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Favorite Captain path to take: Science? Tactical? Engineering?
sindjin7
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i just wanted to find out what some of your favorite paths to take and why. It seems to me that a Tactical build would be best considering the majority of things to do Require a more tactical approach. There doesn't seem to be a lot of exploration for a Science based Captain.
Thanks for the input!!
Thanks for the input!!
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It is how you deal in combat, or some missions give profession specific tasks that give you different accolades.
Tac: The DPS dealer. PewPewPew. High DPS
Sci: Healing and fighting with Exotic Particles. Lower DPS
Eng: Tanking, supporting, can deal very much damage too. Medium-High DPS (depending on abilities and skills)
It always depends on your own playstyle. Let's say you want to be a Tac Captain. You can suck with this role if you dont know how to handle him.
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Anywaste, I don't think I have a particular preference. However, I do tend to select ships that allows for at least a Lt Cmdr Science station so that I can at least use a weak GW1 for quick crowd control.
Sometimes it is also fun to just mix and match. For example, my Fed Science toon is currently flying the Mirror Escort Retrofit because it has a Lt Cmdr Science station. But that toon normally flies the Mirror Science Vessel Retrofit. I still have not selected the free level 40 T5 ship yet.
Nice space magic:
Gravity Well/Tykens Rift --> Black holes!!! Magic!
Nice ground magic:
Electrogravitic field buffed with geologist doffs --> Ground gravity well ! Magic!
Exothermic field buffed with Voth doff --> Volcano! Fireballs! Magic!
Tachyon harmonics doffed with Hirogen doff --> lightning strikes! (kind of)! Magic!
plus lots of healing, control and debuffing!
I find Scientist Captain the most enjoyable type. Tacs do lots of damage for sure, but thats kinda boring. Engineer is fun on ground, because he uses lots of "magic" there too.
But you will need to do some research to get your Sci powerful, i.e. find the right skills and equipment. Especially Doffs are important here as they greatly improve some of the skills.
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Tactical captains get attack pattern alpha (boosts all damage, even science powers if you fly a science ship), go down fighting (damage boost that's bigger as you lose hull), fire on my mark (-resist to your target), and tactical initiative (use boff powers faster)
Engineers get miracle worker (huge self heal shield and hull), EPs somethingsomething ( huge boost to all power levels, nadion inversion (immune to power drain, includes firing weapons, enemy attacks and full impulse), and rotate shields (shield buff and heal)
Science captains get photonic fleet (summon pets), subneucleonic beam (remove buffs), a big -resistance power, and a shield buff.
Everything else comes from the ship and the boffs, NOT the captain.
Notice that if you want to be a space wizard being a science captain is the WORST choice from a game mechanic standpoint. Engineers get bonus power so you can use both guns and aux at once, plus can leverage the high shield strength of science ships with their other two powers. Tactical captains can use powers faster and deal more science damage. Science captains get nothing, nada, zip, zilch, zero, squat, a great big check for nothing drawn on the first international bank of squidoo to help a science ship do its job.
Also, yes I do love Mark Hammil's joker, if you didn't recognize where that quote was from (from memory, so it's probably off a bit). Also, it's a bit of an exagerration, sci caps are the second best shield tanks after engineers.
Science captains work out great in escorts and other fast attack ships. Their powers are bursty with long cooldowns and escorts have the burst power to really spike damage when that -res is going. The shield buff and photonic fleet make great panic buttons to help overcome the squishyness of an escort. But my favorite ship for a science captain is a bird of prey. The all universal boff stations means you can have all the fun powers plus the guns to back up the captain. Combining subnuke, -res and flanking is awesome.
Tacticals make any ship deal more damage. I like using a tactical captain whenever I want to fly many different ships and have them all work.
Ground is a whole other story.
Those exotic particles can deal a LOT of DPS if you know how to stack on that damage and dish it out.
I disagree. Scientist have conservation of energy and photonic capacitor. I agree that a Tac captain can buff grav well etc with attack pattern alpha, but thats about it. Tactical initiative works only on tac boff skills. On a sci ship you don't have many of these (mostly 2).
For sure ground is very different, but as a whole sci captain has a strong touch of magic
Im not saying the sci gets nothing. Just the tac does the sci job with bigger numbers.
For example, one popular sci ship build is the torp. Hey look a TAC gets your spread/high yield back up faster. Plus -res matching the sci, and alpha for harder hitting torps and sci powers and go down fighting for harder hitting torps and sci powers. The sci gets -res. Even things like tachyon beam are shield damage so the tac gets boosts.
