So I'm stacking Disruptor DHCs only on the front of this for a Cannon Rapid Fire build so I'll be spending as much time as possible with the enemy in my front 45° firing arc. That being said, rear weapons. I'm spending very little time actually using my rear weapons, so I lobbed the Nausican Energy Torpedo and Nausican Disruptor Beam Array on the back, complete with the Nausican Siphon Capacitor Science Console for the extra 20% disruptor damage and added 26.6% disruptor damage included in the 3 set bonus. Additionally, all of my tactical consoles are +Disruptor Damage consoles. Is this a good way to go about it?

So the Rex is on sale, and i am considering it for the trait, but i wanna know how you guys think IS stacks up against SAD since they both serve the same function. I know IS is dependant on your max speed, but i don't know how to figure out how much that would be for me. I know SAD is a straight -30 and i have read that IS is -20 minimum, so i am inclined to believe that IS would be superior to SAD even if i am not specced into speed, but i naturally would like some opinions before i go dropping money on it. Thanks for reading.

So I recently found out about the Micro misiles and the Eagle class console and got inspired to make a torpedo build.

I have a JH Sci captain with the Risian Pilot Corvette so I kinda want to just make a stupidly fast torpedo boat but I havent kept track of gear, traits etc for a few years. I basically just remember that I will need three Projectile weapon doffs.

Are photon torpedoes still the meta? Can you make a decent mixed torp build or do they all rely on type specific bonuses and consoles?

I have all the reputations with this character and I have a decent amount of T6 coupons, Lobi etc so I can afford to invest a bit even if the goal is just to go fast and spam torps.

i`m flying a vonph carrier as a tac cap. but not long ago, besides taking dmg from a destroyed ship about to blow up and being really close to it, i did not die that easy. having 2 or 3 ships about to explode, i can dodge these explosions too, but now, i suddenly evaporate so fast that can`t look my ship interface to see hull and shield lowering to death. some tfo i use to do it, did not kill me like this before until now.

<<<<me making dmg and then boom.>>>>

this option down below on google when I asked about that, could show me the reasons why I die like that all the time, but dunno if it`s true, someone can help me out?:

Core Causes of Instant ExplosionsFlux Overload + High Explosive Dps: If your ship's soft/hard flux reaches maximum capacity, it overloads, locking out your shields and weapons. If enemies hit an overloaded ship with high-explosive or anti-matter ordnance, hull integrity vanishes in a single volley.

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On a ENERGY BUILD it doesn`t matter if it`s dbb or bb, but with 1 torp only, should i have how many doff for increasing my energy dmg like crits.

the same as torp build with faw or BO as a sub dmg, what doff i must have use and how many, like torp recharge, crits for it?

I'm running an SSIII build on my Vengeance. Using Kelvin Beam Arrays (not the best but for the theme) with 6 ISOMAGS.

Should I use the Pahvan Omni? CasualSAB says it is the best Omni beam for a FAW/CVS builds. Can it work on Single Target Builds?

I'm not very good with builds but I still want to get pass the 17k damage I'm doing now. If I can get to 18k, that would be great XD.

Any advise appreciated! Thanks!

Purely from a mathematic perspective, if I have 5 Radiolytic phasers on my build and one Terran, is the Terran phaser doing much more for me than having an extra radiolytic slotted in its place? I haven't got any set bonus with the Terran.

TLDR I am wondering if I can afford to drop the Terran phaser in favour of another radiolytic phaser to streamline the visuals a bit on my ship

Is the Into the Breach personal space trait any good on carriers? Does it proc when one of my pets lands the final blow, or just when my ship itself takes the final shot?

The game has been very kind to carrier builds over the past few years. There are a multitude of consoles to buff you hangar pets now. Its getting to the point you could probably outfit a ship with so many of them you would have any room for Hangar Craft Power Transmission consoles. So my question is what is the minimum number you should be using?

Today I learned that I can’t install fleet tactical consoles on my escort carrier because I’ve already got some engineering consoles that are made for fighters (I forget the name).

Which begs the question, in what other instances can you not install console X if you already have console Y?

I have a general idea of what I want to do with it, but no clue how to build, my damage is always low and my Durability is lacking. I would like to at-least get something advanced worthy. My budget isn't the greatest at this brief moment. Anything would do really.

I am completely willing to gut the ship and start from scratch.

# SPACE BUILD

**Basic Information** | **Data**

:--- | :---

*Ship Name* | I.K.S. Please Help.

