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« Last post by Xev on Yesterday at 09:45:16 PM »
I'm still hung up on blowing things up in STO.
We mentioned, here, before, about where to allocate our power.. For me, this is kinda off the wall - I have a Bajoran Escort (ditched his Pilot Warbird) build going right now that has all power to Aux and whatever is leftover, goes to shields. His only beam weapons are rear Omni's that I consider to be, like..., low power usage Pets. 5 torps up front in his half Wargames/Iconian kitted ship. After a recent retcon he still has a whopping 3 Skill points unspent and no points in Control and no plans to get (gravity well) a control power (even though he is all Aux) and still he dominates. I mean, I don't outdps everyone but I rarely explode and I rarely don't make what's in front of me explode and it is a highly entertaining and different build for me.
Drain those shields and send in the torps, baby!
Sci builds.. got 2 I'm playing with. Tac and Sci captains. Mostly the Sci due to my Tac needs luv and I'm not in Sci mode atm when it comes to builds/gear. Sci is so easy. I mean, really.. You can't swing a 5km range tractor beam without hitting some nice Sci gear and the powers are so OP - Sci's great.
Escort Builds... The best for last. And first - first build ever was tac/escort.
I can be really slow with some things in life... Omni's and turrets are a good example. I finally realized that if you are running heavy cannons... you probly want to run turrets (puke). What the more interesting thinking at that time, was... if you're running Beams... (in an Escort) then you probably want to run those luverly Omni's.. like Kinetic Cutting Beam and any other Omni that has the stats you want and in Gold plx.
I have a new(ish..) Escort beam build running right now that will outdps keep up with my veteran Escort Heavy Cannon builds that are in full Rep/Mish/Whatever(Fleet..) gear and have all kinds of nice Traits, including the Rep Traits that this toon hasn't even gotten to yet.. This toon? He's using so simple gear (ok, the Gold weapons cost a small fortune), too. All Fleet and Store Bought Gold. He regularly parses over 30k in ISA. He's just fun, too. Rom Critmaster..
My 'old' Escort Pilots are trying some new tricks. Constable Secondary on a beefy (Human *puke*) Escort Pilot can make up from some loss in DPS due to lower crit chance. That's been entertaining.
Yup, STO has a good variety of ways to scratch the Blow-sh@t-up, itch. Soon as I can stop fidgeting with Ways to do it I want to start with different things to do it In. Need more ships. Have the Zen. Can't stop fooling with builds or just plain logging in and blowing stuff up long enough to figure out what to buy. Except that fairly new Escort with the Grav Well trait. Will be getting that. Or the bundle. Or the mega-bundle. Oh yeah, that's why I haven't bought that ship yet..
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These writers keep doing the same old crap and it's getting f---ing annoying! 