There's no place for eng (and cruisers) in the current PvP meta. Yeah, you'll encounter a healer at times, but the thing is, everything an eng can do, a sci or a tac could do better. Compared to healers, "dmg" cruisers do absolutely nothing in the current meta. If you try to build a dmg cruiser for pvp.. just don't. Also,…
Nothing else changes. All builds remain the same, but scis get more from using science ships and I see absolutely no problem with that. The problem I have is that tacticals are still better in science ships than science captains, so I don't see many reasons to go for a science captain (over a tactical) in PvE. The only…
@crypticspartan#0627 Many people seem to be worried about science captains being useless, and tactical captains performing better with science ships than science captains in science ships. Science captains still need their Subnucleonic Beam for PvP to keep their role while they also have to have some advantages when using…
In order to stack any skill that high you'll have to sacrifice a lot of other stuff, console slots, weapon slots, sets, traits. I don't see the problem here.
Overall I really like the changes, and I'm looking forward to when it hits holodeck. One thing I still really dislike is the change of the subnucleonic beam. It was what made the sci unique, as many have said before me. I would have preferred a buff of the photonic fleet and then that made into a boff power instead of the…