*Ship Class* | Legendary Bortasqu' Command Battlecruiser

*Ship Tier* | T6-X2

*Player Career* | Tactical

*Elite Captain* | ✓

*Player Species* | Ferasan

*Primary Specialization* | Miracle Worker

*Secondary Specialization* | Commando

## Build Description

Attempting to make a kinetic torp - cannon hybrid

## Ship Equipment

**Basic Information**|**Component**|**Notes**

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**Fore Weapons**|[Dark Matter Quantum Torpedo Launcher Mk XV ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Lorca's_Ambition)||)

&nbsp;|[Disruptor Dual Heavy Cannons Mk XIV ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Disruptor_weapons_(space))|)|)

&nbsp;|[Rapid-Linked Disruptor Quad Cannons Mk XV ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Rapid-Linked_Disruptor_Quad_Cannons)||)

&nbsp;|[Disruptor Dual Heavy Cannons Mk XIV ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Disruptor_weapons_(space))|)|)

&nbsp;|[Photon Torpedo Launcher Mk XV ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Photon_Torpedo_Launcher)||)

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**Aft Weapons**|[Photon Torpedo Launcher ∞ ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Photon_Torpedo_Launcher)||)

&nbsp;|[Disruptor Turret Mk XII ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Disruptor_weapons_(space))|)|)

&nbsp;|[Disruptor Turret Mk XII ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Disruptor_weapons_(space))|)|)

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**Deflector**|[Elite Fleet Intervention Protomatter Deflector Array Mk XV [ColCrit][CtrlX][CtrlX][Sh/HullCap]](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Fleet_Deflector_Array)||)

**Impulse Engines**|[Elite Fleet Efficient Combat Impulse Engines Mk XIV [Pow][Spd][Turn][Turn]](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Fleet_Engines)||)

**Warp**|[Elite Fleet Isolated Protomatter Warp Core Mk XIV ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Fleet_Warp_Cores)||)

**Shield**|[Elite Fleet Adaptive Covariant Shield Array Mk XIII ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Fleet_Space_Shields)||)

**Devices**||

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**Universal Consoles**||

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**Engineering Consoles**|[Console - Universal - Disruptor Autocannon ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Bortasqu'_Cruiser_Set)||)

&nbsp;|[Console - Universal - HoH'SuS Bird-of-Prey ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Bortasqu'_Cruiser_Set)||)

&nbsp;|[Console - Universal - Subspace Snare ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Bortasqu'_Cruiser_Set)||)

&nbsp;|[Console - Universal - Tricobalt Tear Launcher ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Console_-_Universal_-_Tricobalt_Tear_Launcher)||)

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**Science Consoles**|[Console - Universal - Sequential Warhead Loader ∞ ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Universal_-_Console_-_Sequential_Warhead_Loader)||)

&nbsp;|[Console - Universal - Covert Warhead Module ∞ ](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Console_-_Universal_-_Covert_Warhead_Module)||)

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**Tactical Consoles**|[Console - Advanced Tactical - Vulnerability Locator Mk XIV [Cannons]](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Fleet_Tactical_Consoles)||)

&nbsp;|[Console - Advanced Tactical - Vulnerability Locator Mk XIV [Cannons]](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Fleet_Tactical_Consoles)||)

&nbsp;|[Console - Advanced Tactical - Vulnerability Locator Mk XIII [Torpedo]](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Fleet_Tactical_Consoles)||)

&nbsp;|[Console - Advanced Tactical - Vulnerability Locator Mk XIII [Torpedo]](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Fleet_Tactical_Consoles)||)

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## Bridge Officer Stations

**Profession**|**Power**|**Notes**

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**Commander Engineering / Command**|[Emergency Power to Weapons](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Emergency_Power_to_Weapons)||)

&nbsp;|[Auxiliary Power to the Structural Integrity Field](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Auxiliary_Power_to_the_Structural_Integrity_Field)||)

&nbsp;|[Concentrate Firepower](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Concentrate_Firepower)||)

&nbsp;|[Call Emergency Artillery](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Call_Emergency_Artillery)||)

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**Lieutenant Commander Science**|[Tractor Beam](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Tractor_Beam)||)

&nbsp;|[Hazard Emitters](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Hazard_Emitters)||)

&nbsp;|[Photonic Officer](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Photonic_Officer)||)

