Correction: In the video I state that Dual Cannons have a wider firing arc than Dual Heavy Cannons. This is incorrect, they have the same sized arc of 45 degrees (which really makes me wonder what the point of dual cannons is).
I think (originally) the regular duals fired 3 times a cycle vs 2 times for the heavies. But that was years ago...I don't know if the same metric still applies. I can say that the regular duels are quite a bit cheaper on the exchange.
The fire cycle for heavy is 3s, for dual it is 2s. Dual is more "available" or have more "readyness". With a little bit of extension for the duration of fire mode or other abilities the dual can fire one more cycle by "turnover".
I think the Dual Cannons might be meant for ships that can't equip Heavy Cannons (and thus cannot equip Dual Heavies), not that there's that many ships you'd want to use cannons on and cannot equip Heavy cannons.
There was a time when Energy management was crutial... those where the times when this game was ACTUALY GREAT... nowday's? They droped MOST of that shit for... yea oneshot tactical cubes pls or destroy fleets in seconds... they droped proper MMO for shitty "make it fast people dont have time anymore" ... yea GenZ idiots have no time, nearly 90% of the playerbase STILL HAS TIME, PLENTY OF IT! We know how to grind, we TAKE our time for stuff etc. Something wich this game forsake and droped hard.
This was very similar to my build I setup not too long ago, with a few exceptions. I tried in an Elite Terror over Terrh (sp?) and it blew up too many times for my liking. I have a problem with survivability with this ship. It does absolutely melt things. I love those hexa cannons.
I have been waiting for Stu to make a video on this ship. I see we went down similar paths to building this out. I used 2 pcs shield/warp core from Discovery for set bonus of hull regen, plus Subspace tunnel for +30% regen even in combat. Everything else my build was near identical. This is good as it means I am learning and thankful for people like Stu1701, Augie, MC Stu, Triz, and PBS who help light the way.
Accidentally...made a one million DPS run. lol. When I was running the Terran rep weapons, I found my Spirals always outperformed them in the parse. And yes, Angry Voyager is very accurate.
so funny thing, i had an endeavor to do 500k phaser damage in space and i completed it within about a minute or so just on the event TFO which was the easy version. the ship i was using was the typhon, i love this little ship. i think it might even replace my main the credence miracle worker cruiser
I have a similar build, but i use the two piece trilirhium phaser for that extra turn and haste. Also, dprm is techniccly a Cstore console now if one wants to buy the mudds bundle.
Honestly this is what experimental weapons SHOULD do, in lore the only reason to test experimental weapons is in the hope it will be better than the weapons u already use and can maybe replace them. I'm sure phaser strips were an experimental weapon at one point. I just hope they don't nerf it before I have a chance to get it. I've got the Typhon and LOVE it, I can't wait to get this!
This ship has surprises me a lot. Idk why or how yet but with a phaser csv mixed arms build with 5 isomags it's become my new highest dps ship (using the CPA in argala elite). Previously my last highest was about 40k lower in the Credence with a plasma csv mixed arms build utilizing 8 isomags and all the goodies off the gorn hunter and elite type 7 shuttles.
@@Stu1701 It is a substantial difference take a look I was very surprised kinda of wondered if it was a bug or misquote in the tool tip area or dps area. It is crazy its hundreds dps difference
I got this ship! I was actually using that experimental weapon on an Adamant surgical strike build. But I’ve been wanting to use this actual ship so I might have to do a similar build.
Typhon is the choice for the lazy boat crowd that doesn't care much for looks or piloting. Or DPS records. Achilles is for those who like it sleek and mobile. And the Premonition is for...someone like Stu1701.
@@adambrown6669 I see the Achilles more like the tip of a winged spear. Although i do personally prefer the rugged, compact shape of the Avenger as far as dedicated battlecruisers go. Premonition may have its perks, but isn't my cup of tea really. I'd prefer the EC Henry styled retro-sleekness of the Atlantis any day. It's also a pretty damn good platform as far as temporal ships go.
@@adambrown6669 Eh, never liked the Inquiry. Terribly uninspired design. Like most Kurtzman Trek era ships. Just feels entirely out of place, like it's some experimental Terran design rather than Starfleet.
