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What's a good set/gear for a melee Captain?
thfinalnightmare
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Just what is says on the Tin, looking to make a melee build, not sure how. Suggestions?
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The Gorn Bite racial and Caitian/Ferasan Pounce racial traits hit like a truck, too, if you're building from the ground up.
A lot of the ground combat traits, like Soldier and Covert, boost both melee and ranged damage.
I've noticed that with species who have improved chance of knockdown among their mandatory traits, it gets difficult to complete a melee weapon strike combo because the enemy gets knocked out of range. That's good because it keeps the enemy from hitting back, but it gets a little comical when you're chasing the poor guy across the floor like a hockey puck in order to finish him off.
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With season 11 comeing on the 27th will have a ground set that will have a bat'leth weapon option.
Otherwise there is a melee set from the Tholian rep. I have no experience with it.
If you have one of the Plasma bladed Bat'Leths from past winter events you could equip the Romulan kit that gives 20% plasma damage.
But for a melee build, unless you're a Tactical there isn't much to boost unless you can find set pieces or traits that boost physical damage.
And yes, the tactical track has sweeping strikes, lunge, and motion accelerator... but it's not like the others are completely bare of relevant options; it's just that these are with one exception more about making the enemy more vulnerable than directly increasing your damage...
- engineering: weapon malfunction, fuse armor
- science: electro-gravitic field, tricorder scan, dylovene (may stack with the MACO/KHG adrenal booster), sonic pulse
Operators with access to a fleet research lab can requisition kits with an 'off-track' inherent ability (i.e. you can get weapon malfunction on a tac or science kit).While the particular weapon is fitting given the kit's origin, it would be just as lore-compliant - what with the kit being made available outside of House Pegh - to have a choice of melee weapons (bat'leth, sword - preferably modeled after the Nausicaan tegolar sword than the falchion) offered. Still going to check it out anyway; I was amused to see that its charge mechanic bears a coincidental resemblance to the class ability of Torchlight 2 engineers.
Caution: Borg adapt to these. That important point aside, it's also surprising that there isn't a nanopulse sword to round out the set.
I understand your sentiment, and offer that there is much to be said for taking that new blade and properly mastering it, making it an extension of your arm, et cetera (as very distinct from expecting victory to come merely from possessing said shiny new blade). Such a pity that actual blade crafting is so far relegated to a doff assignment that becomes available after completing the 'Catian Diaspora' chain; why it wasn't included in the crafting system puzzles me.
No, but you just did!
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So, just to be clear, some one pulled a Sweeping Strikes for 2000 damage. How is that possible , the highest I've been able to get my Kick is 355(before crits), not saying that's the best, or even close (just started this after all), but what was she/he using?
K, I'll bite, what are the melee/crit doffs?
My character Tsin'xing
Security Officer: Increased melee Critical chance and Critical severity - Have up to 3 active
Duty Officer List at STOWiki. Security Officer and Assault Squad Officer are the main DOFF types that have melee oriented stats.
It's been a while since I checked but Very Rare of the melee crit DOFFs are very pricey on the exchange. Take a look at the DOFF acquisition NPC as well as Tier 4 rewards in a certain DOFF area. There may possibly one you can get off there for free when you hit Tier 4.
If you're a TAC doing the Sweeping Strikes / Lunge Combo, I highly suggest taking a Compression Pistol as a sidearm. When you're spamming Sweeping Strikes to land Expose, the preferred next move is a powerful Lunge to Exploit. Then go back to Sweeping Strikes spam. But if you land another expose and Lunge is on CD, with a Compression Pistol, you have a very quick firing, single target Exploit shot. Secondary attacks with Compression Pistols have very short CDs so these pistols are typically more available to use as an Exploit tool than Lunge is.