test content
Logo
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc
How To Deal With Ships with 3 Tac BOs?
superhacks
Member Posts: 2 Arc User
There's a few ships i love but the BO slots are killing me. I'm always left with at least 1 useless tier 1 ability. Anyone have any suggestions as to the BO load out on those ships with 3 tactical BO's.
I wish they would add some new tactical BO abilities or change some of the shared cooldowns a little or change the 3rd tac to a universal.
For me its just ruining those ships.
Could use some help.
I wish they would add some new tactical BO abilities or change some of the shared cooldowns a little or change the 3rd tac to a universal.
For me its just ruining those ships.
Could use some help.
Post edited by superhacks on
0
Comments
Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!
Depending on your weapons layout you could always slap on a beam weapon/torpedo and use the tac slot to boost that weapon. That largely depends on your build though.
It's the reason why my Fleet Defiant stays in the hanger. I was tired of trying to figure out what to slot in that stupid console, all the while missing the Eng. Boff I could stick in my Fleet Patrol's universal slot to get more shield or hull healing.
RCK
Alternately, a single TT1 with a pair of conn officer doffs (even blue ones are fairly cheap and will cut the cooldown to 18 seconds), then a pair of torp skills for simple steady fire.
It doesn't really work with an all-energy build though. You COULD do paired Overload 1s, but then you're eating that drain spike without the maxed out hit, and that would probably result in less overall damage than just doing nothing. I guess you could do a pair of Target Subsystem powers, if you had the right skill setup to get real use of out them, but personally I'd just go with a torp launcher (feels right anyways).
If not though then High Yield I is pretty much the most 'useful' to stick in there. Unless you have no torpedoes.
All depends on what you want your final build to be.
Cmd: TT1, APB1, CRF2, Cannon Spread3
Lt Cmd: HY1, TS2
Ensign: TT1
I can also swap the cmd tac for a more hangar/survival layout, and to be honest, it still does not feel like it's enough.
My third Boff has most of my attack patterns that I use. It's not a perfect solution, but it's been working great for me.
THY1 is the only torp booster that upgrade the base damage. So its good with some specialty torps
By itself, there's no real problem filling up that Ensign tact station. THY1 leaps to mind. Not extremely useful by itself, but will help the CD on your 'main' torp attacks. Similarly, BFAW1 is useful for the exact same purpose: creating a favorable CD on beam special attacks.
This. For non-roms it means an offensive stat boost, and that you won't ever have to use doff slots on TT conn officers.
Now if only embassy boffs could actually be customized...
I'm still waiting for female Romulan Superior Operatives, but apparently Cryptic is against any such concept. Sexism is alive and well in the 25th century.
Oh, they exist alright, but come with 1.5% CrtH instead of 2.0% for the males.
Those are standard Romulan operatives ... they don't have any superior operative famales at this time.
2x CrtDx3 quantum torpedoes, 3x Projectile Weapon doffs, maco adapted 2p set (engines and deflector), and make your 5th tac console a quantum torp dmg console. The rest are DHCs (i go phaser), 4x dmg boosting consoles, 1x neutronium, 1x field gen, borg console, tachyokinetic converter, zero point module, fleet elite shields, whatever warp core, 2 turrets and KCB in aft weapons.
Then you just stick a THY in that ensign tactical, and you are all set. Perfect ship for this is Fleet Advanced Escort (the fleet defiant really misses out with the third tac being lt, loses an extra tank skill, and for me its over the line).
Only thing I could ask extra is 5 fore slots. Then it would be the perfect escort, utterly devastating with often 40k+ torpedo crits.
Pay no attention to the dates and titles under my name at the left! I am a Career Officer, Lifetime Sub since launch, was in the Beta. Having problems with my forum account.
My answer to that question is "don't fly them".
Actually IIRC the Female RomBOFFs are better on the ground.
No pun intended, take a closer look at their traits.
In reply to your signature thread: the answer is right dot now.
I placed a reply in that thread too.
Pay no attention to the dates and titles under my name at the left! I am a Career Officer, Lifetime Sub since launch, was in the Beta. Having problems with my forum account.
Ann Manistee Traverse - Human Science ~~ Oken Miquat - Saurian Tactical
Exin Jor - Joined Trill Engineer ~~ Vartox - Romulan Science
Dn'Dok, son of Ladok - Klingon/Romulan Engineer ~~ Mosa M'ren-faa - Ferasan Tactical
Krushan Twinn - Orion Science
I play my Fleet S?o Paulo as though it has the same BOff layout as the B'rel. I just left the third Ensign slot blank. I don't run a beam on the ship, so I've no use for it. It's not hindered me at all so far.
either this, or a torpedo with THY1 or TS1...
personally i prefer BO build with a DBB, this way with the cloak console i can do some pretty alpha strikes, or strip enemy shields before the DHC shots hit the target.
so a 3rd tac boff is far from useless (especially with a rom sup operative boff)...you just need either a DBB or a torp launcher to make use of it.
which is much harder to do with a 3rd engi boff...since all ensign engi boffs have basically a shared cooldown with each other or with TT
What I finally ended up doing most of the time in my Fleet Gal-R was running 4 EP2* skills and freeing up the doff slots I would normal use for reducint EP2* cooldowns. If you run 2x EP2S1, EP2W1 + EP2W2, you get full coverage on both with no cooldown overlap, and gain some doff slots back.
The other way you can do things, good for ships that are low on tac slots, is just skip tac team all together and slot a Transporter Officer doff (clears boarding parties on use of Transfer Shield Strength) and *gasp* manually manage your shields... Then you can put ET1 in the slot for a heal, and either fit another ET or maybe use doffs to get its cooldown lower... an ET every 15 seconds is a lot of heals...
Fleet Admiral Space Orphidian Possiblities Wizard
I run 3 DHC and a DBB in the front, and I use the following
TT1, CRF1, APO1, CRF3
Target SS1, BO2, APO1
TT1 <- this ensign I have set up with CSV1, APO1 and CSV3 and I switch out CRF and CSV for PvE and PvP.
That ensign slot with target subsystem could run a 2nd BO, FaW, or do some moving for a mine pattern.
Really, it's just there are 8 skills. Might as well have 2 TT, and 2 AP (whichever you like), and that's half your skills. There is no reason to have more then 2 skills per weapon, as they will overlap.
As for lacking in Eng and Sci with all that Tac power, I run EPtW1 and EPtS2 with dmg ctrl doffs, and that usually keeps them up all the time. Also you can drop your power lvls a bit, and put that in aux to increase your heals from sci. The added dmg from tholian rep for aux helps too.
on my fleet defiant i use
TT1 THY1 CRF2 APO3
TT1 THY1 CRF2
BO1
EPTS1 EPTW2
Haz1 Haz2
makes for a glass cannon but isn't that what escorts are?