly important if you want to be useful on a Cruiser. Set it to max, and stack what boni you can get away with: Emergency Power to Weapons is key, and later on you'll get access to the M.A.C.O. shield from STFs. Some endgame Cruisers also come with either Saucer Seperation (Galaxy Refit, Odyssey) and/or higher weapon power bonus (Regent, Odyssey, Galor, D'Kora).
#3: shield power is the second most important - set it to 50 base, and make sure you cycle Emergency Power to Shields, at as high a rank as you can. Two copies.
Btw: cycling = run two copies of the ability, so that one is active while the other is on cooldown.
50 base power + EPtS + what you can get as a bonus from skills is enough to keep your shields up and at a high resistance. Some Cruisers allow for running two copies of Transfer Shield Strenght in addition to that, making them ... pretty tough.
#4: if you don't like broadsiding with beams, you can try Single Cannons front, Turrets back - this gives you a 180? frontal fire arc where all your weapons can hit, instead of the side arcs. Only recommended on Cruisers that can actually turn fast enough, though.
#5: in any case: stick to ONE energy type. Use tactical consoles that boost that type of energy. All your tactical console slots should be filled with those, and nothing else. Don't mix.
#6: the only real good resilient shield is the M.A.C.O. one from STFs. Until you can get that, Covariant Shields are usually a better choice, giving you enough shield capacity to get out of trouble if you manage to find some. On a cruiser, you have enough ways to keep your hull healed up that some bleedthrough is rather uninteresting.
Best heals: Auxilary to Structural Integrity Field (Aux2SIF) and Hazard Emitters (HE). Aux2SIF can be cycled with a single copy and should always be running (for the hull resist effect), and at least one of your Sci BOff slots should be HE.
... yeah, that's basically the guide to cruisers.
My guess is you don't have a lot of power
Make sure your running the first tab on your
Power control center that's weapons as primary
Run 4 beam arrays and 2 photons that will give
Plenty of power for broadsides with the beams and
The torpedoes will help Dps against unshielded targets
Running 2 torps a dual beam foward and 3 turrets
Aft can work but I didn't like that setup
Good luck
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