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Still working on my Jupiter Build and looking for advice.
kylethetrue
Member Posts: 205 Arc User
Just relying on hangar pets and weapons for my Jupiter Class wasn't yielding much DPS so I've been trying out adding some Exotic damage abilities to see if that helps. So far it hasn't done much better so I am showing the build here on the forums in hopes of getting some useful tips. I know people don't think highly of the Type 10 Shuttles but I think they at least seem to work. Hitting an enemy with 12 Beam overloads at once does seem to make a dent on those enemy ships.
That being said it's also very tempting to Swap them for Peregrine Fighters and swap my Emitters for turrets (6 or possibly 3 with 3 cannons).
So does anyone have any tips on improving my build? Or any DPS Jupiter builds that work for them? I'd be grateful for any useful tips.
Weapons: Vaadwaur Polaron Emitter Array X6
Dyson Deflector Array
Jem'Hadar Combat Impulse Engines
Kobali Field Stabilizing Warp Core
Jem'Hadar Resilient Shields
Eng. Consoles: Sustained Radiant Field, Fleet Coordination module, Nukara Particle Converter
Sci. Consoles: Plasma-generating Weapon Signature Nullifier [+Emit]X2, Exotic Particle Field Exciter, Particle Generator
Tac Consoles: Polaron Phase ModulatorX3
Hangar: Type 10 ShuttlesX2
Personal Traits:
Innocuous, Elusive, Wing Commander, Accurate, Shield Frequency Analyst, Last Ditch Effort, Beam Training, Fleet Coordinator, Particle manipulator
Reputation Traits:
Advanced targeting Systems, Precision, Particle Generator Amplifier, Enhanced Rending Shots
Starship Traits:
Insult to Injury, Coordinated Assault, Overwhelming Force, All Hands on Deck
Bridge Officers:
Tactical LT: Tactical Team, Beam Overload
Universal LT: Tactical team, Beam Overload
ENG/Intel LTComm: Emrrgency power to Auxiliary I, Emergency Power to Weapons II, Electromagnetic Pulse Probe II
Sci Comm: Hazard Emitters I, Science Team II, Destabilizing Resonance Beam II, Gravity Well II
Sci LT: Hazard Emitters I, Science team II
That being said it's also very tempting to Swap them for Peregrine Fighters and swap my Emitters for turrets (6 or possibly 3 with 3 cannons).
So does anyone have any tips on improving my build? Or any DPS Jupiter builds that work for them? I'd be grateful for any useful tips.
Weapons: Vaadwaur Polaron Emitter Array X6
Dyson Deflector Array
Jem'Hadar Combat Impulse Engines
Kobali Field Stabilizing Warp Core
Jem'Hadar Resilient Shields
Eng. Consoles: Sustained Radiant Field, Fleet Coordination module, Nukara Particle Converter
Sci. Consoles: Plasma-generating Weapon Signature Nullifier [+Emit]X2, Exotic Particle Field Exciter, Particle Generator
Tac Consoles: Polaron Phase ModulatorX3
Hangar: Type 10 ShuttlesX2
Personal Traits:
Innocuous, Elusive, Wing Commander, Accurate, Shield Frequency Analyst, Last Ditch Effort, Beam Training, Fleet Coordinator, Particle manipulator
Reputation Traits:
Advanced targeting Systems, Precision, Particle Generator Amplifier, Enhanced Rending Shots
Starship Traits:
Insult to Injury, Coordinated Assault, Overwhelming Force, All Hands on Deck
Bridge Officers:
Tactical LT: Tactical Team, Beam Overload
Universal LT: Tactical team, Beam Overload
ENG/Intel LTComm: Emrrgency power to Auxiliary I, Emergency Power to Weapons II, Electromagnetic Pulse Probe II
Sci Comm: Hazard Emitters I, Science Team II, Destabilizing Resonance Beam II, Gravity Well II
Sci LT: Hazard Emitters I, Science team II
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My own Sci character - who focuses on torpedoes - uses several Delta and Dyson reputation sets for the radiation bonuses.
I don't know if this would work for you though - I'm not really experienced with giving advice or enhance builds of other people since I generally try things out and see what works. And it may well be that you're already more effective than I am, I don't know that of course so ... these are just some ideas and suggestions. It'd be best to see if someone can give more solid advice
Terran warp core
MACO engines and shield for torpedo buff
Whichever secondary deflector you like
Weapons
Three torpedos of your choice, most reputation ones are awesome, I like the plasma one you can craft as well as neutronic and Gravimetric but almost any work. On the back use the Delta rep polaron beam for Isokinetic cannon which is insanely powerful on this build. Also use whatever else for set bonus and an omni beam for subsystem targeting.
4 research lab consoles with PRTG and GRAVGEN secondary mod
Exotic particle field exciter with PRTG
Enhanced RCS with PRTG
3 spire +torp consoles
Bioneural console from Delta rep for set bonus
Edit: Use the Co strict ion anchor from the Vaadwaur lockbox for a nice boost to exotic damage
Traits can be whatever so long as you have particle manipulator and all the torpedo ones
Reputation traits - both T4 terran reps for major science cooldowns. The rest are up to you but there is a radiation one and some crit ones I like as well as Omega kinetic sheering for more torpedo damage.
