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  caasicam Member Posts: 228 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Looks to me like you've got a fairly solid build going here, I suppose if you wanted to go for more damage, there are a few things you could try. Now, I'm certainly no expert, so take everything here with a grain of salt.
  
  You could try changing out one of your EPtS for EPtW, preferably the Ensign level because unless you're really minimaxing, the difference between EPtW1 and 2 isn't really that big. You could then switch out your science abilities PH1 and HE2 for TSS and HE to make up for the lost heals, while the Gravity Well is great for crowd control.
  
  Console-wise, you could switch out one for the Romulan Rep console, seeing as the added critical chance could only serve to help out how you've stacked on the critical hit.
  
  Alternatively, you could simply go for an entirely energy damage build, freeing up BOFF abilities for more attack patterns or cannon upgrades. Perhaps something like...
  
  http://skillplanner.stoacademy.com/?build=buildnightfireedit1_0
  
  Not exactly sure how the cooldowns would work with that, but it's a general idea.
  
  And while it seems like you want to keep the Aegis set, it's really not the best when comes to damage dealing, more so for tanking. Straight Fleet gear might be a better bet, or the Adapted Maco with it's extra torpedo damage for your Gravity-Well-Spamming-Torpedo.
  
  In the end, though, it really depends on how you want to dish your damage out. A DBB with BO3 is great at spike damage, especially with Antiproton. CSV can lay waste to a whole group of targets, especially in the MVAE with it's ability to use GW.

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  captaindecker12 Member Posts: 0 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Sustained DPS-wise, I'd say that you're pretty much hitting the ceiling on how much your ship can do, and short of swapping your Engineering Alloys for a Zero-Point Console and a Tachyokinetic Converter (which add critical chance and severity increases), which I wouldn't realistically recommend, I don't know what more you can do. Though, you might wanna consider swapping Cannon Rapid Fire 3 and Cannon Scatter Volley 1, but YMMV.
  
  If your looking for Burst Damage (i.e. PvP), then you might benefit from swapping the Torpedo and the Spread 3 for a Chroniton Dual Beam Array (deals AP damage) and Beam Overload 3, simply because Beam Overload 3 is useful every time it hits, while Torpedo Spread has to hit hull to hit hard. But this will not help at all in PvE; for STFs, NWS and Fleet Actions, sustained damage is king, and sustained AoE is God.
  
  As for your skills. Tactical Systems look good, though obviously if you swap away from the Torpedo, you should probably cut back on your projectile skills (and probably kill the mines, too, they're useful utility items, but they're too unreliable to really help your DPS). Engineering Systems, I might have sunk a couple more points into Subsystem repair and Warp Core Potential, but those are survivability choices, not damage increasing ones.
  
  That leaves Science and Operations Systems. There are two problems here, one you're running Gravity Well 1 without any points in Starship Graviton Generators or Starship Particle Generators or any Graviton Generator or Particle Generator Consoles. This means you're running that skill unbuffed, and unbuffed Gravity Well 1 is not very impressive or useful. The other problem with your Science and Operations Skills is that you've sunk 7500 points into Starship Sensors, without getting that much of a benefit from it. Starship Sensors boost your resistance to Confuse and Placate abilities, abilities that very few PvE enemies use, the only faction I can think of that uses Placates (e.g. Jam Sensors) is the Voth, and I can't think of the last time I saw an NPC use a Confuse ability (e.g. Scramble Sensors). It might be better for you to shift those points into Graviton Generators (increases AoE of Grav Well).
  
  With that out of the way, let's address the elephant in the room; the AEGIS set. It has some neat set bonuses, but the bottom line is that it's still, at it's base, a MK X set. Plus, it's not like you're getting that much of a benefit from it, it's only really helping your shields and your Hazard Emitters, which are offset by the AEGIS' innate low shield regeneration and inferior capacity compared to MKII shields. It's just outclassed by modern MK XII Task Force Omega Sets. With your current setup, I'd lean towards the Adapted MACO set. As well as have higher shield capacity and regeneration rate, the Adapted MACO will give you a torpedo damage bonus, higher power settings, a boost to your skills that effect Gravity Well 1 and a placate chance when hit. All this for trading 10% Defense Bonus (which is miniscule when it comes to escorts) and the Reactive Shielding bonus.

