Sunday, 30 December 2018

STO....


An alt I've not used much (levelled up and farm admiralty missions) was the one I chose to use as a testbed for how the latest event ship handles(the T6 Fek'Ihri S'Torr Warship). One thing is clear it sucks at multi ship combat; The flip side of that coin is that it rocks against single ship engagements. Even at the usual distances (10Km ish). It handles like a glass cannon. A perfect PvP ship.
Needless to say I being all in on the PvE side was not that impressed with it in PvE.


Overall not bad for for a patch job on a character with not a lot in the first place.
Because the alt hasn't done much in game and no reputations etc she had very little to put a fit together with. So I went for the bottom dollar of the energy credit exchange. That meant one or two green/blue items but mainly purple's between level X and XII. In all I think I spend about 8 million. Cheap for most players, but bang for that kind of budget buck. The biggest let down is the item level. Higher is way better. Other slot I filled with the freebie consoles from other ships, claimable rewards etc.


I stuck to the ships auto grey loadout type, Antiproton. I'd not done a cannon fit in forever so I went with 3 duel heavy cannons up front, with an omni and 3 turrets in the back. Devices were scorpion fighters and a bunch of heavy antiproton satellites, just to keep the theme running.
Bought consoles give +40% shield capacity and +90% Antiproton damage.


I did not spring for new officer abilities, so did the best with what I had. Which worked out well enough.


I'm sure that pro players are looking at the fit and the abilities and either rofl or in spasms of leetism.
This was all in an after noon of just for fun....

Long story short, it's a PvPer's dream boat, showy and aggressive etc. Definitely a ship in need of the PvP buff items. It's a ship that also needs a pack to back it up. My testing in operations shows that once I wasn't behind a tank I was dead. But for the time I was behind a tanking ship I was a DPS god. Or at least felt like one. Go team player go. 

In testing it out I only unlocked the first two ship abilities. All of those abilities smack of PvP "coolness", accuracy, crit severity/chance.....


It's special ability to grapple ships is a nice touch, again better in a PvP setting but combining it with the 'Ejected warp plasma' engineering ability was a great combo. In fact doing the grapple, at max speed in a ship belching flames and plasma.... It made this ship fell like a reaver vessel from the Firefly universe!

The Warship is fun. Of all the ships in STO it has to be the one that's made me giggle the most. Even if it's giggling out of sheer wtf is a ship like this doing in the game. But I'm not opposed to it.
But for better PvE I think I'll be switching this character back to the tried, tested and always dependable Vorgon Xyfius Heavy Escort.

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