Another build is the all particle gen. Scis get one trait (the one in crafting the TAC alsomhas access to, so its just the one class trait that's unique), tacs get 3 powers that all help damage, including particle damage, and initiative can pull an attack pattern (beta) in the lieut slot plus tactical team for survival plus damage. Again, TAC does the sci build better.
Etc.
The drainer is one where TAC and sci are on equal footing.
Sci works fine. That's one thing that cryptic did an ok job of is being sure every captain brings fun toys to every class of ship. And really, in delta subnuke is bloody helpful vs those hierarchy punks. Plus photonic fleet is total magic I love it. Its just, I really wish sci caps got something to boost control or support. Their ground powers are sooo fun. Space they seem a little bit like they need a buff to match the love science ships and boffs have gotten recently.
YES!
When I first started playing the game I chose Science but didn't really know what I'd get out of it and enjoyed it. I tried the other two just to see how they were but I love Science and it seems to suit me the best
just take your time, learn all the basics, visit the sto wiki as much as you can, and don't be shy to ask questions here in the Academy section.
There are a lot of very helpfull people here who never hesitate to help and answer questions.
you shouldnt worry to much now about R&D, Crafting System, Delta Rising, Reputation, as long as you are on a lower level.
Learn the basics of the game "no Rainbow Boat" for example, and the rest will come easy.
Best advice in this thread right here.
Science is probably my favorite for its flexibility(space and ground) though. You can play them offensively, defensively, or as support and they can shine in any of those focuses - often in a variety of ways.
Tactical is great for seeing those satisfying damage numbers, but you do need to be mindful about taking hits(a lot more dependent on your ship and boffs to keep you alive in a pinch).
Engineers are great for K.eeping I.t S.imple, S.tupid. If you want powerful emergency buttons, they're the class to go with - just don't expect to get a lot out of focused builds from them.
So I started a new captain, tactical, and just leveled up to ten again and bought the engineering ship. Not sure how this will pan out... But it could be a decent combo for my play style.
Now I'll be studying builds... It's a cool game for sure. I played Eve Online for many years and this is a nice immersive change of pace.
would take a look at hilbert's guide, nice stuff for newer players.
PErsonally, i see it as this:
Tactical/Escorts = thief/rogue
Science/science = Space Wizard/space Priest
Engineer/cruiser = Tank/bulky warrior class.
I am tied between sci and engi personally. the Warrior class has always been my favoirte class type in any RPG, but the combination of Crowd control and healing that sci is fun as well.
Alpha only gives an accuracy and damage bonus. It is omega that gives the turn buff and that is a boff only power. Captains don't get it.
Out of the Science or Tactical, so far I prefer the tactical. However I'm not sure level 10 is a long enough try out.
Incorrect. Attack pattern alpha has a damage, crit chance, crit severity and turn rate buff.
*checks wiki* I sit corrected
Level ten really is too soon to know. Lots of the fun stuff doesn't appear until 30.
If you are doing three characters, I recommend one each kdf, fed, ROM. You'll get to see the whole story that way.
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2nd best is engineer with the emergency power to x buffs.
Pretty sure it comes down to what you feel like playing and then building it to work for you. I put more work into my Science char.....so she does better dps than my Tactical or Engineers. She has better ships, and better consoles, and better guns. Which is to say....yes, you can overcome a perceived weekness in specialization with gear.
I tend to agree. I play all 3 factions.
A word of warning regarding the Romulan faction... Romulan ships use Singularity Cores not Warp Cores. The distinction is important because your Romulan starship will have 4 special singularity abilities, however in return you give up 40 points of power. The lack of power to your systems generally does not become noticeable (at least for me) until about level 40.
People have found ways to cope with it, but I have not really found a solution that I am satisfied with. People will tell you to get something called a Plasmonic Leech which drains power from your target ship when firing energy weapons and adds that power to your own systems. There are two ways to get the Leech and it depends on if you side with the Federation or with the KDF.
One way to get the Leech is to buy it from the Exchange. As of yesterday it costs about 48 million EC. This is the only way for Federation and Fed-aligned Romulans to get the Leech; it comes in a box that you must unpack. Just do a general search for "plasmonic" without the quotes. Once opened it is bound to that toon. The KDF and KDF-aligned Romulans cannot get the Leech from the Exchange. While you can purchase the box that rewards you the Leech when you open the box you get something totally different. You need to purchase the tier 3 KDF ship known as the Vandal Destroyer for 1,000 Zen. However, all your KDF and KDF-aligned Romulan toons can claim the Plasmonic Leech multiple times from the Vandal. But you are limited to only have one per ship.