Even though the Lexington is my main ship, with the Legendary Inquiry as my secondary (i like the seating SLIGHTLY more on the Inquiry over the Lexington), the Achilles has just been a BLAST to play to the point where my Inquiry is collecting dust. My only gripe about the Achilles (well, destroyers in general) is how squishy they are. They don't have as much hull or damage resistance as cruisers, and they aren't as hard to hit as escorts and raiders.
Some unsolicited advice here: drop the crit chance EWO doff. It's essentially giving you a % chance for more % chance. You're better off slotting another crit severity doff.
I am just not into carriers ATM. Bought the Achilles as soon as I could. That HEXA cannon is pretty effective, even on my non-phaser builds. I always use the quad cannons. Effective as DNC? No, but I like them. Fun is what matters. All DHC is kind of boring to me.
I found that the console on this ship has a possible bug. It can be used on the stealth fighter set while cloaked, without breaking cloak. Don't know how useful that is.
I used the set up I have on my Arbiter on this ship. I was using mk XV fleet anti proton dual heavy cannons with the anti proton weapon and gravimetric torpedo from the Dyson rep with XV fleet anti proton turrets. I was ripping through ships like they were paper. Then out of curiosity I switched to a some plain mk XII phaser dual heavy cannons, added the quad phaser cannon from the Sao Paulo and pavho Torp with pavho min beam and mk XII phaser turret. Still this was ripping ships apart. The hexa cannon is no joke. I also use red matter capacitor to keep my power levels near 100. I may get some fleet phaser cannons and juice them to mk XV for this ship.
tactical team is a pretty noob officer abilities for people that don't know the game. You can hot key Distribute Shields literally on any key on your keyboard and press that yourself and have it do the exact same thing without a bridge officer slot being wasted
following them to the letter is the intention if you want to be as effective as possible. as far as i'm concerned, the "best" build is the build you have the most fun with.
Was there ever a Starfleet reverse engineered Klingon BOP Photon/Plasma Torpedo Launcher for STO Starfleet ships. The same with the Klingon BOP's cloaking device too. If Smiley can install the stolen cloaking device from Martok's BOP on the MirrorVerse Defiant, it's not that difficult for Starfleet to mass produce the Klingon's cloaking device. Point is that the Achilles should have at least a Klingon BOP cloaking device just to hide it from long range sensors but also have a plasma torpedo launcher for heavy bombardment of fixed targets like a JemHadar Ketracel White Outpost inside an asteroid.
Wouldn’t the t6 intel hydra be a better cannon ship? I’m new and building a cannon ship with one as per advice from my friend. I have an Intel and pilot on mine. I’m no sure what cannons are best yet? I’m not high enough for the Terran set
When did the flagship distress beacon get modified, thought it worked even if left in inventory there similar to the Hurq one. I've normally used a slot for the red matter thing from the phoenix store since it's a free boost option
Okay time for a vote, is he gonna do a premonition Torp boat, Premonition EPG boat, Premonition full temporal/AP build, or skip it for a meme build for the lols?
For non-Phaser builds, are the hexa-cannons still worth equipping? Or are they really only good because this is a phaser build? What would be the next best experimental weapon to use?
I haven't had the chance to test it on a non-phaser build, but I dont think the hexa cannons would be good for a phaser build. in any other case, the experimental off the gorn pilot raider would still be best (mostlly because of its aoe damage), the gol type resonator was always the second best after it. So on a non-phaser build I'd use either of those.
Ruin of our Enemies is an account wide trait via Mudd's, it came out at the beginning of the year and allot of people have been eagerly waiting for them to drop back the mass muds ship bundles sale as a result others that are included in muds to take not of are the consoles DPRM and Immolating phaser Lance. I you have a single character you play not worth it but so more than 5-10 it starts paying for itself so you can focus more on building ships than farming. Time over money as always.
damn I might need that ship now just for the experimental weapon. I need something better for my Columbia Class. I don't care what people say, I still love the old legendary NX-Class
@@Stu1701 yeah I saw the Tier List you did of all the legendary a while ago. I know there are better ships, even in those I own, but I can do Advanced TFOs and that's good enough for my unoptimized little ship. I'm not chasing Meta. I just want to have fun playing the game
Why would regular phaser dual heavies be better than the quad heavies? I dont understand how that would be possible, which likely means im missing a piece of math knowledge.