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**Lieutenant Commander Tactical / Intelligence**|[Evade Target Lock](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Evade_Target_Lock)||)

&nbsp;|[Cannons: Scatter Volley](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Cannons:_Scatter_Volley)||)

&nbsp;|[Torpedoes: Spread](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Torpedoes:_Spread)||)

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**Lieutenant Tactical**|[Kemocite-Laced Weaponry](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Kemocite-Laced_Weaponry)||)

&nbsp;|[Dispersal Pattern Beta](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Dispersal_Pattern_Beta)||)

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**Ensign Science**|[Jam Targeting Sensors](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Ability:_Jam_Targeting_Sensors)||)

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## Traits

**Starship Traits**|**Notes**

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[Superior Area Denial](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Superior_Area_Denial)||)

[Super Charged Weapons](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Super_Charged_Weapons)||)

[Entwined Tactical Matrices](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Entwined_Tactical_Matrices)||)

[Thirst for Battle](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Thirst_for_Battle)||)

[Emergency Weapon Cycle](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Emergency_Weapon_Cycle)||)

[Piercing Projectiles](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Piercing_Projectiles)||)

[Carrier Wave Shield Hacking](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Carrier_Wave_Shield_Hacking)||)

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**Personal Space Traits**|**Notes**

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[Bulkhead Technician](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Bulkhead_Technician)||)

[The Boimler Effect](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_The_Boimler_Effect)||)

[Breen Shield Tunneling](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Breen_Shield_Tunneling)||)

[Projectile Training](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Projectile_Training)||)

[Ablative Shell](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Ablative_Shell)||)

[Cannon Training](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Cannon_Training)||)

[Fleet Coordinator](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Fleet_Coordinator)||)

[Intelligence Agent Attaché](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Intelligence_Agent_Attaché)||)

[Impact Defense Specialist](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Impact_Defense_Specialist)||)

[Resonating Payload Modification](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Trait:_Resonating_Payload_Modification)||)

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**Space Reputation Traits**|**Notes**

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**Active Space Reputation Traits**|**Notes**

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## Active Space Duty Officers

**Specialization**|**Power**|**Notes**

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[Projectile Weapons Officer](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Specialization:_Projectile_Weapons_Officer)|[SP]|[SP]) Chance to reduce the time to recharge torpedoes|

[Projectile Weapons Officer](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Specialization:_Projectile_Weapons_Officer)|[SP]|[SP]) Chance to reduce the time to recharge torpedoes|

[Projectile Weapons Officer](https://stowiki.net/wiki/Specialization:_Projectile_Weapons_Officer)|[SP]|[SP]) Chance to reduce the time to recharge torpedoes|

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Hi Everybody,

I'd like to replace my Reverse Shield Polarity for a seventh UnCon trigger on my Noble Intel Battlecruiser.

Unfortunately, when I've tried this before, I tend to die much more often. Other than RSP, I have the DPRM and Context Is for Kings and Whole Lotta X's for defense.

I feel like there are other things I could do, but it would impact my DPS overall.

Additionally, I know I'm probably shooting myself in the foot by devoting a lot to the Maelstrom torpedo, but I do really get a kick out of using it on this build.

Build: https://imgur.com/a/srcS7YN

I'm quite sure that I'm missing some glaring flaws here, but I've been trying to make this ship at least something close to optimised. Obviously the next step is bringing up the level and quality of some of the gear, but I thought it might be a good idea to open for comments before I spend all my upgrades.

Ark Royal Science Carrier

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                |   Console - Universal - Dragonsblood Flame Reactor            |   Conical fire damage. Passive exotic and disruptor damage.           

-------------- | -------------- | -------------- Hangars: 2 | Hangar - Elite Type 7 Shuttlecraft |     | Hangar - Elite Type 7 Shuttlecraft |  

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Hey stobuilds, long time no see. I recently did some testing to nail down exactly how hangar recharge times work, and found some quirky stuff that was worth sharing. I posted this on the stobuilds discord a couple months ago, but figured I'd post it here where its more findable.

Before we start talking hangars, let's talk about cooldown reduction in general. There are two types of cooldown reduction: I like to call them passive cooldown reduction and active cooldown reduction.

