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saber68
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Just wondered which people would choose? One of my favourite ships to fly is the fleet Galaxy dread, I know it's pretty dated now and has terrible Boff Seating but I love using It and the Galaxy bridge pack. I am usually a tank and I parse around 55-60k DPS (ISA) while holding most of the agro.
However, using as close to the same build as possible in my vengeance or Gagarin, I parse around 90K DPS and much higher damage in. Would you always go for the better performing ship or the ship you prefer?
However, using as close to the same build as possible in my vengeance or Gagarin, I parse around 90K DPS and much higher damage in. Would you always go for the better performing ship or the ship you prefer?
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Now, which ship do I prefer? It depends on which captain I'm playing. My main loves his Eternal. Other captains like the Chronos and my AoY flies a Paradox.
My captains fly a ship that fits their theme. With good gear they all do enough DPS for Advanced content and I'm too lazy for Elite.
Keep remembering this, as it's all that should matter.
Just because you could 'perform' better in another ship doesn't mean that better performing ship will make you happy.
Climbing the DPS charts is a different kind of game play than just doing "good enough" DPS and enjoying the story episodes, battle zones and TFOs with other random players.
If you want to give that a try you could create a new captain dedicated solely to DPS chasing and make that their theme. It will probably be very expensive if you want to climb too high on the leader board though: special lock box traits, gear with "perfect" mods, buying ships just for their mastery traits, and so on.
The Gagarin has the upper performance hand but if u like the Galaxy better there is no reason not to fly it all the time except for the next DPS record of yours.
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In short, I fly for preference, and let performance worry about itself. The Nei'rrh seems perfectly capable of vaporizing all of Rekhet tr'Sevel's enemies just fine.
That said, one of the ships I like that most people I talk to think is junk is the Star Cruiser. Another one like that I have taken a liking to is the Ytjara and happily it fits one of my captain's themes exactly (though it would be better if I could turn off the Tempral rep shield visuals without it killing the engine and deflector visuals at the same time).
I have characters who nominally fly the Atrox and the Orion "peanut" for rp/style reasons, but who are currently on other ships grinding for the traits and will hopefully be more viable returning to them afterwards. Realistically, all but one of my KDF captains should be flying Orion ships but only the one actually does.
Some of them (especially characters that started out in paper-and-dice Trek games that I recreated in STO) I cannot get the right ships for because they either do not exist in the game at all or they are inaccessible at my budget level on the exchange or behind a randomization wall. Some examples:
* I have a kind of "drow" themed captain who would be best flying a Tholian carrier.
* A Kobali one I have the ground costume for but at the time I did not realize just how low the odds were of getting a gold phoenix token so the Samsar remains out of my reach.
* A whole bunch of Romulans who flew ships like the FASA Winged Defender, Bright One, and others from that game that of course do not exist in STO (though I am seriously thinking of using the T6 token to pick up one of the Scimitar variants as a Winged Defender analog since they look like a cross between a Scimitar and the Kara variant of the Ha'apax).
*At least two who should be flying one of the TOS-style ships, and one that should be flying an NX (those I will probably eventually get, though it could take quite a while, and the "ENT" captain did fly the T1 NX for the short period of time it was practical to do so).
Conversely, I have a mixed Orion/Romulan captain from a very crazy (FASA again) Tal Shiar campaign that was part of the crew of a captured Federation civilian Immaculata-class they used to poke around in the Federation with. I was able to kitbash a Tactical Escort into something (very) vaguely similar only to find out I did not like the ship (I may try again sometime with an Aquarius destroyer, it is a closer match visually (still not saying much) though I am not sure if it has a different enough feel from the TE). Right now that captain is flying a S'torr which is about as thematically opposite as possible visually while still sticking to escorts but the ship itself is nice to fly. The Immaculata looks like this btw:
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There's a reason my very first character made all the way back in ancient times (2012) is a Tactical Officer who got a Galaxy as soon as he became Captain and is still in a Galaxy today.
TRIBBLE, he was in that Galaxy Class for years before I was able to buy the Galaxy Class Retrofit as a suitable upgrade.
I want something that it is cool to look at yes.. but if it's a dud on stats, I won't buy it (Buran.)
It doesn't have to be super powerful, but yeah.. it does have to at least be able to support a descent build or I'm not interested. If it's powerful but ugly.. I usually skip it too.
There is a middle ground.
The Yamato (T6 Galaxy 6) is a pretty powerful ship. It makes a great Aux2Bat beam boat for DPS and it makes a solid beam tank as well.
Maybe it's not the top ship in the game, but there is absolutely nothing that a T6 Galaxy X can't handle. There is nothing at all wrong with the Yamato, it's solid.
I can only concur with the general consensus of the other respondents of this thread: Literally any T6 ship that you prefer for whatever reason is more than enough to curb-stomp Player-versus-environment content in this game. If you like the Galaxy or Galaxy-X, rock it with pride sir.
Except for my lone Klingon Captain, all my other COs Command a Resolute.
My Klingon Commands a Samsar.
So, I guess the answer is - The ship I prefer. I get a performance that works for PVE/Episodes. I'm here for the story - The Adventure, not the DPS.
And I hate upgrading. So, there you have it. Performance is out the window here.
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The Galaxy X is a great ship. I got the T5U Galaxy when the free ship token came out for lvl 65 captains and I love it too. And the Yamato, as @darkbladejk talked about is also good. My son has one on his account.
My captains all fly different ships until they find one they like. It could be z-store, lobi or Exchange (my luck with promo ships is abysmal). I have a very good friend who's bought me some lockbox/promo ships for captains who wanted them.
My AoY flies a Paradox thanks to her and my Rom flies the Iconian flight deck cruiser as their main ships. My main Fed flies an Eternal. My main F2P flies the Y'tijara.
So fly what you like. If you want to do DPS on someone, do as dave recommended and start a new character just for that.
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My first character's pretty much always been a Sovereign pilot since I love First Contact, and I think the Assault Cruiser Refit was the first ship I bought from the C-Store. A Romulan toon primarily runs a Dyson variant since I love the look of that line and they were the only science warbirds for a very long time; still the best looking in my opinion. Another toon mostly flies a Heavy Escort Carrier, but also picked up a Voth Bastion because I've always liked the lines of that hull, though the boff seating isn't quite to my liking. There are a lot of ships in this game, and just going for the "best" might mean missing out on something really fun.
Though actually right now I am on a completionist trip for starship masteries across all toons which will probably mean I won't use my go to ships for a long time to come ...
Same with me.
For Beam Builds, the Discovery Constitution has found the sweet spot between performance and aesthetics. It can dish out the damage and look really good doing it. To me, right now.. it's the closest to a 'perfect' ship that I have flown in this game.
For Cannons, it's still the Gagarin for me. I like the looks of it in both the the Discovery and 25c skins. It's nice that it also happens to be a really good ship for damage.
I have an Engineer that flies the Andorian Kuthar just for performance.. I didn't hate the look of the ship or anything I just didn't love it either. After kit bashing it with the Thoyzn though I actually started to like it's looks as well and now it's one of my favorite ships in STO.
So far, I have always been able to find a balance between looks and performance. Usually the better DPS ships either already look good in my opinion, or can be kit bashed to look good. I'm not a big fan of the Miracle Worker Juggernaut's looks which is why I don't own one despite it being the current DPS king. Well, that and it's lousy 20 Inertia rating. I'm perfectly happy in the Gagarin which is only very slightly worse while still being something I enjoy flying.