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capt001
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I seem to have a really crappy ship or crappy abilites on my ship. I have a Stargazer class and for some reason it takes like seconds for me to get destroyed. Those plasma torpedos suck. I would like to know what are some abilitys that can really defend against those or how I can not get easily defeated by the Romulans?
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Anyway, biggest thing to know fighting Romulans is distance. Tractor beams have a range of 5 km, photonic shockwave has a range of 3 km. Not getting hit with either of these is halfway towards not getting killed by the torpedoes. If you do get caught in a tractor beam, Polarize Hull will break it.
Next, whenever possible, head towards their aft. If approaching from the side, angle behind them. If forced to engage head on, hit evasive maneuvers and pass them. If you're not in the front 90 degrees, you won't have to worry about Viral Matrix or the torpedoes. Engineering Team will clear viral matrix if you get hit.
Third, dealing with the heavy torpedoes when they're fired: Turn and run, use an AOE power like torpedo spread or fire at will to shoot down the torpedoes. They're hard to hit, but don't give up, even if they're a few inches away from hitting when you finally get them, they still do zero damage.
Last, surviving if it comes to it: Tactical team will redirect power into the shield facings taking damage, and is one of the bread-and-butter powers every build has. Having two copies of Emergency Power to Shields will let you keep your shields hardened constantly, substantially reducing incoming fire. One torpedo shouldn't be too bad if you can stop two.
The last ditch, if you're about to take all three hits in a heavy salvo because other powers are on cooldown, Polarize Hull, Brace for Impact, Auxiliary to Structural Integrity, Emergency Power to Shields, and Tactical team can give you a fighting chance to survive it, and Hazard Emitters will put out the hull fires and start healing you back up afterwards.
Weapons: 6 beam arrays. Damage type unimportant. (plasma is a good choice for pve as its usually cheaper then other types on the exchange and the plasma fire de buff hits hull regardless of the status of the targets shields.)
Consoles: 1 tactical console that enhances your chosen damage type. 1 RCS accelerator, 2 plasma distribution manifolds. 1 field generator or shield emitter amplifier
Shield: Resilient or covariant. (I favour resilient myself, as I get plenty of shield regeneration from abilities, but some like covariant)
Deflector: Positron (this kind gives good defensive skill bonusses, other kinds of deflectors are better suited to using specific abilities)
Engines: Regular impulse engines (combat impulse engines are a waist as with player skills your engine power setting should be approaching medium levels even when you have it set low.)
Bridge officer abilities:
Lieutenant Tactical: Tactical team 1, Tactical team 2. (keeping this buff running all the time is invaluable, you can use doffs to shorten the re-use time and swap the second tac team for another ability but this isn't necessary)
Lieutenant Science: Polarize hull 1, Hazard emitters 2. (hazard emitters is a good hull heal and polarize hull is a good resistance boost, having these abilities also allows you to ignore tractor beams and put out plasma fire)
Lieutenant Commander Engineering: Emergency power to shields 1, Emergency power to shields 2, Auxiliary to structural integrity field 2. (A dead player ship contributes no damage, auxiliary to structural gives a good hull damage resistance as well as being relatively quick to re-use and not sharing a cool down with tactical team making it a better hull heal then engineering team. Emergency power to shields isn't the best shield heal, but it has a relatively short re-use if you stack it and gives a good shield damage resistance.)
Ensign Engineering: Emergency Power to weapons/engines 1(depending on player preference, Emergency power to engines helps you to close or retreat and is arguably more useful to a good player, but emergency power to weapons gives you a strait up damage bonus for a more hands off play style.).
Polarize Hull Plating is not a device is a Science Bridge Officer ability. You can train Bridge Officers in I and II version of the skill at the Bridge Officer Trainer store in Earth Space Dock. It's located in Blue sickbay area next to the Personnel Officer.
Just be warned, you can't get back spent Expertise points spent on abilities tha tyou replace.
It IS harder The D'deridex learned some new tricks since the start of the game.
The Tractor beam is easy. Tractor beams (excluding Tractor Beam Turrets in The Vault) have a max range of 5km. Stay out of that range, and you have no worries. However, failing that, the Science BOff Power "Polarize Hull" is designed to resist Tractor beams. This power is only an issue when it uses its other two abilities alongside it.
The Torpedo Spread fires a lot of normal torpedoes. They explode in an AoE around you. If your shields are up on the facing the Big D is toward, it's no worries. Torpedo spreads are TRIBBLE against shields. Hull is another matter. So, try to have your shields up when they hit. Failing that, Brace For Impact and hull heals after the fact should mitigate most of the damage (if they're Plasma torpedoes, the Science BOff skill "Hazard Emitters" will clear the DoT - It's also a decent hull heal-over-time).
The third and by FAR the most deadly is its Heavy Plasma Torpedo Volley. The Big D will fire three Heavy Plasma Torpedoes, similar to what Torpedo High Yield does to normal torpedoes. Each hits for a solid 10-15 thousand damage, and almost always apply the hull DoT. However, this is also the easiest to counter. When these fire, activate the Tactical BOff ability "Beam: Fire at Will." This is Torpedo Spread for beams. It will fire your beams faster, but will also target other enemies within range. Since Heavy Plasma Torpedoes can be shot at and destroyed before impact, using this ability will cause your beams to target the torpedoes automatically. The destruction-before-impact rate (for me) is about 90%. Failing that, take the tips for the Torpedo Spread and pray you live to heal yourself.
Make sure you fill up the points in each boffs skill-tab as well. unless you haven't.