Like with most things in STO, it's less about the ship and more about the build. The Hexa Cannons are best with any kind of Phaser build, as long as you have a ship with an experimental weapon slot.
@@Stu1701 Indeed, but Hexa is almost the strongest experimental weapon currently available. When I wanted to choose a suitable platform for it, I found that most of the 521 slot ships were not very satisfactory, and currently the best among them may be dhailkhina. There is no platform like the legendary Inquiry
Ummm, wait a second. You mentioned that dual cannons have a wider firing arc then Dual Heavy cannons. Ive always been under the impression that they have the same arc.... A least, thats what i remember from the lasy time i looked at dual cannons. I mean, i could be wrong. It wouldn't be the first time.
Question 🙋♂️ is the Tholian warp core the best to use for energy weapon builds? I’m current using the elite fleet spire core you mentioned for my SS3 build. Would I be better off with the Tholian core??
The Tholian Warp Core is best used on multi-target/AOE builds. So FaW and CSV, Torps, or EPG. This is because since they hit multiple enemies at once, they create multi warp crystals at once. But the core will be less effective with single target builds like BO, CRF, or any of the specialization firing modes (like SS3) because you'd only be able to spawn one warp crystal at a time. So for SS3, I'd stick to the Spire core.
@@Stu1701 thanks. I ditched my old A2B setup and changed into boimler+PO1 and several hold science ability + the personal trait that reduces cooldown for universal console everytime you use hold ability really helped.
Pretty sure the only thing on here reducing weapon power cost is Emergency Weapon Cycle. I'm also using Isomags, so there's a lot of power to begin with.
@@Stu1701 Okay. Thanks. My only problem with the Isomags is they'd occupy the two engineering slots, and I've got ECS Accels there. But combining the Isomags with more Vulnerability Exploiters could be fun.
You can't combine Isomags with Vulnerability Exploiters or Locators. You can only have Advanced console from one career path, the Vulnerability consoles were made into Advanced Tactical consoles when the other Advanced consoles were introduced. However, you can combine Isomags with the Protomatter Infusers from the Dranuur Fleet Colony.
They give the same amount of Phaser damage (or whatever energy type you pick) as the Vulnerability consoles give, plus a little Projectile damage, but no Crit Chance or Severity. Additionally, they have a chance to apply some heals when you use a firing mode. Combined with the two-piece from the discovery rep core set, these are nice for some passive heals on your ship, you can see a good example of this in this video: th-cam.com/video/7qKOZM66nZ4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=_tiq5hCSxjdKDDEx
Correction: In the video I state that Dual Cannons have a wider firing arc than Dual Heavy Cannons. This is incorrect, they have the same sized arc of 45 degrees (which really makes me wonder what the point of dual cannons is).
I think (originally) the regular duals fired 3 times a cycle vs 2 times for the heavies. But that was years ago...I don't know if the same metric still applies.
I can say that the regular duels are quite a bit cheaper on the exchange.
The fire cycle for heavy is 3s, for dual it is 2s.
Dual is more "available" or have more "readyness".
With a little bit of extension for the duration of fire mode or other abilities the dual can fire one more cycle by "turnover".
I think the Dual Cannons might be meant for ships that can't equip Heavy Cannons (and thus cannot equip Dual Heavies), not that there's that many ships you'd want to use cannons on and cannot equip Heavy cannons.
There was a time when Energy management was crutial... those where the times when this game was ACTUALY GREAT... nowday's? They droped MOST of that shit for... yea oneshot tactical cubes pls or destroy fleets in seconds... they droped proper MMO for shitty "make it fast people dont have time anymore" ... yea GenZ idiots have no time, nearly 90% of the playerbase STILL HAS TIME, PLENTY OF IT! We know how to grind, we TAKE our time for stuff etc. Something wich this game forsake and droped hard.
Me, watching your ship throw a giant rock at that Borg Nanite Transformer:
"Assimilate this!".
The STO version of "I'm in your house" is "I'm in your base testing all ur builds" Yes that is an ancient meme, I'm the grandfather of memes.
