Paradox Temporal Dreadnought thought etc

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• seriousdave Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User

  February 2016 edited February 2016

  Not sure about being THE ship but is does have a lot of potential, that lt.cmdr universal/intel opens the door for a lot of shenanigans. Just keep in mind to ALWAYS use OSS, it's just way to good to leave it out.
  Pretty much whatever route you're gonna take (sci dps, pew-pew dps, drain) could work thanks to it's sweet console & boff layout.
  
  Despite the seductive weapon layout it would work pretty sweet for some exotic damage build. Gravwell, TBR, DRB, FBP, etc... All of this powered by 5 partigen consoles & OSS will hit hard once you throw it out. Add some special torp like the grav or PEP and you'll have an entertaining show of doom & destruction.
  
  A tac heavy build with some sci support can also work. Dual banks in the front, omins in the rear, throw a gravwell out to get everything together and start blasting with BFAW + OSS or for single targets surgical strikes + OSS.
  
  A drain boat could also be fun with this thing. Max out your flow caps, get tachyon beam, Tyken's & stuff, polaron beams and shut down anything that crosses you.
  
  Basically you can do pretty much anything as long as you focus on it. Half assed builds will lead to half assed reasults but going full out on a specific style and you'll kick butts like there's no tomorrow.
  
  As for the pets, kinda tricky issue. The aeon pets don't seem too impressive so I'd most likely go with swarmers or scorpions or maybe even tholian widows. Delta flyers could be good for their abilities but those are fed exclusive. Generally fighters & shuttle die way too qiuck to make an actual difference so basically whatever floats your boat.
  Just too bad it dosen't have access to a beam-frigate.
  
  
  Hard to compare it to the jem dread, both are very different and can specialize in their areas. Generally I'd say the Paradox wins bacause it can do a lot more things than just plain old point & shoot though the jemmy probably wins in that department. The jem dread may also have some better pets and one more hangar but the combined package of the time dread makes it superior in a number of ways.

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• lordofhats Member Posts: 38 Arc User

  February 2016

  Anything too front heavy is imo counter productive. The ship has a low turn rate, and the amount of turn boosts you have to throw on to get anything done really hurts anything else you want to do. The ability to spam Manheim Effect and Temporal Backstep is cool, but the 10% cool down on Science is really good. Depending on how you set up your traits, you could have a permanent 20% sci cool down, 10% more on tac abilities, and 15% on torpedo abilities. Spam those Tractor Repulsors! Spam them!
  
  My current set up (In short) is antiproton beams in front with a torpedo launcher, Omni's in back, and maximizing particle gen in the consoles. The Temporal consoles are in my tac slot, two RCS consoles in engineering, Advanced Oblisik warp core for the 10% to ap damage (not optimal I think but it's what I got right now). Dyson rep shields. Solanae set deflector, engines, and secondary deflector. Leech is in my last engineering slot.
  
  The energy weapons are just puff damage and a means of boosting my power levels. I put a tac officer in the universal. The ship has only Tactical Team, Hazard Emitters, Reverse Shield Polarity, Science Team, and Engineering Team for heals. I so far have been able to get away with it with healing on beams and attack pattern beta. Being able to use Temporal Backstep every 2 minutes is amazing as an 'oh snap' button (plus further enables spam of science abilities and the other two consoles).
  
  Maximize weapon and auxillary power. Primary damage abilities are Gravity Well III, Tractor Repulsors (with the DOFF), Torpedo Spread II, BFaW I, and overload II. Love the effect of the Paradox Console + Gravity Well III + Torpedo Spread II + BFaW I. Then fly in and use tractor repulsors to basically finish everything that isn't dead yet off.

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• spearhawk2013 Member Posts: 217 Arc User

  February 2016

  Thank you, I been messing around with it to find my style, I am still going to mess around more, thank you for your suggestions, they are most appreciated.

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