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  • antoniosalieriantoniosalieri Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    macronius wrote: »
    Can someone post 1 or 2 of these amazing drain builds? Never had super effective drain builds even on KDF science toon.

    http://www.stoacademy.com/tools/skillplanner/?build=vestaekwspec_0

    I posted a vesta one in the vesta help thread you had started. ;)

    Of course now you can put an Aceton on there as well... which you couldn't when I posted it.

    What makes a drain build work is a handful of things.

    1) Boost flow caps as much as you can
    2) Run 2-3 Deflector doffs... and slot Tykens Siphen GW and if you can a tachyon beam. They all proc the doff and by running 4 skills that proc the doffs you can keep your tykens rift and siphen at global.
    3) Don't be an idiot with your SA and nuke. Try to set your targets up with combos of stacks of SA and Well timed nukes to ensure the least number of clears are up for tykens and siphen. Most people don't think about rolling there counters so you can often nuke the timers on Hazards and Engi team at the same time and stack 4 drains with a AA equipped vesta now.

    Of course the ultimate drain ship is still the pallisade... as you also have the Voth Aceston console that turns your ship into an extra aceton.
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  • lucho80lucho80 Member Posts: 6,600 Bug Hunter
    edited July 2014
    I need one of those for my drainer! And pray tell what this expensive boff abilty is please? You guys talk in riddles lol!

    We're forcing you to read. It's not like there are that many to read through.
  • macroniusmacronius Member Posts: 2,526
    edited July 2014
    Yes, you have a decent build but I haven't seen Tychon's Rift be really effective if you have a single ship. Even with other holds it still too easy to fly away from TR

    1. Evasive
    2. Omega
    3. EptE
    4. Deuterium or other speed boost

    Coupled with EpT Dampners and it is bye bye birdie. Agree with many of your other suggestions but TR is very situational and best if used on ship with slowed speed and otherwise ensnared. I also didn't neglect SA.

    http://www.stoacademy.com/tools/skillplanner/?build=vestaekwspec_0

    I posted a vesta one in the vesta help thread you had started. ;)

    Of course now you can put an Aceton on there as well... which you couldn't when I posted it.

    What makes a drain build work is a handful of things.

    1) Boost flow caps as much as you can
    2) Run 2-3 Deflector doffs... and slot Tykens Siphen GW and if you can a tachyon beam. They all proc the doff and by running 4 skills that proc the doffs you can keep your tykens rift and siphen at global.
    3) Don't be an idiot with your SA and nuke. Try to set your targets up with combos of stacks of SA and Well timed nukes to ensure the least number of clears are up for tykens and siphen. Most people don't think about rolling there counters so you can often nuke the timers on Hazards and Engi team at the same time and stack 4 drains with a AA equipped vesta now.

    Of course the ultimate drain ship is still the pallisade... as you also have the Voth Aceston console that turns your ship into an extra aceton.
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  • antoniosalieriantoniosalieri Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    macronius wrote: »
    Yes, you have a decent build but I haven't seen Tychon's Rift be really effective if you have a single ship. Even with other holds it still too easy to fly away from TR

    1. Evasive
    2. Omega
    3. EptE
    4. Deuterium or other speed boost

    Coupled with EpT Dampners and it is bye bye birdie. Agree with many of your other suggestions but TR is very situational and best if used on ship with slowed speed and otherwise ensnared. I also didn't neglect SA.

    Sub nuke :) All the cleans doffs in the world don't replace buffs that have gone bye bye.

    Honestly sci is always about timing. Doesn't matter what build you are running.

    Some times yes it involves holding your drain roll for a bit and looking for the opening.

    At some point though. Mr. Zippy escort is going to have a 15s gap in there omega and be silly enough to be in tractor range. If you have timed there hazards well enough. Its not that hard to tractor target engines siphen tykens... spam some torps and yes watch then explode.
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  • michaelp1989michaelp1989 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    macronius wrote: »
    Can someone post 1 or 2 of these amazing drain builds? Never had super effective drain builds even on KDF science toon.

    When I played I used something like this on my drain'fi-regular kar'fi, didn't have fleet one. Oh and toon is female Orion-most important part lol.
    Nothing serious but my friend who had atb build couldn't send me to spawn in duel. :P

    tt, b:tw2, b:ts3
    tt, rf1

    epts, rsp/epts2
    tb
    he,tach. beam or cpb for cloak disable mainly, vm1/tr2/es with juel, tr3

    tr ofc with aftershock, u could use doff for target subsys disable proc

    or replace btw2 with another rf...

    fore:phased lolarons dbb/ba (i had 1 peng fore-lolarons+vm+peng purpl hax lol)
    aft: lolaron turrets


    pl, aa, black poo or whatever else u want
    4x fleet fc
    karfi console or whatever, also ur choice-i had borg console here

    deflector with flow caps

    1x siphon pet, 1x fer jai or 2x fer jai-i prefer 2x fer jai
    tachyon pets could be effective if they weren't nerfed heavily
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  • macready08macready08 Member Posts: 46 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    You know your getting old when you have to tell all the kids about eps console
  • lucho80lucho80 Member Posts: 6,600 Bug Hunter
    edited July 2014
    EPS is a two way street. It giveth quick and it taketh just as fast.
  • macready08macready08 Member Posts: 46 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    lucho80 wrote: »
    EPS is a two way street. It giveth quick and it taketh just as fast.

    It taketh away very little if your up against a drain build and it's about the most effective counter. A drain build is a very specialized and difficult build to pull off. So I would say if you can counter an entire build with 1 or 2 consoles your doing pretty good. It's pretty simple run your normal setup if you run into a drain team throw on your eps consoles.
  • shadowwraith77shadowwraith77 Member Posts: 6,395 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    lucho80 wrote: »
    Just a quick PSA: You can push graviton generators so high that you can create a gravity well with a diameter of almost 20Km, plus aftershocks. Seen this one used in PvP and it's fun to see.

