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johankreig
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I am looking at getting this once I hit 50, any advice on how to use it/equip it.
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What I mean by that is, do not go in all buffs activated and unleash straight away, as you won't have anything left to buff your Javelin. And you do want that. Really. I ripped through a Recluse in Azure Rescue with a 120k crit, mostly to hull, just yesterday, wiping it away instantly. A fully buffed javelin hit is a thing of beauty.
Instead, I suggest you run (at least) 2 AP:O's and a cannon ability, so you can use APO1 + CRF/CSV to soften up your target and build up your Javelin charge, and once the Javelin is charged (won't take long), hit the enemy with a tractor beam, pop all your tac buffs, including the second APO(3?) and unleash on the poor target.
Ideally, you end up with an Alpha strike, which contains your big buffs, captain buffs and the like, and your Javelin, preceded and followed by a Beta strike, using mostly lower recharge buffs and weapon abilities. Maybe not Beam Overload, unless you keep track of the shared cooldown with the Javelin.
I run mine with 3 DHC's + 1 DBB (I've got a BO2 in there to finish stuff off) and 3 turrets.
Note: you can almost immediately reactivate siege mode after firing the Javelin, so you can start building up its charge while its cooldown is still running, allowing you to fire it again immediately upon cooldown.
shows a possible build for PVE, and at 2:18 a nice crit. (not even the highest i ever had, all depends on the debuffs)
AP:O or APO is Attack Pattern: Omega
CRF is Cannon Rapid Fire
CSV is Cannon Scatter Volley
It's an Escort, I feel you'd get better DPS out of Dual Heavies than you would from Dual Beams. But it's your call, try both.
And yeah save you big buffs for the 2nd Cycle when you can use the Javelin.
I'm usually just a CSV and Tac Team on the first pass with Absolutely everything on the second. The Javelin takes 4s to fire, use it when your buffs have 5s left to make sure it works.
I love this ship, I just hope the (Eventual) Fleet version isn't on a T5 starbase. No announcement yet, but a man can dream right?
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Edit: nvm I did some corrections to my build and got a 120k crit on a half shielded target
that was been before the disruptor fix. Before, it was scaling the debuf with damage buffs. now its fixed at -10.
One can still get crazy good numbers though. I got a 110k crit the other day and I have green mk XI disruptor consoles, so it can only get better.
They also recently changed the guramba to be able to charge while the javelin is on cool down so one can fire more often
Managed to get 193k today, and also using green MK xi consoles
It can only get better, I love this ship.
Still, it's a good ship, but its glory has been eclipsed.
P.S. - If there ever were to be a Fleet Guramba, this game would explode.
I think alot of kdf players would love to see both a fleet guramba and fleet kar'fi both were amazing ships for there time but have fallen to power creep (kar'fi still fields a wicked power drain build in pvp).
The Fleet Qin you need a Dual beam or Torp to get the most from, the Fleet Somraw is essentially the same as the Garumba swapping a Javelin for a Cloak. Sure you gain an extra console but do you desperately need it?
Fed side there is a massive choice, Fleet HEC, Fleet TER, Fleet AE, Fleet Patrol, Fleet Sabre, Andorian. Essentially with KDF we get 3 choices, Garumba, Fleet Qin, Fleet Somraw. Where above each ship has it's own gimmick on KDF you got a choice of Cloak or Javelin.
I think the best move for KDF would be to make our limited line up more flexible, we are never going to have as many ships as the Feds so we need our ships to be capable of more choices.
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Not sure it's better or worse, but the fleet Scourge is an often overlooked option.
Essentially same layout as Garumba, just ens sci instead of eng. Slightly higher shield rating, turn rate, and has 10 consoles.
No 'special' ability though.
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Oh man, you are going to love this ship, for PvE and PvP.
Have these abilities on:
Tac Team
Cannon Scatter Volley
Cannon Rapid Fire
Attack Pattern Omega
Attack Pattern Delta
Beam Overload III
Emerg Power to Weapons
Tractor Beam
in addition to any defensive abilities you deem fit.
Also, you must include a doff called "Kazan", he's a Maintenance Engineer with "...battery activated" trait.
Then, pre-charge your Javelin using Beam Overload. Fire some cannon bolts to charge the lance during this time. Then, hit everything you got including weapons battery, fire Javelin and BOOM.
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I'd say it's on Par with the Garumba for somebody who'd prefer a bit more Sci on their Escort.
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