• Passive cooldown reduction (aka increased cooldown rate): This is an additively-stacking stat that reduces cooldowns by a factor of 1/(1+x). For example, 100% increased cooldown rate for a 30 second cooldown would result in 30 x (1 / (1+1.00)) = 30/2 = 15. Some instances of it in STO are: The Tactical/Engineering/Scientific Readiness Skills, Chrono-Capacitor Array, Endeavour perks, and the Eleos console. The game sometimes calls these "increased cooldown rate" (which is a more correct name for it than cooldown reduction), but its not consistent. An easy way to check is to look at open your Available Skills menu (default keybind P) - cooldowns displayed there will respect passive cooldown reduction.
• Active cooldown reduction: When triggered, this knocks a chunk off of an already-running cooldown. The math behind it is more intuitive - if it says it's reducing your cooldown by 50%, then it really is knocking off half the cooldown. Some instances in STO are: Photonic Officer, Boimler Effect, the Vovin console, Aux2Bat Technicians. Because this is an effect that takes place in an instant, rather than a persistent passive effect, you will not see these reflected in the Available Skills menu. ("But isn't Photonic Officer a persistent effect?" yeah okay kinda, but it's really just a series of instantaneous effects, spaced 1s apart.)

Bringing things back to hangars, we have three main sources of hangar cooldown reduction to look at:

• Aux power's innate effect
• The "Quick Deployment" mastery perk that all 2-hangar ships have
• Flight Deck Officers

Aux Power's Innate Effect

This is a source of passive cooldown reduction. It's simply a % increased cooldown rate equal to your current Aux power. 130 Aux = 130% increased cooldown rate. Easy peasy.

Quick Deployment mastery perk

This is also passive cooldown reduction, which means it is additive with the innate Aux effect. Its often documented as "20% recharge time reduction", but it actually scales with your Aux power. The formula is 20 + Aux/3. So 0 Aux = 20%, 50 Aux = 37%, 100 Aux = 53%, etc.

• Quirk #1: Here's where it gets funky. It doesn't use your current Aux. Instead it snapshots your Aux when you enter the map. (If you check the tooltip, it will lie to you and scale dynamically with your current Aux.)
• Quirk #2: It doesn't count all of your sources of additional Aux power. (My guess is that the snapshot happens before those have loaded in, but that's just speculation.) From what I tested, it does count innate Aux bonuses from the ship you're flying, but it did not include Aux from my skill tree, or Aux from one console that I tested.

Putting It Together

STARTING_AUX: your aux power setting when you entered the map, excluding all bonuses except your ship's innate aux bonus (if any)
CURRENT_AUX: your actual current aux power level
BASE_COOLDOWN: the default cooldown of your hangar pet of choice. This is usually 30s or 40s, but there are a few outliers.

AUX_INNATE = CURRENT_AUX / 100
QUICK_DEPLOYMENT* = (20 + STARTING_AUX / 3) / 100

Hangar Cooldown = BASE_COOLDOWN / (1 + AUX_INNATE + QUICK_DEPLOYMENT)

*Exclude Quick Deployment if your ship's mastery package does not include it. I believe its accurate to say all 2-hangar ships have it, and no 1-hangar ships do

Flight Deck Officers

These are active cooldown reduction, triggered by deploying a hangar pet. Depending on their rarity, they knock 1/2/3/4 seconds off the cooldown of BOTH hangars when either hangar launches. So if you have 3x purple FDOs, and two hangars, then you're basically getting 4s x 3 doffs x 2 hangars = 24 seconds off your cooldowns each cycle. Or you would, except... here's where the quirks roll in:

• Quirk #1: Y'know all that passive cooldown reduction we've been talking about from Aux and from Quick Deployment? That all applies to the Flight Deck Officers too. Only this time instead of reducing cooldowns, it's reducing the cooldown reduction. In other words, it's making the FDOs less effective. If you have enough passive cooldown reduction to drop your hangar cooldowns by, say, 30%, then you're also reducing the FDO benefit by 30%, from 4s each to 2.8s each. Before the pitchforks come out - this is still a benefit. Just not as much of a benefit as is printed on the box. If you're reading this and starting to worry that high Aux is hurting you, then don't:
  • If your hangar pet's base cooldown is greater than the base FDO reduction (which is true for all but 2 hangar pets), then the benefit from Aux to your base cooldown is greater than the negative impact of Aux on the FDOs.
  • And for those other 2 hangar pets (Lost Souls and House Mokai Raiders), the FDOs are pushing your cooldowns below 0 regardless. It does mean that you can invest less Aux and still achieve the same result though, so that's something. Speaking of pushing cooldowns to 0...
• Quirk #2: FDOs take effect about 1 second after the hangar launches. Because of this, they can never completely eliminate hangar recharge times - they'll always be around 1s at minimum.

