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Ship Ideas for a KDF Sci Captain Please!
wikkedjr
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I want to make a KDF Science captain, so I'll have a captain of each type with each faction. Trouble is, I can't decide what ship I eventually want to fly at 50! Every character I've made I've known what I want to aim for before I made the toon, but I'm drawing almost a blank here.
I'll be flying mostly PvE on this character...to start anyway, I'm not ruling out PvP as an eventuality. So with that in mind, DPS is going to be needed...a straight up support role is probably not what I'm looking for.
I would prefer a ship I don't have to use zen to get...but if there's one that you think is really cool, tell me about it.
So, to the point then, lets here your thoughts!
I'll be flying mostly PvE on this character...to start anyway, I'm not ruling out PvP as an eventuality. So with that in mind, DPS is going to be needed...a straight up support role is probably not what I'm looking for.
I would prefer a ship I don't have to use zen to get...but if there's one that you think is really cool, tell me about it.
So, to the point then, lets here your thoughts!
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Bird of Prey type vessel. There are several variants out there of BoPs that might interest you at level 50. These tactical vessels have all universal slots, and so can be configured as a sci ship. I don't think you get Sensor Analysis or subsystem targeting...but you can maximize sci abilities in these fairly easily. I have seen sci captains in a BoP wreak incredible havoc...but it takes practice, and some of the finer points of piloting these vessels can be complicated if you want to survive in one.
The Varanus. There is a Tier 5 version, as well as a Fleet version of this vessel. To be honest though...the fleet version is sort of..."meh." I expected more than what was done with these. This is the only "True" sci vessel at level 50 that the Klingons have at this point...but in May, I am expecting to see a couple more come into play.
The Korath Sci Lockbox Ship (Temporal Sci Vessel). This is arguably the best "sci" ship for the Klingons. It is unfortunate that it is a lockbox ship. Very high manueverability (similar to a Tac vessel), excellent shields, sensor analysis, and some interesting consoles. My Sci captain flies one of these.
The Vo'Quv carrier. This is sort of considered a sci vessel on the Klingon side. Carrier ops are very different from other vessel operations -- it isn't for everybody...and Vo'Quvs often fit best as a combat support role, although they are viable in solo PvP as well. Personally, I don't like the turn rate on these.
That is what you basically have available if you want to emphasize Sci abilities at level 50 on the Klingon side. However...I am hopeful for May. There is an incredible imbalance in sci ships between the Feds and the Klingons...so I sort of half expect that one or two of the new ships coming our way will be sci variants. We will see.
BOPS: tend to build some what around a theme. You wont get any boosts to the ship for sciency stuff like you would with a real science ship, but you can build for control in a bop due to the universals and still have some tactical abilities to tinker with to boost damage.
Raptor: Not a science ship at all, your building for raw damage, however your scan and snb can come in handy, though to be fair this shines more in pvp than it does in pve where snb has few uses. Still, there is fun to be had in it.
Kar'fi: *shiver* love this carrier, has enough science to help control the board, enough turn to USE it and enough tactical to lay down some hurt if needed. The pets also are not shabby! For me this is all win to my sci klink
The gorn sci ship..I had it. Was NOT a fan. its way too clunky for a sci ship, imo. But it does make a good healing platform, if thats what you want to do go for it
- first run a Karfi (orion female): have a good dps, very fun with the comm sci, ens sci, with the help to attack in 2 boff tact and dont forget the eng station (for autohealing)
- varanus (gorn male): its a funny full debufer have a good look this ship BUT read slowly: if you are in a fleet with fleet yard tier III, i recommend buy the varnus fleet version
Qapla'
Also, as the carrier uses aux to determine hangar recharge rates, you naturally will have a high aux to help with science skills, which also determines heal strength for hazard emitters and aux2sif..
Try it - you can get a mirror for less than a million ec, so its worths a try if the Karfi is out of reach or you just can't live with the reject-from-Darius
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This is silly easy to answer:
VoQuv carrier.
It can be kitted as a monster tank, dps, support and play as a carrier if you wish. It can do everything. Except turn.
Sci captains are best suited for this ship if you're into support and tanking. Engineers are best suited for this ship if you intend to tank and dps. Tacticals should stay away from this ship unless they enjoy replaying Battlestar Pegasus' final moments every day in STO.
Birds of Prey, particularly the B'rel Retro and Fleet Norgh can be 100% pure science ships if you're into healing-others & crowd control mindset. The Brel retro in particular can heal and toss crowd control abilities without breaking cloak, making it the 'medical ninja' of the group.
If you're more carrier oriented, I'd say go for the Vo'Quv. That ship is a monster (I use it on my Engineer). If you do get it, I recommend getting the Bird of Prey pets for the hangars. You'll be mind blown at the damage they can do.
Qapla'!
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Is there a list of boff abilities that can be used while cloaked in the B'Rel?
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Anything that isn't an energy weapon and any boff ability that does not deal damage to shields or hull will not break your cloak.
(aka grav well/tachyon beam will break cloak but only for 3 seconds until you auto-recloak).
Lol,
I name all my Carriers after Battle Stars
My Vo'Quv = Pegasus
My Recluse = Cerberus
My Kar'Fi = Rycon
My Atrox = Triton (Strangely it came with this name)
It was meant to be!
I'll probably go with the vo'quv carrier and set it up as a drain focused ship and see how that goes, my KDF engineer flies it as well, so I'm familiar with it a bit. The Kar'fi sure looks neat as well and is a possibility down the road...right now the character isn't even created!
Keep any other ideas coming. I'm still watching!
Drains have been hugely nerfed. I think the only ship now that can drain 'old school' is the Chel Grett using its unique console plus thermionic torpedoes, polarons and power siphon/tykens rift and aceton assimilator stacked. The VoQuv drain pets were nerfed so bad its a joke to try to use them.
My VoQuv is set as a mirror tank. disruptors, massive shield tank and stacked shield bonuses, shield drones, threat control 9 and dual feedback pulse with atk delta. Its not a killer ship but it literally only dies to borg BS supertorps...and ironically it ends up on the top of the dps charts from the absurd amount of damage it reflects to the gaggles of npcs it keeps aggro from.
It also has a hangar that can equipt Orion Slavers.
Lots of hull and okay shields. 8 weapon slots.
I've heard it refered to as a Cruiser/Sci hybred.