I believe that there are 6 separate ships that the Federation has that use cloaks. There is the intel set, the dreadnought cruisers and the tactical escort. So, your opinion: are cloaking devices really worth the money?
I understand that this will be dependent on your fighting style - I just want an overall impression.
Cloaking Devices: Are they worth it? 63 votes
Yes! Cloaks of all forms are great!
Yes, but only if it's a battle cloak.
Perhaps, but more hull points/weapons would be better.
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Cool feature in the game, but not really used in a story telling tool or something of that kind.
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Battlecloaks are more useful, but with many opponents nowadays spamming Area of effect and torpedoes dropping shields during combat is risky.
For the cloak console the usefulness is really a flip of a coin. Decloak bonus to damage is nice, but is it enough to compensate for the "loss" of a console slot?
^ This.
I like cloaks on my Romulan ships well enough. Not really interested in having them on my Federation ships. The folks that are fans of the cloak and want them on their Federation ships have as mentioned a few options. Seems like a non-starter at this point.
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To keep a long story short: each of the cloaks have their use, but it is up to the player to determine if the benefits or faults tip the scale.
My defiant, fed dreadnought, and avengers still don't have cloak, though it would be nice to have access to on occasion. Intels are awesome with build in standard cloak, and I make frequent use of it in KDF and Rom ships be it standard battle or enhanced to the point that jumping in non-cloaking ships feels wrong.
Short version: buy it if you can afford the loss of a console slot and like to mix a bit of role play, otherwise get proper intels which also get their group MES effect, or just go Rom or KDF - or lobi/lockbox cause faction uniqueness is out the window and greed is eternal.
Everything else? Meh (to me).
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As for the other ships, you need to use a console slot just to cloak and no, that's not worth it.
Battle cloaks are more useful but limited to only certain ships and factions. That said I find using the Daemosh on my fed main is a wonderful luxury, being able to play with a battle cloak along with all the other tricks that Feds normally have availible.
Console cloaks I would say are not worth it unless you can spare the console slot on your build. They will nearly always mean you need to drop something else (DPS, armour, shield boosts) to make room for them and even then they are only s normal cloak.
No
That said, (battle) cloaks have their place. The mirror invasion event can be made easier by having one player seal rifts/power emmitters and using a cloak to keep the Terrans offer their back.
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So much more can be done by swapping the cloaking console for something more useful..
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