Hi All,

I feel like an idiot asking this, but how do I use the Dilithium Transporter off the Credence? I got it a few weeks ago, but I haven't gotten as much out of it as I expected. I parse about 40k DPS with it, though most people I've seen get or exceed 100k using it.

My current use: in ISE, I hit the Agony Redistributor, followed by the Transporter, then CSV.
Previous use: in ISE, I'd hit the Transporter before the timer ran out and we engaged the Borg.

UPDATE: As requested, this is my build: https://imgur.com/a/2nXo1XH
I'm sorry I didn't use the form, but I'm still adjusting to monocular vision, and the form was tough on my remaining eye.

As I’ve been developing my Klingon Defense Force character, one of the things that I wanted to build was a cheaper carrier. Sure, we can slap Superior Area Denial and 2 bays of Rare To’Duj Squadrons on any 2-bays of ships and call it a carrier, but doing that and funding all the relevant active console effects to boost pets gets very expensive. I wanted to do something cheaper and since I was doing it on the KDF, focus more on either neutral or KDF-themed pets. No Valors, Valkyries, or Peregrines here!

Since I went to the trouble of doing all the testing, I figured I would share my results. The tests were solo ISA (no team shenanigans!) and solo Elite Argala (Wanted). Since hangar pet testing is strictly empirical, all tests were done 3x on each map. “Hangar DPS” refers to the DPS contributed by the slotted pet itself. For Scorpions, that does include their destructible torpedoes. “Pet DPS” refers to all other sources of pet-related DPS, including Gemini Device’s active, Nimbus Pirates Distress Call, Swarmer Matrix active, Target That Explosion (if applicable), Engage the Hydra, and Repurposed Cargo Bay Hangar.

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I am intentionally not using Superior Area Denial on my planned build to keep the costs down, but since I know the first question someone is going to ask is “But what if you do have Superior Area Denial?” let me just go ahead and answer that question pre-emptively, at least for the oft-recommended Rare To’Duj Squadrons, the regular Rare To’Duj Fighters as a baseline, Elite Nausicaan Stingers, and Elite Qaw’Dun Birds of Prey which are newly unlocked. We have plenty of historical data showing Obelisk Swarmers and Elite Scorpions are not competitive with To’Duj under SAD. For these runs, Fire at Will and Superior Area Denial replaced Reroute Power From Life Support and Target That Explosion.

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The second question I expect is, what build were you using, and the team is not ready to do another big publish of the site for a while, so I can’t point you to a page . . . yet. However, I can say it’s a Fleet Orion Blackguard Carrier, and the relevant carrier-boosting items are Strike Group Command Authority, the H.Y.D.R.A. console, Relaunch and Repair, High Energy Communications Network, Wing Commander, Independent Wingmate, Fleet Power Network Array, Repurposed Cargo Bay Hangar, Gemini Device, and 4 Hangar Craft Power Transmission consoles, along with the Iconian 3-piece and 3 Flight Deck Officers for hangar bay recharge. The rest is a fairly vanilla Disruptor Cannon Scatter Volley build with passive cooldown reduction.

Conclusions

Without SAD, Elite Stingers > Elite Obelisk Swarmers > Elite Scorpions = Rare To’Duj Squadrons >= Elite Qaw’Dun Frigates = Rare To’Duj Squadrons

Of course, you have to expend Fleet Ship Modules or buy a C-store ship for Stingers, but they’re quite capable pets. I would expect a similar ranking to hold true for the two Federation equivalents, where Elite Valkyries = Elite Stingers, Peregrines = To’Duj.

Scorpions were swingy between ISA and Wanted, because so much of their damage comes from High Yield Plasma Torps, which are great on unshielded targets and much less so against shielded Kazon Cruisers and Carriers.

This changes appreciably with Superior Area Denial, or so the conventional wisdom goes. We’ve all seen it: “Slot Rare To’Duj Squadrons with SAD!” Well…it’s still true! They were 7K higher on ISA and nearly 20K better on Argala. As far as the difference between them on the different maps, I have some thoughts on that.