The 'Angry Voyager'. I love it. The micro-quantum torpedoes are insane. I called that console the boss-killer. Achilles is great!
This ship feels like 'More Dakka, the STO Ship'
Wait till you see the Micro-Quantum console on a torp build. Did around 450k on my Dhailkhina build.
Wow, maybe I was wrong it about it not effecting the torp meta
@@Stu1701 did really well. I was seeing multple 1 mil+ hits with a max one hit of 2.1
I have been able to use that console while cloaked.
That might be a bug.
I eas using it on the stealth fighter set.
@@gmradio2436 Shhhhhh🤫
you better not have touched my chocolate chip cookie when you went in my fridge
i promise nothing
@@Stu1701 if you took a bite out of my cookie I will curse you with the Mokai every time you do 9th Rule
@@GalacticGaming96220 God the fact I feel that says something
@@mightylubu Right? Concerning.
@@GalacticGaming96220I cast: Summon noerexan class.
"I kinda did 1M DPS in it in a random ISE" ~ Stu1701 Sometime on STO ~ circa 2024, colourised
The Achilles is a beautiful ship.
Looks like Voyager's meaner big brother.
Definitely going to use an Event completion coupon to pick this up!
If you don't like the inhibiting heavy turret, you can always use the bio-molecular one from the undine rep instead.
This was very similar to my build I setup not too long ago, with a few exceptions. I tried in an Elite Terror over Terrh (sp?) and it blew up too many times for my liking. I have a problem with survivability with this ship. It does absolutely melt things. I love those hexa cannons.
I have been waiting for Stu to make a video on this ship. I see we went down similar paths to building this out. I used 2 pcs shield/warp core from Discovery for set bonus of hull regen, plus Subspace tunnel for +30% regen even in combat. Everything else my build was near identical. This is good as it means I am learning and thankful for people like Stu1701, Augie, MC Stu, Triz, and PBS who help light the way.
Accidentally...made a one million DPS run. lol. When I was running the Terran rep weapons, I found my Spirals always outperformed them in the parse. And yes, Angry Voyager is very accurate.
so funny thing, i had an endeavor to do 500k phaser damage in space and i completed it within about a minute or so just on the event TFO which was the easy version. the ship i was using was the typhon, i love this little ship. i think it might even replace my main the credence miracle worker cruiser
I have a similar build, but i use the two piece trilirhium phaser for that extra turn and haste. Also, dprm is techniccly a Cstore console now if one wants to buy the mudds bundle.
I had hoped that the Achilles shared the same template as the Avenger. For some reason I always thought they were similar models
Honestly this is what experimental weapons SHOULD do, in lore the only reason to test experimental weapons is in the hope it will be better than the weapons u already use and can maybe replace them. I'm sure phaser strips were an experimental weapon at one point.
I just hope they don't nerf it before I have a chance to get it. I've got the Typhon and LOVE it, I can't wait to get this!
This ship has surprises me a lot. Idk why or how yet but with a phaser csv mixed arms build with 5 isomags it's become my new highest dps ship (using the CPA in argala elite). Previously my last highest was about 40k lower in the Credence with a plasma csv mixed arms build utilizing 8 isomags and all the goodies off the gorn hunter and elite type 7 shuttles.
LOL - Thank you for this build. It's taken a long time to get my builds close to this.
I will give it a try.
I plan to take the quantum torpedoe phalanx and put it on my Lexington
My Radiolytic cannons always show higher dps than any of the other weapons. Ever notice this? Otherwise nice build great vid!!!
I haven't, but I also haven't used Raduolytics much so I'd have to test that
@@Stu1701 It is a substantial difference take a look I was very surprised kinda of wondered if it was a bug or misquote in the tool tip area or dps area. It is crazy its hundreds dps difference
This build was so much like mine, and I learned one thing so thanks man!
I got this ship! I was actually using that experimental weapon on an Adamant surgical strike build. But I’ve been wanting to use this actual ship so I might have to do a similar build.
Personally I’ve replaced the Maelstrom torp with the Hypermatter Torp, just finding it a more satisfying weapon but that’s my personal preference
I know the Typhon is the main attraction for the bundle, but i definitely love the look of the Achilles more. I can't wait till this comes to console.
