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why do YOU like the Schimitar line?

imadude3imadude3 Member Posts: 825 Arc User
edited March 2014 in Romulan Discussion
personally i like the tactical version because of the following reasons:
5/3 weapon slots
5 tac
3 sci
2 engiee
almost perfect cloak (seriously, i compared it to my T'varo against a fleetie, and in my T'varo, he could see me at roughly 2km distance, but in the schimitar, he couldn't see untill 0.2km)
the set consoles and set bonuses are not useless! (i know many people think the thalaron pulse is useless, and for PvP it is, but for PvE it is really a ton of fun to use :D)
and of course, the ever so epic romulan drone ships :D

so why do YOU like the schimitar? DISCUSS!
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  • jockey1979jockey1979 Member Posts: 1,005 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Big green pulse of DOOOOOOOM :D
  • johngazmanjohngazman Member Posts: 2,826 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Because it's good.
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  • rahmkota19rahmkota19 Member Posts: 1,929 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Dislike it due to it being a god ship, outgunning anything else in the game with ease, when only Romulans (the most OP fraction of them all) can fly it. This ship was responisble for deleting that 3kb file in the game that said Balance. Before the ship, at least it had 3 kb. Now its gone. You see 90% of the Rommies in one. It is yet to meet its equal.
  • imadude3imadude3 Member Posts: 825 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    rahmkota19 wrote: »
    Dislike it due to it being a god ship, outgunning anything else in the game with ease, when only Romulans (the most OP fraction of them all) can fly it. This ship was responisble for deleting that 3kb file in the game that said Balance. Before the ship, at least it had 3 kb. Now its gone. You see 90% of the Rommies in one. It is yet to meet its equal.

    that very much depends. i've destroyer a few Scimitars while fleet pvping, and i am as far from a pvp player you'll probably ever see
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  • catliketypingcatliketyping Member Posts: 611
    edited February 2014
    It isnt my cup of tea, but i am glad others do it in STFs so i dont have to.

    I like the mogai/valdore from Nemesis. The D'deridex is pretty. My preferred ships are torpedo boats. Nothing about the Scimitar in terms of looks or playstyle is me, but i like seeing them on my side.

    Maybe the Scimitar should have been a lockbox ship or something, but the genie is out of the bottle.

    Probably another reason to avoid pvp though.
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  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    imadude3 wrote: »
    that very much depends. i've destroyer a few Scimitars while fleet pvping, and i am as far from a pvp player you'll probably ever see

    All that means is that the person flying it was bad. The Scimitar is very much a god ship. That doesn't mean that everyone who has one can fly it well.
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  • imadude3imadude3 Member Posts: 825 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    lan451 wrote: »
    All that means is that the person flying it was bad. The Scimitar is very much a god ship. That doesn't mean that everyone who has one can fly it well.

    as i said, it very much depends
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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited February 2014
    Because I like the look of the Scimitar and Falchion hulls.

    Though there should have been a free version with only the scimitar hull with vastly reduced stats as a counterpoint to the free Oddy and Bortas in the fleet store.
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  • crm14916crm14916 Member Posts: 1,535 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I'm interested in getting one, because the Dhelan is nice and quick, but lacks the weapons slots. I'd be one of those guys in the Scimitar that you all could beat, because I'd not fly it as nicely or as well as those who rock with them. I have the Ha'apax too, and I can't stand the thing! Someone in game last night said it "turns like a refrigerator," and they're not kidding... So, hoping the Falchion has a better turn rate and I like the extra weapons slots...

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  • imadude3imadude3 Member Posts: 825 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    artan42 wrote: »
    Because I like the look of the Scimitar and Falchion hulls.

