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cptshephard
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As per the title.
I leveled a Romulan engineer and allied him with the KDF, I want to level a Romulan science officer and ally that character with the Federation. Just in case I want to actually play the character some more after reaching cap I wanted to find out what ships other Rommie scientists are using.
I was considering the T'varo or the Dhelan, but I was also thinking the Tulwar version of the Scimitar might be nice. You can't get Commander level powers with any of these ships, but you can at least get Lt Commander.
I know there's the Ha'nom.. but.. no..
I leveled a Romulan engineer and allied him with the KDF, I want to level a Romulan science officer and ally that character with the Federation. Just in case I want to actually play the character some more after reaching cap I wanted to find out what ships other Rommie scientists are using.
I was considering the T'varo or the Dhelan, but I was also thinking the Tulwar version of the Scimitar might be nice. You can't get Commander level powers with any of these ships, but you can at least get Lt Commander.
I know there's the Ha'nom.. but.. no..
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Nice. I hadn't considered that because the lack of a science or universal Lt Cmdr slot, but I do like the tactical layout of the Mogai. How well do your science captain abilities mesh with it?
Haha! I was thinking of doing something similar with either the T'varo or the Dhelan.
I also briefly considered the Ar'Kif.. but to use it's Lt Cmdr slot for science would leave me with the ability to only use one ensign engineering power; could be interesting but I doubt it would work very well. The D'deridex would also be a well rounded option since it has a Lt Cmdr science slot, but I already use a Fleet D'deridex on my Rom Engineer.
I dunno about the Official Efficiency of it all, but its just hilarious to fly. Bunch them up with the Gravity Well, sensor scan to lot, then hit them with the Spread 3 followed by the Destabilized Plasma Torp, makes such a wonderful mess. My current record is a 244k hit, but that was with 5 people super-stacking debuffs on a tac cube, so obviously not an average hit, but it was awesome. If you were to do serious PVP and PVE-DPSing, the Fleet Dhelan's 5th tac console and boff layout is probably mathematically superior, but the T'varo and its consoles are just so much fun.
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That's the same setup I use too. I keep trying to do something else, but I keep coming back to that same setup.
I just added the Spatial Charge Launcher console and loving that too. I usually get 17k x5 and more if the shields are down.
I haven't used my veteran token for a Tier 5 retro/refit yet. It's a frustrating choice. This is the first Science character I've put time into, so I'm still learning.
I sometimes fly the Ar'Kif with just the single ensign eng slot. I enjoy it a lot, the fighters help compensate for not having Aux2Batt but its weapons are not as strong as an Aux2Batt build. That should be expected when leaning towards Sci though. The Dhelan is what I flew before the carrier and the difference is negligible.
I get an extra CC in the carrier with Target engines and in the Dhelan I would get an extra Hull heal that I don't often use in PvE.
TSS, Ep2S, HE and Singularity powers are more than enough for PvE missions. For PvP I jump into the T'varo and never look back
The other wonderful thing about it is that the T'varo can use science powers without dropping the enhanced battle cloak, (although it does the 3-second flicker for everything but mines).
It's also pretty cheap to gear, if you go with a transphasic torpedo build - I was (carefully) soloing Borg cubes in eSTFs after one evening of episode replay, before picking up any rep passives or anything.
Before I switched to a torpedo focus, I flew a sci-orieinted build with TB1/TBR1/GW1 in the uni slot and HE1/TS2 in the sci slot, and using the singularity abilities as secondary sci abilities. A lot of people underestimate the sing powers but they are very useful when buffed with sci skills. All of the Fleet and C-store T5 ships except the Mogai are very good for this kind of usage (Mogai does not have the seating--dunno why people keep recommending it for sci captain, its useless).
I have a vague intention of getting both Tal Shiar ships on that captain eventually but it probably wont ever happen. I am also thinking about buying the Draguas even thought its only a T4 ship, for the Aceton platforms and it also has a Cmdr sci station and so it could be useful for some end-game content that does not have a lot of one-hit ships.
My romulan science captain runs a fleet mogai - it's essentially an escort as far as manuverability and weapons/tactical boffs go, but it's got nearly as much hull as a cruiser, a fairly high shield modifier, and a more engineering-oriented secondary boff layout. As far as I'm concerned it's one of the best ships in the game for a hybrid of survivability and damage output.
I wanted to play science but I also don't care for the hanom.
Lots of great ideas here. I think I'm going to try out each ship in turn once I hit cap on that character and see which meshes best.
I enjoyed the mogai when I was leveling my Rom Engineer. I eventually settled on the D'deridex, not because he was an engineer, but becaues I've loved that ship since seeing it in TNG.
I don't really try to match character class with ship but sometimes it happens. For the longest time I had my Fed Engineer in a science vessel and I loved it, but I loved the playstyle of the assault cruiser more; he just happened to BE an engineer. It's funny because I generally gravitate toward science powers. I love Gravity Well.
For some reason I just can't get into the Ha'nom and I want to find another option that still has some science kick to it. This character just happens to be a science officer, I like science powers; which is funny because my engineer's ship only has a Lt Science slot.. so I'm constantly looking for gravity well and remembering it doesn't have it lol.
I thought it and the T'varo looked like it might be. I especially like the Dhelan now that I've discovered it has different wing customizations. I honestly never really messed with ship appearance until I get to T5, I forget why I was even doing it but I found it has single wing options and I think it looks pretty awesome. Kind of like a precursor to the Mogai.
No doubt.
I would love to see something kind of like the Luna-class only in Romulan flavor.
It's kinda fun zipping around space in this little tiny ship.
Well the Ha'nom is set up pretty much as a slower tankier Luna, but I get what you mean, a more agile Romulan science warbird with singularity abilities would be awesome.
As it is my Rom main (since all my mains are Scis) flies either the Mirror Ha'nom or D'Deridex depending on my mood. I'd go 'Dex all the way, but for some reason it just doesn't feel tanky enough for a heavy cruiser style warbird. Hopefully that'll change once I finish upgrading the gear, but I'm not holding my breath, this is seeming like a ship that needs an engy's active heals to stay right in the thick of things.
Admiral Dananra Lekall - R.R.W. Teverresh, Deihu-class Warbird
General J'Kar son of K'tsulan - I.K.S. Dlahath, Vo'devwl-class Carrier
Now if only it didnt have a 5 turn rate (or at least had command array options) Throw GW1 on it, 8 Arrays (or 7+Cutter) and FAWIII and youre set
It's super easy to understand. But if you're having trouble I'll help you.
I like to play healers or at least have that option. Control, buff, debuff also nice. Check, science captain.
It is not the case that I am a science officer ergo I must fly science ships.
It is the case that I have certain preferences in playstyle and, being moderately competent game designers, Cryptic designed ground and space abilities along similar lines. Ergo I chose a science captain (for ground abilities) and also prefer to fly science ships because the science space abilities also suit my tastes.
Simple!