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doaga1
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Lately I've been noticing, at least around the people I tend to see, that escorts seem to be on the decline....
I see more and more Tac officers in cruisers and in a few baffling cases in Science ships. I often hear people saying escorts are OP... Colossally OP in some cases. which brings me to my question.... Why do tac officers seem to COMPLETELY waste so much damage potential by flying something other then an escort?
I see more and more Tac officers in cruisers and in a few baffling cases in Science ships. I often hear people saying escorts are OP... Colossally OP in some cases. which brings me to my question.... Why do tac officers seem to COMPLETELY waste so much damage potential by flying something other then an escort?
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As such, while I have purchased and occasionally use escorts, my tac is going to be remaining in his fleet assault cruiser for the foreseeable future.
the problem with that statement is that there's no such thing as "Tanking" in STO. I just seems to be seeing ALOT of tacs in things other then escorts. I may be totally off base I'm just having trouble understanding why a tac would squander Damage potential. I mean you play a tac officer to do damage. I'm a firm believer that if you'd like to fly cruisers you should be an engineer. I just use to running with people that expect NOTHING less then the ABSOLUTE best and putting a tac officer in a cruiser just seems silly to me.
Sure, my Defiant will always be my main ship, but not for the "leet DPS" but because it my absolute favorite ship from my favorite series.
I can take out enemies just fine in an Armitage, a cruiser, even a science ship. Sometimes it's fun to play in a different way.
Not everyone in the game is a min-maxer.
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Answer a question - why are our Captains stratified between "Tactical", "Science", and "Engineering" when there is no evidence within the fiction to suggest that such divergence exists, let alone in the manner and to the extent it does in this game?
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More often than not ... these Tac Officers are Expanding or Redefining their play-style to utilize the qualities of the Cruisers and Sci ships, and Boffs abilities.
Sci Ship = free Sub-system targeting -- more Sci Boff abilities (Viral Matrix, Tyken's Rift, Photonic Shockwave, )
Cruisers= Greater Hull -- more Eng Boff abilities (Aceton Beam, Boarding Party, Eject Warp Plasma, Engineer Team)
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That depends what you accept as "evidence", here. Sisko was an engineer before he was put on command track, and Janeway was a science officer prior. Archer, while being a test pilot, also had an engineering background. Kirk has the quintessential tactical officer background, and I suppose you could say the same of Picard considering he was a conn officer before being brevetted to Captain aboard the Stargazer. I always understood the class distinction as what academic background your character had prior to becoming an acting captain, that informs each character's command style and approach.
As for me, I play a science officer in an advanced escort. Why? Because I freaking feel like it. I play the game for fun, not to obsess over logs and parses and min-max stats to the teeth as if the game were a second job. If I wanted to do that, I'd go back to school to be a seasonal accountant and actually get paid for it.
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Pretty sure this is tanking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h3irnf8yDw
Plus my current ship/build is far more effective, I'll have videos up of it in a few days.
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And we held our own.
What resulted was that we could wear down the nodes, and hold off the ships coming through the gate about as fast as they could spawn. We wound up deciding to abandon the instance most of the way through, since our progress was way too slow to come anywhere near beating the mission timer. But it still amazed us that were were able to do so well in a low-level STF with the wimpiest ships in the game.
And I have a few other stories about getting caught in missions with the wrong ship equipped, but I'll spare you the boring details.
My point is that one does not need to min/max at all to enjoy this game, not at all, with the exception of PvP and elite STFs. The vast majority of STO is really quite easy, especially after 50 (and leveling is no hard feat in this MMO). So while good equipment helps, knowing your skillset and playing smart winds up being far more important to successful gameplay.
Of which leaves lots of wiggle room to customize your charater to your liking, simply to have, um, what did those earlier posts call it... "Fun"? :rolleyes:
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It's a pretty expensive skillgrab considering how high it is in the TAC skilltrees, as well as half the reason for that skillbox existing, being useless in PVP.
Do I really really care my Klink Tac is not achieving that last 0.001 DPS in an Elite STF? Nope. I reckon if the previous 10,500 DPS aren't gittin' 'er done, then there are a bunch of other things I'm probably not doing correctly either.
I play this game to entertain myself. No other reasons are required or needed. And I'll walk my own path while playing, TYVM. If my ship or play style doesn't meet the quals of the One True Build, I may just have to lose five or six seconds of sleep over this. Someday.
BTW, when I have an opinion about how someone else kits out their ship or what they're flying currently, I normally keep it to myself. Too many people around here already pointing out how incorrectly everyone else is doing things. I've no need to add to that number.
Also, I can tank shards pounding away on my hull, healing with impunity. Tac buff + DEM doff+ LAAAAAANCE gets me kills or the burst DPS I need. The only ship I managed to get consistently top spot for Fed side. And not to mention I am both healer and dps in Fleet events when flying a dread.
Most versatile ship in my dock, so you see me in it often.
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My other toon, also a tac flies a Breen Warship plasma boat. Technically a cruiser. But more like an escort that can take a beating and not die.
In some cases the reports of escorts being "OP" are exaggerated. Don't get me wrong, Escorts do more damage than Cruisers or Science ships, no doubt, but the margin isn't as great as some people want to believe.
A Tac in a properly built cruiser, carrier, science ship etc can still do remarkable damage, because a lot of the power in the Tac/Escort combo is the Tac.
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