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moneymdget
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I have been playing a while, but I cant seem to do enough damage to the borg or any other mobs. My current set up Consists of Anti-proton dual beam banks Mk XI and and phasers both dual and arrays both Mk XII or XI with transphasic torpedo launchers fore and aft. I need suggestions for weapons that would help or any ideas/suggestions at all really. I really want to be able to destroy borg cubes in the Ker'rat system easily. Any suggestions?
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What you need to do now is describe every other relevant aspect of your Faction, ship, character, Boffs, Doffs, playstyle...
I have a good fleetmate in STO, flies a Scim. Unknown to me and him, another Fleetmate parsed us, him in his Scim, me in my level 44 tacs brand new to her T5 ship - only 2 weapons on it were not white Mk VIII, and it had no consoles beyond a white Mk IX Neutronium Alloy.
I was within 100 DPS of him over a match - it isn't about what you fly, but how you fly it.
ETA - FYI, she is also capable of soloing a Cube. Not with ease, but she can do it.
Go to stoacademy.com and post your build.
Don't use transphasics in pve and never use two or more energy types
My PvE/PvP hybrid skill tree
Against targets that do move you will need to have a high turn rate to keep them focussed or
switch to single beams with a wider arc.
If you are a cruiser then fit single beams front and back and broadside to bring all 7 or 8 to bare.
If you are a science vessel you may need good consoles to have great effect unless using exotic damage.
You do more damage if up close so fly right up to it, slam it in reverse, hit tac team & unload everything especially if you have 180 degree beams like the Borg ctting beam or are using turrets rear.
DaiMon Shem
1st bit - reason why you don't in PvE is NPCs put far less effort into maintaining shields, so it isn't necessary - in PvP Transphasics are a must unless you can use other Torp types for a massive spike before a Tactical Team re-distributes shield strength.
2nd bit - not mixing weapon energy types - you don't do this because it reduces the benefit of matching Tactical Consoles to your Energy type - Tac Console benefits stack linearly, whereas Sci and Eng consoles are static/experience diminishing returns respectively, and this means you stack the best Tac consoles you can, and put universals in other slots.
I run an RLC with my Tac Orion ... On that ship I'm running 6 x Tetryon BA's and one Standard Transohasic Torp up front and the Cluster Torp on the back (for the little parting gift) All of the gear is cheap Blue XI stuff of the exchange/Dil store, with at least one [Acc] modifier.
It's absolutely f*****g brilliant! The Tets' rip the shields form the enemy, and the Transphasic does the rest.
I've also run ESTF's in it, and damn near come close to the numbers of a JHDC flown by a very wealthy, experienced, veteran player, and beaten the numbers done by players in Scimi's and Defiants.
The same toon also runs the 'vette, except she runs Disruptor DHC's and Turrets with the RR Trans Torp up front, and THAT ship also wipes away enemies, the Disruptor lowering defense, and the Trans Torp cleaning up after ...
Again all of the gear, from Weapons to the Consoles, is Blue XI Exchange or Dil Store stuff, no Purple or Fleet gear ... And the three "free" pieces of the Solonae set, plus the Obelisk Warp Core.
If you don't like Trans torps, that your choice, but I personally find them utterly brilliant! You should probably preface statements like that with 'IMO" ...
Photons are better for DPS, Quantums for spike, Plasma has a nice Damage over Time effect, Chronitons are pretty much ignoreable as slowing movement is only useful in PvP and even then it isn't effective, and Tricobalts are only of any use if they actually hit without being intercepted. Which isn't likely on either count.
Also, the Tetryon ethos of shield killing isn't very good, as by the time you actually bring the shield down it will probably be dead or dying anyway, and your shield killing proc is wasted.
Nice idea, less effective in practice.
ETA - I'm not saying you should go off and replace all your Tetryon kit, it will still be effective in any STO PvE content. Just that it isn't optimal.
However, mixing beam arrays and DBB means that only ever half of your weapons will fire on your target...so you basically cut your potentia DPS in half with such a setup.
i suggest you do some research for a viable ship build on the internet first, since there are trillions of possible builds ot there that have been proven countless times to solo even elite STF cubes.
Anyone want to give me a Temporal Heavy Dreadnought pack? I'll be your friend