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sierra078
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I just finished the Nukara reputation. I'm currently working the Omega reputation. I have the Nukara Strike force full auto rifle and the shields, but they seem ineffective against the Borg. The Borg seem to adapt much faster to the cold rifle than the antiproton sniper rifle I carry as well. I know that the Nukara equipment is optimized to fight the Tholians but I would think that the shields would offer a bit more protection than what I'm experiencing. I'm working on getting a custom kit together. For now i have an older Physicist MK X kit. I have a Xindi science kit with 1 sci mod, 2 research, 1 medic (I think) What modules would go best against the Borg. I'm thinking Tachyon Harmonic, grav-field, exothermic, hyperonic radiation. And should I totally switch to Omega/Maco set and sell off the Nukara stuff?
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yeah the old kits seem to be more effective but it lacks the modules I need under my FED SCI VA. I use to use the Voth AP ground weapons they don't seem to be so effective against the Borg. 8472 weapons some what. Get the 4 Research and 1 Medic Kit called Science Kit [Medic] on the exchange.
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I use the Spire Kit with all Modules that were in the physicist kit and wipe out an entire borg-mob in Elite STFs within 3sec. If you want to slot heal, there is one universal slot you can use one heal-module in it, which is more than enough.
1. Eletrogravtic to hold in place, works with biochemist
2. Tachyon harmonics, biochemist approved
3. Tricorder scan, biochemist approved
4. Exothermic induction, biochemist approved
5 . Secondary attack on the compression pistol
If you run in a group of enemies use Nettie infiltration first. Against the non primary target, this will give it time to spread to other enemies
Always save your dampening field for the hard hitting targets like the elite drone. It is also biochemist approved and makes enemies prone to the fire from exothermic induction.
I don't know if it works, because I have to analyze the damage numbers. The stun pistol seems to kill stuff pretty fast. Also, when the borg adapt, they do still get stunned by the secondary firing mode.
Also sonic pulse and tachyon beam, that wide forward face thing. It knocks them down and hurts them severe. It is on a pretty good kit with triage and that anaesthezine grenade.
I still use old purple kits. Made a couple of those with the old crafting system. They are bound on nothing, really great stuff.
Weapons that fire lots of little attacks give the Borg more chances to adapt to them than weapons that fire slower.
A Sniper Rifle and Full Auto Rifle may have the same DPS but the slower bolts of the Sniper Rifle will take the Borg longer to adapt to.
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The Trait works on Sci-Debuffs. All physicist-Modules trigger it, plus your Tricorder scan.
Dont waste your money on stun pistols, they are trash.
When approaching a group I like to pop the electro-gravitic field, which depending on the doff(s) you use has up to a 24% chance to cause the phasic instability which draws enemies towards the center (it's pretty much a gravity well for the ground) then I will fire off tach. harmonic to lower shields and then exothermic induction field to get some extra damage. Generally by this point it's just mop up duty with a pulse wave rifle or I will sometimes fire off sonic pulse for some extra damage, knowing the phasic instability will draw the enemies back to the center. This also has the benefit of grouping all the enemies together so it makes it easier for the whole team to do damage.
This kit frame also has the benefit of giving you extra points to particle physics which increases the damage of the exothermic field, your tach. harmonic and your sonic pulse. It also adds points to probability logistics which again adds effectiveness to your debuffs.
This kit and these modules gives you lots of control and debuffs to help your team, but also gives you some good damage dealing and a little healing as well when needed.
I usually also carrier a sniper rifle to help pick off targets when the phasic instability doesn't pop.
While this does make since. If anything adapts fast it is a full auto rifle. That is the reason I use the compression pistol. It's secondary shot comes around fast and hits hard. It rivals the pulseswave for damage. It does not strike mutiple targets. Also a pulseswave loses effectiveness over distance. Get targets over 10 meters and damage drastically reduces. Now a sniper is a good weapon. Better for a tac. Here is the reason why, tricorder scan can only be used at around 30 meters the same distance as the compression pistol. The obective for any science on the ground is to debuff it's targets. You can do this with a sniper rifle, but don't waste your sniper shot until the shield are down then tric scan, then hit them with the secondary of the sniper rifle.
Science dps on the ground is all about the debuff of the target as soon as shields are down.
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For weapons, I have a fleet phaser split beam rifle (3 targets hit on secondary, which is also an exploiter. Doesn't have the spin up time of the sniper secondary either so it hits almost immediately) and I run the omega set. Iirc, the omega set 3 piece gives a bonus to exploit damage.
The full auto rifle does have trouble with adaptation, but you can just switch out to the other weapon slot as long as it is a different energy type. One of the borg traits helps with borg adaptation immensely by slowing it down.
As you don't have the omega rep done yet, you could just rely on your powers to expose and then just run an extra split beam rifle for now. The split beam doesn't have the range of the sniper (35m Vs 45m on the secondary. Primary fire range is the same 35m) but the secondary attack is much faster to react and also hits up to 3 targets at once. The main attraction to me was the quicker reaction of the secondary attack!
On the ground as a sci I tend to emphasize expose effects with powers and hit them with an exploiter for the big whack of extra damage. If there is a tac on the team, they can take the expose effect instead of you, using their damage buffs to bump up their potential damage on the exploit.
Iirc, one of the hirogen traits is handy on the ground for a sci. It bumps up your expose chance quite a bit.