    Though there should have been a free version with only the scimitar hull with vastly reduced stats as a counterpoint to the free Oddy and Bortas in the fleet store.

    i agree with this
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  • norobladnoroblad Member Posts: 2,624 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    It is a good ship. Its just hard to compare a ship with a universal high ranking officer, a pet, 5 frontal weapons, cloak, etc. It can be a little fragile if you don't have top gear and game knowledge, combined with the innate high dps (its easy to make a glass cannon from it) and temptation to go aoe something and get blown up... the drawbacks are, simply, that its difficult to gear out and fly for a new player -- the same new player that is seeing everywhere what a great ship it is...

    mine is mothballed until I have better stuffs :)
  • osiabunnyosiabunny Member Posts: 36 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    rahmkota19 wrote: »
    Dislike it due to it being a god ship, outgunning anything else in the game with ease, when only Romulans (the most OP fraction of them all) can fly it. This ship was responisble for deleting that 3kb file in the game that said Balance. Before the ship, at least it had 3 kb. Now its gone. You see 90% of the Rommies in one. It is yet to meet its equal.

    Hey now, I'm a Romulan and I love my fleet mogai more then any other ship :D
  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Because it's ridiculously OP, and I like it that way.

    I usually prefer 10,000,000 DPS over-crit PWNscorts, but the Scimmy is just a beautiful ship with lots of OP.

    And as hard as it is to pilot, it is worth every penny of those 5000 ZEN. I regularly get 1st in ISE and other Borg STFS with it, even when using the thalaron gun.

    Dyson 4-piece set plus thalaron gun = win.

    You set off the advanced metaphasic shields, activate the supergun, and wait for the tac cube to go pow. Set up secondary shields as soon as the metaphasics drop, activate tac team next and heal shields, use reverse shield polarity when it comes up, using torp scatter volley 3 and cannon rapid fire 3 (front 4 DHCs and a torp, back 3 turrets)...

    OP.
  • imadude3imadude3 Member Posts: 825 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    worffan101 wrote: »
    Because it's ridiculously OP, and I like it that way.

    I usually prefer 10,000,000 DPS over-crit PWNscorts, but the Scimmy is just a beautiful ship with lots of OP.

    And as hard as it is to pilot, it is worth every penny of those 5000 ZEN. I regularly get 1st in ISE and other Borg STFS with it, even when using the thalaron gun.

    Dyson 4-piece set plus thalaron gun = win.

    You set off the advanced metaphasic shields, activate the supergun, and wait for the tac cube to go pow. Set up secondary shields as soon as the metaphasics drop, activate tac team next and heal shields, use reverse shield polarity when it comes up, using torp scatter volley 3 and cannon rapid fire 3 (front 4 DHCs and a torp, back 3 turrets)...

    OP.

    you sir, have a diabolical mind... i like it
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  • alsayyidalsayyid Member Posts: 115 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I've always wanted one. But I can't bring myself to level another tactical captain or another alt for that matter.

    Now if they made a KDF version, I think cruiser commands balance against singularity powers... I would certainly part with some of my income. Until then I am content with what I have.
  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    imadude3 wrote: »
    you sir, have a diabolical mind... i like it

    :D:D:D

    I like OP, what can I say? A challenge is all well and good, but there's something fun about nuking the Borg.
  • wazzagiowwazzagiow Member Posts: 769 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I bought the bundle, don't fly any of them on my 3 romulans. just wasn't for me. I enjoyed flying a scimitar for like a day and gave up on it. it was far too easy to fly. so I went back to my fleet d'deridex and rommie vet ship
  • jockey1979jockey1979 Member Posts: 1,005 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    alsayyid wrote: »
    I've always wanted one. But I can't bring myself to level another tactical captain or another alt for that matter.

    Now if they made a KDF version, I think cruiser commands balance against singularity powers... I would certainly part with some of my income. Until then I am content with what I have.

    I fly mine with an Engi and use the above config, I may not have APA3, but I can stop all forms of power drain with combo power boost to go with it :)

    4 DHC, 1 Torp and 3 turrets with no power drain and rapid fire is a sight to behold ! :)
  • atalossataloss Member Posts: 563 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    As a Vulcan-Federation-Engineer Pilot, whom pilots the awesome Jem'Hadar Dreadnought Carrier. I like the Scimitar because it's the only ship in the game that makes me feel like a kid in a candy store. I obviously don't own one, but every time I see one I say to myself "respect!". I'm still on the fence about creating a Romulan toon just for that ship once I reach high enough levels. The grind to build up another character isn't worth it on this game (but that's for another argument).