I'm the same way with Premonition
@Stu1701 Completely understandable. The Premonition is a good-looking ship as well.
Typhon is the choice for the lazy boat crowd that doesn't care much for looks or piloting. Or DPS records. Achilles is for those who like it sleek and mobile. And the Premonition is for...someone like Stu1701.
@@adambrown6669 I see the Achilles more like the tip of a winged spear.
Although i do personally prefer the rugged, compact shape of the Avenger as far as dedicated battlecruisers go.
Premonition may have its perks, but isn't my cup of tea really. I'd prefer the EC Henry styled retro-sleekness of the Atlantis any day. It's also a pretty damn good platform as far as temporal ships go.
@@adambrown6669 Eh, never liked the Inquiry. Terribly uninspired design. Like most Kurtzman Trek era ships. Just feels entirely out of place, like it's some experimental Terran design rather than Starfleet.
Even though the Lexington is my main ship, with the Legendary Inquiry as my secondary (i like the seating SLIGHTLY more on the Inquiry over the Lexington), the Achilles has just been a BLAST to play to the point where my Inquiry is collecting dust. My only gripe about the Achilles (well, destroyers in general) is how squishy they are. They don't have as much hull or damage resistance as cruisers, and they aren't as hard to hit as escorts and raiders.
Some unsolicited advice here: drop the crit chance EWO doff. It's essentially giving you a % chance for more % chance. You're better off slotting another crit severity doff.
I am just not into carriers ATM. Bought the Achilles as soon as I could. That HEXA cannon is pretty effective, even on my non-phaser builds. I always use the quad cannons. Effective as DNC? No, but I like them. Fun is what matters. All DHC is kind of boring to me.
I found that the console on this ship has a possible bug.
It can be used on the stealth fighter set while cloaked, without breaking cloak.
Don't know how useful that is.
I cleaned the window smudges and left you cookies for next time :) thanks for the post and I love your content 👍
I chose the Achilles over the Typhon. I really enjoy it so far. Still working on my build however.
I used the set up I have on my Arbiter on this ship. I was using mk XV fleet anti proton dual heavy cannons with the anti proton weapon and gravimetric torpedo from the Dyson rep with XV fleet anti proton turrets. I was ripping through ships like they were paper. Then out of curiosity I switched to a some plain mk XII phaser dual heavy cannons, added the quad phaser cannon from the Sao Paulo and pavho Torp with pavho min beam and mk XII phaser turret. Still this was ripping ships apart. The hexa cannon is no joke. I also use red matter capacitor to keep my power levels near 100. I may get some fleet phaser cannons and juice them to mk XV for this ship.
If your in my house, i assume jamaharon.
😂
Ahem... You forgot to mention that one highly specific item, applicable exclusively to mmmmmmyyy unique situation. 😂
tactical team is a pretty noob officer abilities for people that don't know the game. You can hot key Distribute Shields literally on any key on your keyboard and press that yourself and have it do the exact same thing without a bridge officer slot being wasted
You could always go with xenotech drift consoles as well with hull pen they do amazing
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hmm i wonder if i could substitue the torpedo with the quick reload Trasphasic torpedo
you could, but it wouldn't do much damage. Transphasic torps generally do rather poor damage because they trade damage for shield penetration.
Wait! I am allowed to make my own builds? That's news to me I always thought I have to follow the CCs to the letter. All that wasted money. 🤣
following them to the letter is the intention if you want to be as effective as possible. as far as i'm concerned, the "best" build is the build you have the most fun with.
Unhinged Stu = Best Stu!
I make my own sauces, we're never out of mayonnaise!!!
Was there ever a Starfleet reverse engineered Klingon BOP Photon/Plasma Torpedo Launcher for STO Starfleet ships. The same with the Klingon BOP's cloaking device too. If Smiley can install the stolen cloaking device from Martok's BOP on the MirrorVerse Defiant, it's not that difficult for Starfleet to mass produce the Klingon's cloaking device. Point is that the Achilles should have at least a Klingon BOP cloaking device just to hide it from long range sensors but also have a plasma torpedo launcher for heavy bombardment of fixed targets like a JemHadar Ketracel White Outpost inside an asteroid.