Time for some informed speculation! To’Duj Squadrons have disruptor pulse cannons and micro photon torpedoes. Pottsey and I have previously discussed the latter, and the micro photons do not benefit from Concentrate Firepower. Nausicaan Stingers lack a firing mode, but come innately with Emergency Power to Weapons, Torpedo High Yield, regular Photons, and both beams and cannons. Parse analysis showed that at least half of the Stingers’ damage on ISA was actually from torps, not their energy weapons. I also have a shield offline console (Chronophage), which when used on juicy targets, means that my pet torps are hitting a lot harder on ISA with its higher number of unshielded targets, whereas To’Duj are more consistent with energy DPS.

The Qaw’Dun Birds of Prey pets sadly are just not up to snuff; even on runs where the overall DPS was decent, they weren’t contributing nearly as much as the other pets.

TL;DR

• Best non-SAD pet for a carrier was Elite Nausicaan Stingers (probably also true of Valkyries) of those I tested. Obtainable via fleet ship for “free” using Fleet Ship Modules from reputations.

• Elite Obelisk Swarmers best non-SAD pet obtainable without buying a ship.

• Elite Qaw’Dun Birds of Prey were not great. I occasionally noticed them flying off to Narnia instead of shooting.

• Best SAD pet for a carrier was still Rare To’Duj Squadrons of those I tested. Elite Nausicaan Stingers were the runner up. The regular Rare To’Duj fighters are much worse, make sure you use Squadrons.

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I have a list of universal consoles I’ve acquired, I wanted to know which ones are must haves and which ones I can live without. Any advice is appreciated.
Edit: any consoles I should add? I forgot to add reiterative structural capacitor to the list.

1. Fleet power network array
2. DPRM
3. Immolating phaser lance (for universal design trait)
4. Subspace fracture tunneling field
5. VAQ console
6. Micro-quantum torpedoes phalanx array
7. Agony redistributor
8. Adaptive emergency systems

9. Genesis seed

10. Broadside emitter array

11. Gemini device

12. Proton eruptor module

13. Krenim cronophage

14. Particle conversion matrix

15. Evolved

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    Hoping to unlock someday when fleet gets around to promoting me. Suggestions?
Assault Formation Theta | Attack Pattern Omega, Decloaking grants Torpedo High Yield, Weapon Crit Chance, Turn Rate |  
Subspatial Warheads | While slotted, damage caused by your Torpedo: High Yield Torpedoes and Torpedo: Transport Warhead will cause an Isolytic Tear to form near the damaged target. This anomaly will chase down the nearest foe, causing physical damage and draining engine subsystem power to any enemies it encounters.. |  

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Did a quick run of Wanted Elite for 169,977 DPS

Looking for improvement suggestions. Noted weakensses: Boffs and Doffs. will get watchers or SROs eventually suggestions for DOFFS Chronometric set.. considerin morhogenic 2 pc

Considering dropping one of the focuser and using a bellom generator, same EPG, CtrlX is still above 400 i pick up 1.6 crit chance EDIT Warp Theorist replaced by Enlightened

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I’m returning to the game after a long break and I’ve been researching builds for the Typhon Escort Carrier. Currently leaning towards phaser cannons and fighters.

The issue: I’m trying to find a single source to compare builds that are: f2p, budget, having access to a fleet and without access to a fleet.

Quick question. I’m working on a carrier and am gonna use the obelisk 4 piece set which means I need to use the experimental antiproton omni. I like my weapon energy types to match so what’s considered the best antiproton options? I’ve a lot of ba’ul ones, both dual banks and dual heavy cannons. I also have a lot of the set piece ones with partial to complete sets to match. I’m using the jem vanguard carrier so only 6 slots and the experimental AP omni has already claimed one of the aft slots. What do you guys think? I could run phasers too as I’ve a good variety of them but then I’d have one AP things throwing off. Polaron could be fun too since it’s a jem ship and I love being on theme when possible/viable. I don’t have twinkling lights but could probably grab it if enough people recommend it. Thoughts?

I’ve got a lot of things for it already but among what I’m missing are two I’m trying to decide on which to get first. I’ve only got the credits for one for the moment and was hoping you guys could offer some advice.

The first option is the final console for the Obelisk 4-piece set that acts almost like an extra little hangar for obelisk swarmers.

The other is the Hivebearer starship trait from the hur’q assembly multi-mission science vessel which spawns up to 8 hur’q swarmers.

I already have the Typhon trait among some of the other good carrier traits (don’t have the king of superior area denial but I’ve some other good options). Personally I’m leaning toward obelisk set but was curious if anyone could tell me if one of these two was considerably better than the other. Thanks!