    Another quick PSA: You can build a Nebula with so much sensors skill that you can see cloaked ships from extremely far away.

    Lol, nothing funner than sucking them into a GW, than pop off some grav torpedoes to swirl them into a mix, all while sucking the life out of them with ES, and just when they thought the worst is over, blam rains down a TR while holding them with a TB, or TBR (doffed), or even the risan cruiser console, and oh no more incoming grav torpedoes. :eek::D:P

    Oh, and you can toss in the AA, at any point.
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  • lucho80lucho80 Member Posts: 6,600 Bug Hunter
    edited July 2014
    macready08 wrote: »
    It taketh away very little if your up against a drain build and it's about the most effective counter. A drain build is a very specialized and difficult build to pull off. So I would say if you can counter an entire build with 1 or 2 consoles your doing pretty good. It's pretty simple run your normal setup if you run into a drain team throw on your eps consoles.

    http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1013061
  • scurry5scurry5 Member Posts: 1,554 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    lucho80 wrote: »
    We're forcing you to read. It's not like there are that many to read through.

    Oh, could it be......Target Subs 3?
  • ursusmorologusursusmorologus Member Posts: 5,328 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Maybe I should make my nebbie a weapon-power drainer...
  • iskandusiskandus Member Posts: 1,062 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    scurry5 wrote: »
    Oh, could it be......Target Subs 3?

    Where is the rat terminator when you need one... ;)
  • iskandusiskandus Member Posts: 1,062 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Lol, nothing funner than sucking them into a GW, than pop off some grav torpedoes to swirl them into a mix, all while sucking the life out of them with ES, and just when they thought the worst is over, blam rains down a TR while holding them with a TB, or TBR (doffed), or even the risan cruiser console, and oh no more incoming grav torpedoes. :eek::D:P

    Oh, and you can toss in the AA, at any point.

    What you describe sounds like tossing a salad. :D
  • mimey2mimey2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    lucho80 wrote: »
    EPS is a two way street. It giveth quick and it taketh just as fast.

    I am the Drain thy Build. Thou shalt have no other Builds before me.

    The Book of L33t, chapter 5, verse 24.
    I remain empathetic to the concerns of my community, but do me a favor and lay off the god damn name calling and petty remarks. It will get you nowhere.
    I must admit, respect points to Trendy for laying down the law like that.
  • scurry5scurry5 Member Posts: 1,554 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    iskandus wrote: »
    Where is the rat terminator when you need one... ;)

    Nuuuu.......:P
  • scurry5scurry5 Member Posts: 1,554 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    iskandus wrote: »
    What you describe sounds like tossing a salad. :D

    Thanks for the inspiration.

    A drain gone wrong: http://youtu.be/uqG3CPOPKvg
  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Meh, all this talk about drains has me thinking too much about the ex-wife...
  • ursusmorologusursusmorologus Member Posts: 5,328 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    scurry5 wrote: »
    Thanks for the inspiration.

    A drain gone wrong: http://youtu.be/uqG3CPOPKvg

    okay I lol'd
  • evilito8evilito8 Member Posts: 39 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Are Tyken's still targetable and destructable? They used to be, not sure if they are still.
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  • ursusmorologusursusmorologus Member Posts: 5,328 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    evilito8 wrote: »
    Are Tyken's still targetable and destructable? They used to be, not sure if they are still.
    No, and if you're talking about what I think you are then that was a bug for a very brief period
  • shadowwraith77shadowwraith77 Member Posts: 6,395 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    iskandus wrote: »
    What you describe sounds like tossing a salad. :D

    Yes siree, a player ship salad, or an npc salad, just add shake n bake. :P
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  • dontdrunkimshootdontdrunkimshoot Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    scurry5 wrote: »
    Thanks for the inspiration.

    A drain gone wrong: http://youtu.be/uqG3CPOPKvg

    i am dieing :D
  • skurfskurf Member Posts: 1,071 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    scurry5 wrote: »
    Thanks for the inspiration.

    A drain gone wrong: http://youtu.be/uqG3CPOPKvg

    That is....amazing :D
  • spaceeagle20spaceeagle20 Member Posts: 971 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    I just had a quick look… so much gold info : going to bookmark this thread.
    Thanks, antoniosalieri
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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    scurry5 wrote: »
    Thanks for the inspiration.

    A drain gone wrong: http://youtu.be/uqG3CPOPKvg

    This is brilliant.
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  • shadowwraith77shadowwraith77 Member Posts: 6,395 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    scurry5 wrote: »
    Thanks for the inspiration.

    A drain gone wrong: http://youtu.be/uqG3CPOPKvg

    Good PVP description, had me laughing.
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  • lucho80lucho80 Member Posts: 6,600 Bug Hunter
    edited July 2014
    Just another quick PSA:
    http://tinypic.com/m/i57keq/3

    Fear Dracula, for he will be more dangerous soon.....
  • shadowwraith77shadowwraith77 Member Posts: 6,395 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    lucho80 wrote: »
    Just another quick PSA:
    http://tinypic.com/m/i57keq/3

    Fear Dracula, for he will be more dangerous soon.....

    Nice toy lucho.

    /10char
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  • spaceeagle20spaceeagle20 Member Posts: 971 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    lucho80 wrote: »
    Just another quick PSA:
    http://tinypic.com/m/i57keq/3

    Fear Dracula, for he will be more dangerous soon.....

    Lagosi Dracula, you won't be the only " vampire " to craft that console ;-)

    Signed - Arthas Lestat :P

    Anyway, very interesting, congrats ... is there anything for drains in the science school?
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