Wouldn’t the t6 intel hydra be a better cannon ship? I’m new and building a cannon ship with one as per advice from my friend. I have an Intel and pilot on mine. I’m no sure what cannons are best yet? I’m not high enough for the Terran set
Ty for the build info
What about the Quad phaser cannons? Would that be a good addition?
Always remember: Your crit chance and crit damage are zero against anything outside of your firing arc 😉
When did the flagship distress beacon get modified, thought it worked even if left in inventory there similar to the Hurq one.
I've normally used a slot for the red matter thing from the phoenix store since it's a free boost option
The flagship distress beacon never worked while unequipped. Most beacons do, not that one. Same with the Kobayashi Maru.
You’re in the wrong house. I only use Miracle Whip
You monster
Look, if you're in my house then you better pay your share of the rent, ok?
Borg doffs are
24 of 47
27 of 47
39 of 47?
The text on the energy weapons officers is too blurry to make out too.
Okay time for a vote, is he gonna do a premonition Torp boat, Premonition EPG boat, Premonition full temporal/AP build, or skip it for a meme build for the lols?
if I didn't know the answer already, I'd definitely say the last one
@Stu1701 you haven't done an AP build in a while and I haven't seen any one crazy enough to pull as many temporal sets as possible on a temporal ship.
Summon Enterprise build?
I think you can get 3 at the same time currently.
If you're in my kitchen, mind putting the dishes away? And dont worry about the mayo, its on my shopping list.
For non-Phaser builds, are the hexa-cannons still worth equipping? Or are they really only good because this is a phaser build?
What would be the next best experimental weapon to use?
I haven't had the chance to test it on a non-phaser build, but I dont think the hexa cannons would be good for a phaser build. in any other case, the experimental off the gorn pilot raider would still be best (mostlly because of its aoe damage), the gol type resonator was always the second best after it. So on a non-phaser build I'd use either of those.
How do you keep yourself alive and clear debuffs? Moment i receive any cooldown debuf im dead.
Ruin of our Enemies is an account wide trait via Mudd's, it came out at the beginning of the year and allot of people have been eagerly waiting for them to drop back the mass muds ship bundles sale as a result others that are included in muds to take not of are the consoles DPRM and Immolating phaser Lance. I you have a single character you play not worth it but so more than 5-10 it starts paying for itself so you can focus more on building ships than farming. Time over money as always.
damn I might need that ship now just for the experimental weapon. I need something better for my Columbia Class. I don't care what people say, I still love the old legendary NX-Class
Legendary NX is a great ship. It's one of the better ships from the 10th anniversary bundle.
@@Stu1701 yeah I saw the Tier List you did of all the legendary a while ago.
I know there are better ships, even in those I own, but I can do Advanced TFOs and that's good enough for my unoptimized little ship. I'm not chasing Meta. I just want to have fun playing the game
So is ot better to have all cannons in the front? I have 4 slots 3 cnnon 1 torp
Look, if you're in my house then you better pay your share if the rent, ok?
i just wait for a Voyager-A thats the Ship i WANT to have
Why would regular phaser dual heavies be better than the quad heavies? I dont understand how that would be possible, which likely means im missing a piece of math knowledge.
Part of it is the innate crit severity buff that dual heavy cannons get
it's a barbie, SOLD!
You know I was going to write but then... you had some fighting words. Jokes on you... thats not mayonnaise.
Double MW seat seems a bit imperfect. What are the better ship for using hexa now?
Like with most things in STO, it's less about the ship and more about the build. The Hexa Cannons are best with any kind of Phaser build, as long as you have a ship with an experimental weapon slot.
@@Stu1701 Indeed, but Hexa is almost the strongest experimental weapon currently available. When I wanted to choose a suitable platform for it, I found that most of the 521 slot ships were not very satisfactory, and currently the best among them may be dhailkhina. There is no platform like the legendary Inquiry
When you come to my house, bring food.
The next 35% sale can't come soon enough!
dumb question: can i stack the DOMINO wth the M6 Computer? are all the fire cycle haste buffs additive? i.e.´Flagship Staffing+DOMINO+M6 and so on
Yes. DOMINO, M6, Fleet Power Network Array, Flagship Tactical Computer, and so on, it all stacks. It's rare when console active abilities don't stack.
