STO....

I've been doing more changes to what I consider my two best ships. My old main ship(Vorgon Heavy Escort) and it's replacement(Risian Corvette). Both oddly enough gained through the summer event. Seems apt in a way. So a bit of time in further streamlining their fit in order to do a few more rounds of DPS analysis. All in all it doesn't change the Risian over the Vorgon previous results; But I needed to see how these tweaked ships would do on the second (mid) level of TFO difficulty. In a way STO's TFO difficulty scale a lot like WoW's dungeon difficulty. Normal(STO)/Normal(WoW), Advanced(STO)/Heroic(WoW) & Elite(STO)/Mythic(WoW). However I'd say in reality STO's difficulty is higher each level up. *titles for comparison only*.

So yea, I ran both ships through Advanced on the same TFO a few times. I'm a believer in each ship having it's own permanent fit. Both fits work but I'm against having a fit that I switch between ships. That's a me thing and a huge skew in data analysis. All that said I do enjoy each. Got the Vorgon up to just under the 16.5K mark(ish) and the Risian to around the 20k(ish) mark.

I'd been tempted to bring the Bajoran Interceptor into the mix; The ship and it's set would prove to be worthy. But I decided against it, in this testing that interceptor would be a fraction behind the Vorgon. Maybe worth the effort but only if there wasn't such a big gap between the Vorgon and the Risian ships. I'm still bummed out about the Cannon fit Fek'Ihri S'Torr Warchip, pity it's not up as a contender.

While I bemoan the mothballing of my previous ships the Vorgon is the hardest to part with. It's fit is like my old way of ship fit thinking. The Risian the new. I appreciate true ship sets now more than ever. Sentiment aside I've super happy with the ship that's top dog now. Like I said both were from the same event so there's a symbolic handover there. I also think I'll be sticking with Advanced TFO's over Normal. There more educational on the current game meta, more rewarding and more action packed for fun. I'd dare not do an Elite TFO, I'm sure I'd end up being scrapped off a boot!

It'll be interesting to see what the next free ship will bring. The new episode reward, then the Winter event and then the 10th anniversary.... Interesting times ahead.