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  reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  If leaving the gear alone, I think I'd just tweak it as
  
  Cmdr Tac
  Spread 1, CSV1, APB2, APO3
  LtCmdr Tac
  TT1, Dispersal Pattern Beta 1
  Ens Tac
  Overload 1
  LtCmdr Sci
  PH1, HE2, GW1
  Lt Eng
  EPTE1, EPTS2
  
  Doffs
  2 Conn Officer, 2 Damage Control Engineer, Gravimetric Scientist
  
  With the DPB you get 4 mines instead of 2, and then the Overload you use with your beam array as a 'parting gift' at the end of an attack pass. With EPTE, they wanna hit you first they gotta catch you, and the Damage Control doffs let you keep both skills up constantly.
  
  If extra gear, maybe just add a Fleet Resilient or MACO shield, and maybe replace the Fleet Monotanium with the Proton Particle Stabilizer for the extra +3% CrtH bonus and extra energy.

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  captainpirko Member Posts: 270 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Thanks for the suggestions guys, its been helpful so far to know where to go next =D
  
  okay so it seems alot of people suggest adding a universal console that boosts crit chance. i agree, however i'm not sure which option to go with. i have 3 as has been suggested.
  
  i can go with the romulan zero point
  
  +1.8 Power to all subsystems
  +19.7 Starship Power Insulators
  +1.8% Critical Chance
  
  2 piece protonic arsenal
  
  +3% Critical Chance
  
  or Tachyokinetic Converter
  
  +22.9% Flight Turn Rate
  +17.2 Starship Graviton Generators
  +0.76% Critical Chance
  +7.6% Critical Severity
  
  So those are my options, but i only have 1 universal i want to get rid of at this moment (multivector console, still useless *sadface*) so that means tachyokinetic converter seems like the best option at this time. being that i could increase both crit chance and hit, while giving my gravity well a buff.
  
  at the same time, it'd also give me an excuse to try the chroniton beam array. i wanted to get it when it first came out, but its an expensive toy to just "play with." though i'm positive the burst damage from BO3 on my ship would be ridiculous. while under the effects of tykens rift, i dont think my power levels have ever dropped below 100 while firing all weapons.
  
  i'm also curious about switching up Boff powers. if i switched my commander slot to being:
  tactical team, torpedo spread 2, attack pattern omega 1, cannon rapid fire 3
  would that be better then how it is currently of:
  tactical team, attack pattern beta, torpedo spread 3, cannon rapid fire 3?
  
  basically i'm asking if moving torpedo spread from level 3 to 2 to allow access to a better attack pattern would add to over all damage, or if the difference between beta and omega is not great enough to worry about this difference? note that i usually sit fairly still in PVE, going only 1/4 impulse towards moving targets like probes/spheres/frigates/etc. that way i still have a defense bonus from moving, but i'm not really going anywhere. therefore its hard for me to side by side compare these two skills for this situation. any thoughts?
  
  ps:

  That leaves Science and Operations Systems. There are two problems here, one you're running Gravity Well 1 without any points in Starship Graviton Generators or Starship Particle Generators or any Graviton Generator or Particle Generator Consoles. This means you're running that skill unbuffed, and unbuffed Gravity Well 1 is not very impressive or useful. The other problem with your Science and Operations Skills is that you've sunk 7500 points into Starship Sensors, without getting that much of a benefit from it. Starship Sensors boost your resistance to Confuse and Placate abilities, abilities that very few PvE enemies use, the only faction I can think of that uses Placates (e.g. Jam Sensors) is the Voth, and I can't think of the last time I saw an NPC use a Confuse ability (e.g. Scramble Sensors). It might be better for you to shift those points into Graviton Generators (increases AoE of Grav Well).

  ahh yes, i wish i could change those points without using a whole new respec. i'll be honest, those points are from over a year ago when i did kerrat daily just for fun. there was always someone who would pester me with sensor jam or something. when i switched up my build about that time, i specifically wanted a defense against that. now they dont usually have enough time to be cloaked before the effect wears off. though since i've fallen out of PVP in the last year, i really do want to put those points literally anywhere but there.
  that said, inertial stabilizers are still amazingly useful for when i have tricobalt mines equipped on my other ship. i tend to hit myself alot

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