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D'Kyr Thoughts

omnissiah72omnissiah72 Member Posts: 23 Arc User
edited October 2014 in Federation Discussion
My primary toon is a Fed Sci in a D'Kyr, whom I've gotten to VA and am now progressing through the New Romulus, Nukara, and Omega reputation ranks. I'm almost to Rank 4 in all 3 and am considering altering my ship build. I had put Fleet Anti-Proton Beams (Accx2) (Damx2) on the D'Kyr but as I've progressed through the reputation ranks I've been upping it with additional toys.

I started by putting the Nukara Particle Converter, Zero-Point Energy Conduit, and the Assimilated Module to increase the Accuracty and Crit chance for my Anti-Proton beams. Then, once the Borg Cutting Beam became available I decided to swap out one of my Anti-Proton beams just to check it out. Then, just last night I was able to get the Romulan Hyper-Plasma torp launcher and used it to replace my Fleet Transphasic torps.

I've been really happy with both swaps so far and am thinking of replacing my aft Tractor Mine with the Omega torp and then the remaining three Anti-Proton beams with Experimental Romulan Plasma Beams to get the benefits of both full sets. Thoughts?
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  • szerontzurszerontzur Member Posts: 2,724 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    It's always going to be an inferior beamboat to a proper cruiser if you want to use it like that.

    To really get proper use out of it as a science ship, you'll want to specialize as a Polaron drain-boat, a Gravity Well-Torpedo Boat(Plasma, Photon, or Transphasic), or an Exotic Damage Vacuum build with inverted Repulsors+Warp Plasma and beams(+Omni Array in the front).


    All that said, if you're happy and enjoying the build you've got, that's the most important thing. ;)
  • rmy1081rmy1081 Member Posts: 2,840 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    If you go rom plasma you can use the experimental romulan beam + zero point console + rom hyper torpedo for the plasma hyperflux. It's a great debuff. Come DR the d'kyr is getting a few little buffs that should increase your dps. I really recommend it on that ship.

    like szerontzur said, you should look into other forms of DPS rather than straight beam DPS. If you have the cash I recommend the TBR pull doff (http://sto.gamepedia.com/Graga_Mal) and Gravity well. You might also want to get the Particle Manipulator trait from science crafting (got at level 15 science crafting). It greatly improves the critical hit chance of exotic damage.

    If you want, you can post your build so others can give you some ideas on what you can do to increase your DPS.
  • omnissiah72omnissiah72 Member Posts: 23 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Thanks for the feedback. I mix and match my damage types using Aceton Assimilators, Gravity Well, and Eject Warp Plasma on my current build. I was thinking of swapping out one of my less-used Doff skills for Tractor Beam if I need to drop the tractor mines to make room for the Omega launcher, so swapping that to TBR and that Doff (If I can afford one) could work just as well.

    I know I'm not building it to it's best potential as a support ship, but I find that I'm out on my own so often that I really do need the ship to stand alone (and I think my personality is more suited to an aggressive play style).

    If I was to try and put up my full build, is there a simpler way of doing that than writing everything down while in-game and then transcribing here?
  • rmy1081rmy1081 Member Posts: 2,840 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    omnissiah72 wrote: »
    Thanks for the feedback. I mix and match my damage types using Aceton Assimilators, Gravity Well, and Eject Warp Plasma on my current build. I was thinking of swapping out one of my less-used Doff skills for Tractor Beam if I need to drop the tractor mines to make room for the Omega launcher, so swapping that to TBR and that Doff (If I can afford one) could work just as well.

    I know I'm not building it to it's best potential as a support ship, but I find that I'm out on my own so often that I really do need the ship to stand alone (and I think my personality is more suited to an aggressive play style).

    If I was to try and put up my full build, is there a simpler way of doing that than writing everything down while in-game and then transcribing here?

    absolutely!!

    http://www.stoacademy.com/tools/skillplanner/

    register and make a build. Most everyone uses it :)

    also being able to CC is one of the great things the D'kyr can do so you're doing it right. Also, pulling everything into warp plasma with doffed TBR is crazy fun :)
  • omnissiah72omnissiah72 Member Posts: 23 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    NOOB question, what does CC stand for? Thanks for the link, I'll try it out!
  • cbrjwrrcbrjwrr Member Posts: 2,782 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    omnissiah72 wrote: »
    NOOB question, what does CC stand for? Thanks for the link, I'll try it out!

    Crowd Control.
  • empokempok Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    omnissiah72 wrote: »
    I've been really happy with both swaps so far and am thinking of replacing my aft Tractor Mine with the Omega torp and then the remaining three Anti-Proton beams with Experimental Romulan Plasma Beams to get the benefits of both full sets. Thoughts?

    Unfortunately you can only equip 1 Experimental Romulan Plasma Beam per ship, not 3 :(
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • omnissiah72omnissiah72 Member Posts: 23 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    empok wrote: »
    Unfortunately you can only equip 1 Experimental Romulan Plasma Beam per ship, not 3 :(
    I was concerned about that but wasn't sure. The cutting beam description on the wiki says only one per ship, but there was no such restriction mentioned for the plasma beam. Is that true for all the reputation weapons?

    Edit: Disregard, just saw it under the in-game set images. :-(
  • lowy1lowy1 Member Posts: 964 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    If you want to compliment a GW Build, I'd recommend going with Photons and use the Gravimetric and enhanced Bio-Molecular Photons. Then combine it with the 3 piece Dyson Ordnance. Mount the proton beam on the front plus you can use Science Ship Subsystem targeting with it. Nukara Mines are also nice to have on a Projectile boat.
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