I really wish I could click "Like" more than once....
Ummm, wait a second. You mentioned that dual cannons have a wider firing arc then Dual Heavy cannons.
Ive always been under the impression that they have the same arc....
A least, thats what i remember from the lasy time i looked at dual cannons.
I mean, i could be wrong. It wouldn't be the first time.
oh shit, i was totally wrong on that. Dual Cannons have the same size are as DHCs. What the hell is the point of them then? lol
@@Stu1701 I have been playing STO since day 1, of release and I still have no idea what the point of dual cannons is supposed to be.
ah yes. the pancake Intrepid cruiser.
Question 🙋♂️ is the Tholian warp core the best to use for energy weapon builds?
I’m current using the elite fleet spire core you mentioned for my SS3 build. Would I be better off with the Tholian core??
The Tholian Warp Core is best used on multi-target/AOE builds. So FaW and CSV, Torps, or EPG. This is because since they hit multiple enemies at once, they create multi warp crystals at once. But the core will be less effective with single target builds like BO, CRF, or any of the specialization firing modes (like SS3) because you'd only be able to spawn one warp crystal at a time. So for SS3, I'd stick to the Spire core.
@@Stu1701 thank you, you’ve not only answered my question but also helped me with another build I’m doing
Personally i dont like having the "random" speed boosts fron the comp engines what would you recommend for someone not wanting the speed boosts
Then I'd recommend the Romulan rep engine for it's small buff to crit severity, or an engine that'll help you get a set bonus.
@@Stu1701 I forgot the romulan rep engines gave Crit severity.
The price of isomags on the exchange has come down a lot they are really not that expensive.
Where did you get your Doffs that you use?
Is 440k to 450k dps in ISE acceptable? Still getting used to non A2B build since I took a break from playing 5 years ago.
Oh yeah, over 400k is plenty more than you need to get through ISE or pretty much any other Elite content in the game.
@@Stu1701 thanks. I ditched my old A2B setup and changed into boimler+PO1 and several hold science ability + the personal trait that reduces cooldown for universal console everytime you use hold ability really helped.
"but those consoles are too expensive" yeah i had to it's me yes it's me
buy more mayo
@@Stu1701 I'm a burger sauce fan
I like this ship, what do you prefer lexinton or archilles?
I still prefer Lexington, but but Achilles is a really nice ship.
And buid? I understand that archilles IS a most powerfull ship that lexington
Man have enough zen to buy this or the typhoon but sure if i should or biy something else
My house? 🤣
Anyone else not use the Micro quantum torp array?
I disagree with the most of... wait, STU GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!
buy more mayo
I hate saying this but the Achilles is a weaker Terran Hydra.
The only similarity they have is that they are both Destroyers. Apart from that, ZERO similarity
How are you keeping your weapon energy from draining during firing cycles?
Pretty sure the only thing on here reducing weapon power cost is Emergency Weapon Cycle. I'm also using Isomags, so there's a lot of power to begin with.
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Okay. Thanks. My only problem with the Isomags is they'd occupy the two engineering slots, and I've got ECS Accels there. But combining the Isomags with more Vulnerability Exploiters could be fun.
You can't combine Isomags with Vulnerability Exploiters or Locators. You can only have Advanced console from one career path, the Vulnerability consoles were made into Advanced Tactical consoles when the other Advanced consoles were introduced. However, you can combine Isomags with the Protomatter Infusers from the Dranuur Fleet Colony.
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Oh right. Forgot about that. What do the Protomatter Infusers do again?
They give the same amount of Phaser damage (or whatever energy type you pick) as the Vulnerability consoles give, plus a little Projectile damage, but no Crit Chance or Severity. Additionally, they have a chance to apply some heals when you use a firing mode. Combined with the two-piece from the discovery rep core set, these are nice for some passive heals on your ship, you can see a good example of this in this video: th-cam.com/video/7qKOZM66nZ4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=_tiq5hCSxjdKDDEx
Lol, I feel like this build rant has been a thing. Your power is on.....right???
HEY! Where's the rent? You owe back rent. I calculate no less than 300,000 USD.
I like strawberry flavored phasers…