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Best carrier? best overall pets?
chrisevans34
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So with all the carriers we now have in this game, what do you think is the best carrier? and why?
I fell in love with the D7 Miracle worker Flight deck carrier. just it has the 8 weapon loadout, 12 console slots, love having that universal console. 2 hangar bays can equip firgates, tho ive been stuck with the Elite tactical fighters, such a load of little ships 72 little tough fighters. i will get round to trying all the different types of pets on it.
what do you think is the best pet? and best Universal pet?
I fell in love with the D7 Miracle worker Flight deck carrier. just it has the 8 weapon loadout, 12 console slots, love having that universal console. 2 hangar bays can equip firgates, tho ive been stuck with the Elite tactical fighters, such a load of little ships 72 little tough fighters. i will get round to trying all the different types of pets on it.
what do you think is the best pet? and best Universal pet?
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now see the rommie drones im liking that we can equip them on the new rommie carrier, and whats also cool is my rommie/kdf carrier toon, can fly, the kdf/rommie/dominion carriers hehe so i got all 3 fleet versions, and its great just gotta get dil to unlock pets, also the bug pets on the dominion carrier is great.
yeah i know but u can equip those on the new jem carrier
From what I remember from testing Tactical Flyer Squadrons are middle tier. Pretty good but not as good as the top pets.
https://www.sto-league.com/a-brief-guide-to-getting-the-most-out-of-hanger-pets/
https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/iflimr/dps_comparison_of_various_hangar_pets_including/
Lots of data there for best pet. Best DPS pet changes based on traits used, bridge officer powers used and map being played.
My favorite hangar pets are still the Orion Interceptors(super-fast, have beams, tractor beams, and a unique weapon/engine drain-beam), but the new support frigates are pretty handy too. The lack of an Interceptor counterpart is probably one of the main reasons I don't run many carriers on the Federation side.
"Best" is subjective, depending on what you're after.
I doubt that the To'Duj Fighter Squadron with Superior Area Denial are behind Drone Ships or Lost Souls in Terms of DPS. Also compared to Flight Deck Carriers all "real" Carriers are lackluster.
To OP: The D7 is one of the best carriers to have no doubt and if you pair that bad boy with normal To'Duj Figher Squadrons and Superior Area Denial you can create a monster.
I'm planning on equipping mine (whenever I can save up enough ECs to buy it) with Elite Slavers and Superior Area Denial.
Original STO beta tester.
To be honest I haven't got around to testing To'Duj Fighter Squadron personally. I will add that into my own testing for later. From what I have seen of other peoples testing To'Duj Fighter Squadron are top tier in the same league as Drone Ships and Lost Souls.
The thing about Lost Souls just in case you are not aware you can stack scramble fighters, x3 Doffs and traits to get a 165% damage boost. To'Duj Fighter Squadron's just cannot get near that type of damage boost. Without the damage boost To'Duj Fighter Squadron will be miles ahead but stack up that 165% damage boost and Lost Souls get crasy DPS.
If you use Lost Souls make sure you take advantage of x3 Hanger Bay recharge doffs and Scrambled Fighters as the damage boost is just off the charts. The Souls will hit for well over 10k per shot from what I remember.
so what is it about engineering carrier, especially the Ryn'kodan makes it the best for you?
I don't have any two-bay T6 carriers from the other factions though I have the T5 Atrox (which is nice) and I have several single-bay dred-cruisers like the Chronos class. My favorite T5u carrier is the Kar-Fi, it is one of only two ships that I have upgraded to T5u (the Kar-Fi and the N'Kaam) so far though I would like to eventually do that with the Atrox and the Ar'kif as well.
Of the fighters I have available the best are the lost souls, I run them in my Kar-fi and would do so in other ships if it were possible (they are locked to Fek'ihri ships). The Orion fighters that come with the Blackguard are good, they survive longer than the other non-frigate ones. The Tholian Widows, advanced or higher Aeon fighters, and Caitian Stalkers are tied for third place. The Klingon To'duj, all the Fed fighters I have used, and Romulan Scorpions are a distant fourth. The Widows die fast but they cause quite a ruckus with their FAW spamming before they go down.
The only frigate pets I have used were the Enchentis, they are ok but I have nothing to compare them to besides fighters, and compared to them they are better at defense (except maybe for the Widows) but not so great on attack.
The Discoprise and D7 are obvious choices, but the one no one ever picks is absolutely one of the best ships in the game bar none.. and that's the Tzenkethi Tzen-Tar. 8 Hard Points, Full Miracle Worker Spec with extra console and 2 hangar bays. Console and Trait are nothing great, but the rest of the ship is Fantastic.
I run one on a KDF with 2 hangars of Elite Nausicaan Stingers, and it's by far my best DPS'ing carrier. I have 2 KDF's one in the Tzen-Tar and one in the Miracle Worker D7. Both have Superior Area Denial, the D7 uses Elite Tactical Flyers and while they're not bad, they pale in comparison to the Stingers.
Stingers, Romulan Drones, and Rare Gre'thor Pets are the best hangar pets I have used in STO with Stingers being my favorite.
I am surprised the Tzen-Tar isn't more popular, it's one of the top ships in the game and since it's currently in the Lobi Store it can be had for a pretty low price. That ship is incredible. For an Energy Weapon build it's rivaled only by the Miracle Worker Flight Deck ships.
I imagine it's something like the Vonph or Archeros was back when. Everyone and their uncle can potentially get it, so people don't feel like special snowflakes by using it. I agree it's a pretty fantastic ship though(especially for DEW and exotic torpedo builds). The only downside is that it doesn't mesh very nicely with Aux2Bat; also, if you're running a (half)Photonic Officer setup, you're basically giving up its science leaning. (I also don't like the DBB placement on the ship; looks kind of silly on a BO build where all your death comes from the outer-most edges. The forced bold yellow decal stripes are kind of meh for the fashion-trek too.)