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is it possible to do a turret build?
jim625
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Made a new fed tac toon and once I've finished grinding some gear and done with the rep systems I really want to try out the turret build with 360 arc but is it possible to give them a faster recharge rate?
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not really sure ^^;
Cool thank you
With the heavy turrets (if you can stand rainbow builds) due to rep you can easily load up a ship with heavy turrets to create a quite enjoyable 'buzzsaw' build thats pretty effective for cannon users who can't handle high speed/turn escorts and their ilk considering heavy turrets have decent damage amongst 360 weapons
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Why? Because in the current state of the game, they're fine for normal and even advanced content and they could not be easier to play. You don't have to worry about positioning, you just fly into enemies and spam away. Use something like Emergency Power to Engines with Evasive Maneuvers to keep moving as fast as you can.. keep your speed up for the defensive bonus and just vomit turret fire everywhere. It's not only viable.. it's actually quite fun.
I definitely would NOT recommend it for Elite content. You might even have a bit of a slog doing Patrols on Elite because the overall damage output is just not going to equal what you would get from a pure beam boat or a 'proper' Ship running Cannons. But in Normal/Advanced you can already put out damage that is so far above what you need, that dialing it back for the sake of ease and fun is not a problem at all. I sometimes run an Aux2Bat Turret Boat on a Fleet Eclipse Intel Assault Cruiser. You can find the build here.
Not suggesting you do this of course, that's a lot of resources to put into a turret build.. but a variation of it based on what you have available. The Aux2Bat layout keeps your cooldowns at Global and if you use the trait Withering Barrage you can pretty much keep Scatter Volley going all the time. Yes, it limits your cone to 90 degrees but they can fire from any angle so you don't have the normal limitation of having them in front of you. Not to mention, it looks pretty cool when you're just vomiting turret fire from every direction while moving as fast as you can in and out of groups of enemies. It's fun and it's super easy to play.
I actually tried it out on a T6 B'rel BoP...it's amazing, you can fly around at insane speeds weaving in and out of enemy ships but constantly hitting your target with CRF spam. Not to mention being able to ALWAYS get flanking damage since it doesn't matter what angle you are flying around behind the enemy you are hitting them with turrets so you can do anything you have to to stay behind them and still be hitting.
A close option to the all turrets is to use single cannons on the front...you lose some arc but it's still 180 degrees and does more damage, then keep turrets on the rear.
I use an all polaron cannon/turret/morpho polaron torp build on my T5 JH carrier and it's amazing, can chew through anything fast.
I like to play around with it from time to time. It won't be winning any DPS awards, but that should not be a goal for such a ship. It is just machinegunny fun, spitting tons of death pellets out in to the space all around it. Plus, when an enemy flies around in front of it, they will find a Phaser Lance waiting for them.
Back in the day I ran a mirror vo’quv with b’rel frigates and all turrets and a ferengi missile launcher. It was the Galactica in name and practice.
The disco consoles give a good cannon+crit bonus to rainbow.
I'm wondering about a similar build when/if we get a T6 KDF carrier
That's amazing and underrated advice!
Turret B'rel? That's just crazy enough to sound like fun
I have a lot more fun playing that than I've ever had playing any sort of heavy cannon build. Everything is almost always in the firing arc of all my weapons which makes up for all the damage I'm not inflicting on something I haven't turned to face yet. The only alternative builds are single cannons instead of turrets and/or a mine on the back.
Also been looking around to see if there is a weapon haste cycle for turrets
oh and got some duty officers to reduce the time for cannon abilitys
In the build I linked, the 2pc from the Trilithium Laced Weaponry set grants haste. I am also using the trait Heart of Sol for the same reason. If you have the Bajoran Interceptor, the D.O.M.I.N.O. console also grants weapon haste. I use all of these on my turret boat.
As for Duty Officers, if you can go with an Aux2Bat setup, then 3 Blue or Purple Recharge Variant Technicians should keep your bridge officer abilities at Global for cooldown.
I'm wondering now about tinkering and expanding the idea.
Why two? Between mission sets and rep sets there are five different sets that include a heavy turret. Chronometric Calculations and Morphogenic armaments (both polaron) from missions. Counter Command Ordinance (phaser/disrupter), Obfuscated Strategies (tetryon) and Task Force Ordinances (polaron) from the Rep sets.
You would not be able to fit all five full sets, but partial sets would be possible, and if you do polaron there are three heavy turrets just for that energy type. The Obfuscated Strategies one the set is not useful for a turret build so you don't have to worry about anything but the turret itself for instance. The Morphogenic Amrmamants you would want at least two items to get the recharge haste though, and the CCO set probably three if you can jam it all in.
I wonder will there be any real difference between a turret build or heavy turret build? I guess if there are 5 heavy turrets I could go 5 rear heavy turrets and heavy weapons in the front just for the theme.
l don't know.
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