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zeuxidemus001
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I have noticed and wasn't a big surprise being the KDF is not though of much when it comes to the new molds they create for the federation.
The problem I would like to address is how does Cryptic Plan on balancing this issue. You can see in this limited time CE Event that if you aren't playing a few with the Andorian Escort(s) or the 5 Tactical Console fleet ships that you can forget about getting first place unless the ppl with these ships are lacking in mental aptitude.
So the question is will we ever see anything for the KDF in the line of the 5 Forward Weapon slot design or 5 tactical consoles for our classes of ship weight classes that these ships have? Right now we have Zero in either of those examples (before you jump the gun lockbox ships and bortasqu' don't count).
The problem I would like to address is how does Cryptic Plan on balancing this issue. You can see in this limited time CE Event that if you aren't playing a few with the Andorian Escort(s) or the 5 Tactical Console fleet ships that you can forget about getting first place unless the ppl with these ships are lacking in mental aptitude.
So the question is will we ever see anything for the KDF in the line of the 5 Forward Weapon slot design or 5 tactical consoles for our classes of ship weight classes that these ships have? Right now we have Zero in either of those examples (before you jump the gun lockbox ships and bortasqu' don't count).
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That is a non-fleet KDF ship with 3 attack consoles (the generic torpedo consoles, not type-specific).
My DPS is horrible, compared to an all cannon build. Yet, I still get 1st place.
Why wouldn't the bortasqu not count? The Tactical version has 5 tac consoles does it not?
Besides you know that the CE event is not solely based upon DPS, right? You can also get points by healing your self or other team mates as well as for attacking a high number of targets. An easy way to rack up the points is with a aoe hold like Gravity Well or Tyken's Rift and C:SV or T:S or T:HE(depending on the torpedo, the omega and rom hyper torps have very good aoe damage with T:HE as well with the plasma burn).
The Bortasqu is the best ship for fighting the entitiy with. The tac version with 5 tac consoles or the sci version with 4 conoles and sensor analysis both work great. The entity doesn't move fast so its easy to just face it the whole time while firing DHC. The bortasqu's massive hull makes it much safer to take hull damage on purpose so you can buff up GDF, and/or heal the hull up for more points. I almost always get 1st place in this ship, got 2nd once because someone kept healing me during GDF.
I never tried the tac kumari, only the sci version, but I doubt I would do better then my Bortasqu due to the tac kumari severly laking in healing which will cost it points and cause it to die a lot. Nothing is worse then dying in that event right after you popped GDF and losing the buff.
While the Andorian scorts are busy getting blown up, the Bortas, Karfi, and Gal-Xs are ruling the event for mixing up their scores with dps and ridiculous self-healing to consistently top the chart.
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Yeah Karfi also works almost as good as my bort for getting regular 1st place. Haven't tried the Gal-x though I have been considering getting one. Gal-X being so similar to the Bort in play style should make it easy to win first in that ship too unless you are up against a Bort.
The andorian ship JUST came out, so no, the KDF does not have a 5 front weapon ship yet. Give them some time. I hate to break it to you though; I forsee it being a battle cruiser. The KDF SOP is tiny raiders, light escorts and huge battle cruisers armed to the teeth.
Man you 18% are worse than "the 99%"
As for your attempts to get first place in fleet actions, I think a lot of people would agree:
build > skill > luck > gear > ship. So unless you are getting randomly placed into teams with the small percent of people with optimum builds every time, you could probably use to improve before blaming your ship's innate capabilities.
Out of my 6 runs on CC with my modest KDF Tac alt, I've got 1st place 3 times. In a cruiser. With all beam arrays.
Keep in mind: Sometimes differences exist between the factions to keep the factions different.
Federation (using your above logic: )
-doesn't have a carrier with tac skills to speak of
-doesn't have Frigate carrier pets (and these are awesome)
-doesn't have a cruiser/carrier hybrid
-doesn't have an escort with a (awesome) lance weapon
-gets the (really) short end of the stick when it comes to default weapons type (and elite fleet weapons)
-doesn't have battle cloaks
-doesn't have a console that adds ~10 - 18 to all your power settings while in combat (and modestly debuffs your targets power settings)
Could be, I haven't tried it with mine. But I'm also partial to blowing up CE with a Tricobalt mine and torp show. Grav Well 1 followed by Torpedo Spread 3 with Tricobalts can be insane damage to CE.
Those Andorian ships seem to put out a lot of damage, I was surprised by their effectiveness I say in an STF once.
My wife did that once and got third place I think it was, not bad for a torpedo boat with a fragile hull.
Guramba doesn't have the DPS the Andorian Escorts have.
They have 1/5th more DPS than any ship in game. Unless you could decloak alpha of the bort, the Andorian has the highest DPS overall in game.