Starship Traits - Scryer trait, AHOD, Reciprocoty, overwhelming force and sheshar trait if you use THY otherwise out whatever you want there.
DOFF'S
Graga Mal (expensive but worth every penny, she reverses tractor repulsers to pull in enemies which causes massive damage on a build like this)
Gravity well doff for more grav wells
Use three torpedo cooldown doffs
The last is up to you
BOFF powers
Tac LT - tac team, TS2 or THY2
Uni LT - Kemocite 1, APB 1
EnG/Intel LTCMDR - EPTAUX, AUX2Struc, OSS 3
Sci cmdr - hazard emitters 1, Subspace Vortex 2, grav well 1, Tractor beam repulsers 3
Sci LT - TSS 1, destabilized resonance beam
If you don't have kemo use another torpedo power for good measure it's not that great anymore now after the nerd anyway. OSS will cause you science powers to spike like crazy, very useful for laying down the pain. Subspace vortex is a bit pricey but very powerful, combine it with gravity well and they suck in enemies and then cause massive AOE to all of them, drop DRB on for maximum pain. Keep in mind DRB lasts for ten seconds and you must be facing the enemy the whole time or it'll shut off. Also if you click subspace vortex a second time it'll transport you to the vortex location and turn it off, there is no indication on the icon for this so just be careful not to click again by accident while it's still active. lol
Tractor repulsors will pull things out of your gravity well so don't use them at the same time. Go in and drop GW and SSV along with some torpedo spreads and if anything survives use DRB for dreadnoughts and TBR to clean up. DRB does have a two minute cooldown so use it wisely.
Anyways yes some of those things like Graga Mal, Subspace Vortex and those two crafted consoles are expensive but $20-30 worth of keys will get you more than enough EC and that is after all only the price of a single ship.
That build can be modified in a number of ways onto most any science ship but the core pieces stay the same (the expensive ones). I've never parsed because TRIBBLE*! the DPS league, but it vaporizes elite content in short order.
> Just relying on hangar pets and weapons for my Jupiter Class wasn't yielding much DPS so I've been trying out adding some Exotic damage abilities to see if that helps. So far it hasn't done much better so I am showing the build here on the forums in hopes of getting some useful tips. I know people don't think highly of the Type 10 Shuttles but I think they at least seem to work. Hitting an enemy with 12 Beam overloads at once does seem to make a dent on those enemy ships.
>
> That being said it's also very tempting to Swap them for Peregrine Fighters and swap my Emitters for turrets (6 or possibly 3 with 3 cannons).
>
> So does anyone have any tips on improving my build? Or any DPS Jupiter builds that work for them? I'd be grateful for any useful tips.
>
> Weapons: Vaadwaur Polaron Emitter Array X6
>
> Dyson Deflector Array
> Jem'Hadar Combat Impulse Engines
> Kobali Field Stabilizing Warp Core
> Jem'Hadar Resilient Shields
>
> Eng. Consoles: Sustained Radiant Field, Fleet Coordination module, Nukara Particle Converter
> Sci. Consoles: Plasma-generating Weapon Signature Nullifier [+Emit]X2, Exotic Particle Field Exciter, Particle Generator
> Tac Consoles: Polaron Phase ModulatorX3
>
> Hangar: Type 10 ShuttlesX2
>
> Personal Traits:
> Innocuous, Elusive, Wing Commander, Accurate, Shield Frequency Analyst, Last Ditch Effort, Beam Training, Fleet Coordinator, Particle manipulator
>
> Reputation Traits:
> Advanced targeting Systems, Precision, Particle Generator Amplifier, Enhanced Rending Shots
>
> Starship Traits:
> Insult to Injury, Coordinated Assault, Overwhelming Force, All Hands on Deck
>
> Bridge Officers:
> Tactical LT: Tactical Team, Beam Overload
> Universal LT: Tactical team, Beam Overload
> ENG/Intel LTComm: Emrrgency power to Auxiliary I, Emergency Power to Weapons II, Electromagnetic Pulse Probe II
> Sci Comm: Hazard Emitters I, Science Team II, Destabilizing Resonance Beam II, Gravity Well II
> Sci LT: Hazard Emitters I, Science team II
dang bro
Some good info here. That anchor console looks pretty awesome though many of this other stuff is reallly...really expensive on the exchange. It's a pity such important items to doing well in the game are so hard to come by.
DRB3? TBR1 What?
?
-3rd Commmandment of Chivalry
Ah, alrighty.
-3rd Commmandment of Chivalry
Grav well the enemy and slot a spread of these in there and watch the fires burn baby!
Add in DRB for more fun.
And if you've got a full wing of fighters or frigates flying round why not try out Focused Assault (tac ability) if you're going after a single heavy target like a capital ship. That works wonders some times I find and I like using it to fill up a slot with nothing better to use (I normally only have Team Tac and Torp Spread, anything else is wasted)
More good info. I'll think about it. I was hoping to have an energy weapon and exotic loadout but it's looking more like I'll have to stick with torpedos
-3rd Commmandment of Chivalry
Elite Type 10s have torpedoes. And Peregrines and Callistos are all cannons. No beams to speak of.
-3rd Commmandment of Chivalry
The nice thing about Type 10s is that you get six of them. Which does feel cool with coordinated fire...
-3rd Commmandment of Chivalry