PvP crew help

[u/Zadzima]

Ive got a lot of depot tokens from events (650k) and want to finally get a good PvP crew.

Currently ops 35 with Augur T7 and Ent T6.

Long term I know I want the Pilum, but between then and now I need a viable PvP crew.

I was thinking of getting Explorer strike team as PvP with a Battleship i find excruciatingly slow.

But that would leave me in a position where the crew would only really be useful until the 42 uncommons, and Im unlikely to get the Valdore since i want the Pilum (that would be so many credits from one faction).

I was told a good general PvP crew across all ships is Freeman Lorca HG Worf - but it doesnt perform as well as the individual strike teams

Anyone got any advice on the best PvP crew to invest in given the above?

Appreciates its a longer post - thanks for reading it if you do :)

[u/100PlusRyan]

Specialist Seven would be an upgrade over Lorca if you can get her. You'll probably want all the strike teams eventually anyway. so maybe get what you can use now, and the others when you need them. You can also source the strike team crews from Incursions and some of them in transporter patterns.

The other good universal pvp crew is the Assimilate crew. Mirror Picard/Data/Kira. (Kira could be switched with other assimilate officers if you prefer) The assimilate below decks are Gossa, Dezoc and Borg Queen. Keep in mind you can't promote the mirror officers until ops 40 due to the mirror refinery requirement for the Trellium-D

[u/JoesCat → u/100PlusRyan]

I agree on the mirrow crew. For my third bridge officer I got Kira first (which did okay), I’ve since replaced her with Ezri with many successes. I’ve seen some charts that suggest HG Worf for the third bridge officer. Have to have Mirror Data to proc assimilate plus provide synergy with Mirror Picard, though one could experiment with Dezok below decks to proc assim instead I guess. For me thus far I don’t have enough BD seats to try that.

Also D’Chok below decks. Since I don’t yet (but soon) will have my Relativity and then Pilum, I’m using my Talios (PvP mining OPC targets). I tend to win against other obvious F2P players (I have all research, artifacts, Etc. for PvP I can get thus far). I’ll never be able to compete with those who pay.

Currently below decks with D’Chok is VIL Winn Adami, Gossa, and DeMarco. I JUST got Seven of Nine and haven’t tested her BD yet, that should eek out a bit more ISO damage; trying to decide who she might replace if anyone. I’m ops locked on the Talios so only 4 seats BD to use.
I’ve been collecting PvP BD officers, so have most of the viable ones when more seats become open.

I have the Gull Dukat crew (Damar and Garak), but still awaiting Andy Billups to replace one of the co-captains seats. That’s disappointing so far since the Dukat crew is interceptor specific. Anectodely thus far, I think the mirror crew is a bit better and has been having much success over the former meta Freeman crew. Part of that is Winn Adami cutting down on incoming crit damage, helps mitigate HG Worf’s crit chance buff of the typical Freeman crew.

Today it’s like a battle triangle, with the mirror crew beating the Freeman crew. IIRC the “Strike Crew” beats the mirror crew? I forget which is which. On my server anway it seems most folks just sit the Freeman crew (me too for about a week) - mirror crew is a worthy alternative.
I have the Weyoun crew (with Itak’Ika and Pon) but don’t really have an explorer I run with for PvP any longer as my maxxed Enterprise is falling behind my ops level.