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You can use Aegis set or stuff you can afford from exchange. It's good enough for eSTFs. Or join a fleet and work on earning fleet credit. Advanced/Elite Fleet stuff is a respectable alternative to rep gear. And there's the Fleet ships and weapons you may want regardless of rep stuff.
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I would have thought you would need the console in the first place to make the purchase/upgrade. Perhaps it's traded in like the Jem set when upgrading from XI to XII. FAM? I assume you mean Fleet Advanced Escort?
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Well MVAE separation pets were always pretty useless. The benefit was the increased turn albeit by sacrificing hull and shield. With power creep from a steady release of newer and better hanger pets they became even more worthless as combat pets. Mine would generally die in the first battle they were involved in from warp…
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Since your an engineer it won't be as good because of lack of tactical initiative and extra damage buffs but here's what I use. Tactical - Commander - HYT I, APB I, C:RF II, APO III Tactical - Lieutenant - TS I, C:SV I Tactical - Ensign - TT I Engineering - Lieutenant - EPtS I, Aux to Structural II Science - Lt Commander -…
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I use Adapted Maco/KHG Shield and Omega Deflector/Engines for Tetryon Glider. Really high shield capacity and some nice shield stripping. My Fleet Advanced Escort has shield facings of 15,200 but the regen is almost nonexistent.
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Why 45k hull? Your "no more no less" is disingenuous. Fleet Odyssey has 42k. Galaxy has 44k. 1.2 shield modifier? Again higher than any Fleet Cruiser. Odyssey is 1.15 and the others are 1.1 or 1.0. Battle Cloak? Why? You compare against Klinks but their Battlecruisers have a normal cloak. Their smaller ships may have a…
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A 10 minute timer for a console ability is pretty unreasonable so I'm glad for the change. In fact I'm pleasantly surprised by both this change and the fix to the visual problems of MVAM that were done the other week. It's been a long time coming. And the turning might be awesome but it's still costing 10% hull and shield…
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1. Some types are definitely better than others. Generally procs that add damage are preferred so I believe Antiproton and Disruptor are at the top. Plasma and Tetryon can also be considered but have drawbacks. However that also affects their price. I use Tetryon myself because they are much cheaper on the market. 2. DHC…
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Romulans obviously stole those ships. They do that sometimes. And no ones figured out how to update such an old ship as a Constitution to t5 standards. Except the Andorians and they aren't telling.
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It's possible if you pick one you might end up wishing you picked the other at some future point. But until then at least you'd be getting use out of it rather than nothing. Either option makes you stronger than you are now. Being so indecisive is just making you weaker than you could be!
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This underscores the problem. Fleet AE also has 5 tac consoles so no advantage to Defiant. Defiant does have slight advantage in turn rate at 17 vs 16 for AE. But with MVAM AE can add +5 or even +10 turn with gamma section. Which would be an overwhelming advantage for AE if not for the long timers involved. Fleet AE also…
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I run a MVAE myself so I'm a little biased. I don't find it particularly fragile so long as you shield tank. In fact with your 3 sci slots if you stack field generators your pretty tough. Just do whatever it takes to keep your shields up i.e constant tac teams, shield heals, and brace for impact enhanced with doffs. I'm…
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I hit the "so... what now" phase a little over a year ago. Ended up quitting rather than do eSTFs or pvp over and over. On returning the game felt new and interesting all over again. Slightly disappointed there isn't a new end game phase for after eSTFs though. And that despite a bunch of new stuff, Mako/Omega/KHG/Borg are…
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At what stage should they learn to look at chat then in your opinion? At some point after end game content? How will they stop being "freshies" if they "don't want" to listen or "can't" learn. They most likely never will and won't care either way. Bare in mind I'm not complaining about PUGs in general. I'm inured to the…
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If we fail an optional I don't usually complain. But it does annoy me when I see people who blatantly aren't ready for elite stfs and people who DON'T LISTEN or WON'T LEARN when you try to help them. Most of my elite stfs when I try to advise people I won't get a single acknowledgement or reply. Obviously you saw or had a…
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If you want the marks you do the content. It's no different than for those who don't want to do STFs then complain because getting Omega marks is then difficult. Epohh tagging takes almost no time, you can earn 3 tags out of 4 by yourself if you cba to find a group, and you only have to do it once a day. After a couple…
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Your being completely rediculous. Honestly could you be any more overly dramatic. Why would you compare a beam Escort to a beam cruiser when nearly every Escort is using cannons. Among fed ships only Escorts can use cannons! You say cannons are OP! Cruisers can't use cannons! See the problem? Saying Escorts aren't OP, that…
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Damage displayed at the end of a round is total damage done in the match. DPS is damage per second which you might measure using something like ACT. You keep combining the 2 which is some crazy figures. If people were going around doing 40k+ DPS matches would be pretty messed up.
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As you say the gal-x can use cannons but no one's saying that's OP. Because it isn't. But if cannons are OP then surely the gal-x would be too? If Escorts are OP it's because they can use cannons effectively, which is the difference between them and the Cruisers that can equip cannons. Cruisers just can't get the most out…
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I started playing again recently; when I quit I had only just started doing STFs so at this point I was no longer familiar with them anymore. I read through guides such as these to familiarise myself with the objectives of each STF. Did each of them as non-elite as a practice run then jumped into elite. Generally there's…
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Mirror Advanced Escort is a Patrol Escort with the Advanced skin. Vice-versa with the Mirror Patrol Escort. It's nice if you like the look of one but prefer the layout of the other but that's all. There's a reason they are cheap. :D
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Well in terms of damage, according to the tooltip of my DHC, popping TT1 adds an extra 26 DPS to it's already existing 1300+ DPS. Even if I cast all my damage buffs first it's only around an extra 100 DPS. So not so strong.
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The only skills TT makes redundant are, ironically, tactical debuffs. Since everyone spams it no tactical debuff ever lasts very long on anyone. It's the synergy with shield heals that makes it powerful. One shield facing pops -> TT, all shields now yellow, TSS, all shields now green. It's more powerful the more shields…
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Your the one who isn't listening. Yes TT2 boosts weapons by 24. But TT1 boosts them by 18. Your gaining +6 over other players not 24. That +6 difference is neglible. That's the point. There's many other nice things that could fill that slot. Your choices in the ensign slot are much more limited. No one's TELLING you how to…
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They don't use ET/ST because everyone seems to prefer stuff like Transfer Shield Strength and Hazard Emitters. Most people consider them better, and even if you don't, at the very least they are good alternatives. What's the alternative to TT? Nothing because no other skill provides shield distribution. The higher level…