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survivorofremus
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Hi all,
As I'm sure most of you are aware, the Vulcan D'Kyr Science Ship is one of the only remaining non-lockbox Ships to have a Fleet Version Upgrade, although the visuals were recently fixed (Kudos to Cryptic on that one).
I absolutely love the design of the ship itself and, although i know there are better Sci ships out there, will be continuing to fly her. My query comes in the form of how best to utilise this particular vessel and was wondering what the STO community might come up with as to how make the most of it.
I now open the floor to the wider community..............
As I'm sure most of you are aware, the Vulcan D'Kyr Science Ship is one of the only remaining non-lockbox Ships to have a Fleet Version Upgrade, although the visuals were recently fixed (Kudos to Cryptic on that one).
I absolutely love the design of the ship itself and, although i know there are better Sci ships out there, will be continuing to fly her. My query comes in the form of how best to utilise this particular vessel and was wondering what the STO community might come up with as to how make the most of it.
I now open the floor to the wider community..............
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The only science I actively play I leveled for that ship (I got her to 50 the very day before the ship was actually released
Crowd control?
I felt so evil making that.
I took her out of dry dock a while back, and I hit 14k DPS with her in her single, unoptimized outing.
I don't complain about her any more.
experimental romulan beam, romulan plasma beam, romulan torp
3pc borg
spire core, amp, other stats
cutting beam, 2x romulan plasma beam
aux battery, red matter cap, sub space field modulator
assimilated module, plasmodic leech, zero point
4xembassy particle generator, -threat +plasma
2xplasma energy console
3xA2B technician
1 Transporter Officer - clears boarding parties with transfer shield strength
1 Tractor Beam officer - Tractor Beam Repulsors now pull targets
1 Gravemetirc Scientist - Spawn aftershock gravity wells
Fire at Will 1, Attack Pattern Beta 1
emergency to shields 1, aux to battery 1, emergency to weapons 3
hazzards 1, tractor repulsors 1, photonic shockwave 1, gravity well 3
transfer shields 1, wildcard slot (I like scramble most cases, but borg are immune)
sci team 1
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But in all seriousness, from what I can see, the D'Kyr's advantage is the LtCmdr eng station. With that, I suppose you can run a build consisting of this:
Plasma weapons
EWP1
Theta rad console
2x Tractor Beam
Beam Target Engines
GW3 or Tyken 3
3pc Borg set (for the Holding Beam)
This way, in PvP, the D'Kyr acts like a Fleet Research Science Vessel in that it can zip around, tractor one target and wrap it up in warp plasma. A quick subnuc to clear hazards, and you have yourself one immobilized and burning ship.
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PvE
TS1, FAW2
EPtS1, EPtW2, EWP1
HE1, TSS2, GW1, GW3
HE1, TBR1
ST1
Weapons:
Front:
2 Polaron Beam Arrays 1 Grav Torpedo
Back:
2 Polaron Beam Arrays 1 Kinetic cutting beam
Doffs:
3 Blue Damage Control Engineers
1 TBR Doff so it pulls
1 GW Aftershock Doff Or 1 Transporter Doff if doing a STF to clear boarding parties.
PvP
TT1, TS2
EPtE1, EPtS1, EWP1
HE1, TSS2, TBR2, GW3
HE1, ST2
PH1
Weapons:
Front:
2 Polaron Beam Arrays 1 Grav Torpedo
Back:
2 Polaron Beam Arrays 1 Chronoton Torpedo
Doffs:
3 Blue Damage Control Engineers
1 TBR Doff so it pulls
1 GW Aftershock Doff
The idea for both PvE and PvP is Kinetic damage with TBR, GW, Grav Torpedo rifts, and warp plasma. For pvp I added the chronoton torpedo to slow people down so they get stuck in the GW or can't pull away from the TBR and Warp Plasma.
Use the Engi LtCmdr station for EPtW3 to buff weapon damage, but you are starting with 6 weapons and 2 tac consoles, so while you can make it do good damage for a sci ship you will never be competetive with escorts or tactical cruisers. If you want to do weapon damage, fly one of those instead.
Or you can use the LtCmdr station for EPtA3 and buff your spells, but the price of the Engi LtCmdr station is one less LtCmdr Sci station--you get an extra Ensign Sci instead--so you give up a high-level power in order to potentially buff the fewer high-level powers.
The extra ensign station basically makes it best used as a healer (extra HE1 or ST1), and you can run EPtS3 to help buff your own shield repairs, but it doesn't have the hull hit-points to be a healer tank and survive bypass attacks.
And so forth
It really needs the ensign station converted to universal, like all of the other old-style c-store and fleet ships. It would still be less flexible than the Fleet Nebula, but it would at least open the door for a couple of additional possiblities. As it stands now, 2000 zen worth of fleet modules will get you the more flexible ship.
yeah, a Fleet D'Kyr will need to change a lot. Right now, the Vesta, Nebula, and Olympic can all have the same boff layout as the D'Kyr, and the Nebula and Olympic have the same console layout too. The pet in a STF is useless because the borg will aggro it across the whole map. Outside of a STF it can be useful but since the "Fix" it can't be used on anyone else.
I think a universal ensign is the right way to go and maybe an extra science console. Giving it an engineering console will make it too much like the fleet nebula and fleet olympic.
http://www.stoacademy.com/tools/skillplanner/index.php?build=crm14916dkyr01_5163
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This is slightly off the beaten path, but in terms of context I think is pretty awesome:
Step 1: Get a Tellarite Engineer Captain to level 50.
Step 2: Get the Vulcan science vessel D'Kyr
Step 3: Arm it with Andorian weapons, opened up through the acquisition of the Andorian ship bundle.
Step 4: Name the ship the USS Federation
Step 5: Celebrate First Contact Day as the living embodiment of the United Federation of Planets, as a Tellarite in a Vulcan ship with Andorian weapons, covering Engineering (your career path), Science (the vessel) and Tactical (the Andorian weapons are opened by acquiring a tactical ship).
BA ZING!
LOL! I had to laugh with this one.
+1
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Thanks for posting some details about your build Kimmym, got some useful tips from that Info. So 14k DPS, if I can get near that with my Sci I will be extremely happy :-)
It's still useful if done well.
Hopefully people are making educated choices from the beginning to not expect all ships to be DPS-scorts.
There are more interesting and fun things we can do to be effective in STO. You can pretty much take almost any ship and make it effective; this becomes fun when it's a ship that you like. You don't even have to use Reputation gear to be effective.
SCE ADVISORY NOTICE: Improper Impulse Engine maintenance can result in REAR THRUSTER LEAKAGE. ALWAYS have your work inspected by another qualified officer.
By doing that might unlock a secret passive set ability, like an EXTRA LARGE FEDERATION CHEVRON DISPLAY over your ship! ...you know, like that one at the Wolf 359 Memorial!
The problem with that power is that ALL enemy ships within 100km will converge on your location, just remember to being extra Fleet Neutronium, with -threat and Large Shield batteries.
SCE ADVISORY NOTICE: Improper Impulse Engine maintenance can result in REAR THRUSTER LEAKAGE. ALWAYS have your work inspected by another qualified officer.
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