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scimitar or ar'kif tac carrier
bufflez
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So yeah, for a romulan tac... which has more punch? scimitar or ar'kif tac carrier? I fly a vesta on my fed sci so I was thinking of some change. Seems to me the ar'kif is pretty much the same.
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Raw firepower goes to the Scimitar. The Ar'kif is actually like the Armitage, not the vesta. It's an armitage with a singularity and a battle cloak.
Personally I went with the Ar'kif. Love the way it looks and the fact it's way more mobile and turns on a dime. And you don't even need to use the pets.
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The Ar'kif is a completely different type of ship with a completely different type of play style (in comparison to the Vesta) comparing and stating the two are the same is like doing that for a banana and a lemon. That said, I would have to say the Scimitar variants are probably a better choice as you often hear of 50k+ dps builds coming from those.
Edit: Also, what was the point of necroing that old thread if you were just going to start a new one?
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Theyre actually not "completely different" in many aspects.
Very similar Boff and Console layouts, both have 1 hanger bay
Main differences: Scimitar has 5 forward weapons, ark has 4/ Scim has around 5500 higher hull/ Ark has about 9 higher turn rate.
The Ark is cheaper (via pure zen purchases of fleet modules) would be valued at 2000, while the scimitar is 2500, also fleet modules can be purchased via EC as well unlike zen.
The two ships I was talking about being completely different were the Vesta and Ar'kif. I know that the Scimitar and the Ar'kif are similar...ish.
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Ar'Kif = Can't make destruction look as cool as the Scimitar.
I say the choice is pretty obvious to me,..but it's your money
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I have both ships on my tac rom "though I've only just started building my ar'kif). I have gicen it a whil a few times though.
Seems to me that if you like your combat more manouverable, go ar'kif, seems much more suited for cannon strafing runs than the bulky scimitar. I haven't really maxed the potential on the scimitar yet but I think it can handle cannon builds, but sort of limits it to alphs strike decloaking builds.
With the ar'kif you have less narly abilities (if theyr your thing) than the scimi set but its an escort and the annihilation mode, hangar and the quad cannons I got from the other tac escort can make it a nasty ship (imo)
If you want fast(er) more escorty type combat go ar'kif, if you want a devastating dps ship (that you will really have to build specifically and grind allot for) go scimi, personally I love both ships, I only bought the ar'kif as a change of pace literally from the scimitar.
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That's probably because the Scimitar is Reman...:D
The looks of the scimi are nice but its so big the looks suffer when its sits in light and blocks half of known space. If it was shrunk down it would be awesome.
As to the OP, I have both and prefer the Arkif simply because the Scimitar has a unique play style all its own that is either harder to master (decloaking alpha which turns into a space whale after 15-20 seconds) OR beam boat extraordinaire. I rolled a fed eng a while ago to play beam boat and get that out of my system. I just can't bring myself to use beams on a scimi. FYI decloaking alpha is great in PvE but much harder in PvP since the player base is really getting better at pinning down battlecloakers in general. Arkif is still a nice escort when you cant cloak at will due to three thousand GW's being flung all over the place.
And to be honest I enjoy both of them.
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Are you really saying ISE wasn't a joke before the scimitar:?:confused:
Yes, but there is no similarity to creep in what the Scimitar did to the maximum available power level.
Do yourself a favor: buy the scimi that lets you keep your shields while battlecloacking.
Endless amounts of fun, that perk. That alone already makes the scimi better. Now add in 5 forward guns and the fact that the ark has nothing else but agility (and you can have that cheaper with tvaro or mogai) speaking for it, and the answer is clear.
Go buy a scimi. Its no contest. It is MADE to fully exploit the cloak related romulan traits. Its the only romulan ship that can repeatedly make use of the decloak related traits and perks. Its the only romulan ship that can make full use of this stuff without putting itself at risk.
And you do get turn rate bonus while cloaked and its effect lingers if you have the traits for it.
Well, thats if you look at it with the bang per buck googles. . .