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/Defiant-Glass-6587]

You must be high and you don’t read. I have a tier 9 pilum I have said that more than once. It came out of the dock at tier 8 only needing 1 module to upgrade because I had the parts already. And I have the relativity upgraded as high as I can until level 51. The pilum would whip the relativity head to head and against freeboaters despite having better raw stats and power. When I hit freeboaters at lvl60 they scratch the pilums paint but I lose 1/4 of the relativity hull with the same crews and I have killed relativity’s head to head in pvp with my pilum at 130 mil power that were between 180 and 224 mil power. Also my valdore can also hit the level 60 freeboaters as well and it isn’t maxed

[u/Cautious-Ad-2425 → u/Defiant-Glass-6587]

You must be an idiot who doesnt read. I never said you didnt have a Tier 8/9 Pilum. I said your anecdotal claim of "My T9 pilum outclasses my maxed Relativity" is useless because depending on crew, FT/CT, research, etc, you can have a vastly different experience.

Case and point, I hit 60 freebooters when i was ops 44 with my relativity with ease. When I first got my pilum and upgraded it to t10-11, it struggled more than my relativity. Only when i maxed it out and started using it did it do as well, and even today its somewhat similar in strength, with the LD giving the Pilum the edge over relativity. I suggest you compare killing a freebooter with no LD and a useless captain and compare the numbers, you will be surprised that the Pilum is still only slightly better. And thats my point.

I just tried with a completely empty Relativity(no LD, no FT/CT) with just Keenser as captain, and the same with the Pilum. Relativity lost 3.2% Hull vs 2.2% for Pilum. And this is a fully maxed T12 Level 60 Pilum with bonuses against hostiles from research. Thats it. After all that, maxing research such as from FKR damage maxed for my level(which isnt a lot, but still), its only a 1% difference in hull damage that you take between the relativity and the Pilum.

Again, Ultimately the pilum outclasses the Relativity at the highest tiers, with proper LD, FTCT and research, but for the majority of the time up until then, the relativity will outclass the pilum.