    It's obvious I don't own one, but I've had "blow things up faster races" with it and I've always lost. I've done an entire side of the vortex by myself and the Scimitar did it's side by itself. Guess what,...they were done first and came over to help me out.

    That ship is death itself. What's not to like? Because I like Engineering ships (and having a Gravity Well), I would prefer the Falchion Dreadnought Warbird.
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  • ebonsonebonson Member Posts: 34 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I bought the 3 pack when it came out, it was just about the same time as my Rommie got to max level but I don't use it much anymore. It's cool and I like the firepower and the shields while cloaked thing but it's just too damn big it seems like any ship that explodes in the zone will damage my hull.
  • thegalaxy31thegalaxy31 Member Posts: 1,211 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    It does tons of damage and it's really tanky. Very versatile ship. I also like that if you look at it head-on, it's shaped like an ARC.
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  • hyplhypl Member Posts: 3,719 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    It is ridonkulously OP. Battle cloak with shields, Thalaron blast, secondary shields, drone ships. That's why I like it. It's a crime to enjoy something this illegally overpowered, but I don't care. :P

    I only wish the Odyssey and Bortasqu' were brought up to par with it. Tweak their console abilities. Give them a hangar bay or something.
  • bluegeekbluegeek Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    My main deal is I don't think the Republic would or should use Thalaron weapons.

    Both the Federation and the Klingon Empire strongly disapprove/discourage the use of such things, and the Republic needs to play nice with them.

    But they (the Scimitar variants) are there, and it's awfully tempting to get for my Rommies.


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  • wazzagiowwazzagiow Member Posts: 769 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    hypl wrote: »
    It is ridonkulously OP. Battle cloak with shields, Thalaron blast, secondary shields, drone ships. That's why I like it. It's a crime to enjoy something this illegally overpowered, but I don't care. :P

    I only wish the Odyssey and Bortasqu' were brought up to par with it. Tweak their console abilities. Give them a hangar bay or something.

    well maybe they should at least have a hangar. while they could do maybe with a tiny tweak it's the scimitar that needs tweaking. if only the oddy and bort was brought up to par with the scimitar then all other ships would get left behind. it would be easier for the developers to slap hangars on the oddy and bort and tweak the scimitar to be slightly less op. other wise you will have a massive ship rebalancing problem.
  • majortiraomegamajortiraomega Member Posts: 2,214 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    imadude3 wrote: »
    so why do YOU like the schimitar? DISCUSS!
    I hate the Scimitar, it is by far the most overpowered ship in the entire game. Their unique hangar pets have more hull than some player ships and they spam Scramble Sensors constantly. Scimitars deal insanely high damage per second and may wipe out an entire opposing team through heals. At this point I wish Romulans were never introduced to the game. Their faction is awful and it's ruined Space PvP.
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  • imadude3imadude3 Member Posts: 825 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I hate the Scimitar, it is by far the most overpowered ship in the entire game. Their unique hangar pets have more hull than some player ships and they spam Scramble Sensors constantly. Scimitars deal insanely high damage per second and may wipe out an entire opposing team through heals. At this point I wish Romulans were never introduced to the game. Their faction is awful and it's ruined Space PvP.

    well, someone sure likes to get off-topic :P nah, im just kidding, everyone is entitled to their own opinions :)
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  • hereticknight085hereticknight085 Member Posts: 3,783 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Why do I like my Scimitar... Let me count the ways...

    1) She's a visually sexy beast. I thought the Scimitar looked AMAZING in Nemesis. Then I saw the Scimis in STO and cried because they looked so bad... Then they released the player Scimitar (along with a MASSIVE visual overhaul), and gave you the ability to put the Reman skin on it. And then you can kit-bash the pieces from all 3 models together. Now I have a very sexy ship at my disposal.

