STO....

A return to my Jem'Hadar character over the last week-ish has been 'relaxing'. No surprise but I'm doing things casually, no rush here. I've not totally neglected him since he was first created, but kinda did.

As a Gamma recruit he still has a fair bit to do to unlock all those benefits(personal and account). Mainly his reputations and Doff missions; With side orders of TFO's, missions and R&D. All of which 'just' take time.

I've also been doing the current event on this character to both gain tokens for rep and to add towards his TFO counter. He's getting some gametime attention now for sure.

He's flying the Vanguard Heavy Destroyer which I feel is a step up from his previous upgrade. Bigger isn't always better as the saying goes. The Vanguard is more of a happier medium(for me) between the starter ship and the Dreadnought(handles like a whale!).

Not to much upgrading done on it's fit. Some of which were from the R&D that needed to be done anyway for the recruit rewards. Some lucky quality improvements but mainly still sticking with the 'free' gear.

While I'm happy to plink away with it; So it was in a recent TFO that I was surprised to see one of the newest ships to the game in action.

It covers the cool looking brief and when it deploys it's sentries it reminds me of a Marauder in Siege mode from Eve Online(Here's a story). At least for me it seems like a ship that is very meta, very leet....

Anyway, I'd not quiet gotten into the habit of turning on the combat log for later analysis. Wanting to see what super damage the new ship in it's deployed mode I set the combat log on for the last two stages.

I was surprised(again) to see that my character in all his alt of an alt casualness did 50% more damage than the nearest statistical player and then did just as much as the next highest dps'ing player for the last stage.

While I do know that 'the ship doth not make'th the player', it's clear that an active player with the newest ship still needs to be fitted with some thought to get the dps out of it. No real pay to win face rolling(imho).

Players have off day's etc... TFO's that don't do them justice. If it wasn't for the charts I'd have thought (and did at the time) that the TFO went smoothly. In my minds eye I'd have thought (and I did)that that was probably due to an overpowered player in their new shiny ship.... That would have been wrong imprecise.

Then again maybe I'm reading all these charts wrong and the fact that my average ship has average DPS and still registered more DPS is misinterpreted....