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sentry51
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Just wanting thoughts on the best current carrier or carriers.
I mainly play either the Jem'Hadar carrier or Romulan T'Laru. I prefer to let my pets do most of the damage, so suggestions on pets is also appreciated.
Of those two, I currently use Elite Jem'Hadar gunboats and Advanced Romulan drone ships.
I'm also open to recommendations on other carriers and pets.
I mainly play either the Jem'Hadar carrier or Romulan T'Laru. I prefer to let my pets do most of the damage, so suggestions on pets is also appreciated.
Of those two, I currently use Elite Jem'Hadar gunboats and Advanced Romulan drone ships.
I'm also open to recommendations on other carriers and pets.
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https://sto.gamepedia.com/Breen_Sarr_Theln_Carrier
If you missed the events, to get this and the frigates you'd need 2 epic Phoenix tokens, which might take 8+ million dil to get. Still, the 2,000+ upgrade tokens would last you a good long time.
That being said...
Both the Breen and Vorgon Carriers aren't too bad. The Vorgon Carrier might edge out just a bit because of native frigate pets.
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Vorgon_Ryn'kodan_Carrier
The main advantage of the Vorgon frigates over others is the Suppression Barrage.
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Hangar_-_Vorgon_Echentis_Frigate
Beam Arrays also mean that they hit harder from more angles than just the front like with the Plesh Brek frigates.
Another thing to consider is that if you have one of the Cardassian Flight Deck Cruisers... their Frigate pets are NOT bound to ship, meaning you can equip ANY carrier with Cardassian Yukawa Frigates.
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Hangar_-_Yukawa_Frigates
Best pet overall is likely the Styx's Elite Terran Empire Frigates (See Cryptic's Blog) with them having a large number of wide-arc weapons, Attack Pattern Beta 3(very good debuff), Suppression Barrage III(decent debuff), and Fire at Will 3 (to spread the debuffs around). Sadly, you can use them on only the Styx, and the Styx only has one hangar.
Another really good pet are the Elite Tholian Mesh Weavers, which also have Attack Pattern Beta III and Fire at Will III, but don't have as many wide arc weapons. However, they fit the Tholian Recluse Carrier, which is a very flexible two-hangar carrier with a Commander Universal slow, with the downside of it limited to being T5-U right now.
Best carrier from the stand point of the damage the carrier itself can put out is likely the Tzenkethi Tzen-tar Dreadnought Carrier with it having 5x Tactical console slots, 1 Universal console slot, and Miracle Worker hybrid on it's Commander Tactical. However, it's really expensive at 1+ Billion EC, and I've heard the frigate pets aren't all that great.
As for the other recommendations others have put out:
The Sarcophagus Dreadnought Carrier isn't that much better than a JHDC, particularly a T6 JHDC. It's big claim to fame is that, well, it's pretty big and very ornate. Also, the second highest hull modifier in the game. It's excessively slow and slippery, even compared to most other carriers which aren't the speediest in general, to the point I was about to shelve mine, but then I unlocked the Competitive Wargames engines (Fortified in my case) and those can make anything move well.
On the Yukawa frigates, only get the basic version, as the higher end versions swap out nice wide arc having beam arrays to narrow arc dual beam banks which the pet AI doesn't handle well. They're OK, but a bit slow and no area of effect abilities like FAW, unless you have the trait from the Engle escort carrier (cheap if you're KDF allied).
Breen and Vorgon carriers I'll let you evaluate yourself if you have the account unlocks for them, but I wouldn't try explicitly for getting an Epic Phoenix token for either.
I'm using the Terran Taskforce set myself, and have her built to take into account the low turn rate. So she's a beam build that mostly broadsides. Main advatage she has IMO is the Command seating, and being able to use Suppression Barrage because of it.
Just imagine 2 full wings of Elite Scorpions, on top of the carrier itself being equipped with Romulan Hyper Plasma.
That is a LOT of Heavy Plasma.
I'll have to think about what my Caitian wants.
As to the Sarcophagus Dreadnought Carrier, i found it works really well when you add in Hurq space trait Hivebearer. Since its pets are designed to be constantly killed/replaced, this trait makes the ship/trait synergy more valuable then on any other carrier. Using device pets, and Command Frequency with this, makes for some hilarious battles. Good times.
Pets, pets everywhere.
My character Tsin'xing
I'm envious of prices on consoles... JHDC T6 is north of 400 Mil on PC last I looked.
Xindi-Aquatic is nice if you want a fast carrier that can get in and do damage. I need to see what Superior Area Denial combined with the Mobulai frigates can do, they did pretty decent when I last had them out, but not exceptional. Their Area of Effect abilities, Cascade Resonance Burst and Mine Dispersal Pattern Alpha, having limited range held them back a bit in damage, so adding FAW on top could be interesting.
My character Tsin'xing
Coordinated Assault off the Escort Carriers might be interesting too. Giving them Beam Overload 1 whenever you use Beam Overload... I use it all the time on my Sarco after flying the Flight Deck Raptor.
Hoping we get at some point a Tholian Recluse at T6 with the Ensign Tact seat upgraded to Lt Uni.
Hello rubber banding my old friend, time to bounce around the battlezone again, where are all my bug reports going?, out of love with this game I am falling, As Cryptic fail to acknowledge a problem exists, Shakes an angry fist, And from Support all I'm hearing are the sounds of silence.
Instead of looking for the bet carrier you need to look at what type of build you want to use and find the best carrier for that build.
Good point. Personally, I try to keep my ships "canon" to the shows. Doing this will significantly narrow my choices of weapons and equipment.
I should clarify, I have the T'Laru (Advanced Drone ships), Jem'Hadar Vanguard (Elite gunboats) and Sphere Builder Denuos Carrier (Arehbes frigates)
It is tied with the Valkis which has that CMD temporal, temporal ship abilities, and gravitic lance which I fly as a science carrier despite only 3 sci console slots. The ship is packed with abilities.
Next to those I'd say the Jupiter as a drain/debuff/tank, letting my pets do the killing, feels like a science variant of the Oddyssey. T5-U Atrox is really underpowered and overshadowed by it, but I enjoy it still for the challenge and cool look.
Narcine is also unique, but never bothered getting the T6 upgrade for it as to me it isn't as fun as a Sci-based carrier, but it is really powerful and handles really good.
Never liked the Sarr Theln, even if it has a lot of fun consoles they just never worked for me, also its appearance which is too small and breaks immersion seeing pets spawn from something that's paper thin.