    2) You can do so bloody much with that ship. With the LtCmdr Uni, you can run three distince playstyles on it. You can run it as a CC machine of destruction (GW1 and CSV with an APB3/APO3), you can run it as a tanky machine of destruction (EPtS1, Aux2SIF1, RSP2), or you can run it as a purely dakka oriented tactical monstrosity from hell.

    3) SHE NEVER DIES. EVER. I honestly cannot remember the last time my Scimitar kersploded. She's so naturally tanky it's obscene. Base hull of 40k, 1.1 shield mod, each model has at least 2 engi consoles? What more could you ask for? Add skills, and you can very VERY easily get her hull up to 55k, and her shield mod up to 1.4. Add in equipment, and it just goes nuts. Regardless of what your BOff layout is, it's very difficult for a competent player to go wrong in that ship. It's almost as if you have to TRY in order to fail. SHE'S A MONSTER.

    4) There is no other ship in game that can match her damage output. The forward firepower on a Scimitar is insane. And I mean INSANE. Yeah, the bug and Andorian escorts are powerful, but the Scimitar puts them to shame. Even the Fleet Ha'feh can't hold a candle to this ship. I've clocked decloaking alphas on a tac scimitar exceeding 200k DPS. It was almost funny watching the tac cube just melt in under 10 seconds. From one ship. Granted it took a lot of APBs and two FOMM3s, but still... You won't find another ship that can hit as hard as she can, while still tanking as well as she can. Hell, half the time, I just LOOK at an NPC and it blows itself up just so I won't. I named my ship the Voidreaver. And she lives up to it in every fight.

    5) Romulan Drone Ships. The EC ones are great. The Advanced ones are amazing. And the Elite Drones? Those things are just... well tbh, I actually have destroyed a few of my friends using JUST my drones. The pair of drones is actually stronger than most mobs on Elite. And like someone was complaining earlier, they have constant scramble sensor spam, which makes those vaunted BFAW boats as much of a danger to their allies as they are to their enemies. I've had my fair share of PvP rounds where my team was getting BFAW'd like nuts, and then my drones fired off their SS. Suddenly beams are hitting EVERYTHING (friend, foe, random asteroids, the chipmunk across the street, you name it, it was getting shot). It was hilarious. And awesome.

    Long story short, to answer your question, I don't like my Scimitar. I LOVE my Scimitar. Yes, she power-slides everywhere. Yes, she can't really turn that well decloaked. Yes, she takes forever and a day to come to a stop. But you know what? She's still a sexy, versatile, durable, sneaky weapon of mass destruction that has pets that are just as evil. Apparently she's also a source of lots of Q.Q. But that just adds to the appeal.
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  • sonnikkusonnikku Member Posts: 77 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I like it for being a ship that has all the power of a new ugly duckling "home brew" cryptic ship with all the iconic looks of a ship from Star Trek canon.
  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    @ hereticknight: I agree so completely with all of that.

    I named my Mistborn trilogy-themed alt's Tulwar-class RRW Ruin (after the god of destruction from Mistborn).

    My Rommie tac's tac scimitar is such a DPS monster...I mean, the thing powerslides all over the place and it STILL wipes the FLOOR with all Borg STFs.

    No fleet gear at all, no drone ships. Just the 3 consoles and the Dyson set.

    I annihilated a tac cube in 30 seconds with torp spread 3, cannon rapid fire 3, advanced metaphasic shields, and the supergun. PWN.

    Scimitars are beautiful, lethal monsters. Yes, they are OP. But damn it, that's part of the fun.

    Plus, it's canon. ;):D:P:cool:
  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    So I got some basic drone ships for my tac's scimmy (IRW Scimitar), and nuked the hell out of Cure Found Elite, no deaths, got 1st.

    Best. Run. EVER.

    Ran CEE with my alt's Tulwar (RRW Ruin) in factory condition with a couple basic consoles, and got 3rd. Only died once, when the entity charged for the 1st time and I hit the wrong button.

    I am in love with the Scimitar bundle...
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