What to buy? (Warbirds for consoles)

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• tom61sto Member Posts: 3,673 Arc User

  June 2013 edited June 2013

  The Valdore's console is very nice, though I would expect a nerf at some point as it's going off an average of every 1-3 seconds for a good number of people (including myself) and doing insane heal numbers (though those numbers may be bugged in reporting, and may be counting heals to full shields). Still, if it ends up as useful as an Embassy shield heal proc post modification, I'd say it'd be worth it. It's the only console besides the T'Varo's that I've heard called a 'must have'.
  
  As for faction consoles, consider grabbing the Plasmonic Leech. There's the option to grab it Fed-allied side via the current cross-faction console box, which would give you a feel for the console prior to dropping the Zen for it KDF side. There's also the Point Defense System, which is very handy for leveling (though I usually remove it on lvl 50 builds), Fed side Zen store, and an older cross-console pack for KDF. Aceton Assimilator KDF (exclusive) is a great little AoE drain and light damage console that's highly recommend for Sci drain builds(I need to grab this myself at some point).
  
  Keep in mind that the Schimitar Dreadnought is all but confirmed to be coming out soon, so you might want to save your Zen if you're interested in that ship.

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• neok182 Member Posts: 551 Arc User

  June 2013 edited June 2013

  tom61sto wrote: »

  The Valdore's console is very nice, though I would expect a nerf at some point as it's going off an average of every 1-3 seconds for a good number of people (including myself) and doing insane heal numbers (though those numbers may be bugged in reporting, and may be counting heals to full shields). Still, if it ends up as useful as an Embassy shield heal proc post modification, I'd say it'd be worth it. It's the only console besides the T'Varo's that I've heard called a 'must have'.
  
  As for faction consoles, consider grabbing the Plasmonic Leech. There's the option to grab it Fed-allied side via the current cross-faction console box, which would give you a feel for the console prior to dropping the Zen for it KDF side. There's also the Point Defense System, which is very handy for leveling (though I usually remove it on lvl 50 builds), Fed side Zen store, and an older cross-console pack for KDF. Aceton Assimilator KDF (exclusive) is a great little AoE drain and light damage console that's highly recommend for Sci drain builds(I need to grab this myself at some point).
  
  Keep in mind that the Schimitar Dreadnought is all but confirmed to be coming out soon, so you might want to save your Zen if you're interested in that ship.

  
  +1 to this.
  
  Valdore console is almost a must have right now. it is going to get 'nerfed' but it's more of a fix than a nerf. Right now it procs per shot, not per cycle so rapid fire cannons can proc it with every single shot, and i know i've seen it pop up 5 times in 5 seconds. additionally in matches where you can place, all the heals over 100% are counting making people using that console go straight to 1st place since their getting bonus score for the 21k shield heal on 7k shields.
  
  Most likely the 'nerf' will be fixing the overheal and also making it so it procs once per cycle and not once per shot. which will lose the insane OP of it right now but it will still be a good console especially if you don't have anything else you really want. you will need to go toss a science team, transfer shield strenght or EPTS back on though if your one of the people who decided that console was your only source of healing.
  
  Plasmonic leech is also required, and is really cheap for feds on the console. It will add +15 to power levels during combat +20 if you max flow capacitors. that totally negates the -10 power levels to all systems and adds more. I usually have almost 90 shield power with leech and a field core at full charge.
  
  The T'varo consoles are also great especially for a T5/fleet t'varo boat and since you have them it's worth looking into. Get an adapted maco/honor guard set and it's +25% to torps, plus the t'varo bonus will be insane. I have a fleet mate that does this and in PVP i've never been destroyed faster. that T5 console torp is a monster.
  
  D'Dex two piece is pretty damn good. +2 to turn rate for the two consoles and the first one is like a cloak but you can also fly through ships and you gain +10,000% defense. 2nd console is like an uber gravity well. dosn't do the damage that gravity well does but it will drag all the ships it touches with it and then you can hit them with a gravity well and singularity jump right after. cloak also boosts your turn rate and gives yuo a +25% damage bonus so your going to want to cloak a lot and that will help with the slow turn rate.
  
  And as Tom said, Scimitar pack is coming by the end of the month so it might not be a bad idea to wait for that.

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• l3luntman1138 Member Posts: 3 Arc User

  June 2013 edited June 2013

  Well, for fed side i already have the point defense system. i never really concentrated on Fed ships, on the Klnks i already have the really good ones. And ill be getting a plasma leach on my Fed sci soon, just waiting to make my decsion on what warbirds to buy.
  
  So fr i am thinking the DD retro, and the valdore. (even when it is fixed, it will still be a good console) then ill save up for the Phase console to complete the 2 piece set on that.
  
  Though with the Scimitar as said, i could just save up and buy the bundle pack for it.... But the DDretro console would rule with a Sci guy with the tvaro retro 2 piece set.
  
  too many decsion's right now

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• kadaeux Member Posts: 0 Arc User

  June 2013 edited June 2013

  Bear in mind that the Consoles that come with the T5 Admiral level ships can't be used with any ship except the one they come on.
  
  You can't put the Destabilised Torp console on anything except other T'varo class ships for example.

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